Technical Symposia 8

Intelligent Information Processing and Its Marine Applications


1. Symposium Chairs:
Prof. Zhenkai Zhang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Miao Yang, Jiangsu Ocean University, China
Assoc. Prof. Yongsheng Xiao, Nanchang Hangkong University, China


2. Topics:
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ Signal Processing in Underwater Communications
▪ Sonar Signal Processing
▪ Navigation System Analysis and Design
▪ Sonar Signal Processing and Localization
▪ Signal Processing in Remote Sensing and Positioning


3. Introduction of Symposium Chairs

Prof. Zhenkai Zhang, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, China

Zhenkai Zhang received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Jiangnan University and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (NUAA) in 2007 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a professor of Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He was a visiting scholar at Durham University in the UK and the University of Calgary in Canada. His main research interests include radar signal processing, radar and communication integration, radar resource management, and target Technical Symposiaing. He has published more than 80 scientific articles in refereed journals, such as Signal Processing, IET radar sonar and navigation, etc. He was entitled "The backbone teacher of Qinglan Project in Jiangsu Province"  and "333 high-level talents in Jiangsu Province".



Prof. Miao Yang, Jiangsu Ocean University, China

Miao Yang received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Lanzhou University and Ocean University of China(OUC) in 2004 and 2009, respectively. She is currently a professor of Jiangsu Ocean University. She was a visiting scholar at University of New South Wales in Australia and the University of Virginia in America. Her main research interests include underwater vision, underwater image quality evaluation, and underwater object detection. She has published more than 40 scientific articles in refereed journals such as IEEE TCSVT, IEEE JOE, IEEE TIP, IEEE SPL, etc.. In recent years, she has hold on a number of marine information processing related projects, which include National Natural Science Foundation of China, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, and Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province. She was entitled "333 high-level talents in Jiangsu Province" , "Six talent peaks in Jiangsu Province" and "Youth Talent Recruitment Project of Jiangsu Province" .



Assoc. Prof. Yongsheng Xiao, Nanchang Hangkong University, China

Yongsheng Xiao, PhD, associate professor, master's supervisor at Nanchang Hangkong University, and young and middle-aged backbone teacher in colleges and universities in Jiangxi Province. He has presided over 8 provincial and ministerial projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation, Aviation Foundation, Space Foundation, and Jiangxi Natural Science Foundation; published more than 50 academic papers, of which more than 30 were included in SCI/EI. He has won many honors and titles, including the second prize of the Invention and Entrepreneurship Award of the China Invention Association, the second prize of the School Teaching Achievement Award, and the title of Outstanding Party Member. His main research directions are radar signal processing, radar target recognition, pattern recognition and intelligent systems, and embedded system design.