Committee

Prof. Xiaofeng Ding

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Prof. Xiaofeng Ding is currently a Professor and Pd.D Supervisor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). He received his Ph.D degree in Computer Science from HUST in 2009. He also worked as Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore and the University of South Australia during 2010-2013. 

His research interests mainly include data privacy and query processing, data encryption, graph databases and deep learning. Most of my works are published in reputable jounrals or conferences like IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) and etc.

Prof.Simon X. Yang

University of Guelph, Canada

Prof. Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, China in 1987, the first of two M.Sc.  degrees in biophysics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, USA in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1999. Prof. Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada.  

Prof. Yang has diversified research expertise. His research interests include intelligent systems, robotics, control systems, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, intelligent communications, intelligent transportation, machine learning, and computational neuroscience. Prof. Yang he has been very active in professional activities. Prof. Yang serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Robotics and Automation, and Intelligence & Robotics; and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many international conferences.

Assoc. Prof.Dimitrios A. Karras

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honours. From 1990 and up to 2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004 he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, till 12/2018, as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (the latter since 2002 and up to 2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Digital Systems and Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing , in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General. He is, also, adjunct professor with GLA University. Mathura, India and BIHER, BHARATH univ. India as well as with EPOKA and CIT universities Tirana. Moreover, he is with AICO EDV-Beratung GmbH as senior researcher as well as Director of Research and Documentation at ADIafrica N. G. O. He has published more than 70 research refereed journal papers in various areas of pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. 

His research interests span the fields of pattern recognition and neural networks, image and signal processing, image and signal systems, biomedical systems, communications, networking and security. He has served as program committee member in many international conferences, as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of signal, image, communication and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as associate editor in various scientific journals. He has been cited in more than 2469 research papers, his H/G-indices are 20/50 (Google Scholar) and his Erdos number is 5. His RG score is 31.66

Prof. Lu Leng

Nanchang Hangkong University, China

LU LENG received his Ph.D degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, in 2012. He performed his postdoctoral research at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, P. R. China. He was a visiting scholar at West Virginia University, USA, and Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, he is a full professor at Nanchang Hangkong University.

Prof. Leng has published more than 100 international journal and conference papers, including more than 50 SCI papers and three highly cited papers. He has been granted several scholarships and funding projects, including five projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He serves as a reviewer of more than 100 international journals and conferences. His research interests include computer vision, biometric template protection and biometric recognition.

Prof. Leng is an outstanding representative of "Innovation Talent" of Jiangxi Enterprise in "Science and Technology China" in 2021, received "Jiangxi Youth May Fourth Medal" in 2019, "Jiangxi Hundred-Thousand-Ten-thousand Talent Project" in 2018, "Jiangxi Voyage Project" in 2014, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Congduan Li

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Congduan Li (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, in 2008, the M.S. degree from Northern Arizona University, AZ, USA, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from Drexel University, PA, USA, in 2015, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From October 2015 to August 2018, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and with the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China. 

His research interests lie in the broad areas related with networks, such as coding, security, wireless, storage, and caching.