IEAI 2024

Keynote Speakers

 

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Maged M. Dessouky
University of Southern California, USA

Maged M. Dessouky is a Professor and Chair in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. His research area is transportation system optimization where he has authored over 90 refereed publications.  His paper “Optimal Slack Time for Schedule Based Transit Operations” was awarded the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Best Paper Prize.  He is a Fellow of IISE and serves as Associate Director of METRANS, a center focused on solving important urban transportation problems.  He is currently area/associate editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, IISE Transactions, and Computers and Industrial Engineering, on the editorial board of Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, and previously served as area editor of the ACM Transactions of Modeling and Computer Simulation and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.  He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.S. and B.S. degrees from Purdue University.

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Yang XU
Peking University, China

Prof. Yang XU received his Ph.D. from Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2010. Since 2011, he has joined Peking University and became associate professor in 2013. He is visiting professor in Tsukuba University (Japan), Université Toulouse III (France), University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and University of Edinburgh (UK). He published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and many of them are published in outstanding SCI/SSCI index journals such as Computers & Industrial Engineering, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems, International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Knowledge Organization, CIRP Annals. His research interests include industrial engineering, knowledge management, etc.

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Huiyu Zhou

University of Leicester, United Kingdom

Dr. Huiyu Zhou received a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Radio Technology from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China, and a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from University of Dundee of United Kingdom, respectively. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Vision from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.Dr. Zhou currently is a full Professor at School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.He has published over 450 peer-reviewed papers in the field. He was the recipient of "CVIU 2012 Most Cited Paper Award", “MIUA 2020 Best Paper Award”, “ICPRAM 2016 Best Paper Award” and was nominated for “ICPRAM 2017 Best Student Paper Award” and "MBEC 2006 Nightingale Prize".His research work has been or is being supported by UK EPSRC, ESRC, AHRC, MRC, EU, Royal Society, Leverhulme Trust, Invest NI, Puffin Trust, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Invest NI and industry.Homepage: https://le.ac.uk/people/huiyu-zhou

 

 

Invited Speaker

Assoc. Prof. Raja Kumar Murugesan
Taylor’s University, Malaysia
Dr Raja Kumar Murugesan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, and Head of Research for the Faculty of Innovation and Technology at Taylor's University, Malaysia. He has a PhD in Advanced Computer Networks from the Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research interests include IPv6, Future Internet, Internet Governance, Computer Networks, Network Security, IoT, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and IEEE Communications Society, member of the Internet Society (ISOC), member of the Malaysia Data Science Association and associated with the IPv6 Forum, Asia Pacific Advanced Network Group (APAN), Internet2, and Malaysia Network Operator Group (MyNOG) member's community. Talks about IoT, Blockchain, AI, Machine learning, IPv6, Internet Governance, and Digital Transformation in the context of Industry 4.0 (IR4.0) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) at various international conferences, forums, and events. Obtained substantial funds locally and internationally, and actively engages in research, consultancy, and outreach activities in Advanced Computer Networks.