Keynote Speakers

Prof. Said Easa

Ryerson University, Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, Canada

Biography:

Professor Said Easa is currently Professor of Civil Engineering, Ryerson University, Canada. He received his B.Sc. degree from Cairo University (Egypt) in 1972, M.Eng. degree from McMaster University (Canada) in 1976, and Ph.D. degree from University of California at Berkeley (U.S.) in 1982. He has served as Director of Quality Assurance of the Faculty of Engineering at Ryerson University (2010-2013), where he introduced the new accreditation system for graduate attributes. Prior to joining Ryerson University in 2000, he had taught at Lakehead University, Canada (1982-2000). Dr. Easa is Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, Engineering Institute of Canada, and Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). His research interests cover broad transportation areas, including planning, design, operation, and management. In particular, he has introduced novel approaches for safer and more efficient transportation infrastructure, including highway alignments, railway crossings, interchanges, intersections, and roundabouts. In addition, he has conducted multidisciplinary research in such areas as intelligent transportation systems, autonomous and connected vehicles, human factors, and geomatics engineering. 

Dr. Easa published nearly 340 refereed journal articles and was editor of a bestselling book on Urban Planning and Development Applications of GIS, published by American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He served as President of Online Network Enabled ITS Research Society (ONE-ITS) (2015-2017). He is Associate Editor of Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Surveying Engineering, and Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering. He was leader of a national delegation to China, judge for annual Canadian Consulting Engineering awards, and member of national grant selection committees. He organized and chaired eight national and international conferences, sponsored by ASCE, CSCE, and IAAM. He has received numerous lifetime achievement awards and honors from Canadian, U.S., and other organizations, including Frank M. Masters Transportation Engineering Award from ASCE (2001), Sandford Fleming Award from CSCE (2003), Arthur M. Wellington Prize from ASCE (2005), Award of Academic Merit from Transportation Association of Canada (2010), and IAAM Medal from the International Association for Advanced Materials (2018).

Prof. Lyuchao Liao

Fujian University of Technology, China

Biography:

Lyuchao Liao, professor, master's supervisor, postdoctoral fellow of Tsinghua University, senior member of IEEE, senior visiting scholar of Essex University, UK, has served as vice dean of College of Information Science and Engineering, vice dean of College of Computer Science and Mathematics, etc. He is now vice dean of College of Transportation, and also serves as director of Key Laboratory of Industrial Control and Data Analysis in Fujian Province, executive director of Digital Fujian Transportation Big Data Institute, etc. He is also the director of Industrial Control and Data Analysis Key Laboratory of Fujian University, the executive director of Digital Fujian Transportation Big Data Research Institute, the director of Intelligent Unmanned Driving Technology Engineering Research Center of Fujian University, etc. He is also actively involved in social services, and is now a member of Science Popularization Committee of China Artificial Intelligence Society, a member of Big Data Standard Working Group of Fujian Informationization Standardization Technical Committee, and a member of Artificial Intelligence Teaching Steering Committee of Fujian Primary and Secondary Schools employed by Fujian Provincial Education Department.

His main research is on artificial intelligence technology, spatio-temporal big data modeling and mining processing technology. He has presided over and participated in more than 30 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, sub-projects of major science and technology projects in Fujian Province, key projects of science and technology plan in Fujian Province and horizontal cooperation projects of traffic information engineering, etc. He has published more than 50 SCI/EI papers, and has been granted more than 100 invention patents in urban spatio-temporal big data processing by the United States and the state, and has been awarded one international invention prize in Geneva. He has been awarded two Science and Technology Progress Awards in Fujian Province, and has been awarded the China Overseas Chinese Contribution (Innovation Team) Award and the China Industry-University-Research Cooperation Innovation Achievement Award; he has been awarded the "Excellent Expert" of Fujian Education Informatization Society, and has been awarded the "Excellent Science and Technology Worker" by the university. "In 2014, he was selected as one of the outstanding young research talents in Fujian University and in 2016, he was selected as one of the postdoctoral science and technology service groups in China. In 2021, he was hired by Fuzhou Informatization Society as a "special expert in the field of artificial intelligence".

