Prof.Deshuang Huang

Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China

IEEE Fellow, IAPR Fellow, AAIA Fellow

De-Shuang Huang, PhD/Professor, PhD Advisor, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. The Recipient of“Hundred Talents Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences”in 2000, Chief Scientist (Host) for National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 New Generation AI Major Project, Management Expert for National Science and Technology Innovation 2030 - Brain Science and Brain like Research Major Project, Member of the 14th Expert Review Team of National Natural Science Foundation of China. Active Member of Academy of Science of New York, Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer (IEEE Fellow), Fellow of International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Member of China Award Committee of ACM SIGBIO. Program Committee Chair of the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Honolulu, USA), General Chair of the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (Killarney, Ireland), Founder & Chairman of International Conference on Intelligent Computing (successfully and consecutively organized for 19 years, EI & CCF C indexed conference), Director of Biomedical Data Mining and Computing Professional Committee of China Bioinformatics Society, Vice Director of Bioinformatics Professional Committee of China Computer Federation.Up to present, his Google Scholar citation number is over 23100 times, and H index 80. He is associated editors of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, etc.He was selected as the one of Highly Cited Chinese Researchers List for Scopus Database of Elsevier (Computer Sciences Edition) from 2014 to 2022. He published 3 monographs and edited 63 conference proceedings. The one of his three monographs won the the Second-Class Prize of the 8th Excellent High Technology Books of China in June 1997. In addition, he also won the First-Class Prize in Natural Science of Anhui Province of China in 2010, the First-Class Prize in Natural Science of Ministry of Education of China in 2016 and the First-Class Prize in Wu Wenjun Award for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology of China in 2018. Up to now his 35 patent of inventions or utility model patents were authorized in China, 1 one was authorized in USA and 2 ones authorized in Japan. He was also authorized in software copyright for 7 projects. As Guest Editor, he edited 31 Special Issues in 14 kinds of journals.

Prof. Ag. Asri Ag. Ibrahim

Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)

Ag. Asri Ag. Ibrahim is a Professor at the Faculty of Computing and Informatics, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), and has served as the university's Chief Digital Officer (CDO) since 2020. With a dedicated career at UMS spanning over 26 years, he brings a wealth of academic and administrative experience to his roles. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electronics from The University of York, United Kingdom, in 2008. Prior to his doctoral studies, he completed both his Master’s Degree in Computer Science and his Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Universiti Malaya. He is an active and prolific researcher. His primary research interests include data sonification, emotional (Kansei) engineering, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He has authored and co-authored over 144 articles and proceedings, achieving an H-Index of 20. He has also served as a principal investigator and research member on more than 37 research grants. His research findings have been widely disseminated at national and international seminars, where he has been featured as both an invited and keynote speaker. Furthermore, his work has garnered recognition at innovation competitions, winning medals at both national and international levels.Beyond his academic contributions, he is actively involved in community engagement, including STEM programs and technology empowerment initiatives for entrepreneurs. In recognition of his expertise, he has been appointed as a subject matter expert and a member of the digital entrepreneurship committee for the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC).