Keynote Speakers
Prof.
Ouri E. Wolfson (IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAS
Fellow, AAIA Fellow)
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Ouri Wolfson's main research interests are in big
data, distributed systems, mobile/pervasive
computing, smart city, and connectomics. He received
his B.A. degree in mathematics, and his Ph.D. degree
in computer science from Courant Institute of
Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is
currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of
Computer Science at the University of Illinois at
Chicago, and an Affiliate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science at the University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the founder of
Mobitrac, a high-tech venture-funded startup that
was acquired in 2006; and the founder and president
of Pirouette Software Inc. which specializes in
mobile data management. He served as a consultant to
Argonne National Laboratory, US Army Research
Laboratories, DARPA, and NASA. Before joining the
University of Illinois he has been on the computer
science faculty at the Technion and Columbia
University, and a Member of Technical Staff at Bell
Laboratories.
Ouri Wolfson authored over 230 publications, eight
of them award winning. He holds seven patents, and
has over 16,000 citations on Google scholar. He is a
Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery
(ACM), a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Fellow of the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial
Intelligence Association (AAIA), and a University of
Illinois Scholar for 2009. He served as a
Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of
Computing Machinery. Wolfson was the keynote and
distinguished speaker at leading conferences and
universities, most recently the The Eighth
International Conference on Big Data Analytics
(BDA2020) , Dec. 2020, and the International
Conference on Transport and Smart Cities (ICoTS
2021) , Sept. 2021.
Ouri Wolfson is the Editor in Chief of the MDPI
Journal of Future Transportation , Specialty Chief
Editor of Frontiers' Smart Technologies and Cities ,
and serves on the editorial boards of several
journals. He chaired leading conferences, most
recently he was the program co-chair of the 2020
Mobile Data Management (MDM) conference. His
research has been funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific
Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency (DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York
State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes
Research Laboratories, Informix, Accenture, and
Hitachi Co. During 2006-2015 he served as the
Principal Investigator on a $3.1M NSF grant to
establish a Ph.D. program in the new discipline of
Computational Transportation Science.
Prof.
Rajkumar Buyya (IEEE Fellow)
The University of Melbourne, Australia & CEO,
Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya is a Redmond Barry Distinguished
Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and
Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the
University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also
serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft, a
spin-off company of the University, commercializing
its innovations in Cloud Computing. He has authored
over 850 publications and seven textbooks including
"Mastering Cloud Computing" published by McGraw
Hill, China Machine Press, and Morgan Kaufmann for
Indian, Chinese and international markets
respectively. Dr. Buyya is one of the highly cited
authors in computer science and software engineering
worldwide (h-index=168 g-index=369, and 149,700+
citations). He graduated 60 PhD students who are
working in world-leading research universities and
high-tech companies such as Microsoft, Google, and
IBM. He has been recognised as IEEE Fellow, a "Web
of Science Highly Cited Researcher" for seven times
since 2016, the "Best of the World" twice for
research fields (in Computing Systems in 2019 and
Software Systems in 2021/2022/2023) as well as
"Lifetime Achiever" and "Superstar of Research" in
"Engineering and Computer Science" discipline twice
(2019 and 2021) by the Australian Research Review.
Software technologies for Grid, Cloud, and Fog
computing developed under Dr.Buyya's leadership have
gained rapid acceptance and are in use at several
academic institutions and commercial enterprises in
50+ countries around the world. Manjrasoft's Aneka
Cloud technology developed under his leadership has
received "Frost New Product Innovation Award". He
served as founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing. He is currently
serving as Editor-in-Chief of Software: Practice and
Experience, a long-standing journal in the field
established 54+ years ago. He has presented over 750
invited talks (keynotes, tutorials, and seminars) on
his vision on IT Futures, Advanced Computing
technologies, and Spiritual Science at international
conferences and institutions in Asia, Australia,
Europe, North America, and South America. He has
recently been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy
of Europe. For further information on Dr.Buyya,
please visit his cyberhome:
www.buyya.com
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.