Prof. Janusz Kacprzyk is Professor of Computer Science at the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, WIT – Warsaw School of Information Technology, and Chongqing Three Gorges University, Wanzhou, Chinqgqung, China, and Professor of Automatic Control at PIAP – Industrial Institute of Automation and Measurements. He is Honorary Foreign Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Yli Normal University, Xinjiang, China. He is Full Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Foreign Member of the: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Spanish Royal Academy of Economic and Financial Sciences (RACEF), Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters, and Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium of Sciences and the Arts (KVAB). He was awarded with 4 honorary doctorates. He is Fellow of IEEE, IET, IFSA, EurAI and SMIA.
His main research interests include the use of modern computation computational and artificial intelligence tools, notably fuzzy logic, in systems science, decision making, optimization, control, data analysis and data mining, with applications in mobile robotics, systems modeling, ICT etc.
He authored 7 books, (co)edited more than 100 volumes, (co)authored more than 600 papers, including ca. 80 in journals indexed by the WoS. His bibliographic data are: Google Scholar: citations: 28094; h-index: 74, Scopus: citations: citations: 8416; h-index: 40, ResearcherID (M-9574-2014): citations: 9014; h-index=42 and Web of Science: citations: 6696 (5517 without self-citations) h-index: 34.
He is the editor in chief of 7 book series at Springer, and of 2 journals, and is on the editorial boards of ca. 40 journals.. He is President of the Polish Operational and Systems Research Society and Past President of International Fuzzy Systems Association
Prof. Vicenc Torra Vicenç Torra is currently a professor at Umeå University (Sweden). He is an IEEE and EurAI Fellow. He has written several books including "Modeling decisions" (with Y. Narukawa, Springer, 2007), "Data Privacy" (Springer, 2017), and "Scala: from a functional programming perspective" (Springer, 2017), and edited several books including "Data science in practice" (with A. Said, Springer, 2019) and "Non-additive measures: theory and applications" (with Y. Narukawa and M. Sugeno, Springer, 2014).
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Prof. Krassimir Atanassov
Born on 23.03.1954 in Burgas, Bulgaria.
Honorary titles and awards
-Award “Pythagoras” of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Science of Bulgaria for established researcher in the area of Technical sciences, 2013
-Fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (since 2013)
-Adjunct Professor of Raffles KvB Institute, Sydney (since 2007)
-Honorary Fellow of the KvB Institute of Technology, Sydney (since 2004)
-Honorary Associate of the University of Technology, Sydney (since 1995)
Click here for the CV Prof. Wil van der Aalst Prof.dr.ir. Wil van der Aalst is a full professor at RWTH Aachen University, leading the Process and Data Science (PADS) group. He is also the Chief Scientist at Celonis, part-time affiliated with the Fraunhofer FIT. His research interests include process mining, Petri nets, business process management, workflow management, process modeling, and process analysis. Wil van der Aalst has published over 1100 articles and books. According to Research.com, he is the second highest-ranked computer scientist in Germany and ranked 9th worldwide. According to Google Scholar, he has an H-index of 183 and more than 156.000 citations. Van der Aalst is an IFIP Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and ACM Fellow, and he received honorary degrees from the Moscow Higher School of Economics (Prof. h.c.), Tsinghua University, and Hasselt University (Dr. h.c.). He is also an elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, the Academy of Europe, the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, and the German Academy of Science and Engineering. In 2018, he was awarded an Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship.
Abstract of the keynote speech Prof. Habib Zaidi Habib Zaidi is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and full Professor at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark (Denmark), Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics at Shahid Beheshti University visiting Professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Distinguished Professor at Óbuda University (Hungary). He is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. His research is supported by the EEC, Swiss National Foundation, EEC, private foundations and industry (Total >10M+ US$) and centres on hybrid imaging instrumentation (PET/CT and PET/MRI), deep learning for various imaging applications, modelling medical imaging systems using the Monte Carlo method, development of computational anatomical models and radiation dosimetry, image reconstruction, quantification and kinetic modelling techniques in emission tomography as well as statistical image analysis click here for more details.
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Prof. Hojjat Adeli
Hojjat Adeli received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1976 at the age of 26. He is an Academy Professor at The Ohio State University where he held the Abba G. Lichtenstein Professorship for ten years. He has authored over 650 research and scientific publications in various fields of computer science, engineering, applied mathematics, and medicine, including 16 ground-breaking high-technology books, and holds a United States patent in the area of design optimization. He is the recipient of 76 awards and honors including eight Honorary Doctorates and several Honorary Professorships at European and Asian Universities. In 1998 he received the Distinguished Scholar Award, from The Ohio State University’s highest research award, "in recognition of extraordinary accomplishment in research and scholarship". Click her for more details