Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Dave Towey, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China

Dave Towey received his BA and MA degrees from The University of Dublin, Trinity College; PgCHE from University of Nottingham; PgCertTESOL from The Open University of Hong Kong; MEd from The University of Bristol; and PhD from The University of Hong Kong. He was the first foreign academic recipient of the Zhuhai municipal outstanding teacher award, in 2007, and he received the Lord Dearing award in 2017 for his outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and student learning. He is a full professor, and the head of the School of Computer Science, which he joined in September 2013. He also serves as deputy director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC). He was previously the associate dean for education and student experience for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. After graduating from The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dave worked in Japan in the late 1990s, helping develop a breast cancer screening tool using ultrasound imaging technology and fuzzy reasoning. After this, he lived in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2005/2006, where, as well as completing his PhD, he worked at The University of Hong Kong, and as a teacher and teacher trainer in the local school system. In 2005, he became involved in a newly created liberal arts college in Zhuhai, Mainland China, the Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), where he remained until 2013. While at UIC, he taught modules related to computer science, linguistics, and education. He also held several roles, including deputy director of the English Language Centre, and coordinator (director) of the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) degree programme. In these roles, he oversaw delivery of a large number of pre-service and in-service training courses and workshops. Dave's research interests span a number of areas, including technology-enhanced teaching and learning, and software testing, especially metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.

 

 

 
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Nianyin Zeng, Xiamen University, China

Nianyin Zeng is currently a Professor with the Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering of Xiamen University. He received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering and automation in 2008 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 2013, both from Fuzhou University. From October 2012 to March 2013, he was a RA in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong. From September 2017 to August 2018, he was an ISEF Fellow founded by the Korea Foundation for Advance Studies and also a Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). His current research interests include intelligent data analysis, machine learning and computer vision, computational intelligent, system modeling and applications. He has published more than 80 research papers in referred journal and conferences as well as 13 patents. By Google Scholar, his publications have been cited by more than 7,000 times with H-Index 34. Dr. Zeng is currently serving or has served as an Associate Editor for Neurocomputing Frontiers in Medical Technology, and Evolutionary Intelligence, an Editorial Board member for Computers in Biology and Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Online, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Journal of Image and Graphics, and also Guest Editors for Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Medical Technology. He has also served as program committee members for a number of premier international conferences related to intelligent data analysis, including EAI ICMTEL, ACAIT, ICCSE, etc. Dr. Zeng has received a number of prestigious awards, including High-Level Talent of Fujian Province, Key-Talent of Xiamen City, Nanqiang Young-Top-Talent of Xiamen University, three Provincial Natural Science Awards, Invention and Entrepreneurship Achievement Award by the China Invention Association, and Distinguished Reviewers of Computers in Biology and Medicine, Neurocomputing, and Chinese Journal of Scientific Instrument.

 

 
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Benjamin W. Wah, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (IEEE Fellow)

Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for his research contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of big data applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief between 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities, including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.

 

 
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Pengcheng Zhang, Hohai University, China

Dr. Pengcheng Zhang is a Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, and Dean of Software Engineering in the School of Computer and Information Engineering at Hohai University, China. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science and Technology and Computer Software and Theory from Hohai University in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Computer Software and Theory from Southeast University in 2009. He has furthered his academic and research profile through international exchange as a visiting scholar at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia and the University of L'Aquila in Italy. Dr. Zhang's primary research focuses on Software Engineering, Services Computing, and Big Data Analysis and Mining. He has led numerous high-level research initiatives as a principal investigator, including major projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the National Key Research and Development Program. His contributions to the field have been recognized with prominent provincial and ministerial accolades, including the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ministry of Education and the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Hubei Province. He is actively involved in the academic community as an IEEE member and a Senior Member of the China Computer Federation (CCF).