Speakers

Prof. Irwin King, IEEE Fellow, INNS Fellow, AAIA Fellow, ACM Distinguished Member

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Professor Irwin King is a distinguished professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests span various areas, including machine learning, social computing, AI, and data mining. Professor King has a significant publication record in top venues and serves as an editorial board member for numerous international publishers. He is an IEEE, INNS, AAIA and HKIE Fellow and ACM Distinguished Member. Throughout his career, Professor King has held leadership roles in prominent conferences and societies. He has served as the President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) and has taken on key positions, such as General Co-chair, for many premier international conferences. Additionally, he is the Director of the Machine Intelligence and Social Computing Lab and the Trustworthy Machine Intelligent Joint Lab.  Professor King obtained his B.Sc. from Caltech and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from USC.

Prof. Maria Pia Fanti, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy

Maria Pia Fanti received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 1983. She was a visiting researcher at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, New York, in 1999. Since 1983, she has been with the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, where she is currently a Full Professor of system and control engineering and Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control. Currently, she is IEEE Fellow and Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. Prof. Fanti has published more than 325 papers and two textbooks on her research topics. 

She was senior editor of the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science and Engineering and she is Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. She was member at large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and currently she is member of the AdCom of the IEEE Robotics and Automaton Society, and chair of the Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Prof. Fanti was General Chair of the 2011 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and logistics, and Informatics and the 2019 IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference.

Prof. Adrian David Cheok, IEEE Senior Member

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Adrian David Cheok AM (Senior Member IEEE) is Professor at the Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Director of the Imagineering Institute, Malaysia, Visiting Professor at Raffles University, Malaysia, Visiting Professor at University of Novi Sad-Serbia, on Technical faculty “Mihailo Pupin”, Serbia, Faculty of Ducere Business School, and CEO of Nikola Tesla Technologies Corporation. In 2019, The Governor General of Australia, Representative of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II, has awarded Australia’s highest honour the Order of Australia to Adrian David Cheok for his contribution to international education and research. He is Founder and Director of the Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore. He was formerly Professor of Pervasive Computing, University of London, Full Professor at Keio University, Graduate School of Media Design and Associate Professor in the National University of Singapore. He has previously worked in real-time systems, soft computing, and embedded computing in Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Japan. He has been working on research covering mixed reality, human-computer interfaces, wearable computers and ubiquitous computing, fuzzy systems, embedded systems, power electronics. He has successfully obtained approximately $30 million dollars in funding for externally funded projects in the area of wearable computers and mixed reality from Daiwa Foundation, Khazanah National (Malaysian Government), Media Development Authority, Nike, National Oilwell Varco, Defense Science Technology Agency, Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Communications and Arts, National Arts Council, Singapore Science Center, and Hougang Primary School. The research output has included many high quality academic journal papers, research awards, keynote speeches, international exhibitions, numerous government demonstrations including to government President and Prime Ministers, broadcast television worldwide broadcasts on his research (such as CNN/ CNBC/ ABC/ Discovery/ National Geographic etc.), and hundreds of international press media articles.