Keynote I

Prof. Bingli Jiao, Visiting Research Collaborator

Peking University, China

Dr. Bingli JIAO obtained BS and MS from Peking University in 1983 and 1988, and obtained Ph.D. from University of Saaland, F.R. Germany, in 1995, respectively. In 2000, he became a full professor in Peking University. He is a founder of advanced institute of wireless communication and signal processing. Now, he serves as the director of the institute. His researches are in the field of wireless communication, primarily, on the problems of physical layer. The research work includes wireless access techniques of CDMA and OFDM, adaptive filter, MIMO. So far, has published more than 50 papers in Journals and Conferences. Recently, he led a national team working in field of m-health care.

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Keynote II

Prof. Xudong Jiang (Fellow IEEE)

Nanyang Technological University,Singapore

Xudong Jiang, IEEE Fellow,  received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and the Ph.D. degree from Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany. During his work in UESTC, he received two Science and Technology Awards from the Ministry for Electronic Industry of China. From 1998 to 2004, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research, A-Star, Singapore, as a Lead Scientist and the Head of the Biometrics Laboratory, where he developed a system that achieved the most efficiency and the second most accuracy at the International Fingerprint Verification Competition in 2000. He joined Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as a Faculty Member, in 2004, and served as the Director of the Centre for Information Security from 2005 to 2011. Currently, he is a professor of NTU. Dr Jiang holds 7 patents and has authored over 200 papers with over 40 papers in IEEE journals, including 14 papers in IEEE T-IP and 6 papers in IEEE T-PAMI. His publications are well-cited with H-index 55 and 4 of his papers were listed as the top 1% highly cited papers in the academic field of Engineering by Essential Science Indicators. He served as IFS TC Member of IEEE Signal Processing Society, Associate Editor for IEEE SPL, Associate Editor for IEEE T-IP and the founding editorial board member for IET Biometrics. Currently, Dr Jiang is an IEEE Fellow and serves as Senior Area Editor for IEEE T-IP and Editor-in-Chief for IET Biometrics. His current research interests include image processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, machine learning, and biometrics.

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Keynote III

Professor Dr Chandratilak De Silva LIYANAGE,

Dean School of Digital Science (SDS), Director Institute of Applied Data Analytics (IADA), Universiti Brunei Darussalam,Brunei Darussalam

Professor Liyanage C De Silva received BSc Eng (Hons) degree from the University of Moratuwa Sri Lanka in 1985, MPhil degree from The Open University of Sri Lanka in 1989, MEng and PhD degrees from the University of Tokyo, Japan in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He was with the University of Tokyo, Japan, from 1989 to 1995. From April 1995 to March 1997 he pursued his postdoctoral research as a researcher at ATR (Advanced Telecommunication Research) Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. In March 1997 he joined The National University of Singapore as a Lecturer where he was an Assistant Professor till June 2003. He was with the Massey University, New Zealand from 2003 to 2007. Currently he is the Professor of Engineering and the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Integrated Technologies http://fit.ubd.edu.bn at the University of Brunei Darussalam.

Liyanage has published over 160 technical papers in these areas in international conferences, journals and Japanese national conventions and holds one Japanese national patent, which was successfully sold to Sony Corporation Japan for commercial utilization, and he holds 1 US and 1 Brunei patents. Liyanage’s works have been cited as one of the pioneering work in the bimodal (audio and video signal based) emotion recognition by many researchers. His papers so far have been cited by more than 2000 times (according to scholar.google.com) with an h-index of 20.

He received the Best Student Paper Award from SPIE (The International Society for Optical Engineering) for an outstanding paper contribution to the International Conference on Visual Communication and Image Processing (VCIP) in 1995. He also received National University of Singapore, the Department of ECE Teaching commendation award in 2001 and 2002 consecutively.

He is a senior member of IEEE USA and the interim chair of IEEE Brunei Darussalam Subsection. He was the General Chair of the 4th International Conference Computational Intelligence and Robotics and Autonomous Systems (CIRAS2007) held in New Zealand. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=utF5BG0AAAAJ&hl=en

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Signal Processing (Speech & Image)
Internet Of Things (IoT)
Sensor Integration
Power System Analysis

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