General Chair
Witold Pedrycz
Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada.
Research field: computational intelligence; fuzzy modeling and granular computing; knowledge discovery and data science; pattern recognition; data science; knowledge-based neural networks; control engineering.
Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, in 1977, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istinye University, Sariyer/Istanbul, Turkey, and also the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has published numerous papers in these areas; the current H-index is 125 (Google Scholar). He is 82 on the list top-h scientists for computer science and electronics (https://www.guide2research.com/scientists/) (link is external). He is also the author of 21 research monographs and edited volumes covering various aspects of computational intelligence, data mining, and software engineering. His research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling and granular computing, knowledge discovery and data science, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks, and control engineering. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007, he received the Prestigious Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He was a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, the Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, the Killam Prize, the Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. He is vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, the Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Granular Computing (Springer) and Journal of Data Information and Management (Springer). He is a member of a number of editorial boards of international journals.
Sos S. Agaian
Professor, IEEE Fellow, The City University of New York, USA.
Research field: computational vision; machine learning; large-scale data analytics; multi-modal data fusion; biologically inspired signal/image processing modeling; multi-modal biometrics and AI; 3D imaging sensors; information processing; security; biomedical and health informatics.
Sos S. Agaian (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with the College of Staten Island (CSI), The City University of New York. He has authored more than 750 technical articles and ten books in these areas. He is a fellow of SPIE, IS&T, AAAS, and AAIA. He also serves as a Foreign Member for the Armenian National Academy. He received the Distinguished Research Award from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award, in 2014, and the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher Award (San Antonio Business Journal). He is an Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis and an Associate Editor of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), and Journal of Electronic Imaging (IS&T and SPIE).
Co-Chair
Shiqian Wu, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, China
Organizing Committee Chair
Yanling Cai, Zhengzhou University, China
Technical Program Chair
Lei Chen, Shandong University, China
Rena Huang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Technical Program Member
Aarti Amod Agarkar, Vishwakarma institute of Technology, India
Anand Nayyar, Duy Tan University, Viet Nam
Aizaz Chaudhry, Carleton University, Canada
Artur Czerwinski, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
Bharat S. Chaudhari, MIT World Peace University, India
Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Dilbag Singh, New York University, USA
Dragan Peraković, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Israa Al-Barazanchi, University of Warith Al-Anbiyaa, Irap
Javier Gozalvez, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche (UMH), Spain
June Tay, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Singapore
K. Vasudevan, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Luís Barreto, Insituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Mehdi Gheisari, Islamic Azad University, Iran and Shenzhen BKD Co.LTD, China
Minwoo Jake Lee, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Muath Obaidat, City University of New York, USA
Nasir Saeed, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), UAE
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Pavel Loskot, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China
Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA
Satyendra Kumar Mishra, Space and Resilient Communications and Systems (SRCOM), Center Technologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (CTTC), Spain
Sérgio D. Correia, Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portugal
Shabir Ahmad Parah, University of Kashmir, India
Shashikant Patil, ATLAS SkillTech University, India
Siwei Zeng, Clemson University, USA
Smain Femmam, UHA University, France
Soumi Dutta, Sister Nivedita University, India
Sridhar Iyer, KLE Technological University, India
Stelvio Cimato, University of Milan, Italy
Zhensen Gao, Guangdong University of Technology, China
Publication Chair
Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek, Institute INAOE, Mexico
Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China
Sponsor
Zhengzhou University
