Program Committee

Huanhuan Chen (IEEE Fellow), is a professor in School of Computer Science, University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China. He received the B.Sc. degree from USTC, Hefei, China, in 2004, and Ph.D. degree, sponsored by Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate Award, in computer science at the University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, in 2008. He worked in University of Birmingham and University of Leeds in the UK from 2008 to 2012, respectively. His PhD thesis "Diversity and Regularization in Neural Network Ensembles" has received 2011 IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding PhD Dissertation award (the only winner) and 2009 CPHC/British Computer Society Distinguished Dissertations Award (the runner up). His work “Probabilistic Classification Vector Machines” on Bayesian machine learning published in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, has been awarded as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Outstanding 2009 Paper Award (bestowed in 2012, and only one paper in 2009 receive this award). In 2015, Dr. Chen received the International Neural Network Society (INNS)Young Investigator Award in 2015 for his significant contributions in the field of Neural Networks.His research interests include computational intelligence, statistical machine learning, data fusion, neural networks, Bayesian inference and evolutionary computation, etc.

Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong. Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for his research contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical Achievement Award (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award (2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in Computer Science of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of big data applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chief between 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journal of VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities, including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and IEEE.