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Easter S Suviseshamuthu

Dr. Suviseshamuthu is an Associate Research Scientist at the Human Performance and Engineering Research Lab, Kessler Foundation, West Orange, NJ, U.S.A., since Dec. 2015.

He received the B.E. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, India (1988), the M.E. degree in Applied Electronics from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India (2001), and the Ph.D. in Multispectral Satellite Image Analysis from the Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Information et des Systèmes, Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille, France (2007). He was Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Bioimaging and Biostructure Institute, Italian National Research Council, Naples, Italy, (2008 to 2010), the Department of Mathematical Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, (2010 to 2014), and the GIPSA-Lab, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France (2014 to 2015).
His research focus encompasses statistical signal processing, blind source separation, medical imaging, optimization on matrix manifolds, machine learning, biomedical signal analysis, and bio-inspired computing. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Access.

Sándor Szénási

Sándor Szénási has earned his MSc degree in 2004 from Faculty of Informatics of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He has received his PhD in 2013 from Doctoral School of Applied Informatics (GSAI) of Óbuda University, Budapest.

Currently, he is an associate professor in the Institute of Applied Informatics of John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Óbuda University, Budapest. He is the leader of the local CUDA Teaching Center.

His research areas are (data) parallel algorithms, GPU programming and medical image processing. He engages both in theoretical fundamentals and in algorithmic issues with respect to realization of practical requirements and given constraints.
He is the member of the John von Neumann Computer Society and IEEE, and also a reviewer of several conferences and journals.

Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee

Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee obtained a BSc. (2012) and MSc. (2014) in Industrial Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in Isfahan, Iran. Then, he received a Ph.D. degree (2019) in Industrial Engineering from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology in Babol, Iran. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Istinye University in Istanbul, Turkey. Meanwhile, he worked as a Quality Assurance expert in some automotive industries in Iran and went through different relevant training courses like ISO 9001: 2015 and IATF 16949-2016. He has published more than 120 papers in high-quality journals, including IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Waste Management, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research, etc. He has been serving as a chair, organizing, committee member as well as a keynote speaker in several prestigious international conferences. Dr. Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee has been featured among the "World’s Top 2% Researchers/Scientists in 2021 & 2022" list identified by Elsevier BV, Stanford University.

Jingbo Wang

Prof Wang's research spans several disciplines including quantum dynamics theory, quantum computation and information, atomic physics, and computational science. She has published extensively, including a recent book published by Springer, four book chapters, and numerous journal papers. Prof Wang currently leads the quantum dynamics and computation group at The University of Western Australia. She and her research team have developed advanced numerical techniques to solve problems in both quantum and classical domain.

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.

Lexing Xie

Lexing Xie is Professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University. She leads the ANU Computational Media lab (http://cm.cecs.anu.edu.au/). Her current research interests are in machine learning on graphs and time series, especially on understanding individual and aggregate behaviour in online social networks, at the intersection of media, language and behaviour. She was research staff member at IBM T J Watson Research Center 2005-2010. She is Associate editor for ACM TOIS, ACM TiiS and PeerJ CS.

Ying Xu

Ying Xu received B.Eng, M.Eng, and PH.D. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, in 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. From 2009-2017, he had been a Senior Engineer in the North China Grid Dispatching and Control Center. He is a research scholar in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, USA. His main research interests and experiences include power system analysis and control, system modeling and simulation, cooperative control, distributed control and optimization for networked systems.

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.

Yu-Dong Zhang

From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Yudong (Eugene) Zhang worked at Columbia University as a postdoc. From 2012 to 2013, he worked as an assistant research scientist at Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute. From 2013 to 2017, he is a full professor and doctoral advisor at School of Computer Science and Technology at Nanjing Normal University. He also serves as the academic leader of the“Jiangsu key laboratory of 3D printing equipment and manufacturing”. At present, he is a Professor in Knowledge Discovery and Machine Learning, in Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, United Kingdom. His research interests focus on computer-aided medical diagnosis and biomedical image processing.

Justyna Żywiołek

Dr. Justyna Żywiołek is Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Czestochowa.

Her primary research interests include: society 5.0, safety information, knowledge management, IoT, and sustainable development.