Advisory Board and Editors Neural Networks
Syed Sajid Ullah
Dr. Syed Sajid Ullah is a Research Fellow in the Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Agder.
He currently works as a researcher in the NIST project of Quantum Cryptography and has published more then 90 papers in quality journals.
Syed Hassan Shah
Syed Hassan Shah is a Wi-Fi connectivity subject matter expert with the Qualcomm Inc. product management team, where he is involved in Consumer and Compute Wireless products with a focus on Mi-Fi, CPE, and UWB technologies. In addition to that, Dr. Shah is also an adjunct faculty member at California State University, Fullerton Campus, where he teaches computer science courses to graduate classes. Over the past decade, Dr. Shah held multiple industrial & academic roles such as a Product Specialist for Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), CBRS, Private LTE, Digital Electricity, and open RAN product lines. Dr. Shah was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Georgia Southern University, USA followed by a Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA. Before moving to the United States, he completed his BS with honors in CS from Kohat University of Science & Technology (KUST), Pakistan, and his Ph.D. Degree (combined with Masters) from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE), Kyungpook National University (KNU), Republic of Korea (South Korea). During the summer of 2015, he was invited as a distinguished visiting researcher at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA to investigate MAC layer findings in IEEE 1609.4 protocol stacks. Overall, Dr. Shah has authored/co-authored over 250 peer-reviewed international publications including Journal articles, Conference Proceedings, Book Chapters, and 05 books. In 2016, his work on robust content retrieval in future vehicular networks won the Qualcomm Innovation Award at KNU, South Korea. Dr. Shah's research interests include Wireless and Ad hoc Networks, Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, Connected Vehicles, and Future Internet architectures.
Furthermore, Dr. Shah is a Senior IEEE and ACM member, served as a TPC Member or Reviewer in over 100 International Conferences and Workshops including IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE CCNC, IEEE ICNC, IEEE VTC, IEEE INFOCOM, ACM CoNEXT, ACM MobiHoc, ACM SAC, and many more. Furthermore, he has been reviewing papers for over 50 different International Journals including IEEE Magazines on Wireless Communications, Networks, Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Sensors Letters, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and Vehicular Technologies, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Big Data, and Mobile Computing. Moreover, Dr. Shah has been an editorial member of more than 60 Special Issues with top-ranked journals in Communication Society and served as an editorial board member of KSII Transactions on Internet & Information Systems, Wiley's Internet Technology Letters, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, IEEE Newsletters on Internet Initiative, Future Directions, and Software Defined Networks. Dr. Shah has been an appointee of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society as liaison to IEEE Young Professionals society for the year 2018-2019. Since 2018, he is also an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Kaize Shi
Kaize Shi received his PhDs in computer science and technology from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2022; in computer systems from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), NSW, Australia in 2023. Now he is a Research Fellow at UTS.
His research interests include opinion mining in social media, emergency management, meteorological knowledge service, and artificial intelligence.
He serves as an editor for WCMC and PeerJ Computer Science, a guest editor for IJDSN and WCMC, and a reviewer for IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSS, IEEE IoTJ, etc. He also serves as a program committee member of SIGKDD, ACL, etc. He is a member of the IEEE SMC Society and the Artificial Intelligence Technical Committee of the China Meteorological Service Association.
Dan Stowell
EPSRC Research Fellowship in "Machine listening for soundscapes with multiple birds". Specialist in machine learning for audio: birdsong, music, everyday sound, natural sound.
Alessandro M Viganò
Dr. Alessandro Viganò is a Neurologist at the Fondazione Don Gnocchi in Italy.
His areas of expertise include Headaches, Migraine, Severe Brain Injury, Strokes, Dysphagia, Focal Muscle Vibration.
Shibiao Wan
Dr. Shibiao Wan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy at University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He is also the Assistant Director for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology Core at UNMC.
With more than 14 years of experience in machine learning, bioinformatics, and computational biology, Dr. Wan has published >50 articles in top-tiered journals such as Genome Research, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Circulation Research, Briefings in Bioinformatics, and Bioinformatics. Dr. Wan is the Editor-in-Chief for Current Proteomics, and an Editorial Board Member for a series of prestigious journals such as Briefings in Functional Genomics, Heliyon, BMC Bioinformatics, International Journal of Microbiology, PeerJ Computer Science, BioMed Research International, and Computational and Mathematical Methods, and a guest associate editor for multiple high-impact journals including Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Biology, Frontiers in Genetics, and Genes.
Dr Wan is a TPC member for >20 machine learning related international conferences including IEEE ICTAI. Dr. Wan is also a reviewer for >50 prestigious journals including Nature Computational Science, Nucleic Acids Research, Cancer Research, Genome Medicine, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. He is a recipient of the global peer review awards (top 1%) in “Cross-Field” and “Biology and Biochemistry” in 2019 awarded by Clarivate. Dr. Wan is an Outstanding Young Alumni Awardee in 2022 and the recipient for the FIRST Award of Nebraska EPSCoR Program in 2023. Dr. Wan is a member of AACR, ISCB and ACM and an IEEE Senior Member.
Wei Wang
Dr. Wei Wang is currently a Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, Shenzhen, China. Before this, he had been an associate professor with the School of Intelligent Systems, Sun Yat-sen University, China from 2019 to 2022. He had been the UM Macao Research Fellow at the University of Macau, Macau SAR. He received his Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Dalian University of Technology in 2018. His research interests include Psychophysiological Computing and Complex network He has authored/co-authored more than 100 scientific papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, including more than 50 scientific papers as the first/corresponding author, such as IEEE TITS, TNNLS, TBD, TCSS, TII, TETC, JBHI, IoT, ACM TALLIP, TKDD, WWW, and PKDD. He is the Leading Guest Editor of IEEE TCSS, JBHI, SETA, and the Guest Editor of ACM TOIT. He is a Program Chair of ISoIRS 2022, Track Chair of IEEE SmartIoT 2019&2020, TPC member of IEEE HealthCom 2020, and a regular reviewer of extensive top-tier field journals and conferences, such as IEEE TII, TBD, IoT, IJCAI, and WWW. He has an h-index of 26, a cumulative impact factor of 300+, and a total of 2500+ citations based on Google Scholar.
Feng Xia
I work in artificial intelligence (AI), digital health, and systems engineering, with particular interest in graph learning, brain science, and robotics.
Keli Xiao
Dr. Keli Xiao is an Associate Professor in the College of Business at Stony Brook University. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University. Dr. Xiao’s research interests include business analytics, data mining, real estate/urban computing, economic bubbles and crises, and asset pricing. His research has appeared in many high-quality journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Real Estate Economics, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), etc. He regularly serves as an SPC or PC of numerous prestigious conferences, such as AAAI, IJCAI, KDD, ICDM, SDM, CIKM, etc.. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM.
Jun Ye
Jun Ye is a professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Ningbo University, P.R. China. He has more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research. His research interests include soft computing, neutrosophic theory and applications, fuzzy decision making theory and methods, intelligent control, robotics, pattern recognition, medical diagnosis, fault diagnosis, and rock mechanics. He has published more than 300 papers in journals, written a number of books related to his research work, and finished a few projects sponsored by the government of P.R. China. He was selected as “Elsevier Chinese Most Cited Researchers” in 2019, 2020 and 2021. In 2022, he was also selected as the 8th edition of Research.com ranking of top Computer Science scientists.
Lisu Yu
Lisu Yu received a Ph.D. degree at Key Laboratory of Information Coding and Transmission, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, USA, and the University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA. He has served as the student activities chair of IEEE Communication Society Chengdu Chapter and several international conferences technical program committee (TPC) members, Section Chair, and Special Track Chair. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the Elsevier Physical Communication, Associate Area Editor of Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Editor of the Elsevier Computer Communications, PeerJ Computer Science, PLOS ONE, and Frontiers in Signal Processing for Communications, and a Managing Guest Editor of Elsevier Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems, and IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) and Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Members. He is a Senior Member of CIC. He is currently an associate professor in the School of Information Engineering, Nanchang University, China. His main research interests include advanced wireless communications (B5G/6G), machine learning, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), ultra-dense network (UDN), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), visible light communication (VLC), and blockchain.
Zheng Yuan
Dr. Zheng Yuan is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence (Natural Language Processing) at Kings College London.
Dr. Yuan holds a PhD and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Before joining King’s, Zheng was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, where she is still a Visiting Researcher.
Her research interests include, Educational NLP, Language acquisition, Multilingual NLP, Machine translation, Neural networks and deep learning, Transfer and multi-task learning, Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning, and Explainable machine learning.