Committees

Honorary Chairs

Jun Fei Qiao

Qiao Junfei, Expert in Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Optimal Control, Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Department of Information Science, Beijing University of Technology, Director of Innovation Research Group of National Natural Science Foundation, Distinguished Professor of Yangtze River Scholar of Ministry of Education, Winner of National Outstanding Youth Fund, National tens of millions of talent project selected (with outstanding contributions to young and middle-aged experts), enjoy the State Council special allowance experts. He is currently a member of the Academic Degree Committee of the State Council, a member of the Science and Technology Committee and the Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education. Director of Beijing Laboratory of Intelligent Environmental Protection, Director of Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Perception and Autonomous Control, Ministry of Education, Member of Beijing Natural Science Foundation Committee; Executive Director of China Artificial Intelligence Society, Director, Professional Committee of Environmental Perception and Protection Automation, China Automation Society.

Jun Qi Li

Deputy Director of Urban Construction Department of Beijing Architecture University, Dean of School of Environment and Energy Engineering of Beijing Architecture University, Director of Academic Affairs Office of Beijing Architecture University. He is currently the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Beijing Architecture University, Vice President, President of Science and Technology Development Research Institute (Future Urban Design Innovation Center), Dean, Institute of International Development (Institute of International Education).

General Chairs

Iraklis Varlamis

A Professor at Harokopio University of Athens, Department of Informatics and Telematics and director of the MPhil Programme in Computer Science and Informatics The courses he teach are Databases, Database Design and Data Mining. His main topics of interest are Databases, Data & Information Management and Mining his research focus is on the use of semantics in web mining tasks. His research work also applies to knowledge management and mining in social networks.

Asad Kharhak

Dr. Asad Masood Khattak has over 17 years of industry and academia experience in various capacities, such as Webmaster, Developer, Team Leader, Principal Investigator, Assistant Chair, Graduate Program Coordinator, Assistant, Associate, and FullProfessor. He has multicultural teaching experience and has taught in Pakistan, China, South Korea, and United Arab Emirates (UAE). His areas of research interests include Data Curation and Representation, Data Mining, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computational Intelligence, social media analysis, e & m-Healthcare, Smart Cities, and Secure Computing. Taking bold, decisive, and definitive actions to solve problems, building strategic alliances, and working in collaborative teams are his strengths. He has experience of leading research teams of over 40 members in over four countries. He has served as an Assistant Chair and currently serving as Graduate Program Coordinator at the College of Technological Innovation, Zayed University. He is open to explore more and learn more that has mutual benefits for him, his partners, and his institution. He has delivered various keynote speeches, invited talks, invited lectures, and short courses. He has authored over 180 publications (book, book chapters, journal publications, and conference publications). He has a US Patents registered and a Korean Patent. He is Senior Member of IEEE and appointed as an ACM Distinguish Speaker.

Program Chairs

Xiaotian Xu

Technical director / GM of AI Business Unit, Beijing urban Construction intelligent Control Co., Ltd., has been engaged in artificial intelligence, high-performance Computing research and development for many years. Areas of Concern for artificial intelligence system architecture, Computational acceleration and numerical algorithms based on different systems. A large number of practical project landing experience, involved in the development of 2012-2013 world's first superComputer system software, Optimization of GRAPES meteorological application of China Meteorological Administration Bank of America, Morgan Stanly Financial Computing Platform software design optimization. IBM Architect, Senior R & D Manager, graduated from the University of Edinburgh, UK, high performance Computing.

Guangzhe Zhao

Doctor of Computer Science and Technology, Nagoya University, Dean of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing University of Architecture (State Government) Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Visiting Scholar, University of Ottawa, Vice-Chairman of the Special Committee of Building Robots, Chinese Society of Automation; Certified Expert of Chinese Education Engineering; Head of Electronic Information Degree; Director of Beijing Key Laboratory of Robot Bionics and Function Research, Member of Academic Committee, Beijing University of Architecture; Jian Da Jie Qing. Presided over 3 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 scientific research projects of the Ministry of Education, authorized more than 10 invention patents, and authored 2 academic monographs. Editor-in-chief of 2 teaching materials, the first author or corresponding author published more than 30 SCI journal papers. Research interests: Computer vision and image processing, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence. Team research topics: Medical image processing; human motion recognition and pose analysis; multimedia information security; emotional computing; three-dimensional scene reconstruction.

Steering Committee

Jerry Gao

.Jerry Zeyu Gao is a professor at the Department of Computer Engineering at San Jose State University. Now, he is the director of SJSU research center on Smart Technology, Computing, and Complex Systems. He has over 25 years of academic research and teaching experience and over 10 years of industry working and management experience on software engineering and IT development applications. He has published three technical books and over hundreds (300) publications in IEEE/ACM and achieved journals.

Jie Xue

Leader for a Research Peak of Excellence at Leeds, the director of the EPSRC-funded White Rose Grid e-Science Centre, involving the three White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York, and the head of the Distributed Systems and Services (DSS) Theme (with a total of over 40 theme members) at Leeds. He have worked in the field of Distributed Computing Systems for over thirty-five years, engaging closely with industrial leaders such as Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, and JLR. He received a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and was Professor of Distributed Systems at the University of Durham

Hong Zhu

The main research field is computer Software, author of two monographs, more than 160 academic papers. Journal of Software, Software Testing, Academic Journals such as the Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability, the Software Quality Journal, and the Multi-Agent and Grid Systems-International Journal are on the editorial board. He has presided over and participated in a number of 863 and 973 scientific research projects, major projects of the Natural Science Foundation and National Defense Science Foundation research projects. Has won the Ministry of Education Outstanding Young Teachers Award Fund, Huo Yingdong Young Teachers Award Second Prize (Research Category), Outstanding Youth Fund (1997) and other awards

Hong Gui Han

Dean, School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Technology, Chief Scientist of National Key R & D Program, Winner of Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of National Natural Science Foundation, National Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Science Foundation Project Winner, China Automation Society Young Scientist, Young Beijing Scholar, Beijing University outstanding young scientist and so on.

Mao Zu Guo

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Director of Beijing Key Laboratory; winner of Provincial Outstanding Youth Science Fund, studied in Sweden and UK. Main research areas: machine learning and artificial intelligence, intelligent construction and smart city, bioinformatics, etc. Doctoral Supervisor of " Intelligent Construction and Intelligent City ", Beijing University of Architecture. Deputy Director of Bioinformatics Committee of China Computer Society, Member of Machine Learning Committee of China Artificial Intelligence Society, Member of the Standing Committee of the Academic Committee of Computational Design, Chinese Society of Architecture, Member of the Group of Medical Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Medical Informatics Branch, Chinese Medical Association, Member of the Expert Group for the Guidance of Major Research Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China