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, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is the founder and the first director of Center of Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Since April 2024, he has been a Foreign Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan.
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. Medical Imaging, CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects. In recent years, Professor Yen-Wei Chen has consistently been ranked among the world’s top 2% of scientists, both for the most recent year and over his entire career, according to the Stanford/Elsevier rankings.

 

Prof. Mu-Yen Chen
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
 

Biography: Dr. Chen is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering Science at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He received his PhD from Information Management from National Chiao-Tung University in Taiwan. His current research interests include artificial intelligent, soft computing, data mining, deep learning, context-awareness, machine learning, and social network mining with more than 200 publications in these areas. He has co-edited several special issues in International Journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Access, ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Computers in Human Behavior, Applied Soft Computing, Soft Computing, Information Fusion, Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, Sustainable Cities and Society, Neurocomputing, Supercomputing, Enterprise Information Systems, Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering, Computational Economics). He has served as Editor in Chief and Associate Editor of international journals [e.g. International Journal of Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, IEEE Access, Applied Soft Computing, Granular Computing, Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Journal of Information Processing Systems, International Journal of Social and Humanistic Computing] while he is an editorial board member on several SCI journals.