Keynote Speakers
(To be added)
Invited Speakers
Prof.
Chinthaka Premachandra
Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Chinthaka Premachandra (Senior
Member, IEEE) was born in Sri Lanka. He received the
B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu,
Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D.
degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in
2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant
Professor with the Department of Electrical
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo
University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to
2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the
Department of Electronic Engineering, School of
Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, where he was an Associate Professor, from
2018 to 2022. In 2022, he was promoted to a
Professor with the Department of Electronic
Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering,
Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is
currently the Manager of the Image Processing and
Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include
AI, UAV, image processing, audio processing,
intelligent transport systems (ITS), and mobile
robotics.
He is a member of IEEE, IEICE, Japan; SICE, Japan;
RSJ, Japan; and SOFT, Japan. He received the IEEE
SENSORS LETTERS Best Paper Award from the IEEE
Sensors Council in 2022 and the IEEE Japan Medal
from the IEEE Tokyo Section in 2022. He also
received the FIT Best Paper Award and the FIT Young
Researchers Award from IEICE and IPSJ, Japan, in
2009 and 2010, respectively. He has served as a
steering committee member and an editor for many
international conferences and journals. He is the
Founding Chair of the International Conference on
Image Processing and Robotics (ICIPRoB), which is
technically co-sponsored by IEEE. He is currently
serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and
Automation Letters (R-AL) and IEICE Transactions on
Information and Systems.
Assoc.
Prof. Maizatul Akmar Ismail
University of Malaya, Malaysia
Dr. Maizatul Akmar Ismail is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia. Her academic qualifications were obtained from Universiti Malaya (UM) for her Bachelor's and Ph.D. degree, and the University of Putra Malaysia for her master's. At present, she has more than twenty years of teaching experience since she started her career as a lecturer at the Universiti Malaya. Maizatul was involved in various research, leading to the publication of several academic papers in the areas of Information Systems specifically on Educational Technology, Recommender Systems, and Data Mining. She has been actively publishing more than 70 conference papers at renowned local and international conferences. A number of her works were also published in reputable international journals. Maizatul has participated in many competitions and exhibitions to promote her research works. She has been appointed as Competition Judges for several innovation competitions. To date, she has successfully supervised 10 Ph.D. and 23 Masters's students to completion. She hopes to extend her research beyond Information Systems in her quest to elevate the quality of teaching and learning.