Prof. Shaohua Luo

Guizhou University

Biography:

Prof. Luo research interests include the dynamics analysis of special electromechanical systems and network, analog/digital circuit design and intelligent control, adaptive and optimal controls, application of artificial intelligence technology in electromechanical systems and network. In recent years, he has presided over several research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Provin-cial Natural Science Foundation of China. He has authored 25 invention patents and published more than 40 papers in the authoritative academic journals such as IEEE Trans. Cybern., IEEE Trans. Neural Netw. Learn. Syst., IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Syst. and IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.

Prof. Qinmin Yang

Zhejiang University

Biography:

Mainly engaged in research in the fields of industrial data intelligence, renewable energy and energy internet, intelligent control and optimization. In the past five years, I have led more than 10 national level projects/topics, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China's joint key, general, and youth projects, the 863 project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China, the intelligent manufacturing project of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and tens of millions of horizontal projects. More than 100 papers have been published, including 4 ESI highly cited papers, 1 hot topic paper, cited more than 3000 times, published 3 English chapters, obtained 2 US patents, and over 50 Chinese invention patents. Currently, he is a senior member of IEEE, a member of ASME and APNNS, a member of the International Organization, a vice chairman of the ADPRL Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, a member of the Professional Committee on Control Theory and Application, the Energy Internet Professional Committee and the Youth Working Committee, a secretary general of the New Energy Group of the Control Theory Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, and serves as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, And Cybernetics: Editorial board members for multiple domestic and international journals, including Systems, Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, and Journal of Automation (English version). Previously served as the program chairman, registered chairman, and organizing committee member for multiple international conferences, including ICIST 2022, RTCSA 2019, NVMSA 2019, and ICONIP 2017. He has won the first prize of the 2021 Automation Society Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the 2021 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Natural Science Award, the first prize of the 2017 Zhejiang Province Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Automation Society Excellent Doctoral Thesis Supervisor Award. Received honors such as the leading talent of the 2021 Zhejiang Ten Thousand Talents Plan, the 2012 Zhejiang Qianjiang Talent, and the first batch of young scholars seeking truth from Zhejiang University.

Assoc. Prof. Wei Wei 

Xi 'an University of Technology, China

Biography:

Dr. Wei Wei, senior member of IEEE, ACM, senior member of CCF, Shaanxi Hanjiang Scholar, CCF Big Data Committee, Internet of Things Committee, network data committee, etc., H-index coefficient is 55+, google citations over 9610+.

He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Software and Theory from Xi 'an Jiaotong University in 2011. He completed his visiting study at University of Nebraska in 2009. He completed his postdoctoral research in Electrical Engineering at Xi 'an University of Technology in 2015. In 2017, he completed postdoctoral research in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been studying the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, big data processing and other related aspects, published more than 100 research papers, presided over the completion of 3 provincial and ministerial funds, won 5 provincial and municipal science and technology progress awards as a backbone, and participated in the completion of 6 national fund projects as a backbone. In 2019, 2020 and 2021, he won the second Prize of Shaanxi University Science and Technology Progress Award respectively. The first author has published more than 20+ high-level papers included in SCI journals, including ESI high citation (sustained high citation for more than 56 months +, Esi-high Citation in 2019, 2020 and 2021) and 19 hot articles + (top 0.1% in the world), A total of 6 papers in CAS -1 and CCF B international journals + (IEEE Trans on Service Computing and Information Sciences, IEEE-IOTJ, Computer Networks, IEEE Trans on Service Computing and Information Sciences, IEEE IOTJ, Computer Networks, The Pattern Recognition), As the corresponding author, he published 2 + papers in top journals of the 1st region of Chinese Academy of Sciences (IEEE Communication Magazine and IEEE Trans on Information INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS respectively). The number of citations of published articles: the highest citation of a single paper by google is over 300 +, and the other citation of a single paper by SCI is over 200 +; Accumulative google citation more than 8817 + times, accumulative SCI citation more than 3818+ times.