Prof. Sankar Kumar Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, India
IEEE Liife Fellow, IAPR Fellow, IFSA Fellow, IRSS Fellow, AAIA Fellow, AIIA Fellow, TWAS Fellow
Sankar K. Pal (https://www.isical.ac.in/~sankar) is a Distinguished Scientist and former Director of Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). Currently, he is a National Science Chair, Govt. of India, and the President of Indian Statistical Institute as well as its Emeritus Professor. He is also an AICTE nominated AICTE-Distinguished Chair Professor, a Scholar-in-Residence of IIT Jodhpur, and a Vice-President of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). He founded the Machine Intelligence Unit and the Center for Soft Computing Research: A National Facility in ISI, Calcutta. He received a Ph.D. in Radio Physics and Electronics from Indian Statistical Institute/ University of Calcutta in 1979, and another Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering along with DIC from Imperial College, University of London in 1982. He joined his Institute (ISI) in 1975 as a CSIR Senior Research Fellow where he became a Full Professor in 1987, Distinguished Scientist in 1998, the Director in 2005, and the President in 2022.Prof. Pal is/was an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2002-06), IEEE Trans. Neural Networks (1994-98 & 2003-06), IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems (1993-95), Neurocomputing (1995-2005), Pattern Recognition Letters (1993-2011), Int. J. Pattern Recognition & Artificial Intelligence, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, LNCS Trans. Rough Sets, Journal of Data, Information and Management, Applied Intelligence (2002-12), Fundamenta Informaticae (2003-19), IET Image Processing (2007-19), Int. J. Computational Intelligence and Applications, Ingeniería y Ciencia (2014-15), and J. Intelligent Information Systems (2008-12); Editor-in-Chief, Int. J. Signal Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (2008-19); a Book Series Editor, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, and Statistical Science and Interdisciplinary Research, World Scientific; a Member, Executive Advisory Editorial Board, IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems, Int. Journal on Image and Graphics, Int. Journal of Approximate Reasoning, and Data-Centric Engineering, Cambridge Univ. Press; and a Guest Editor of IEEE Computer, IEEE SMC and Theoretical Computer Science.
Prof. Assaf Schuster
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow
Prof. Assaf Schuster of the Computer Science Department at the Technion published over 250 papers in the areas of Machine Learning, AI, Streaming Data, Big Data Systems, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Scalability. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and is heading MLIS, the Technion center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems.
Prof. Lei Zhang
Chongqing University, China
Dr. Lei Zhang received his Ph.D degree in Circuits and Systems from the College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in June 2013. From June to September 2013, he is a research visitor in Tsinghua University (Shenzhen) and Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen). He was selected as a Hong Kong Scholar in China in 2013, and worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from 2013 to 2015. He is a senior visiting professor in University of Macau from 2017 to 2018. He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China. He is the director of the Chongqing Key Laboratory of Bio-perception and Multi-modal Intelligent Information Processing, and the leader of Learning Intelligence and Visual Essential Group (LiVE Group). He is an IEEE Senior Member, CCF Distinguished Member and ACM member. He is included in the World Top 2% Scientists List released by Stanford University and Elsevier
Prof. Jianguo Ma
Zhejiang Lab, China
IEEE Fellow
Jianguo Ma received the doctoral degree in engineering in 1996 from Duisburg University, Duisburg, Germany. He was a faculty member of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) of Singapore from Sept 1997 to Dec. 2005 after his post-doctoral fellowship with Dalhousie University of Canada in Apr 1996 – Sept 1997. He was with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in Jan 2006 – Oct 2009 and he served as the Dean for the School of Electronic Information Engineering and the founding director of the Qingdao Institute of Oceanic Engineering of Tianjin University in Oct. 2009 – Aug 2016; he joined Guangdong University of Technology as a distinguished professor in Sept 2016 – Aug 2021. Dr. Ma served as the Vice Dean for the School of Micro-Nano Electronics of Zhejiang University in Sept, 2021 – Oct 2022, Starting from 1 Nov 2022 he joins the Zhejiang Lab. His research interests are: Microwave Electronics; RFIC Applications to Wireless Infrastructures; Microwave and THz Microelectronic Systems;
He served as the Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters in 2003 –2005; He was the member for IEEE University Program ad hoc Committee (2011~2013).
Dr. Ma was the Member of the Editorial Board for Proceedings of IEEE in 2013-2018
He is Fellow of IEEE for the Leadership in Microwave Electronics and RFICs Applications
Dr. Ma was serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques in 2020 –2022.