Prof.
Acm Fong
Western Michigan University, USA
A.C.M. Fong was appointed professor of computer science at
Auckland University of Technology in 2008. Since leaving AUT in
2013, he has been with University of California Irvine,
University of Glasgow, and now Western Michigan University. His
research interests revolve around data-driven knowledge
discovery and aspects of artificial intelligence, such as
machine learning for classification and ontological knowledge
representation and reasoning. His scientific contributions
include two books, fourteen book sections, two international
patents, and circa 230 papers in reputable journals and
conference proceedings. Leading journals that carry his work
include IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-ITBiomed, IEEE T-MM, IEEE
T-Evolutionary Computing, IEEE T-Affective Computing, IEEE T-II,
and several other IEEE Transactions titles. He has served on
several journal editorial boards and numerous conference
committees. Dr. Fong holds four degrees in EE and CS. He is a
registered Chartered Engineer and European Engineer.
Prof.
Zhisheng Niu
IEEE Fellow
Tsinghua University, China
Zhisheng Niu graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University,
China, in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi
University of Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
During 1992-1994, he worked for Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd.,
Japan, and in 1994 joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China, where he is now a professor at the Department of
Electronic Engineering. During 1997-1998, he visited Hitachi
Central Research Laboratory as a HIVIPS senior researcher. His
major research interests include queueing theory and traffic
engineering, wireless communications and mobile Internet,
vehicular communications and smart networking, and green
communication and networks.
Dr. Niu has been serving IEEE Communications Society since 2000,
first as Chair of Beijing Chapter and then as Director of
Asia-Pacific Board, Director for Conference Publications, Chair
of Emerging Technologies Committee, and Director for Online
Contents. He has also served as editor of IEEE Wireless
Communication, associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CIC joint
publication China Communications, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Trans. Green Commun. & Networks. He received the Outstanding
Young Researcher Award from Natural Science Foundation of China
in 2009, Best Paper Awards from IEEE Communication Society
Asia-Pacific Board in 2013 and from Journal of Communications
and Information Networks (JCIN) in 2019, Distinguished Technical
Achievement Recognition Award from IEEE Communications Society
Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee in 2018,
and Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings &
Conferences from IEEE Communication Society in 2019. He was
selected as a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Communication
Society as well as IEEE Vehicular Technologies Society. He is a
fellow of both IEEE and IEICE.
Prof.
Wen-Huang Cheng
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Wen-Huang Cheng is NTU Distinguished Chair Professor with the
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering,
National Taiwan University (NTU). His current research interests
include multimedia, computer vision, and machine learning. He
has actively participated in international events and played
important leading roles in prestigious journals and conferences
and professional organizations, including Editor-in-Chief for
IEEE CTSoc News on Consumer Technology, Senior Editor for IEEE
Consumer Electronics Magazine, Associate Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia (T-MM), General Chair for ACM MMAsia
(2023), IEEE ICCE-TW (2023, 2022), IEEE ICME (2022) and ACM ICMR
(2021), Chair for IEEE Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA)
technical committee, governing board member for IAPR. He has
received numerous research and service awards, including the
Best Paper Award of 2021 IEEE ICME and the Outstanding Associate
Editor Award of IEEE T-MM (2021 and 2020, twice). He is IEEE
Fellow, IET Fellow, and ACM Distinguished Member.
Prof.
Hoa Le Minh
Northumbria University, UK
Hoa Le Minh is currently a Professor in Optical Communications
and the Deputy Head of Department of Mathematics, Physics, and
Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, UK. Previously
he was a Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK
(2007-2010), a Research Assistant at Siemens AG, Munich, Germany
(2002-2004), and a Lecturer in Telecommunications at Ho Chi Minh
University of Technology, Vietnam (1999-2001). He is an expert
in photonics, optical communications, visible light
communications, smartphone technology, signal processing, and
intelligent networks. He has published more than 200 articles,
in journals, conferences, and book chapters, and received grants
from EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU and industry.
Hoa was a former Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society
(ComSoc) UK and Ireland Chapter. He is a member of EPSRC ICT
grant prioritisation panels, and an associate editor for
peer-review journals.