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Prof. Witold Pedrycz, IEEE Life Fellow Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing, knowledge discovery, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks among others. Dr. Pedrycz is involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).
Prof. Ir Dr Yiu-Ming Cheung (FIEEE, FAAAS, FIET, FBCS) Yiu-ming Cheung (SM’06--F’18) received Ph.D. degree from Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is a Chair Professor (Artificial Intelligence) of the Department of Computer Science and the Dean of Institute for Research and Continuing Education (IRACE) in Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IET Fellow, and British Computer Society (BCS) Fellow. His research interests include Machine Learning, Intelligent Visual Computing, Pattern Recognition, Data Mining, Watermarking, and Optimization. He has published over 250 articles in the high-quality conferences and journals, including TPAMI, TNNLS, TIFS, TIP, TKDE, TCYB, CVPR, IJCAI, and AAAI. He was ranked the World’s Top 1% Most-cited Scientists in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing by the statistical report of Stanford University in 2020 and 2021, respectively. His three co-authored papers are selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (i.e. listed in Top 1% globally in the corresponding discipline). He has been granted one Chinese patent and two US patents. In particular, selected from 1000 new inventions and products of 700+ competition teams from 40 countries, he was awarded two most prestigious prizes: (1) the Gold Medal with Distinction (i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) and (2) Swiss Automobile Club Prize, in the 45th International Exhibition of Invention, Geneva, Switzerland, on March 29-April 2, 2017, in recognition of his innovative work. Also, he was the Gold Award Winner of Hong Kong Innovative Invention Award in the Seventh Hong Kong Innovative Technologies Achievement Award 2017. In addition, he won the Gold Medal with Congratulations of Jury (i.e. the highest grade in Gold Medals) at the 46th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva 2018. Prof. Cheung is the recipient of: (1) 2011 and 2021 Best Research Award in Department of Computer Science, HKBU, (2) Best Paper Awards in SEAL’2017, ISICA’2017, ICNC-FSKD’2014, and IEEE IWDVT’2005, respectively, (3) Best Student Paper Award in ISMIS’2018, (4) Best in Theoretical Paper Award in WI-IAT’2020, and (5) 2017 IETI Annual Scientific Award. Also, he is the recipient of 2017-2019 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. He has been elected as an IEEE CIS Distinguished Lecturer, and the Changjiang Chair Professor awarded by Ministry of Education of China. He is the Founding Chairman of IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, and the Chair of Technical Community on Intelligent Informatics (TCII) of IEEE Computer Society. He has served in various capacities (e.g., Organizing Committee Chair, Program Committee Chair, Program Committee Area Chair, and Financial Chair) at several top-tier international conferences, including IJCAI’2021, ICPR’2020, ICDM’2017 & 2018, WCCI’2016, WI-IAT’2012, ICDM’2006 & WI-IAT’2006, to name a few. He is an Associate Editor for several prestigious journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Pattern Recognition, and Neurocomputing, as well as the Guest Editor in several international journals. Currently, he is an Engineering Panel member of Research Grants Council, Hong Kong, and a Fellow Committee member of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
Prof. Xianbin Wang, IEEE Fellow & Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering Dr. Xianbin Wang (S’98-M’99-SM’06-F’17) is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at Western University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from National University of Singapore in 2001. |
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