Prof.Steven Guan, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Prof.Steven Guan received his M.Sc. & Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently a Professor and the Director for Research Institute of Big Data Analytics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). He served the head of department position at XJTLU for 4.5 years, creating the department from scratch and now in shape. Before joining XJTLU, he was a tenured professor and chair in intelligent systems at Brunel University, UK.

Prof. Guan has worked in a prestigious R&D organization for several years, serving as a design engineer, project leader, and department manager. After leaving the industry, he joined Yuan-Ze University in Taiwan for three and half years. He served as deputy director for the Computing Center and the chairman for the Department of Information & Communication Technology. Later he joined the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at National University of Singapore as an associate professor.

Prof. Guan’s research interests include: machine learning, modeling, security, networking, and pseudorandom number generation. He has published extensively in these areas, with 130+ journal papers and 180+ book chapters or conference papers. He has chaired and delivered keynote speech for 20+ international conferences and served in 150+ international conference committees and 20+ editorial boards.

Dr.Tianhua Xu,Senior Research Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom

Tianhua Xu is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, at University College London, United Kingdom. He received his B.Sc. degree in Information Engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 2005. Between 2005 and 2008, he undertook his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Optical Engineering, both of which were awarded at Tianjin University. From 2008 to 2012, he took a second Ph.D. study in Microelectronics and Applied Physics, at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, obtaining his second Ph.D. degree in June 2012. Following this, he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Royal Institute of Technology, and a visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Technical University of Denmark, from June 2012 to July 2013. His research work was in the field of optical fibre communications, digital signal processing and machine learning techniques based on the coherent detection of optical signal. In July 2013, he joined the Optical Networks Group, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, at University College London. His current research work is focused on the investigations of nonlinearity compensation and nonlinear channel modelling in ultra-wideband optical fibre communication systems, under the support of UK EPSRC project “Unlocking the Capacity of Optical Communications”. Tianhua Xu is the Chair of Optics in Digital Systems Technical Group in Optical Society of America, and has published over 70 journal and conference papers, 1 book chapter and 4 patents.

Prof.Mack J. Du, Shanghai Jianqiao University

Mr. Mack J. Du is senior engineer and prof. In long term, focuses on the approaching and researching in the information communication, mobile system, networking construction as well as internet of things ( IOT ) fields. Mr. Mack bears the role for the consultant member of 3GPP of international , senior member of data-comm AP committee , chief secretary of CIPA association , governing member of info. display association in China branch , the member of IEEE , and Sr. member of communication of CHASH . In the past two decades of year plus, mack worked in the global famous leading comapny in the industry such as Motorola , America Hughes , Ericsson , and Alcatel – Lucent and so on . Meanwhile for tutoring Jianqiao University. In addition, he was inauguration in the state class research and design institution for the ealier decade of yeare . As the specilist, soluition officer and expert in defferent phases, he accomplished thirty more projects , programs and subjects which covering infotmation exchange, networking consturaction, digital mobile, intelligent comprehensive service, message display control and things network etc aspects. Meanwhile achieved some key projects in industry including PBX project, Damux joint project with Demark, comprehensive info mangement for SH art museum, intellegient vidoe comm control system for beijing Olympics , Data-comm logistical mangement project for Singapore , GPRS digital mobile system for GD operator and so forth. In the past years, he was the recipient a dozen of awards from international , state and industries earler and late. During his professional vocation, provided more than ten times key speeches in the global summit , international conference as well as specify seminars. As visiting researcher and tutor, he joined a lot of co-research, program development and training in international for short term or middle term such as Academy of Dublin Ericsson International, America Juniper Training College, and The International Tech. college of ericsson Sweden and so on. He has published a dozen of paper in the industries and achieved half dozens of invention patents and advanced application patents etc. focusing on the approach and academy field.

IAEAC 2015 Keynote Speakers

Dr. Lukas W. Snyman, Professor and Chair, Department of Electrical and Mining Engineering, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.

