Conference General Chair
Prof. Wenwu Wang, IEEE Senior Member, University of Surrey, UK
BIO: Wenwu Wang is currently a Professor of Signal Processing and Machine Learning, and a Co-Director of the Machine Audition Lab within the Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing. He is also an AI Fellow of Surrey Institute for People Centred Artificial Intelligence.
His current research interests include blind signal processing, sparse signal processing, audio-visual signal processing, machine learning and perception, artificial intelligence, machine audition (listening), and statistical anomaly detection. He has (co)-authored over 300 publications in these areas including two books: Machine Audition: Principles, Algorithms and Systems by IGI Global published in 2010 and Blind Source Separation: Advances in Theory Algorithms and Applications by Springer in 2014. His work has been funded by EPSRC, EU, Dstl, MoD, DoD, Home Office, Royal Academy of Engineering, National Physical Laboratory, BBC, and industry (including Samsung, Tencent, Huawei, Atlas, Saab, and Kaon).
He is an Associate Editor (2020-) for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, an Associate Editor of (Nature) Scientific Report (2022-), a Specialty Editor in Chief (2021-) of Frontier in Signal Processing, and an Associate Editor (2019-) for EURASIP Journal on Audio Speech and Music Processing. He was a Senior Area Editor (2019-2023) and an Associate Editor (2014-2018) for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, and Senior Area Editor of Digital Signal Processing (2021-2023). He is elected Chair (2023-2024) of IEEE SPS Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee, elected Vice Chair (2022-2024) of EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Acoustic Speech and Music Signal Processing, Board Member (2023-2024) of IEEE SPS Technical Directions Board, an elected Member (2021-) of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee, and an elected Member (2019-) of the International Steering Committee of Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation. He was a Local Arrangement Co-Chair of IEEE MLSP 2013, Publicity Co-Chair of IEEE SSP 2009, Publication Co-Chair for ICASSP 2019 and a Satellite Workshop Co-Chair for INTERSPEECH 2022 and ICASSP 2024, a Special Session Co-Chair for MLSP 2024, and a Technical/Program Committee Member of over 100 international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Grigorios Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece
Prof. Qiu Chen, IEEE Member, Kogakuin University, Japan
Qiu Chen (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2004. Since 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor and an Associate Professor with Tohoku University. He is currently a Professor with Kogakuin University. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer vision, information retrieval, and their applications. He serves on the editorial boards for several journals, as well as committees for a number of international conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Du Huynh, IEEE Senior Member, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Du Q. Huynh (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer vision from The University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, in 1994. Since then, she has been with the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for Sensor Signal and Information Processing and Murdoch University, Perth, WA, Australia. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia. She has previously researched shape from motion, multiple view geometry, and 3-D reconstruction. Her current research interests include visual object tracking, video image processing, machine learning, and pattern recognition.
Publication Chair
Prof. Jonathan Wu, IEEE Senior Member, University of Windsor, Canada
Q. M. Jonathan Wu (M’92–SM’09) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Wales, Swansea, U.K., in 1990. He was with the National Research Council of Canada for ten years from 1995, where he became a Senior Research Officer and a Group Leader. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Windsor, Windsor, ON, Canada. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers in computer vision, image processing, intelligent systems, robotics, and integrated microsystems. His current research interests include machine learning, 3-D computer vision, video content analysis, interactive multimedia, sensor analysis and fusion, and visual sensor networks.
Dr. Wu holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Automotive Sensors and Information Systems. He was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A, and the International Journal of Robotics and Automation. Currently, he is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transaction on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and the Journal of Cognitive Computation. He has served on technical program committees and international advisory committees for many prestigious conferences.
Prof. Cheng Siong Chin, IEEE Senior Member, NewCastle University in Singapore, Singapore
He is Chair Professor of Intelligent Systems Modelling and Simulation at Newcastle University. As the inaugural Director of Innovation (and Engagement), he spearheaded numerous collaborative research initiatives with various industries at Newcastle University's Singapore campus, playing a pivotal role in their success. His accomplishments are noteworthy, having secured six grants from the Economic Development Board (EDB) through the Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP), along with an additional two grants from the Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) where he served as the Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI. These grants are instrumental in supporting research initiatives related to the fields of intelligent systems design, simulation, and predictive analytics, all of which are funded by the government.
He presents a good track record, featuring an extensive collection of more than 170 publications. This body of work encompasses 5 authored books published by IET, CRC Press, and Springer. In addition to his written contributions, he has lent his expertise to the editing of 2 books and displayed a commitment to innovation by filing 2 patent applications in Singapore, alongside securing 3 US Patents. His research endeavors have extended into artificial intelligence, with involvements in various AI-related conferences, including EANN/EAAAI, IJCNN, AIAI, and DCASE. His professional standing is underpinned by several esteemed distinctions, including his role as a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a Fellow of IMarEST, a Senior Member of IEEE, and his expertise as a Specialist Adult Educator specializing in engineering curriculum development. He assumed a role as Lead Guest Editor for the Journal of Advanced Transportation. In this capacity, he managed a Special Issue focusing on Intelligent Autonomous Transport Systems Design and Simulation, in collaboration with the esteemed publisher Wiley. In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the Best Presentation at the 8th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Applications, an event organized by the IEEE.
