Conference Chairs

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- General Chairs -

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Thippa Reddy Gadekallu

Thippa Reddy Gadekallu is currently working as a Professor at Zhejiang A&F University and the Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India. He has more than 15 years of experience in teaching and research. He is a Senior Member of IEEE. He has more than 400 international/national publications in reputed journals and conferences. Currently, his areas of research include Machine Learning, Internet of Things, Deep Neural Networks, Blockchain, Computer Vision. He has acted as a guest editor in several reputed publishers like IEEE, EIsevier, Springer, Hindaw, MDPl. He has recently been recognized as one among the top 2% scientists in the world as per the survey conducted by Elsevier in the years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025.

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Wei-Chiang Hong

Wei-Chiang Hong is a professor at the College of Shipbuilding Engineering at Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. His research interests mainly include computational intelligence, the application of forecasting technology, and machine learning algorithms. He serves as the program committee for various international conferences, including CEC, CIS, SMC, and SMCia. He was elected as the Outstanding Professor Award in 2014 and 2023. From 2020 to 2025, he has been indexed the World TOP 2% Scientist in ICT & AI Image Processing (both career-long and single year impact lists). From 2022 to 2025, he has also been indexed the Scholar GPS Top 0.05% Scholar in Forecasting (both lifetime and Prior 5 Years).

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Jemal H. Abawajy

Jemal H. Abawajy (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Full Professor at Deakin University’s School of Information Technology, Australia. His research spans distributed computing and systems software, cybersecurity and privacy, information systems and data management and data science. He has delivered over 70 international keynote speeches and seminars, organized more than 300 conferences, and serves on editorial boards of top journals.

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Hongjie Yu

Hongjie Yu is a professor at the School of Information and Network Engineering, Anhui Science and Technology University. His research focuses on deep learning, digital modeling, knowledge graphs and blockchain technology. As the first author, he has published 13 SCI/EI-indexed papers, presided over multiple teaching and research projects, and undertaken key scientific research projects in Anhui Province. He holds 3 national invention patents, 11 utility model patents and 37 registered computer software copyrights.



- Program Chairs -

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Linlin Shen

Linlin Shen is a Professor and Vice Dean at Shenzhen University’s School of Artificial Intelligence. He has been recognized as one of the Top 0.05% of Global Scientists by ScholarGPS and ranked among the World's Top 2% Scientists for Lifetime Scientific Influence by Stanford University for consecutive years from 2020 to 2025. His research focuses on general deep learning theory, face recognition/analysis and synthesis, intelligent analysis of medical images, etc. He has published over 500 papers, with over 19,000 citations. He is an IEEE Senior Member, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Computation and Systems, and serves as an editor for top journals including IEEE Transactions on Image Processing.

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Shensheng Tang

Shensheng Tang is a full professor at Bethel University, Minnesota, USA. His current research interests include wireless networking, computer networking, cloud/fog computing, embedded systems, IoT, FPGA, and mathematical modeling and performance evaluation. Besides his academic experience, Dr. Tang also has full-time product design/development and management experience in the wireless industry. He has produced over 100 peer-reviewed research papers in his expertise areas. He is a senior member of IEEE.

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Adrian David Cheok

Adrian David Cheok is a Full Professor at the School of Automation, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research spans multisensory communication, augmented/mixed reality, pervasive computing, embodied media, and entertainment computing. He has published extensively in journals including IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics and Expert Systems with Applications, with work spanning power electronics, AI, and agribusiness innovation. An IEEE Senior Member and Fellow of multiple professional bodies, he maintains a widely cited scholarly profile and is an active contributor to the international research community.

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Yousef Farhaoui

Yousef Farhaoui is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco. His research spans big data analytics, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, and business intelligence,etc. He has also authored over 15 books with Springer and IGI Global. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, IET, ACM, and EAI. He is ranked among the World’s Top 2% Scientists (Elsevier-Stanford) for 2023, 2024, and 2025.


- Publication Chairs -

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Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu

Gheorghe-Daniel Andreescu is a professor and PhD supervisor in Automatic Control Systems with the Department of Automation and Applied Informatics of the Politehnica University Timisoara (UPT), Romania. His main research interests include: advanced control of AC drives, sensorless control, renewable energy control, mechatronic systems control, AI-based system for pipeline crack detection analysis, hearing perception through cochlear implants. Prof. Andreescu is a senior IEEE member, member of the Technical Committee TC4.2 Mechatronic Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

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Yi-Zeng Hsieh

Yi-Zeng Hsieh(Senior Member, IEEE,Member IET) was recognized as an Outstanding Young Scholar by the IEEE Consumer Technology Society. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He is also a Senior Member of both the IEEE Consumer Technology Society and the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He serves as a Member of both IET Taipei Local Network and IET Japan Local Network and an associate editor for multiple IEEE Transactions. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, pattern recognition, image processing, computer vision, swarm intelligence, etc.

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Roberto Montemanni

Dr. Roberto Montemanni is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences and Methods for Engineering of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in Italy. He is the author of approximately 250 scientific contributions on leading Journals and Conferences, with algorithmic and mathematical modelling contributions in different fields such as industrial engineering, logistics and transportations, with a particular emphasis on the latter two areas. He received the prize for the Best Paper of year 2024 from International Transactions in Operational Research for a work on the use of drones for logistics.



- Program Committee -


Name Affiliation Country
Prof. Grigorios Beligiannis University of Patras - Agrinio Campus Greece
Assoc. Prof.Marcin Paprzycki Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences Poland
Prof. Francesco Zirilli Sapienza Università di Roma Italy
Prof. Ghani Albaali Princess Sumaya University for Technology Jordan
Dr. Olarik Surinta Mahasarakham University Thailand
Dr. Satnam Kaur Punjab Engineering College (Deemed to be University) India
Prof. Juan Manuel Santos Gago University of Vigo(AtlanTTic) Spain
Prof. J. Anvar Shathik Anjuman Institute of Technology and Management India
Dr. Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar University of Nottingham UK
Dr. Ibraheem Shayea Istanbul Technical University Turkey
Prof. T. Ramayah Universiti Sains Malaysia Malaysia
Assoc.Prof. Mohammad Kamrul Hasan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Malaysia
Prof. Addisson Salazar Universitat Politècnica de València Spain
Assistant Prof. Dr. Naveed Ahmed Azam Kyoto University Japan
Dr. Prashan Premaratne University of Wollongong Australia
Prof. Dr.  Herwig Unger FernUniversität in Hagen Germany
Assoc. Prof. Dorel Duşmănescu Petroleum-Gas University of Ploiesti Romania
Assoc. Prof.Tarek Amine HADDAD Higher National School of Renewable Energies, Environment & Sustainable Development Algeria
Prof. Gajendra Sharma Kathmandu University Nepal
Assoc.Prof. Bala Murugan M S Vellore Institute of Technology India
Prof. Chao Fang Beijing University of Technology China
Assoc. Prof. Patrick Goh Kuan Lye Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)  Malaysia
Prof. Dariusz Jakóbczak Koszalin University of Technology Poland
Prof. Mithun Mukherjee BITS Pilani, Dubai Campus  UAE
Prof.M.Vijayalakshmi Thiagrajar College of Engineering India
Prof. Zygmunt J. Haas Cornell University USA
Dr. Fernando G. Tinetti UNLP CIC Provincia de Buenos Aires Argentina
Prof.Luigi Maxmilian Caligiuri Foundation of Physics Research Center (FoPRC) Italy
Prof. Akash Saxena Central University of Haryana India
Prof. Xinguo YU Central China Normal University China