Keynote Speaker

Prof. Marios Polycarpou, KIOS CoE Director【IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow】

University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Marios Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Director of the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. He is also a Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, an Honorary Professor of Imperial College London, and a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe).  He received the B.A degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, both from Rice University, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. His teaching and research interests are in intelligent systems and networks, adaptive and learning control systems, fault diagnosis, machine learning, and critical infrastructure systems.

Prof. Polycarpou is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Technical Field Award and the 2016 IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC. He served as the President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012-2013), as the President of the European Control Association (2017-2019), and as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2004-2010). Prof. Polycarpou currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Proceedings of the IEEE and the Annual Reviews in Control. His research work has been funded by several agencies and industry in Europe and the United States, including the prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant, the ERC Synergy Grant and the EU-Widening Teaming program.

Prof. Cesare Alippi【IEEE Fellow】

Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Cesare Alippi, born in beautiful Lecco on the Como lake, Italy, received the degree in electronic engineering cum laude in 1990 and the PhD in 1995 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Currently, he is a Professor with the Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland. Currently, he is a visiting professor at the University of Kobe, Japan, and the University of Guangzhou, China. He has been a visiting researcher at UCL (UK), MIT (USA), ESPCI (F), CASIA (RC), A*STAR (SIN).

Alippi is an IEEE Fellow, Member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Board of Governors member of the International Neural Network Society, Board of Directors member of the European Neural Network Society, Past Vice-President education of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, past associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Emerging topics in computational intelligence, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, the IEEE-Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements, the IEEE-Transactions on Neural Networks. In 2018 he received IEEE CIS Outstanding Computational Intelligence Magazine Award, the 2016 Gabor award from the International Neural Networks Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Outstanding Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems Paper Award; in 2013 the IBM Faculty award; in 2004 the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Young Engineer Award.

Current research activity addresses adaptation and learning in non-stationary environments and Intelligence for embedded and cyber-physical systems. He holds 8 patents, has published one monograph book, 6 edited books and about 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Giancarlo Fortino【IEEE Fellow】

University of Calabria, Italy

Giancarlo Fortino is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT – Shenzhen, high-end expert of the Henan province, and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council (2021-23).

At Unical, he is the Rector' s delegate to Int' l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2022 in Computer Science by Clarivate. Currently he has 20 highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=73 with 19000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is author of 600+ papers in int' l journals, conferences and books.

He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int' l journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, EAAI, etc. He chaired many int' l workshops and conferences (120+), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (500+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (75+).

He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is currently member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter.

Prof. Zhongsheng Hou【IEEE Fellow, CAA Fellow】

Qingdao University, China

Zhongsheng Hou received his Ph. D. degree from Northeastern University in 1994, postdoc from Harbin Institute of Technology in 1997, and visiting scholar from Yale University in 2002-2003. He was formerly the director and second-level professor of the Department of Automatic Control of Beijing Jiaotong University, and was selected as a "Leading talent" of the Outstanding 100 People Program of Beijing Jiaotong University. He is currently the chief professor of Qingdao University and the Dean of the Institute of Systems Science.

IEEE Fellow; Chinese Association of Automation (CAA Fellow); Member, IFAC Technical Committee "Adaptive and Learning Systems"; Member, IFAC Technical Committee "Transportation Systems". Founding Director of the "Data-Driven Control, Learning and Optimization" Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Automation; He founded the IEEE Data Driven Control and Learning Systems Conference and served as the general Chairman of the conference. Former or current editorial board member of "Acta Automatica Sinica", "Control Theory and Applications", "Control and Decision", "Systems Science and Mathematics"; He was a guest editor of the IEEE Neuronal Networks and Learning Systems Journal on "Data-Based Control, Decision, Scheduling and Fault Diagnosis". Guest editor of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Conference special issue "Data-Driven Control and Learning Systems".