Lukas W. Snyman received the B.Sc., B.Sc Hons., M.Sc. and PhD degrees, in physics and semiconductor physics from the University of Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Since 1980 he was a Associate Professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Since 2000, he was Professor at the Tshwane Technical University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria South Africa. In 1996 he was a visiting Guest Scientist at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Professor Snyman has recently been appointed as Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Mining Engineering at the University of South Africa (UNISA), a new high ranking College for Science, Engineering and Technology in Florida, Johannesburg, South Africa. Here he has been tasked to establish a new dynamic department to foster high end research, but also to promote innovation and entrepreneurship activities and research and development programmes in South Africa and in Africa . His main research interests since 1980 have been optoelectronic devices, CMOS IC design, Silicon Photonics , Si Av LEDs, and particularly in the application of these in order new generation innovative and marketable photonic systems in silicon integrated circuitry. Embedded control systems, micro-wave and high-frequency electronics (GSM-GPS) and their application for generating innovative products for the South African and African markets are current secondary interests. Professor Snyman has to date published about 80 scientific articles, mostly in international conference proceedings and scientific journals. He is author and co-author of two scholarly chapters in Intech books on topics of Integrating Micro-Photonic Systems and MOEMS into Standard Silicon CMOS Integrated Circuitry, and “Silicon Avalanche based Si LEDs and their potential integration into CMOS and RF bipolar technology” in 2010 and 2014, respectively. His research in this field has constantly been evolving , and has delivered several guest lectures on these topics at various universities and institutions internationally. Furthermore, he is the main inventor of four granted U.S. A granted patents, co-inventor of two granted USA patents, main inventor of two European Patents, main inventor two Korean patents, two Chinese patents, and ten granted SA patents, mainly on Si Av LEDs and their applications. Prof. Snyman won the WIRSAM scientific awards in South Africa for best lectures at scientific conference. He received the South African Microelectronics Industries (SAMES) award for best contribution in semiconductor physics and microelectronics in South Africa in 1978. In 2002 he received an Academic Excellence Award of “ Researcher of the Year” at the TUT. In 2010, he received an Academic Excellence Award of “Innovator of the Year” at the TUT. In 2015, Professor Snyman was nominated as finalist in the prestigious 2015 BHP Billiton National Science and Technology Forum Award : Photonics: International Year of Light in South Africa He is a current active member of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers in the USA, a member of the Society for Photonic and Instrumentation Engineers in the USA, as well as a registered professional scientist at the SA Council for Natural Scientists in South Africa.. Professor Snyman has international associations and collaborations with the Boston University in the USA, ESIEE Engineering school in France. Recently, he established collaboration with Prof Kaikai Xu of the UESTC University in Chengdu, China., and together they have now published several high ranking articles together. Professor Snyman has profiles on LinkedInn, Facebook, GoogleScholar, Microsoft Academia, and ResearchGate.

Prof. Yingxu Wang, Professor and Chair, Prof., PhD, PEng, FICIC, FWIF, SMIEEE, SMACM, Schulich School of Engineering and Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Canada.

Yingxu Wang is professor of cognitive computing, brain science, and denotational mathematics, President of International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICIC) at the University of Calgary. He is a Fellow of ICIC, a Fellow of WIF (UK), a P.Eng of Canada, and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM. He was visiting professor (on sabbatical leave) at Oxford University (1995), Stanford University (2008|2016), UC Berkeley (2008), and MIT (2012), respectively. He is the founder and steering committee chair of the annual IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC) since 2002. He is founding Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Cognitive Informatics & Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), founding Editor-in-Chief of Int. Journal of Software Science & Computational Intelligence (IJSSCI), Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on SMC-Systems, and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Mathematics & Applications (JAMA). Dr. Wang is the initiator of a few cutting-edge research fields such as cognitive informatics, denotational mathematics (concept algebra, process algebra, system algebra, semantic algebra, and inference algebra), abstract intelligence (AI), cognitive computing, cognitive learning engines, cognitive knowledge base theory, and basic studies in software science, neuroinformatics, fuzzy mathematics, cognitive linguistics, and computational intelligence. He has published 410+ peer reviewed papers and 28 books in cognitive informatics, denotational mathematics, cognitive computing, software science, and computational intelligence. He has presented 30 invited keynote speeches in international conferences. He is the recipient of dozens international awards on academic leadership, outstanding contributions, best papers, and teaching in the last three decades. He is the top ten scholars at University of Calgary according to RG stats.

Prof. Guojian Cheng, Xi’an Peihua University.

Dr. Guojian Cheng is the Dean of E&E department of Xi’an Peihua University, also as a Professor at the School of Computer Science, Xi'an ShiYou (Petroleum) University. He received Dr. rer. nat. from University of Tuebingen, Germany, in 2002. His current research topic focuses on the projects of Proxy Modeling with Core Vector Machine for Reservoir History Matching and Hybrid Soft Computing for Petroleum Reservoir Modeling & Simulation, both supported by National Natural Scientific Foundation of China. His other research interesting is mainly on computational intelligence applications for petroleum engineering such as geology modeling, reservoir simulation, smart oilfields and also for data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics, business intelligence, etc.