PDCDP 2023 Speakers

 

Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada (IEEE Life Fellow)

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of  several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, Granular Computing, and Machine Learning, among others. Professor Pedrycz serves as an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).

 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Assaf Schuster, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel (IEEE Fellow / ACM Fellow)

Prof. Assaf Schuster of the Computer Science Department at the Technion is a leading researcher who published over 250 papers in the areas of Machine Learning, AI, Cyber Security, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Scalability, Big data, Complex Event Streams, and others. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE.

 

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Charles Robert Telles, Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil

Charles works for government at Paraná, Brazil as advisor and reviewer for researches/projects of BID, UNESCO and OEI international technical cooperation agreement. His main topics of research are public administration and mathematics at the Secretary of State for Education of Paraná State. His main contributions to the public administration were analysis of oscillations in nonlinear administrative events, information processing and productivity indicators on workflows and mathematical modelling of closed loop control systems for human work. He has published more than 14 original researches as lead author and more than 40 technical contributions to scientific and governmental literature. Charles have won two Awards for the best poster research presentation in Londres (Computing Conference, 2020) and The Wolfram Letter Award in Portugal (Entropy Conference, 2021) for researches concerning asymptotic stability and productivity metrics in public administration, respectively.

 

 

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. HAI DINH, Kent State University, USA

Dr. HAI Q. DINH is a professor in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Kent State University, USA. After completing his B.Sc. (1998) Summa Cum Laude, M.Sc. (2000), and Ph.D. (2003) in Mathematics at Ohio University, USA, he worked one year as a visiting professor at North Dakota State University, USA. Since 2004, Prof. Dinh has been working at Kent State University as a tenure full professor in mathematics. Prof. Dinh research interests include Algebra and Coding Theory. Since 2004, he has published more than 120 papers at high level SCI(E) research journals such as Journal of Algebra, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, IEEE Transactions in Information Theory, IEEE Communication Letters, Finite Fields and Their Applications, Applicable Algebra in Engineering Communication and Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics. Prof. Dinh has been a well-known invited/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences and mathematics colloquium with more than 100 invited talks. Other than universities in the US, he also gave many honorary tutorial lectures, ranging from 8 to 30 hours, at international universities in China, Indonesia, Kuwait, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

 

Invited Speaker I

Assoc. Prof. Bei WU, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Bei WU is an associate Professor in the School of Management, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied mathematics from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2016, and a doctorate degree in management science and engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2021. Her main research directions involve Stochastic Modeling, Reliability Engineering, and Maintenance Optimization, among others. Since 2017, she has published more than twenty papers in high-level research journals and conferences such as IISE Transactions, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Naval Research Logistics, and so on.