Keynote Speakers
Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Tokuro Matsuo
Fujita Health University, Japan
Dr. Tokuro Matsuo is currently Full Professor at School of Medicine, Fujita Health University, Japan. Also, he is currently Visiting Professor at Sam Houston State University, USA; Executive Director of International Institute of Applied Informatics (IIAI); Executive Director of International Accreditation Association for Higher Education; Guest Professor at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia; Japan MICE Ambassador; and Kumamoto City MICE Ambassador. He was Full Professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology (AIIT) in Tokyo Public University Corporation, Japan and Director of Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and Service Science at AIIT (2012-2026); Associate Professor at Yamagata University, Japan (2006-2012); Adjunct Professor at Asian University, Taiwan (2019-2021); Invited Professor at City University of Macau, Macau (2018-2020); Visiting Researcher at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA (2016-2017); Vice-President, International Association for Computer and Information Science, USA (2015-2017); Vice-President, Software Engineering Research Foundation, USA (2013-2018); Visiting Researcher at University of California at Irvine, USA (2010-2011); Research Fellow at Shanghai University, China (2010-2013); and Project Professor of Green Computing Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (2011-2014); Guest Professor at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan (2021-2023); and Research Fellow of SEITI in Central Michigan University, USA (2010-2018). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. His current research interests include agent-based electronic commerce, qualitative reasoning and simulation, material informatics, IT and business management, and IoT. Also, he is a professional event planner and event producer. He delivered over 250 keynotes and invited talk at international conferences, symposia, and seminars. He also received over 10 awards on research and over 30 research grants from government, research foundations, and company. He has ever presented over 300 reviewed papers in journals and in international conference including top/high-ranked international journals and conferences, such as, SN Applied Sciences, Data in Brief, Marine Systems & Ocean Technology, International Journal of Neural Systems, International Journal of Business Information Systems, Logic Journal of IGPL, IEEE Access, Heliyon, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Science Journal, AAAI, IEEE CEC, AAMAS, IEEE WCCI, and WWW. Also, he has published 14 edited books from Springer, IGI-Global, and WIT Press. He has been over 90 international conference organizing chairs (conference chair/ program chair / finance chair / publication chair) of IEEE PRIWEC(2006), IEEE/ACIS SNPD (2009 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019), PRIMA (2009, 2020, 2024, 2026), PRICAI (2024), IEEE/ACIS ICIS (2010, 2013, 2015, 2016), IIAI AAI (2012-2026), AAMAS (2013), IEEE/ACIS SERA (2014, 2015), IEEE SOCA (2014, 2017), IEEE TENSYMP (2016), IEEE International Conference on Agentic AI (2016, 2017, 2023, 2026), IEEE SC2 (2017), ASEAN-AI (2018), and other 50 international conferences and workshops.
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
Invited 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.
Invited Speaker V
Prof. Alessandro Lampo
University of Saint Joseph, Macao, China
Dr. Lampo serves as Head of the Department of Business Studies at
the University of Saint Joseph in Macao. In this role, he leads the
management and international development of the Faculty of Business
and Law's flagship MBA and BBA programmes.
He is the author of “Promptly Yours,” a guide to shaping
conversations with AI, and has published nearly 30 academic papers
over the past 5 years, some of which have received international
recognition. He actively shapes global business discourse through
his contributions to international conferences and his role on the
editorial board of academic journals.
The scholarly work is grounded in years of experience in upper
management at international companies, where he was directly
responsible for strategic planning and technology implementation.
A firm believer in blending strategy with creativity, Dr. Lampo is
also a passionate musician, having performed in his earlier years.
Invited Speaker VI
Prof. Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy
Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Ramesh Kumar Ayyasamy (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Malaysia. Dr Ramesh holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from Monash University, Australia, which he completed in 2013. He has over 23 years of teaching and research experience in Computer Science and Information Systems. He has held various academic and research roles at multiple institutions throughout his career. Dr. Ramesh's research expertise lies in AI-driven text analytics, focusing on sentiment analysis, deep learning for healthcare imaging, and semantic image segmentation. His work bridges theoretical foundations and practical applications, contributing to natural language processing, computer vision, smart city development, and health informatics. In addition to his research activities, he plays an active role in the academic community as a reviewer for leading WoS/Scopus ranked international journals and IEEE indexed conferences. He serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including Discover Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Engineering and Applied Science, International Journal of Innovative Engineering, Science and Technology and Iris Online Journal of Cyber security & Computing technology.