Feng Chia University, Taiwan, China
Biography:
Professor Chin-Chen Chang has worked on many different
topics in information security, cryptography, multimedia
image processing and published several hundreds of papers in
international conferences and journals and over 40 books. He
was cited over 50,000 times and has an h-factor of 101
according to Google Scholar. Several well-known concepts and
algorithms were adopted in textbooks. He also worked with
the National Science Council, Ministry of Technology,
Ministry of Education, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry
of Economic Affairs and other Government agencies on more
than 100 projects and holds 36 patents. He served as
Honorary Professor, Consulting Professor, Distinguished
Professor, Guest Professor at over 60 academic institutions
and received Distinguished Alumni Award's from his Alma
Master's. He also served as Editor or Chair of several
international journals and conferences and had given almost
a thousand invited talks at institutions including Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tokyo University,
Kyoto University, National University of Singapore, Nanyang
Technological University, The University of Hong Kong,
National Taiwan University and Peking University. Professor
Chang has mentored 7 postdoctoral, 68 PhD students and 208
master students. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1998,
a Fellow of IET in 2000, a Fellow of CS in 2020, an AAIA
Fellow in 2021. In 2023, he was awarded the Honorary Ph.D.
Degree in Engineering, National Chung Cheng University,
Taiwan.
University of Lancashire, UK
Biography: Professor Shark is the Emeritus Professor of
Signal and Image Processing at the University of Lancashire,
where he founded and led two prominent research centers: the
Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre
(ADSIP) established in 2001 and the Advanced Digital
Manufacturing Technology Research Centre (ADMT) established
in 2008, with 77% of the research output rated as
world-leading or internationally excellent by the UK Higher
Education Funding Council.
In addition to being an IET Fellow, Professor Shark has held
various honorary positions, including Visiting Professor at
Lancaster University, the China State Key Laboratory of
Hybrid Process Industry Automation System and Equipment
Technology, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Guest
Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology; and
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Beijing Outstanding
Talents Programme.
A particularly unique aspect of his research lies in
development of innovative signal and image processing
technologies through cross-fertilisation of ideas and
translation of approaches between industrial non-destructive
evaluation and medical non-invasive diagnosis, with
synergistic processing of multimodal signals and images at
its core. He has led several multi-million-pound
initiatives; collaborated with over 160 organisations in
more than 20 countries; and received research funding well
above £86M from a diverse range of national and
international grant bodies, as well as world-leading
companies. He has authored over 180 publications (including
books); and won various academic and industrial awards, such
as the Sir Frank Whittle Award, two BAE Innovation Awards,
and multiple best paper awards at international conferences.
The most esteemed moment of his career was the profound
honour of presenting his research to HM The Queen and HRH
The Duke of Edinburgh during their royal visit to his
research centre, as the first stop of their UK tour in
celebration of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
For external professional activities, Professor Shark serves
on the advisory board of IET Image Processing among several
editorial board and chief guest editor roles. He has
presided as the general chair of 9 international
conferences, including conferences sponsored by IET and
IAPR. In addition to being a frequent grant reviewer for
various research funding councils in the UK, he serves as an
Information Science and Engineering Panel Expert for the
European Research Council, and has acted as an international
panel chair and reviewer for grant bodies in Asia, Europe
and the USA.
Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Biography: Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985
from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and
the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka,
Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser
Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From Oct. 1994 to Mar.
2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ.
of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor
with the college of Information Science and Engineering,
Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is the founder and the
first director of Center of Advanced ICT for Medicine and
Healthcare, Ritsumeikan University.
His research interests include medical image analysis,
computer vision and computational intelligence. He has
published more than 300 research papers in a number of
leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE
Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, CVPR,
ICCV, MICCAI. He has received many distinguished awards
including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT
Best Paper Award. He is/was a leader of numerous national
and industrial research projects. Professor Yen-Wei Chen is
ranked in the World’s top 2% of scientists for both the
single recent year (2023) and career-long (updated until to
end-of-2022), according to Stanford/Elsevier's rankings.