Prof.
Bo Ai
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow,
IEEE VTS Beijing Chapter Vice Chair IEEE BTS Xi'an
Chapter Chair
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Bio: Prof. Bo Ai is now working as a full Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at
Beijing Jiaotong University, where he is a deputy director of State Key Lab.
of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, and a deputy director of Research
Institute of Modern Telecommunications. He is one of the main responsible
people for Beijing "Urban rail operation control system" International
Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and the backbone member of the
Innovative Engineering Based jointly granted by Chinese Ministry of
Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He was a
visiting professor at EE department, Standard University during March and
September, 2015. During his visiting period, he has been invited by Stanford
International Developing Center, UC Berkeley, University of South
California, Harvard, University of Maryland, Georgia Tech. for academic
presentations. He has authored 6 books and published over 300 scientific
research papers in his research area. He has hold 26 invention patents. He
is serving as an associate editor for IEEE transactions on Consumer
Electronics and an editorial member of Wireless Personal Communications. He
has been notified by Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) that, based on
Scopus database, Prof. Ai Bo has been listed as one of the Top 1% authors in
his field all over the world. Prof. Ai Bo has also been Feature Interviewed
by IET electronics Letters. Recently, he has coauthored a book with European
Union and North American scholars invited by Wiley John & Sons for a 5G
book: Fundamentals for 5G Mobile Networks. Prof. Bo Ai was elected as IEEE
fellow for contributions to channel modeling and wireless communications in
high-speed railways.
Prof. Licheng Jiao
IEEE/IET/CAAI/CAA /CCF/CIE Fellow, HuaShan Outstanding Professor
Xidian University, China
Bio: Licheng Jiao has been a full professor in Xidian University since 1992.
He is the member of the Academia Europaea. He is the HuaShan Outstanding
Professor of Xidian University, the director of the Faculty of Computer
Science and Technology of Xidian University, International Research Center
for Intelligent Perception and Computation, Key Laboratory of Intelligent
Perception and Image Understanding of Ministry of Education, Joint
International Research Laboratory of Intelligent Perception and Computation,
and National Base of Intelligent Information Processing. His professional
activities include IEEE/IET/CAAI/CAA /CCF/CIE Fellow, the member of the
International Division of Scientific and Technological Committee of the
Ministry of Education in China, the vice board chairperson of Chinese
Association of Artificial Intelligence. He is the chairman of IET Xi’an
Network, the Xi’an Chapter of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the
Award Commission of IEEE Xi’an Chapter, and the Xi’an Chapter of IEEE
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society. He is the Associate Editor of “IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing” and “IEEE Transactions on
Cybernetics”, the Presiding Panelist for the Innovative Team in the Ministry
of Education, the member of the Subject Consultative Group of the State
Council and the expert of the Undergraduate Teaching Level Evaluation of the
Ministry of Education, evaluation expert of the National Natural Science
Foundation Information Division, member of the Assessment Panel of National
Postdoctoral Management Committees.
He has been receiving special government allowance from the State Council
since 1991. In 1996, he was included among the first batch of in the New
Century Talents Project (the first and second classes) and the “Three Fives”
Talent Project of Shaanxi Province. He was selected as the National Model
Teacher by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of China, the
Outstanding Contribution Expert of Shaanxi Province, the Teacher Pacemaker
of Ethics in Shaanxi Province, and the deputy of the 8th National People’s
Congress.
The research direction of Prof. Jiao includes intelligent perception and
image understanding, image understanding and object recognition, deep
learning and brain-inspired computation. More than 10 of his students have
won the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award and nomination, or
the Shaanxi Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. His research
results have won the Youth Science and Technology Award, the Second Prize of
National Natural Science Award and several provincial-level first Prizes.
More than 20 Academic monographs have been published, which have won the
National Scientific Book Award 6 times and the first “Three One-hundreds”
Excellent Book Award. Evaluated by the Google Scholar, the H-index of his
publication is 100.
Prof. Shengli Zhang
IEEE Senior Member
Vice Dean of the School of Electronic
and Information Engineering,
Shenzhen University, China
Speech Title: Bodyless Block
Propogation: TPS Scalable Blockchain for
Large Networks
Bio: Shengli Zhang, Professor, doctoral
supervisor, Vice Dean of the School of
Electronic and Information Engineering,
Executive Deputy Director of the
Blockchain Research Center, and
Distinguished Professor of Pengcheng
Scholars. He obtained his bachelor's and
master's degrees from the University of
Science and Technology of China in 2002
and 2005, and his doctoral degree from
the Chinese University of Hong Kong in
2008. He then worked at the School of
Information Engineering, Shenzhen
University.
From 2008 to 2011, he worked as a
lecturer. From 2012 to 2016, he served
as an associate professor (out of the
box). In December 2016, he was promoted
to professor (out of the box). In 2020,
he was selected as a top young talent
under the Guangdong Provincial Special
Support Program. He visited Stanford
University from March 2014 to March 2015
as a visiting associate professor; then
he served as Guest lecturer at Cheung
Kong Graduate School of Business,
President of the Blockchain Technology
Application Association in Nanshan
District, Shenzhen, and Director of the
Blockchain Special Committee of the
Shenzhen Computer Society.
Prof. Minho Jo
IEEE Senior Member
Korea University, South Korea
Speech Title: Dynamic NFT Plants
Synchronized with Real Plants through
IoT Monitoring (Speech
abstract)
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. 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.