Dr. Fatos Xhafa received his PhD in Computer Science in 1998 from the Department of Computer Science of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. Currently, he holds a permanent position of Professor Titular at UPC, Barcelona Tech. He was a Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) during academic year 2009-2010 and Research Associate at Drexel University, Philadelphia (USA) during academic term 2004/2005.  Prof. Xhafa has widely published in peer reviewed international journals, conferences/workshops, book chapters and edited books and proceedings in the field (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/x/Xhafa:Fatos). He is awarded teaching and research merits by Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, by IEEE conference and best paper awards. Prof. Xhafa has an extensive editorial and reviewing service. He is editor in Chief of International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing and International Journal of Space-based and Situated Computing from Inderscience and member of EB of  several International Journals and Guest Editors of Special Issues. He is Editor in Chief of the Elsevier Book Series “Intelligent Data-Centric Systems” is actively participating in the organization of several international conferences and workshops.  He is a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society and Emerging Technical Subcomm of Internet of Things.
His research interests include parallel and distributed algorithms, massive data processing and collective intelligence, optimization, networking, P2P and Cloud computing, security and trust worthy computing, machine learning and data mining, among others.   

Prof.Dr.Sam Kwong

Department of Computer Science City University of Hong Kong

83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon , Hong Kong

Sam Kwong received the B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, in 1983, the M.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree from the Fernuniversität Hagen, Hagen, Germany, in 1996. From 1985 to 1987, he was a Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada, where he designed the diagnostic software to detect the manufacture faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. Currently, he is the associate editor of Evolutionary Computation, the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions On Industrial Informatics, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the Journal of Information Science. He is the Head and Professor of the department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Vice President for IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics for conferences and meetings. Prof. Kwong was elevated to IEEE fellow for his contributions on Optimization Techniques for Cybernetics and Video coding in 2014. His research areas are in Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computations and Video Analytics 

Dr WU Chun Ho, Jack

BEng (PolyU)

PhD (PolyU)

Lecturer (SCM)

Tel : 3963 5550

Email : jackwu@hsmc.edu.hk

Dr Wu excels in his role with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) as a researcher with more than a decade of professional experience. Having held numerous roles with the university previously, his expertise precedes him. Previously, he was a project fellow for the RFID Solutions Laboratory, and a visiting lecturer for the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU, and the Department of Supply Chain and Information Management, Hang Seng Management College.

Over the years, Dr Wu worked closely with many industrial partners such as Towngas Telecommunications Co Ltd, Leo Paper Bags Manufacturing (1982) Ltd, Dr Kids Education Group Ltd, and Photon Int. Ltd, to support and contribute to the formulation of their business strategies, operations improvement and new product development. Dr Wu was the recipient of the Big Data Analysis Award from the China & Hong Kong Enterprise Market Development Association in 2014, and the Best Reviewer Award for a journal entitled Internet Research in 2016. In 2015, his biographical profile has been selected for inclusion in the Marquis Who's Who in the World(R) 2016.

Dr Wu holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Systems Engineering, and a PhD in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. He also holds a six sigma black belt certification from the Hong Kong Society of Quality and he contributes regularly to research papers in the areas of Internet of Things, Engineering Optimisation and Business Intelligence. In collaboration with several scholars at PolyU, Tianjin University, Sun Yat-sen University, The University of York, etc, his project works and research outcomes have been presented in 10+ international conferences and published in 30+ international refereed journals, such as Information Science, Internet Research, Expert Systems with Applications, Enterprise Information Systems, Industrial Management and Data Systems. He is also one of the authors of IoT: The Basic, Applications and Case Studies (in Chinese; ISBN: 978-986-925-960-6), and System Design and Technology of Biomedical Internet of Things (in Chinese; ISBN: 978-986-84784-7-3).

To stay at the top of his field, Dr Wu is a member of IEEE and the British Machine Vision Association & Society for Pattern Recognition, and a senior member of the Hong Kong Society of Quality. Additionally, Dr Wu serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Engineering Business Management, and Enterprise Information Systems. As he looks to the future, Dr Wu intends to continue researching in the field of smart logistics and manufacturing.

Dr Brian Siu 

Education: Higher Diploma Systems Analysis from Hong Kong Polytechnic; Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Business Management from University of Sunderland, UK; Master of Science Information Management from London School of Economics, University of London UK; Master of Philosophy in Database Re- engineering from City University Hong Kong; Doctor of Philosophy (Thesis on Hong Kong’s Sustainable Development) from Bulacan State University, Philippine.

Work: Computer Project Officer in Cathay Pacific Airways, Analyst/Programmer in Hong Kong Government’s Census Department, Senior Training Officer in Hong Kong Bank.

Teaching: Hong Kong Polytechnic, City Polytechnic, University of New South Wales and University of Western Sydney Australia, and City University of Hong Kong. Courses cover Diploma, Associate Degree, Degree and Master Degree level programmes in System development, I.T. applications and project management.

Publications: co-edited two books, research papers with Conference presentations in Database Re- engineering, Web-based systems eLearning Platform systems development.

Research: web-based system development, eLearning applications support, web-based Social Media and Music research; the Sustainable Development of Hong Kong SAR within the Global Financial, Economic and Technological context.

    

Prof. Yikui Zhai

School of Information and Engineering, Wuyi University

Prof. Yikui Zhai is an associate professor of electronics and information engineering at School of Information and Engineering, Wuyi University, since 2013. He has received Signal and Information Processing Ph.D degree at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics(Also named Beihang University) in June 2013.His major research interests are focusing on machine learning/vision, biometric recognition, signal/video processing and statistical data analysis. I am also working on content based image retrieval. I have published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in premier conferences and journals. I won the Young Excellent Teacher Award in 2014 by provincial government. I enjoy to develop efficient algorithms with nice theoretical guarantees to solve practical problems involved large scale data.