Prof. Minho JoIEEE Senior Member
Korea University, South Korea
Bio: Minho Jo (Senior Member, IEEE)
received the B.A. degree from the
Department of Industrial Engineering,
Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea,
in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the
Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 1994.He is the
Full Professor with the Department of
Computer Convergence Software, Korea
University, Sejong, South Korea, where
he is the Director of the IoT & AI Lab.
Prof. Jo is the Director of Brain Korea
21 "IoT Data Science" supported by the
Korean government. Prof. Minho Jo is
named in the 2024 World’s TOP 2%
Scientists List, which is made by
Stanford University and Elsevier. His current research
interests include IoT, blockchain,
LLM/ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and
optimization theory, big data, network
security, cloud/edge computing, wireless
energy harvesting, and autonomous
vehicles. The average number of
citations per publication authored by
Prof. Minho Jo (from 2013 through 2022)
is 41.7 and Average Field-Weighted
Citation Impact (FWCI) of Prof. Minho Jo
(from 2013 through 2022) is 4.42 (based
on SCOPUS SciVal. Exactly FWCI = 1 means
that the output performs just as
expected for the global average. FWCI =
4.42 means 342% more cited than the
global average.)
Prof. Jo is a recipient of the 2018 IET
Best Paper Premium Award by the United
Kingdom's Royal Institute of Engineering
and Technology. He was awarded with 2011
Headong Outstanding Scholar Prize. He is
one of the founders of the Samsung
Electronics LCD Division. He is the
Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of KSII
Transactions on Internet and Information
Systems (SCIE/JCR and SCOPUS indexed.
https://itiis.org). He was the South
Korea's Presidential Commission on
Policy Planning. He served as an
Associate Editor of IEEE SYSTEMS
JOURNAL, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE INTERNET OF
THINGS JOURNAL, Editor of IEEE WIRELESS
COMMUNICATIONS, and Editor of NETWORK,
respectively. Prof. Minho Jo is the
Chair of the 5th IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Information and
Communication Technologies (AICT 2023),
and the General Co-Chair of VTC2021-Fall
(2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology
Conference), respectively.
Prof.
Laura Ricci
University of
Pisa, Italy
Bio: Laura Ricci received the M.Sc.
and Ph.D. degrees in computer science
from the University of Pisa, Italy, in
1983 and 1990, respectively. She is
currently a Full Professor with the
Department of Computer Science,
University of Pisa. She has been
involved in several research projects.
She is currently the local Coordinator
of the H2020 European Project “Helios: A
Context Aware Distributed Networking
Framework.” Her research interests
include distributed systems,
peer-to-peer networks, cryptocurrencies,
and blockchains and social network
analysis. In these fields, she has
coauthored more than 100 papers
published on international journals and
conference/workshop proceedings. She has
served as the program committee member
and the chair for several conferences.
She is the Organizer of the Workshop
LSDVE.
Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Bio: Gyu Myoung Lee is a
professor at the Liverpool John Moores
University (LJMU), UK. He was affiliated
with KAIST, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, as
an Adjunct Professor from 2012 to 2024.
Before joining the LJMU in 2014, he
worked at the Institut Mines-Telecom
from 2008. Until 2012, he was invited to
work at ETRI, Rep. of Korea. He worked
as a research professor at KAIST, Rep.
of Korea and as a guest researcher at
NIST, USA, in 2007. His research
interests include Internet of Things,
digital twin, computational trust,
blockchain with privacy preservation,
data and AI governance, knowledge
centric networking and services
considering all vertical services, Smart
Grid, energy saving networks,
cloud-based big data analytics platform
and multimedia networking and services.
Prof. Lee has been actively
participating in standardization
meetings including ITU-T SG 13 and SG20,
IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently
serves as a Working Party chair and the
Rapporteur of Q16/13 on trustworthy
networking and services and Q4/20 on
data analytics, sharing, processing and
management in ITU-T. He is the
Vice-Chair of ITU-T FG-AINN as well as
the Convenor of Web3-adhoc. He was also
the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Data
Processing and Management (FG-DPM). He
has contributed more than 500 proposals
for standards and published more than
200 papers in academic journals and
conferences. He received several Best
Paper Awards in international and
domestic conferences and served as a
reviewer of IEEE journals/conference
papers and an organizer/member of
committee of international conferences.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE.