Keynote Speakers


Prof. Abdelhak M. Zoubir
IEEE Fellow

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

 Abdelhak M. Zoubir is an IEEE Life Fellow, a Fellow of EURASIP, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (Class 2010- 2011). He with Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany as Professor of Signal Processing and Head of the Signal Processing Group is since 2003. His research interest lies in statistical methods for signal processing with emphasis on bootstrap techniques, robust detection and estimation and array processing applied to telecommunications, radar, sonar, automotive monitoring and safety, and biomedicine. He published over 500 journal and conference papers on these areas. Professor Zoubir acted as General or Technical Chair of numerous international conferences and workshops. Most notably, he was the Technical Co-Chair of ICASSP-14, the premier international conference on signal processing, held in May 2014 in Florence, Italy. Dr Zoubir also held several positions in editorial boards; most notably, he was the Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine (2012-2014). He was elected Chair (2010 – 2011 of the IEEE SPS Technical Committee Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) and served as President of the European Association of Signal Processing (EURASIP) from 2017 until 2018. He was a member-at-Large (2015 – 2017) to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received several best paper awards, and the 2018 IEEE Leo L. Beranek Meritorious Service Award. He has been inducted to the German Academy of Science & Engineering in 2024.


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).