Speakers

Prof. Jiguo Yu

IEEE Fellow

Qilu University of Technology, China

Prof. Maozhen Li

Brunel University London, UK

Vice-Dean of the NCUT TNE programme/Professor

Professor Maozhen Li received his PhD from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1997. He did his post-doc research in the Dept. of Computer Science at Cardiff University, UK in 1999-2002. He is now a full Professor in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Brunel University London, UK. His research interests are in the areas of high performance computing technologies including grid computing and cloud computing, big data analytics, and intelligent systems. He has over 150 scientific publications in these areas including 3 books and 70 peer reviewed journal papers. He has served over 30 IEEE conferences. He was the Chair of the TPC of FSKD’16, FSKD’14 and FSKD’12 respectively and he is on the Editorial Boards of a number of journals. His collaborative research with Tongji University, China on Intelligent Transportation Systems was nominated by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) for its Innovation Award in November 2015. Currently he is organizing a Special Issue on High Performance Deep Learning Techniques for Big Data Analytics for journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, looking at the research challenges in empowering large scale deep neural networks with high performance computing technologies. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Prof. Zidong Wang

IEEE Fellow

Brunel University London, UK

Member of the Academia Europaea

Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences 

Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation

Zidong Wang is Professor of Dynamical Systems and Computing at Brunel University London, West London, United Kingdom. He was born in 1966 in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China. He received the BSc degree in Mathematics in 1986 from Suzhou University, Suzhou, the MSc degree in Applied Mathematics in 1990 and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1994, both from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing.

He was appointed as Lecturer in 1990 and Associate Professor in 1994 at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. From January 1997 to December 1998, he was an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow with the Control Engineering Laboratory, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. From January 1999 to February 2001, he was a Lecturer with the Department of Mathematics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. From March 2001 to July 2002, he was a University Senior Research Fellow with the School of Mathematical and Information Sciences, Coventry University, U.K. In August 2002, he joined the Department of Computer Science, Brunel University London, U.K., as a Lecturer, and was then promoted to a Reader in September 2003 and to a Chair Professor in July 2007.

Professor Wang's research interests include dynamical systems, signal processing, bioinformatics, control theory and applications. He has published more than 600 papers in refereed international journals. He was awarded the Humboldt research fellowship in 1996 from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the JSPS Research Fellowship in 1998 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the William Mong Visiting Research Fellowship in 2002 from the University of Hong Kong. He was a recipient of the State Natural Science Award from the State Council of China in 2014 and the Outstanding Science and Technology Development Awards (once in 2005 and twice in 1997) from the National Education Committee of China.

Professor Wang is currently serving or has served as the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Systems Science, the Editor-in-Chief for Neurocomputing, the Editor-in-Chief for Systems Science and Control Engineering, the Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Network Dynamics and Intelligence, an Area Editor for Procedia Computer Science, a Subject Editor for Journal of The Franklin Institute, an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, Asian Journal of Control, Science China Information Sciences, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Control Theory and Technology, an Action Editor for Neural Networks, an Editorial Board Member for Information Fusion, IET Control Theory & Applications, Complexity, International Journal of Systems Science, Neurocomputing, International Journal of General Systems, Studies in Autonomic, Data-driven and Industrial Computing, and a member of the Conference Editorial Board for the IEEE Control Systems Society. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, and an Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Computer Mathematics.

Professor Wang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (section of Physics and Engineering Sciences), a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (class of Natural Sciences), an Academician of the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE (for contributions to networked control and complex networks), a Fellow of the Chinese Association of Automation, a Member of the IEEE Press Editorial Board, a Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College of the UK, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a member of program committee for many international conferences, and a very active reviewer for many international journals. He was nominated an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in 2006-2008 and 2011, an appreciated reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems in 2008, an outstanding reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in 2004 and for the journal Automatica in 2000.

Prof. Keyang Cheng

Jiangsu University, China