Invited Speakers

Prof. Lin Chen

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Bio: Lin Chen is a Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at Sun Yat-sen University, which he joined in 2019. He received his B.E. in 2002 from Southeast University, his Engineer Diploma in 2005 and Ph.D. in 2008 from Telecom ParisTech (ENST). He received his Habilitation thesis at University of Paris-Sud in 2017. He was an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science at University of Paris-Sud from 2009 to 2019 and a visiting scholar at National ICT Center of Australia (NICTA) in 2008. His research interests revolve around modeling and design of distributed algorithms in emerging networked systems, with particular emphasis on energy efficiency, resilience, and security. He received the 2018 CNRS Bronze Medal and was a Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF). He has served on the editorial board of several international journals and in the TPC of major conferences in communications and networking. He served as the Chair of the IEEE TCGCC SIG on Green and Sustainable Networking and Computing with Cognition and Cooperation.

Prof. Jixin Ma

University of Greenwich, U.K.

Bio: Jixin Ma is a Professor of Computer Science (Artificial Intelligence) and Director of PhD/MPhil Programme at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich. He has also been the Director of the Centre for Computer and Computational Science (2011-18) and Leader of Artificial Intelligence Research Group (2008–2018). His main research areas include Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Information Systems, with special interests in Temporal Representation and Reasoning, Information Security, Machine Learning and Case-Based Reasoning.

He has published 200+ research papers in top-tier journals including Information Fusion, Information Sciences, IEEE IoT, IEEE Trans on Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, Neural Computing and Applications, Information Systems, Neurocomputing, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, the Computer Journal, Applied Ontology, Artificial Intelligence Review, etc., and at esteemed international conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI and ECAI, etc.

He has won 6 Best Papers / Student Paper awards and as Principal / Co-Investigator, received research grants worth more than £330,000.

He obtained his BSc and MSc of Mathematics in 1982 and 1988, respectively, and PhD of Computer Sciences in 1994. Before his professorship appointment, he was a Reader (2007-2019), Senior Lecturer (1997-2006), and Research Fellow and Lecture (1994 – 1996), at University of Greenwich, U.K. He is also a Visiting Professor at Beijing Normal University, Anhui University, Hainan University, Zhengzhou Light Industrial University and Macau City University.