Prof. James Kwok
IEEE Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hongkong
 

Biography: James Kwok is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow. Prof Kwok received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then joined the Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor. He returned to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and is now a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Artificial Intelligence Journal, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, and on the Editorial Board of Machine Learning. He is also serving / served as Senior Area Chairs of major machine learning / AI conferences including NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IJCAI, and as Area Chairs of conferences including AAAI and ECML. He is on the IJCAI Board of Trustees. He is recognized as the Most Influential Scholar Award Honorable Mention for "outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of AAAI/IJCAI between 2009 and 2019". Prof Kwok will be the IJCAI-2025 Program Chair.

 

Prof. Chua-Chin Wang
Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), Tainan Chapter
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan  
 

Biography: Chua-Chin Wang (SM'04) was born in Taiwan, in 1962. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwain, in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1988 and 1992, respectively.,He then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and became a Full Professor in 1998. His recent research interests include mixed-signal circuit design, low-power and high-speed circuit design, communication interfacing circuitry, and bio-chips. He founded SOC group in Department of Electrical Engineering, National Sun Yat-Sen University in 2005. He is currently serving as the Director of Engineering Technology Research and Promotion Center (ETRPC), National Sun Yat-Sen University.,Dr. Wang is the Chair of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS-S), Tainan Chapter. He is also the founding Chair of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS), Tainan Chapter, and the founding Councilor of IEEE NSYSU Student Branch. He is also a member of the IEEE CASS Multimedia Systems Applications (MSA), VLSI Systems and Applications (VSA), Nanoelectronics and Giga-scale Systems (NG), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Technical Committees. Currently, he is also serving as the Associate Editor of International Journal of VLSI Design. He is also a Guest Editor of International Journal of Electrical Engineering. In 2007, he was elected to be IEEE CAS-S Nanoelectronics and Giga-Scale Systems (NG) Technical Committee Chair to serve a two-year term from 2008. In the same year, he was elected to be the DLP (Distinguished Lecturer Program) speaker of IEEE CAS-S. He was the General Chair of 2007 VLSI/CAD Symposium.

 

Prof. Yen-Wei Chen
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
 

Biography: Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From Oct. 1994 to Mar. 2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor with the college of Information Science and Engineering, director with the research center of advanced ICT for medicine and healthcare, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is also an adjunct professor with the College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China. He was a visiting professor with the Oxford University, Oxford, UK in 2003 and a visiting professor with Pennsylvania State University, USA in 2010.
His research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. SMC, Pattern Recognition. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award, Outstanding Chinese Oversea Scholar Fund of Chinese Academy of Science. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects.

 

Prof. Ari Aharari
Sojo University, Kumamoto, Japan
 

Biography: He received M.E. and PhD in Industrial Science and Technology Engineering and Robotics from Niigata University and Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan in 2004 and 2007, respectively. In 2004, he joined GMD-JAPAN as a Research Assistant. He was Research Scientist and Coordinator at FAIS- Robotics Development Support Office from 2004 to 2007. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) at Waseda University, Japan from 2007 to 2008. He served as a Senior Researcher of Fukuoka IST involved in the Japan Cluster Project from 2008 to 2010. In 2010, he became an Assistant Professor at the faculty of Informatics of Nagasaki Institute of Applied Science. Since 2012, he has been Associate Professor at the department of Computer and Information Science, Sojo University, Japan. He is currently professor at the department of Computer and Information Science, Sojo University, Japan.
His research interests are IoT, Robotics, IT Agriculture, Image Processing and Data Analysis (Big Data) and their applications. He is a member of IEEE (Robotics and Automation Society), RSJ (Robotics Society of Japan), IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers), IIEEJ (Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan).