Keynote Speakers
Prof. Jie Lu AO, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Laureate Fellow)
Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in the field of computational intelligence, primarily known for her work in concept drift, fuzzy transfer learning, recommender systems, and decision support systems. She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. Currently, Prof Lu is the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She has published 500 papers in leading journals and conferences; won 10 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects as first chief investigator, and over 20 industry projects; and supervised 50 doctoral students to completion. Prof Lu serves as Editor-In-Chief for Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. She is a recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She is the recipient of two IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards (2019 and 2022), NeurIPS2022 Outstanding Paper Award, Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019), Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award (2022), and Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2023.
Prof. Haipeng Yao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (IET Fellow)
Haipeng Yao is a Professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Haipeng Yao received his Ph.D. in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at University of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2011. His research interests include future network architecture, network artificial intelligence, networking, space-terrestrial integrated network, network resource allocation and dedicated networks. He has published more than 150 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He won the IEEE ICC 2022 Best Paper Award, IEEE IWCMC 2021 Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCC 2020 Best Paper Award, authorized more than 100 national invention patents. He is a fellow of IET, a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Yao has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE ACCESS, and a Guest Editor of IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMPUTER SOCIETY and China Communication. He has also served as a member of the technical program committee as well as the Symposium Chair for a number of international conferences, including IEEE IWCMC 2019 Symposium Chair, IEEE TrustCom 2021 Symposium Chair and an ACM TUR-C SIGSAC2020 Publication Chair.ations.
Prof. Huiyu Zhou, United Kingdom
Dr. Huiyu Zhou
received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio
Technology from Huazhong University of Science and
Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree
in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee
of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a
Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of
Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of
Leicester, United Kingdom. He has published over 500
peer-reviewed papers in the field. His research work
has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC,
AHRC, MRC, EU, Innovate UK, Royal Society, British
Heart Foundation, Leverhulme Trust, Puffin Trust,
Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry.
Editor-in-Chief of Recent Advances in Electrical &
Electronic Engineering, Associate Editor/EBM of IEEE
Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Journal
of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Pattern
Recognition, PeerJ Computer Science, Security and
Safety, Scientific Reports, Machine Intelligence
Research, International Journal of Image and
Graphics, Intelligent Marine Technology and Systems
and IEEE Access, Editorial Board Member and Guest
Editor of several refereed journals.
Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/people/huiyu-zhou