Organizing Committee Chair
Assoc. Prof. Rayner Alfred, IEEE Member, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia
BIO: Rayner Alfred is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah in Malaysia. Rayner completed his PhD in 2008 looking at intelligent techniques using machine learning to model and optimize the dynamic and distributed processes of knowledge discovery for structured and unstructured data. He has authored and co-authored more than 150 journals/book chapters and conference papers, editorials, and served on the program and organizing committees of numerous national and international conferences and workshops. In terms of postgraduate student supervision, he has successfully supervised 6 doctorate and 7 master students. Now, he has 9 active PhD students undergoing research in Biometric security, Big Data Analytics, Data Modelling and Visualization, Machine Learning for Odour Classification, Multi-Agent Technology and Digital Transformation. Rayner is currently a member of IEEE, a Certified Software Tester (CTFL) from the International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB), and also a certified IBM DB2 Academic Associate (IBM DB2 AA). He leads the Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) research group in UMS and he has lead several projects related to knowledge discovery and machine learning on Big Data.
Assoc. Prof. Por Lip Yee, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Bio: Lip Yee received his Ph.D. from University of Malaya, Malaysia under the supervision of Prof. Abdullah bin Gani in 2012. Currently, he is an Assoc. Professor at the Department of System and Computer Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is also a senior member of IEEE. Lip Yee and his team were the first few pioneers who received IRPA, E-Science, FRGS, ERGS, PRGS, HIR and IIRG grants. He was the first person who managed to secure 2 E-Science funds with the role of PI in 2008. He was also the first person at the FCSIT who managed to secure the PRGS and ERGS grants. Beside collaborators from Malaysia, Lip Yee also has international collaborators from France, UK New Zealand, Turkey, Thailand and China. He also established his connection with his national and international collaborators with some industrial partners in Malaysia and other countries.
Assoc. Prof. Abdul Samad Shibghatullah, UCSI University, Malaysia
BIO: Abdul Samad Shibghatullah is currently Associate Professor of Computer Science at UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He earned his Bachelor Degree in Accounting from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1999, a Masters degree in Computer Sciences from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2001, and a Ph.D degree in Computer Sciences from Brunel University of Uxbridge, United Kingdom in 2008. His current research interest is in operational research modelling, computational intelligence, business intelligence and analytics. Currently he is the member of OptiMAS (Optimization, Modelling, and Simulation Research Group).
Organzing Committee members
Assistant Professor. Chin Soon Ku, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Dr. Jing Yang, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Dr. Prateek Saurabh Srivastav-University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Dr. Wan nor Shuhadah Wan Nik-Universiti Sulatan Zainal Abidin, Terengganu, Malaysia
Dr. Md Khaja Mohiddin-Dept. of ET&T,Bhilai Institute of Technology, Raipur
Prof. Jeng-Kuang Hwang-Yuan-Ze University (YZU), Taoyuan, China
Dr.Sahil Verma-Lovely Professional University, India
A. Prof. Zhaoyang Cao-University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Prof. Ka Lok Ma-Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak, Malaysia
Dr. Shivani Dhall-DAV College, Jalandhar, India
Prof. Ke-jun Li-Shandong University, China
Dr. YU WEI-HAN (IEEE Member)-University of Macau/ Institute of Microelectronics, Macao, China
Dr. Li Fang (IEEE Member)-Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
A.Prof. Mamoun Alazab-Charles Darwin University, Australia
Technical Program Committee
Prof. Daniel-Ioan Curiac, IEEE Senior Member, Politehnica University Timisoara, Romania
Assoc. Prof. José Abel Herrera Camacho, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Assoc. Prof. Hum Yan Chai, IEEE Senior Member, University Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Komalpreet Kaur, Salem State University, USA
Prof. Zhengxiang Xie, Chongqing University, China
Prof. Carlos Borrego, Departament Enginyeria of Information Comunicacions Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Sanjeev Wagh, Government College of Engineering, Karad, India
Prof. Zainab Abu Bakar, Computer Science, Al-Madinah International University, Malaysia
Prof. Najeeb Abbas Al-Sammarraie from Al-Madinah International University, Malaysia
Prof. Linfeng Liu, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Prof. Jin-heung Kong, Kwangwoon University, Korea
Prof. Shamsul Bin Sahibuddin, Universiti Teknologi, Malaysia
Prof. Yongfeng Qi, Northwest Normal University, China
Prof. Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Prof. Sanjeev J. Wagh, Information Technology Government College of Engineering, Karad, India
A. Prof.Jinsong Wu, University of Chile, Chile
A. Prof.Sabeen Tahir, King AbdulAziz University Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
A. Prof. N.Rajathi, Kumaraguru College of Technology, India
A. Prof. David Bamman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
A. Prof.Li Li, Dalian University, China
A. Prof. Kuni Liu, University of Jinan Information Institute, China
Dr. Valerio Persico, the University of Napoli Federico II, Italy
Dr. Elisa Rojas, University of Alcala, Spain