Keynote Speakers

Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir
IEEE Fellow
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Abdelhak M. Zoubir has been a Professor of signal processing and Head of the Signal Processing Group with Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, since 2003. His research interests include statistical methods for signal processing with emphasis on bootstrap techniques, robust detection and estimation and array processing applied to radar, sonar, telecommunications, automotive monitoring and safety, and biomedicine. He has authored or coauthored more than 500 journal and conference papers on the above areas. He was the recipient of several Best Paper awards, and the 2018 IEEE Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award. He was a General Chair and Technical Chair of numerous international IEEE conferences and workshops, most notably as Technical Co-Chair of ICASSP-14. He was on Publication Boards or as Guest Editor of various journals, and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012–2014). Dr. Zoubir was the Chair (2010–2011) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Committee Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) and was on the Board of Governors of the IEEE SPS as a Member-at-Large (2015–2017). He was the President of the European Association of Signal Processing from 2017 to 2018. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Class 2010--2011). He is a Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering.


Prof. De-Shuang Huang
IEEE Fellow / IAPR Fellow / AAIA Fellow
Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China

De-Shuang Huang is a Professor, Director of Biomedical Data Mining and Computing ab, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China. He is currently the Fellow of the IEEE (IEEE Fellow), the Fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR Fellow), the Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), and associated editors of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, etc. He founded the International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC) in 2005. ICIC has since been successfully held annually with him serving as General or Steering Committee Chair. He also served as the 2015 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN2015) General Chair, July12-17, 2015, Killarney, Ireland, the 2014 11th IEEE Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Conference (IEEE-CIBCBC) Program Committee Chair, May 21-24, 2014, Honolulu, USA. He has published over 480 papers in international journals, international conferences proceedings, and book chapters. Particularly, he has published over 280 SCI indexed papers. His Google Scholar citation number is 24149 times and H index 80. His main research interest includes neural networks, pattern recognition and bioinformatics.


Prof. Bo Du
Dean of School of Computer Science
Wuhan University, China

Bo Du (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in photogrammetry and remote sensing from the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2010.,He is a Professor with the School of Computer Science and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University, where he is also the Director of the National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia and Software. He has published more than 80 research articles in IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (TCYB), IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS), and IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL). Thirteen of them are Essential Science Indicators (ESI) hot articles or highly cited articles. His research interests include pattern recognition, hyperspectral image processing, and signal processing.,Dr. Du serves as a Senior Program Committee (PC) Member of the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).