Keynote Speaker I
Prof.
Saman Halgamuge
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Prof Saman Halgamuge is a Fellow of IEEE, a Professor in
the Department of Mechanical Engineering of School of
Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering.
He is a highly cited expert in his field and listed as
one of the top 2% cited experts for AI and Image
Processing in the Stanford University Database published
in 2020. His most-cited paper being "Self-organizing
hierarchical particle swarm optimizer with time-varying
acceleration coefficients", with over 3300 citations,
according to GoogleScholar. He is a Distinguished
Speaker/Lecturer on Computational Intelligence appointed
by IEEE. He has supervised 45 PhD scholars to completion
and delivered over 50 keynotes at International and
national conferences. He has previously served as
Director/Head, Research School of Engineering of the
Australian National University (2016-18) and as a member
of Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts
for Engineering, Information and Computing Sciences
(2016-18). He was the founding Director of the PhD
training centre Melbourne India Postgraduate Program
(MIPP) of University of Melbourne and contributed as
Associate Dean (2013-15) and Assistant Dean (2008-13) in
International Engagement at the Faculty of Engineering
and IT. He is also a member of various International
advisory committees including the Visiting Committee of
Chinese University of Hong Kong (2018) and Research
Advisory Council of University of Technology PETRONAS
(2015-18). He is an honorary Professor of Australian
National University. His research interests are in AI
and Data Engineering including Inclusive Learning
algorithms and Active data gathering sensor systems,
Unsupervised Learning, Big Data Analytics focusing on
applications in Mechatronics, Energy and Bioengineering.
These applications vary from Sensor Networks in
Irrigation, Smart Grids, and Sustainable Energy
generation to Bioinformatics and Neuro-Engineering.
Keynote Speaker II
Assoc. Prof. Weizhi Meng
Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark
Dr. Weizhi Meng is currently an Associate Professor in the
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical
University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degreein
Computer Science from the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
SAR. Prior to joining DTU, he worked as Research Scientist in
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*Star, Singapore. He won
theOutstanding Academic Performance Award during his doctoral study,
and is a recipient of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)
Outstanding Paper Award for Young Engineers/Researchers in both 2014
and 2017. He also received the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Researcher
Award for Europe, Middle East, & Africa Region (EMEA) in 2020. His
primary research interests are cyber security and intelligent
technology in security, including blockchain, intrusion detection,
AI security, IoT security, biometric authentication, and trust
management. He serves as associate editors / editorial board members
for many reputed journals such as IEEE TDSC, as well as chair for
various international conferences such as ACM CCS’23 and ESORICS’22.
He is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
Invited Speaker
Prof. Laura Ricci
University of Pisa, Italy
Laura Ricci received the Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy where she is currently a Full Professor. Her research interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchains, web3 and metaverse, and social network analysis. She has published over 150 papers in international journals and conference/workshop proceedings, served as Local coordinator of the H2020 European Helios project, and chaired several workshops. She is currently co-chair of the BRAIN workshop on Blockchain theory and Applications. Laura has also been a TPC co-chair of ICBC 2023 (International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies), and of ICBTA (International Conf. on Blockchain Technology and applications), and a member of the Italian National commission for the definition of a national strategy for blockchain. She is the principal investigator of the Italian National Project "AWESOME: Analysis framework for WEb3 SOcial MEdia ", starting in Autumn 2023.
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