Speakers of ICCMT 2024

Prof. Keqin Li

SUNY Distinguished Professor, USA (MAE, FAAAS, FIEEE, FAAIA, FACIS)

Bio: Keqin Li received a B.S. degree in computer science from Tsinghua University in 1985 and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Houston in 1990. He is currently a  SUNY Distinguished Professor with the State University of New York and a National  Distinguished Professor with Hunan University (China). He has authored or co-authored more  than 960 journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference papers. He received several  best paper awards from international conferences including PDPTA-1996, NAECON-1997,  IPDPS-2000, ISPA-2016, NPC-2019, ISPA-2019, and CPSCom-2022. He holds nearly 70 patents  announced or authorized by the Chinese National Intellectual Property Administration. He is  among the world's top five most influential scientists in parallel and distributed computing in  terms of single-year and career-long impacts based on a composite indicator of the Scopus  citation database. He was a 2017 recipient of the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement  Award for being listed in Marquis Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in  America, Who's Who in the World, and Who's Who in American Education for over twenty  consecutive years. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Computer Science  Department at the University of Houston in 2018. He received the IEEE TCCLD Research Impact  Award from the IEEE CS Technical Committee on Cloud Computing in 2022 and the IEEE TCSVC  Research Innovation Award from the IEEE CS Technical Community on Services Computing in  2023. He was a winner of the IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award (Academic) in  2023. He is a Member of the SUNY Distinguished Academy. He is an AAAS Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, and an ACIS Founding Fellow. He is a Member of Academia Europaea  (Academician of the Academy of Europe).

Prof. Heming Jia

Sanming University, China

Bio:Jia Heming, Ph.D., professor, master's supervisor, and leader in the field of electronic information. Selected on the global top 2% scientists list, a high-level C-class talent in Sanming City, a director of the Fujian Artificial Intelligence Society, a director of the Fujian Computer Society, a senior member of the China Computer Society, and an assistant editorial board member of the Journal of Intelligent Systems. I have published over 100 scientific research papers as the first author and corresponding author, including over 50 SCI searches. Hosted 1 general project of the Fujian Natural Science Foundation, 3 special funding projects for basic scientific research business expenses of central universities, 1 education and research project for young and middle-aged teachers in Fujian Province, 3 guiding science and technology projects in Sanming City, and 4 horizontal projects for enterprises.

Personal website: https://xxgc.fjsmu.edu.cn/2020/1025/c1767a101567/page.htm

Prof. Gaige Wang

Ocean University of China, China

Bio: Gai-Ge Wang is a professor at Ocean University of China, China. He was selected as one of “2022 and 2021 Highly Cited Researchers” by Clarivate. He was selected as one of “2021 and 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” in computer science and technology by Elsevier. He was selected as one of “MDPI 2021 Most Influential Author Award” in Computer Science and Mathematics by MDPI. He was selected as World’s Top 2% Scientists 2020. One of his papers was selected as “100 Most Influential International Academic Papers in China”, one of his papers ranks 1 in the selection of the latest high-impact publications in computer science by Chinese researchers from Springer Nature in 2019. He served as Editor-in-Chief ofInternational Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (IJAISC), Early Career Advisory Board Member ofIEEE/CAA J of Automatica Sinica(SCI), and an Editorial Board Member ofJournal of Computational Design and Engineering (SCI),Mathematics(SCI), andIJBIC (SCI). He served as Guest-Editor/co-Guest-Editor for many journals. His research interests are swarm intelligence, evolutionary computation, and scheduling.

Prof. Liming Xin

Shanghai University, China

Bio:Liming received his Bachelor’s degree from Jilin University (2004), and his Doctor degree from Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009). He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto (2015 - 2019), before working at the University of Toronto as a Research Associate. He is currently a Professor at the School of Computer Engineering and Science at Shanghai University. His research interest resides in robotics. In recent years, he has extended his research to biomedical instruments and embodied intelligence. He serves as the AE of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. He is the recipient of numerous research awards, including the Frontiers of Science Award, the MARSS Best Application Paper Award, the Excellent Youth Overseas Project, etc. He has also been recognized for exceptional contribution to the education by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.

Assoc. Prof. Por Lip Yee（IEEE Senior Member）

Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Dr. Lip Yee, an esteemed Associate Professor at the Department of System and Computer Technology within the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at the Universiti Malaya, Malaysia, earned his Ph.D. from the Universiti Malaya under the mentorship of Prof. Abdullah bin Gani in 2012. He is also a senior member of the IEEE. Since then, Dr. Por has made significant contributions to academia, research, and industry.

Dr. Por's research endeavors have been at the forefront of technological advancement, particularly in the domains of security and quality assurance of information (NEC 2020: 0611) and machine learning (NEC 2020: 0613). His research interests include machine learning, support vector machines, deep learning, long-short-term memory, computer vision, AIoT, IoT, blockchain, authentication, graphic passwords, PIN-entry, cryptography, data hiding, steganography, and watermarking. His pioneering work has garnered recognition both nationally and internationally, with over 90 academic papers published in reputable journals. Notably, he was among the first few pioneers to publish in the top 1% of ISI journals, with commendable citations across platforms such as Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar. Web of Science (H-index: 17, 1226 citations), Scopus (H-index: 19, 1542 citations), and Google Scholar (H-index: 27, 2486 citations) databases (last update: Feb 13, 2024).https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/B-5309-2010

Prof. Xin Liu（IEEE Senior Member）

Huaqiao University, China

Bio: Xin Liu, Ph.D., professor, master's supervisor, received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, in 2013. He was a Visiting Scholar with the Computer and Information Sciences Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, from 2017 to 2018. He is a senior member of IEEE, senior member of China Computer Society, Xiamen key talent, and currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Huaqiao University, Xiamen, China. His present research interests include multimedia analysis, computational intelligence, computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning, and has published more than 100 papers, including IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition, ACM MM, SIGIR, AAAI, has been authorized 1 United States invention patent, and 12 Chinese invention patent. His related research won the third prize of Xiamen Science and Technology Progress Award, second Award of Fujian Province Natural Science Excellent Academic paper.