Prof. Witold Pedrycz (IEEE
Fellow)
University of Alberta, Canada
Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 1998) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. In 2009 Dr. Pedrycz was elected a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. In 2012 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007 he received a prestigious Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He is a recipient of the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing, knowledge discovery and data science, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks, and control engineering. He has published papers in these areas. He is also an author of 21 research monographs and edited volumes covering various aspects of Computational Intelligence, data mining, and Software Engineering. Dr. Pedrycz is vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer). He serves on an Advisory Board of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and is a member of a number of editorial boards of international journals.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Xudong Jiang (IEEE Fellow)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Xudong Jiang received
the B.Eng. and M.Eng. from the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC),
and the Ph.D. degree from Helmut Schmidt University,
Hamburg, Germany. From 1986 to 1993, he was a
Lecturer with UESTC, where he received two Science
and Technology Awards from the Ministry for
Electronic Industry of China. From 1998 to 2004, he
was with the Institute for Infocomm Research,
A-Star, Singapore, as a Lead Scientist and the Head
of the Biometrics Laboratory, where he developed a
system that achieved the most efficiency and the
second most accuracy at the International
Fingerprint Verification Competition in 2000. He
joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU),
Singapore, as a Faculty Member, in 2004, and served
as the Director of the Centre for Information
Security from 2005 to 2011. Currently, he is a
professor in NTU. Dr Jiang holds 7 patents and has
authored over 150 papers with over 40 papers in the
IEEE journals, including 11 papers in IEEE T-IP and
6 papers in IEEE T-PAMI. Three of his papers have
been listed as the top 1% highly cited papers in the
academic field of Engineering by Essential Science
Indicators. He served as IFS TC Member of the IEEE
Signal Processing Society from 2015 to 2017,
Associate Editor for IEEE SPL from 2014 to
2018, Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP from 2016 to
2020 and the founding editorial board member for IET
Biometrics form 2012 to 2019. Dr Jiang is currently
an IEEE Fellow and serves as Senior Area Editor
for IEEE T-IP and Editor-in-Chief for IET
Biometrics. His current research interests include
image processing, pattern recognition, computer
vision, machine learning, and biometrics.