Speakers

Speaker Ⅰ

Prof. Badrul Hisham bin Ahmad

IEEE Senior Member, Distinguished Professor/PhD Advisor

Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka / Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering

Biography: 
Badrul Hisham Ahmad graduated with honours degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK in 1998. He received the M.Sc. degree from University Kebangsaan Malaysia in 2003 and Ph.D. degree from University of Leeds, UK for a thesis on the design and development of SIW filters in 2008. His area of interest is Advance Microwave Filters and Antenna Propagation. He is also an active researcher with a good track record with a number of research projects in RF and Microwave Engineering. He has published more than 200 journals and conference proceedings. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of International Steering Committee of Asia Pacific Microwave Conferences. He is the General Chair of Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2017. Currently he is a Professor of Microwave Engineering in Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka since 2018.

Speaker Ⅱ

Prof. Zhijun Zhang

South China University of Technology

 IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence) Guangzhou Chapter

Biography: 
Zhijun Zhang is working as a Full Professor in School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, and chairman of IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence) Guangzhou Chapter. Zhijun Zhang main research interests include neural networks, robotics, human-robot/computer interaction, and numerical optimization. Zhijun Zhang has published more than 100 scientific papers as author or co-author, including 83 SCI journal papers, 40 IEEE Trans regular papers published/accepted by the first author/corresponding author, 2 English book chapters. There were 39 papers in JCR 1 district. Some of the papers are published by SCI-indexed international journals and EI-indexed conferences, such as IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Mechtronics, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and so on. In addition, Zhijun Zhang has 14 authorized Patents of Invention and 6 PCT and more than 100 Patents of Invention submitted to Patent Office in China. In his research areas, he has won many awards and scholarships. 

Speaker Ⅲ

Prof. Chee Seng

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Biography: 

Chee Seng is a Full Professor with the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. He is leading a research team that specializes in computer vision and machine learning where his team has published more than 100 papers in top peer-review conferences (CVPR, NeurIPS, IJCAI etc) and journals (TPAMI, TIP, TMM etc).

From 2020-2022, he was seconded to the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) as the Undersecretary for Division of Data Strategic and Foresight, as well as the Lead of PICC Unit under COVID19 Immunisation Task Force (CITF).

He was the recipient of Top Research Scientists Malaysia (TRSM) in 2022, Young Scientists Network Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) in 2015 and Hitachi Research Fellowship in 2013. Besides that, he is also a senior member of IEEE, Professional Engineer (BEM) and Chartered Engineer (IET).

Speaker Ⅳ

Assoc Prof. Zhihan Lv

Uppsala University, Sweden

Biography: 
Zhihan Lv is IEEE Senior Member, British Computer Society Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Full Member of Sigma Xi, Career-long Scientific Influence Rankings of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher. He has contributed 400 papers including more than 90 papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions. He has more than 40 ESI highly cited papers and 20 ESI hot papers. He is Editor-in-Chief of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems(KeAi), an Associate Editor of 22 journals including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transaction on Computational Social Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter, Early Career Advisory Board member of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, and Leading Guest Editors for 40 special issues including 10 IEEE. He is Co-Chair or TPC of 50 conferences including ACM MM 2021-2022, ACM IUI 2015-2022. He has reviewed 400 papers. He has received more than 20 awards from China, Europe, IEEE. He has been involved in many European and Chinese projects supported with funding of 25 million US dollars. He has given more than 80 invited talks for universities and companies in Europe and China. He has given 20 keynote speech for International conferences. From 2017 to 2021, he had been an Associate Professor at Qingdao University in Qingdao of China. From 2012 to 2016, he had held an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science in Shenzhen of China. He was granted PhD. degree in Computer Applied Technology from Ocean University of China in Qingdao of China. Before that, he has enjoyed sixteen months full-time research experience at French National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS)-UPR9080 in Paris of France. After then, he has fulfilled two-year postdoc research experience at Umea University in Umea of Sweden. From 2014 to 2015, he had been a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in European Union's Seventh Framework Lanpercept, at clinical section Fundación FIVAN in Valencia of Spain. From 2015 to 2017, he had been a Research Associate at Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics(VECG) group at University College London(UCL) in London of UK. From 2018 to 2019, he had been a Postdoctor at Event Lab at University of Barcelona in Barcelona of Spain.