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Cheng Chin
Professor of Intelligent Systems Modelling & Simulation, Director of Research, Director of Newcastle University_Nvidia Joint Laboratory
Bio: He is a Chair Professor of Intelligent Systems Modelling and Simulation at Newcastle University and Editor-in-Chief of Cybernetics and Systems. Since 2010, he has contributed to the Marine Engineering programme, focusing on marine electrical engineering, system modelling, and simulation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Chongqing University, an NVIDIA Certified Instructor, and a Deep Learning Institute Ambassador. He leads the Newcastle University–NVIDIA Joint Laboratory and serves as Director of Research and Innovation in Singapore, where he has strengthened academia–industry collaboration. He has secured 9 EDB Industrial Postgraduate Programme grants and 2 Singapore Maritime Institute grants as PI/Co-PI, advancing intelligent system design and predictive analytics research.
He has published 5 books, edited 2, and holds multiple patents in Singapore and the US. His research in AI has been presented at major conferences, and he has received awards including Best Presentation at an IEEE conference, Best Paper at MIC, and the Judges’ Award at DCASE2019. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has served on IEEE working groups contributing to IEEE 2660.1-2020 and IEEE 45.1-2023. He also serves on editorial boards of several international journals.
Prof. Lei Chen
Shandong University, China
Bio: Lei Chen received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from Shandong University, Jinan, China, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University, China. His research interests include image processing and computer vision, visual quality assessment and pattern recognition, machine learning and artificial intelligence. He was the principal investigator of projects granted from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. He has published more than 40 papers on top international journals and conferences in recent years including IEEE TIP, Signal Process., ICME, etc. He was awarded the Future Plan for Young Scholars of Shandong University. He served for many international conferences including the ICIGP 2021, CSAI2022, MLCCIM2022, and ICIVC 2023 as Program Chair, Technical Chair or Publicity Chair.
Prof. Azlan bin Mohd Zain
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia.
Bio: Azlan Mohd Zain (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Computing, UTM. As an academic staff, he has successfully supervised more than 25 postgraduate students and received more than 20 research grant funding to support research students. He has published more than 100 research papers. He has been invited as keynote speaker at over ten international conferences, serves on numerous committees, and has served on editorial board for several international journals.
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