Organization
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).
Technical Program Chair
Yanling Cai, Zhengzhou University, China
Technical Program Member
Minwoo Jake Lee, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA
Giuseppe Carbone, University of Calabria, Italy
Dilbag Singh, New York University, USA
Sérgio D. Correia, Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portugal
Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France
Pavel Loskot, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China
Siwei Zeng, Clemson University, USA
Stefano Cirillo, University of Salerno, Italy
Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA
Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada
Soumi Dutta, Sister Nivedita University, India
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA
Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Muath Obaidat, City University of New York, USA
Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan
Sardar M N Islam, Victoria University, Australia
Publication Chair
Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China
Sponsor
Zhengzhou University
