CCISP 2020 Speakers

Speech: TBA

Biography: Athanassios Skodras is the Prof of Dig Systems, DECE, Univ of Patras (UP), Greece. He holds a Physics degree from Aristotle Univ of Thessaloniki (1980), a Comp Engineering & Informatics degree and a PhD degree in Electronics, both from UP (1986). From 1986 to 2002 he has been holding teaching & research positions at the Depts of Physics and Comp Eng & Informatics of UP, and the Computer Technology Institute, Greece. From Oct 2002 to Feb 2013 he was the Prof of Dig Systems and Head of CS, School of Science and Technology, HOU, Greece. He has served as Dean of the School, and as a member of the Research Committee (2004-2012) of the HOU. In 1988-89 and 1996-97 he was a Visiting Academic, DEEE, Imperial College London, UK. His research interests are in image and video coding, digital watermarking, fast transform algorithms, real-time DSP and multimedia applications, Gesture Recognition Based on sEMG Signals, Discrimination of Photos from Computer Graphics Images, ENF-based Authentication of Digital Media, HDR Image Compression. He has over 160 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, authored/co-authored 6 books, 3 book chapters, and holds 2 international patents. [ http://www.ece.upatras.gr/skodras/ ]

Speech: Predicting Unintentional Vehicle Lane Departure Using Support Vector Machine and Neural Network

Biography: Professor Hao Ying is a tenured full professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Wayne State University, USA. He has published two fuzzy control books, 119 peer-reviewed journal papers, over 160 peer-reviewed conference papers, and 6 book chapters. Prof. Ying's Google Scholar h-index is 49. He is ranked among the top 23% of the 100,000 most-cited authors across all 22 scientific fields (176 subfields) which are selected from over 6,880,000 scientists worldwide (Supplementary data tables for “A standardized citation metrics author database annotated for scientific field,” PLoS Biology 2019). Professor Ying is an IEEE Fellow. He is serving as an Associate Editor or a Member of Editorial Board for 9 international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He served in the same role in the past for 7 other international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. Also, he is serving as a member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (for which he served in the same role in 2016 and 2017 as well) and has been serving as a member of the Fuzzy Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society since 2008 (except 2014). He was elected to serve as a board member of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society for two terms (2005-2008 and 2008-2011). He served as Program Chair/Co-Chair for 4 international conferences. He served as the Publication Chair for the 2000 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and the Competition Chair for this annual conference 2009-2011. He also served as a Program/Technical Committee Member for over 110 international conferences.

Speech: TBA

Biography: Edmund joined AUT in February 2016. He obtained his BE(Hons) and PhD in Electrical Engineering from The University of Western Australia in 1982 and 1991 respectively. Prior to joining AUT, he was with the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology at Massey University from 2006. He had also held various academic positions in the School of Computer Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, School of Engineering with Edith Cowan University in Western Australia, and Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He had also worked as a independent consultant, developing industrial training courses and optimization software for the mining industry in Australia. His general research interests include multimedia signal processing, machine learning techniques, wireless networks and information theory.