Keynote Speakers

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Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Hong Shen, Central Queensland University, Australia

He joined in Central Queensland University (CQU) in Nov 2023 as Professor of Information Technology in School of Engineering and Technology.

With main research interests in parallel and distributed computing, network optimization, privacy and security, data mining and machine leaning, he has received over $20m research funding, led 8 projects supported by major national competitive grants and numerous other projects in Australia, Japan and China. He has published more than 400 research papers including over 100 papers in a variety of IEEE/ACM transactions and other major international journals. With 6,700+ citations (google scholar), he has an H-index 37 and i10-index 163 in the hardcore fields of systems and algorithms (parallel and distributed computing).

He received my BSc (Hons) degree from Beijing University of Science and Technology, MSc degree from University of Science and Technology of China, PhLic and PhD degrees from Abo Akademi University, Finland.

Prior to joining in CQU, he held professorial appointments including Professor under the title of “China National Endowed Expert” in Sun Yat-sen University (#89 ARWU21), Professor of Computer Science in University of Adelaide, Australia, Professor and Head of Computer Networks Laboratory in Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japanese graduate-program only national university).

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Xudong Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr. Xudong Jiang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and the Ph.D. degree from Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany. From 1986 to 1993, he was a Lecturer with UESTC, where he received two Science and Technology Awards from the Ministry for Electronic Industry of China. From 1998 to 2004, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, A-Star, Singapore, as a Lead Scientist and the Head of the Biometrics Laboratory, where he developed a system that achieved the most efficiency and the second most accuracy at the International Fingerprint Verification Competition in 2000. He joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a Faculty Member, in 2004, and served as the Director of the Centre for Information Security from 2005 to 2011. Currently, he is a professor in NTU. Dr Jiang holds 7 patents and has authored over 150 papers with over 40 papers in the IEEE journals, including 11 papers in IEEE T-IP and 6 papers in IEEE T-PAMI. Three of his papers have been listed as the top 1% highly cited papers in the academic field of Engineering by Essential Science Indicators. He served as IFS TC Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2015 to 2017, Associate Editor for IEEE SPL from 2014 to 2018, Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP from 2016 to 2020 and the founding editorial board member for IET Biometrics form 2012 to 2019. Dr Jiang is currently an IEEE Fellow and serves as Senior Area Editor for IEEE T-IP and Editor-in-Chief for IET Biometrics. His current research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and biometrics.