Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker I
Prof.
Maged M. Dessouky
University of Southern California, USA
Maged M. Dessouky is a Dean's Professor and Chair in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research area is transportation system optimization where he has authored over 110 refereed publications. His paper “Optimal Slack Time for Schedule Based Transit Operations” was awarded the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Best Paper Prize. He is a Fellow of IISE and INFORMS and serves as Associate Director of METRANS, a center focused on solving important urban transportation problems. He is currently area/associate editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, IISE Transactions, and Computers and Industrial Engineering, and previously served on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, as area editor of the ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation, and as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Purdue University.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Yang XU
Peking University, China
Prof. Yang XU received his Ph.D. from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2010. Since 2011, he has joined Peking University and became associate professor in 2013. He is visiting professor in Tsukuba University (Japan), Université Toulouse III (France), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and University of Edinburgh (UK). He published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many of them are published in outstanding SCI/SSCI index journals such as Computers & Industrial Engineering, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Knowledge Organization, CIRP Annals. His research interests include industrial engineering, knowledge management, etc.
Invited Speakers
Invited Speaker I
Assoc. Prof. Raja Kumar Murugesan
Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Dr Raja Kumar Murugesan is an Associate Professor of Computer
Science, and Head of Research for the Faculty of Innovation and
Technology at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He has a PhD in
Advanced Computer Networks from the Universiti Sains Malaysia. His
research interests include IPv6, Future Internet, Internet
Governance, Computer Networks, Network Security, IoT, Blockchain,
Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms. He is a Senior Member
of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society, member of the Internet
Society (ISOC), member of the Malaysia Data Science Association and
associated with the IPv6 Forum, Asia Pacific Advanced Network Group
(APAN), Internet2, and Malaysia Network Operator Group (MyNOG)
member's community. Talks about IoT, Blockchain, AI, Machine
learning, IPv6, Internet Governance, and Digital Transformation in
the context of Industry 4.0 (IR4.0) and Sustainable Development
Goals (SDG’s) at various international conferences, forums, and
events. Obtained substantial funds locally and internationally, and
actively engages in research, consultancy, and outreach activities
in Advanced Computer Networks.
Invited Speaker II
Prof. Xiangjie Kong
Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Xiangjie Kong received the B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou, China in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He is
currently a Full Professor with the College of Computer Science and
Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, China. Previously, he
was an Associate Professor with the School of Software, Dalian
University of Technology, China. He has published over 230
scientific papers in international journals and conferences (with
over 200 indexed by ISI SCIE). He has an h-index of 53 and i10-index
of 129, and a total of more than 9300 citations to his work
according to Google Scholar. He is named in the 2019 - 2023 world’s
top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University. His
research interests include network science, knowledge discovery, and
urban computing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Distinguished
Member of CCF and a Member of ACM.