Speakers

Prof. Guangjie Han

IEEE Fellow, IET/IEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Hohai University

Guangjie Han is currently a Professor with the Department of Information and Communication System, Hohai University, Changzhou, China and a Distinguished Professor of Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. He received the Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2004. In February 2008, he finished his work as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Computer Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea. From October 2010 to October 2011, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with Osaka University, Suita, Japan. From January 2017 to February 2017, he was a Visiting Professor with City University of Hong Kong, China. His current research interests include Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Security and Privacy. Dr. Han has over 300 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, in addition to 140 granted and pending patents. Currently, his H-index is 41 and i10-index is 135 in Google Citation (Google Scholar). Total citation of his papers by other people is more than 6500+ times.

Dr. Han is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He has served on the Editorial Boards of up to 10 international journals, including the IEEE Network, IEEE Systems, IEEE/CCA JAS, IEEE ACCESS, Telecommunication Systems, etc. He has guest edited a number of special issues in IEEE Journals and Magazines, including the IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Computer Networks, etc. Dr. Han has also served as chairs of organizing and technical committees of many international conferences. He had been awarded 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Annual Best Paper Award, 2017-2019 IEEE ACCESS Outstanding Associate Editor Award. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Prof. Steven Guan

University of Liverpool

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 Xi'an 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.