Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Tokuro Matsuo
Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
Dr. Tokuro Matsuo is a full professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology since 2012. He received the doctor degree of engineering from Dept. of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. He is an invited professor at University of Nevada, Jas Vegas, USA since 2016; a guest professor at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia since 2015; a research project professor of Collective Intelligence Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan since 2015; a research fellow of SEITI in Central Michigan University, USA since 2010; and an executive director of International Institute of Applied Informatics since 2011. He was a visiting researcher at University of California at Irvine in 2010-2011; was a research fellow at Shanghai University between 2010 to 2013; and was a research project professor of Green Computing Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology between 2011 to 2014. His current research interests include electronic commerce and business, service science and marketing, business management, artificial intelligence, material informatics, tourism informatics, convention administration research, and incentive design on e-services. Some of his researches are presented in the top international conferences on AAAI, IEEE CEC, AAMAS, and WWW. He chaired a lot of international conferences including IEEE/ACIS SNPD 2009, 2012 and 2014, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2010 and 2013, IEEE IWEA 2007-2012, ACAN 2005-2012, and AAI 2012-2016. He gave over 70 keynotes and invited talk at international conferences, symposia, and seminars. He also received over 40 awards and research grants from research foundations, company and Government. He is also commissioned as Japan Conference Ambassador, Kumamoto City MICE Ambassador, and Adviser of Information Promotion of Japan.
Keynote Speaker II
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 III
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.
Invited Speaker III
Prof. Rajkumar Buyya
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry
Distinguished Professor and Director of the Quantum Cloud Computing
and Distributed Systems (qCLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of
Manjrasoft, a spin-off company of the University, commercializing
its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored over 850
publications and seven textbooks including "Mastering Cloud
Computing" published by McGraw Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan
Kaufmann for Indian, Chinese and international markets respectively.
Dr. Buyya is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and
software engineering worldwide (h-index=178, g-index=394,
i10-index=854, and 168,400+ citations). A bibliometric study by
Stanford University and Elsevier since 2019, Dr. Buyya is recognized
as the Highest-Cited author in the Distributed Computing field
worldwide. He graduated 60+ PhD students who are working in
world-leading research universities and high-tech companies such as
Microsoft, Google, and IBM. He has been recognised as an ACM Fellow,
IEEE Fellow, a "Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher" for seven
times since 2016, the "Best of the World" twice for research fields
(in Computing Systems in 2019/2024 and Software Systems in
2021/2022/2023) as well as "Lifetime Achiever" and "Superstar of
Research" in "Engineering and Computer Science" discipline twice
(2019 and 2021) by the Australian Research Review.
Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, Fog, Quantum computing
developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have gained rapid acceptance
and are in use at several academic institutions and commercial
enterprises in 60+ countries around the world. Manjrasoft's Aneka
Cloud technology developed under his leadership has received "Frost
New Product Innovation Award". He served as founding Editor-in-Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently serving
as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and Experience, a
long-standing journal in the field established in 1970. He has
presented over 750 invited talks (keynotes, tutorials, and seminars)
on his vision on IT Futures, Advanced Computing technologies, and
Spiritual Science at international conferences and institutions in
Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. He has
recently been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Europe. For
further information on Dr.Buyya, please visit his cyberhome:
www.buyya.com
nvited Speaker IV
Prof. Athakorn Kengpol
King Mongkut’s University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand
Dr. Athakorn Kengpol is Professor of
Industrial Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s
University of Technology North Bangkok, Thailand. He received his
PhD in Manufacturing Engineering and Operations Management from The
University of Nottingham, UK. He obtained his Post-doctoral Research
at University of Innsbruck, Austria and at Lappeenranta University
of Technology, Finland. His research interests include Artificial
Intelligence, Machine/Deep Learning, Decision Support Systems in
Industry 4.0, management information systems and packaging design.
His National Awards are, for example, National Outstanding Lecturer,
National Outstanding Government Officer etc. His International
Awards are, for example, Medal from International Exhibition of
Geneva, Switzerland, and Industry Solutions Award from IEOM Society
International, USA. He conducted and published research about
Machine Learning and Deep Learning in a number of reputable
journals, for example, International Journal of Production
Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Expert
Systems with Applications, Computers and Industrial Engineering etc.
He also participated in MSIE-CBHE Erasmus+ Curriculum Development of
Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Engineering for Thailand
Sustainable Smart Industry (MSIE4.0) funded by the European
Commission, and ReCap 4.0 that is proposed to enhance the capacity
and ability of the non-university sector at the tertiary level in
Thailand for the effective delivery of engineering and technology
knowledge and skills related to Industry 4.0 to support Thailand
Sustainable Smart Industry.