Prof. Steven Guan, Suzhou Talents-in-Need

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Title: Recursive Domain Decomposition for Classification

Steven Guan (Sheng-Uei Guan) received his BSc. from Tsinghua University and M.Sc. Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently an Honorary Professor at University of Liverpool also a Professor at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). He served the head of department position at XJTLU for 4.5 years, creating the department from scratch and now in shape. Before joining XJTLU, he was a tenured professor and chair in intelligent systems at Brunel University, UK. Prof. Guan has worked in a prestigious organization for several years, serving as a design engineer, project leader, and department manager. After leaving the industry, he joined the academia for three and half years. He served as deputy director for the Computing Center and the chairman for the Department of Information Communication Technology. Later he joined the Electrical Computer Engineering Department at National University of Singapore as an associate professor for 8 years. Prof. Guan’s research interests include: machine learning, computational intelligence, big data analytics, mobile commerce, modeling, networking, personalization, security, coding theory, and pseudorandom number generation. He has published extensively in these areas, with 140+ journal papers and 210 book chapters or conference papers. He has chaired, delivered keynote speech for 100+ international conferences and served in 190+ international conference committees and 20+ editorial boards. There are quite a few inventions from Prof. Guan including Generalized Minimum Distance Decoding for Majority Logic Decodable Codes, Prioritized Petri Nets, Self-Modifiable Color Petri Nets, Dynamic Petri Net Model for Iterative and Interactive Distributed Multimedia Presentation, Incremental Feature Learning, Ordered Incremental Input/Output Feature Learning, Input/Output Space Partitioning for Machine Learning, Recursive Supervised Learning, Reduced Pattern Training using Pattern Distributor, Contribution Based Feature Selection, Incremental Genetic Algorithms, Incremental Multi-Objective Genetic Algorithms, Decremental Multi-objective Optimization, Multi-objective Optimization with Objective Replacement, Incremental Hyperplane Partitioning for Classification, Incremental Hyper-sphere Partitioning for Classification, Controllable Cellular Automata for Pseudorandom Number Generation, Self Programmable Cellular Automata, Configurable Cellular Automata, Layered Cellular Automata, Transformation Sequencing of Cellular Automata for Pseudorandom Number Generation, Open Communication with Self-Modifying Protocols, etc.

Prof. Chuan Qin

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China

Title: Perceptual Hashing for Image Authentication

Chuan Qin received his B.S. degree in electronic engineering and the M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Hefei University of Technology, Anhui, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2008. Since Dec. 2008, he has been with the faculty of University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, where he is currently a Professor. He was with Feng Chia University at Taiwan as a Postdoctoral Researcher from July 2010 to July 2012. His research interests include multimedia intelligent computing, AI security, data hiding and image processing in encrypted domain. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conferences, such as IEEE TIP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TMM, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TDSC, IEEE TKDE and ACM MM. He has also published one book and held six authorized patents. He was selected as the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier in 2020 and the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2020-2024. He won the Excellent Paper Awards of CIHW 2016 and ChinaMFS 2023, and the Candidate of Excellent Paper Award of IEEE IIHMSP 2014. He has served as the Associate Editor for ACM TOMM, Signal Processing (Elsevier) and Information Fusion (Elsevier).

Dr. Aniruddha Bhattacharjya

IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member

BCBRBAB Intercontinental TradingSolutionsPrivate Limited, India

Title: A Secure Protocol Authentication Method Based on the Strand Space Model for Internet of Things and Blockchain-Based Industrial IoT

Aniruddha Bhattacharjya is a PhD Alumni of Tsinghua University. He was a PhD scholar (Chinese Government Scholarship (CGS) holder) in Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China under supervision of  Prof. Xing Li. This PhD work was supported by National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB316006), and National S&T Major Project (2015ZX03002010-002) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61631013). He got full travel and conference funding from Tsinghua University's School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) and the Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communications (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Ministry of Education, P.R.China (No.KFKT- 2014101) and National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB316000) to present his paper in Cambridge University, UK.   

Department URL https://www.ee.tsinghua.edu.cn/info/1039/1186.htm

He got best paper award in ACM ICC 2016, in Cambridge University, U.K. He has published 48 above International conferences and journal papers and book chapters. He has 16 years 5 months above experiences. He has a Chinese Innovation patent granted. 

He is Senior member of IEEE and ACM, IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Computer Society.

ACM-https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/bhattacharjya_3449132 

He is the Founder Chairman and Executive Director (DIN 10414713) of BCBRBAB INTERCONTINENTAL TRADING SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED.

URL : https://bcbrbabits.com

He is Reviewer of 

1. ACM Computing Surveys

2. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

3. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

4. IT Professional (IEEE Computer Society)

5. IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

5. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

6. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society 

7. IEEE Access

8. IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (ESL)

9. IEEE Sensors Journal

10. Computers & Security

11. Future Generation Computer Systems. 

12. Information Sciences

13. Blockchain: Research and Applications

14. Journal of King Saud University –Science (Elsevier)

15. Cluster Computing

16. PLOS ONE

17. Smart Science

18. MPDI Journals – 

I. Drones

II. Sustainability

III. Sensors

IV. Processes

V. Energies

VI. Applied Sciences

VII. Symmetry

VIII. Electronics

 19. Cybernetics and Systems

20. Malaysian Journal of Mathematical Sciences (MJMS)

21. International Journal of Computers and Applications (IJCA)

22. Discover Applied Sciences

23. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies

Prof. Yongxiang Xia

Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

Title: Resilience Enhancement of Cyber-Physical Power Systems (CPPS) against Cyber Attacks 

Xia Yongxiang is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Communication Engineering, Hangzhou University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Obtained a bachelor's degree and rehabilitation from the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University, and then engaged in research work at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Australian National University. After returning to China in 2010, he worked at Zhejiang University, and joined Hangzhou Dianzi University in 2019. He is mainly engaged in interdisciplinary research directions of network science and engineering, including link prediction, modeling of complex networked systems (cyberphysical systems, electric vehicle networks, etc.), robustness analysis and optimization, etc. He has presided over a number of national and provincial natural science foundation projects and has published more than 80 English academic papers in authoritative international journals and conferences, including 1 ESI highly cited paper. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee, a member of the IEEE Power and Energy Circuits and Systems Technical Committee, a member of the Standing Committee of the Network Science and Engineering Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society, a member of the Reliability Committee of the Chinese Command and Control Society, and a member of the Complex Networks and Complex Systems Committee of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. He serves as deputy editor-in-chief of the internationally authoritative journals IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (2022.1- ) and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems–II: Express Briefs (2016-2021), editorial board member of Scientific Reports journal, guest editorial board member of Chaos journal (2019), and member of the organizing committee of multiple international conferences. He won the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering and the 2019 and 2021 outstanding reviewers of Acta Physica Sinica. The masters he has trained have won the Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award of the China Electronics Society.