Yuan Yan TANG, IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, AAIA Fellow
University of Macau, China

Yuan Yan Tang (Life Fellow, IEEE) is currently the Director of the Smart City Research Center, Zhuhai UM Science and Technology Research Institute, Zhuhai, China; the Emeritus Chair Professor with the University of Macau, Macau, and Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; and an Adjunct Professor with Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He has published more than 600 academic papers and is the author (or co-author) of over 25 monographs, books, and book chapters. His research interests include artificial intelligence, wavelets, pattern recognition, and image processing.,Dr. Tang is an IAPR Fellow and an AAIA Fellow. He is the Founder and the General Chair of the series International Conferences on Wavelets Analysis and Pattern Recognition (ICWAPRs). He is the Founder and the Chair of Macau Branch of International Associate of Pattern Recognition (IAPR). He has served as the General Chair, the Program Chair, and a committee member for many international conferences. He served as the Chairperson for the 18th ICPR, which is the first time that the ICPR was hosted in China. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of SCI journal International Journal on Wavelets, Multiresolution, and Information Processing (IJWMIP).

Maki Habib
The American University in Cairo, Egypt

Maki Habib obtained his Doctor of Engineering Sciences (DES) in Intelligent and Autonomous Robotics from the University of Tsukuba in 1990, Japan. He was a selected research scientist at RIKEN, Japan, and senior researcher at RISO-Laboratories, Japan, and visiting researcher at EPFL, Switzerland. He was a visiting expert under Asian Development Bank (ADB), Associate Professor at UTM, Malaysia, and a Senior Manager at MCRIA for engineering projects and industrial consultation, Malaysia. He was a leading senior research scientist with GMD-Japan, Japan leading Telecooperation research group. Associate Professor with Monash University (Australia/Malaysia), he developed and led the Mechatronics Engineering program. He was appointed as a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at Swinburne University (Australia/Malaysia). Then, he was an invited Professor at KAIST, South Korea, Residing Professor at Saga University, Japan, and since Sept. 2007 he is a full Professor of Robotics and Mechatronics at AUC. Habib was a visiting professor (short term) at many Universities around the world, such as, Nagasaki University-Japan, Hokkoido University-Japan, Orebro University – Sweden, Norwegian University of Science and Technology – Norway, etc. Habib served as a consultant and Technical advisor to well-known international companies including Toyota group and ABB.

Habib is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Regional Editor and Associate Editor of 10 International Journals, and Editorial Board member of another 10 International Journals beside his leadership as a member of international organizing/program committee of more than 20 International Conference every year.

Habib edited more than 14 books, published more than 26 book chapters and also more than 275 papers at international journals and international conferences.

Kwan Min LEE
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Kwan Min Lee (Ph.D., Stanford) is the inaugural Korea Foundation Professor in Contemporary Korean Society and New Media and Director of the UX Lab at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He previously served as a Vice President at Samsung Electronics, leading the UX Group and Creative Lab (C-Lab), driving new product and service development for the Visual Display division. Before Samsung, he was a tenured professor at the University of Southern California (USC) for 12 years and the founding director of the Interaction Science Research Center at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea.

Prof. Lee specializes in UX research and design, social and psychological effects of ICT, and human-machine interaction (HCI/HRI/HAI). An elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA), he has authored over 100 articles and book chapters widely adopted at leading universities such as Stanford and MIT. His work has been covered by The Washington Post, BBC News, and USA Today. He is the recipient of multiple top paper awards, a distinguished young scholar award, and teaching honors including the USC Mellon Award.

He serves on the editorial boards of more than 10 top-tier journals, as an advisory board member of MIT Cognet, and formerly as associate editor of Presence and Computers in Human Behavior. His research has received over US$12 million in funding from institutions including the U.S. National Science Foundation, Singapore Ministry of Education, Samsung Electronics, and Hyundai Motors. He holds multiple international patents in smart display interfaces, gesture control, and multimedia production, and advises startups and established companies in smart home, mobility, Fintech, and UX strategy.

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