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Keynote Speakers 

 

    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.