Prof. Dapeng Oliver Wu (IEEE Fellow)

University of Florida, USA

Biography: Dapeng Oliver Wu received Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003. Since 2003, he has been on the faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, where he is currently Professor. His research interests are in the areas of networking, communications, video coding, image processing, computer vision, signal processing, and machine learning.

He received University of Florida Term Professorship Award in 2017, University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award in 2009, AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2009, ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2008, NSF CAREER award in 2007, the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) Transactions Best Paper Award for Year 2001, the Best Paper Award in GLOBECOM 2011, and the Best Paper Award in QShine 2006.

He has served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advances in Multimedia between 2006 and 2008, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012. He was elected as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2016. He is an IEEE Fellow.

Prof. Tao Zhang,  Ph.D，  

North China University of Technology, China

Biography: Prof. Tony Zhang is a full professor in College of Information Technology, North China University of Technology (NCUT). He received his PhD degree in computer science from Kent State University of United States America. He was the Chief scientific adviser, North American Headquarters, Volkswagen Group, Germany, the senior banking consultant of IBM banking division, United States, the vice president of technology and operations, Bank of America, the CTO of PRECOM Information Technology, a Silicon Valley company. He founded the Wise-Code Information Technology Co., Ltd and has designed and developed more than 60 software products with independent intellectual property rights, and 40 published papers on the intelligence applications which have been widely used in the fields of intelligence finance and banking, intelligence government, smart education, intelligence medical cares, intelligence manufacturing and intelligence cities and communities, intelligence safety cities, intelligence travel and etc. He is currently the chief expert of the National Invested Top Important Intelligence Projects by Department of National Science and technology, National Recognized and Certified High Level Talents of Oversea Returned Scientist From Western and American, the overseas Senior Technical Adviser of the CBRC, the chief scientist of Beijing Aero space ChangFeng Co., Ltd., President of Electronic branch of Beijing Expert Association and Vice President of Western Returned Students' Club, the Chairman of International Conference in the Data Signal Process and Artificial Intelligence.
 

Prof. Yuantao Gu

Tsinghua University, China

Biography: Yuantao Gu received the B.E. degree from Xi'an Jiaotong University in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree with honor from Tsinghua University in 2003, both in Electronic Engineering. He joined the faculty of Tsinghua University in 2003 and is now a professor with Department of Electronic Engineering. He was a visiting scientist at Research Laboratory of Electronics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during 2012 to 2013 and Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor during 2015. His research interests include high-dimensional signal processing, dimensionality reduction, optimization, sparse signal recovery, temporal-space and graph signal processing. He is a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and an Elected Member of both IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee and IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee. He received the Best Paper Award of IEEE GlobalSIP in 2015, the Award for Best Presentation of Journal Paper of IEEE ChinaSIP in 2015, and Zhang Si-Ying (CCDC) Outstanding Youth Paper Award (with his student) in 2017.
 

Prof. Alexei Shishkin

Moscow State University, Russia

Biography: Alexei G. Shishkin received the M.Sc. degree in applied mathematics from the Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematical modeling from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 1990. He received his D.Sc. degree in computational mathematics and mathematical modeling from Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, in 2011. He was a Senior Research Worker and then Chief Research Worker with the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University, starting from 1990. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Moscow State University. His current research interests include mathematical modeling, machine learning, data mining and digital signal processing. Prof. Shishkin is an author of more than 150 publications including 6 books. He is a member of Editorial Board of Journal of Modeling and Optimization and a reviewer of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. Prof. Shishkin has been a member and a chairman of the program committees of a number of international conferences.