Prof. Schahram Dustdar, IEEE Fellow

Member of the Academia Europaea, TU Wien, Austria

Schahram Dustdar is Full Professor of Computer Science heading the Research Division of Distributed Systems at the TU Wien, Austria. He holds several honorary positions: Honorary Professor at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China (since 2023), Francqui Chair Professor at University of Namur, Belgium (2021-2022), University of California (USC) Los Angeles; Monash University in Melbourne, Shanghai University, Macquarie University in Sydney, University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. From Dec 2016 until Jan 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Sevilla, Spain and from January until June 2017 he was a Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, USA.

From 1999 - 2007 he worked as the co-founder and chief scientist of Caramba Labs Software AG in Vienna (acquired by Engineering NetWorld AG), a venture capital co-funded software company focused on software for collaborative processes in teams. Caramba Labs was nominated for several (international and national) awards: World Technology Award in the category of Software (2001); Top-Startup companies in Austria (Cap Gemini Ernst & Young) (2002); MERCUR Innovation award of the Austrian Chamber of Commerce (2002).

He was founding co-Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (ACM TIoT) as well as Editor-in-Chief of Computing (Springer). He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM Transactions on the Web, and ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, as well as on the editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Computer. Dustdar is recipient of multiple awards: TCI Distinguished Service Award (2021), IEEE TCSVC Outstanding Leadership Award (2018), IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (2019), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2009), ACM Distinguished Speaker (2021), IBM Faculty Award (2012). He is an elected member of the Academia Europaea: The Academy of Europe, where he is chairman of the Informatics Section, as well as an IEEE Fellow (2016), an Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) President (2021-2023) and Fellow (2021). He is an EAI Fellow (2021) and an I2CICC Fellow (2021). He is a Member of the 2022 IEEE Computer Society Fellow Evaluating Committee (2022).

He has been a frequently invited expert evaluator for the IST 6th Framework (FP6), EU Horizon 2020 of the European Commission, an invited expert for the 7th Framework roadmap definitions for several working groups, as well as a Technical Expert for the roadmap definition for the European Commission’s research on the Future Internet. He has been a scientific reviewer for the European Research Council (ERC) as well as a number of National Science Foundations e.g., DFG (Germany), NWO (Netherlands), SNF (Switzerland), EPSRC (UK), SFI (Ireland), Czech Science Foundation (GA CR), NSERC (Canada), FWO (Research Foundation Flanders, Belgium), FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal), Panel on Computer Science and Information Technologies, R&D Units, FCT (Portugal), Einstein Foundation Berlin (Germany). On behalf of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Development (CONICYT) and the Superior Council of the National Fund for Scientific & Technological Development (FONDECYT), Chile, Academy of Finland, Israel Science Foundation, EPSRC Peer Review College, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment (MBIE), Cyprus Agency for Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education, L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards 2021 (Physical sciences, Mathematics and Computer science), Estonian Research Council (ETAg).

Prof. David Zhang

Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)

IEEE Life Fellow and IAPR/AAIA Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, Fellows of both Royal Societ of Canada and Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Croucher Senior Research Fellow.

David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 in both Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), respectively. From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has been a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of Biometrics Research Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government since 2005. Currently, he is a Distinguished Presidential Chair Professor in Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University and HIT, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Peking University, National University of Defense Technology and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founders, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG) and Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the first International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Transactions and so on. Over past 40 years, he have been working on pattern recognition, image processing and biometrics, where many research results have been awarded and some created directions, including palmprint recognition, computerized TCM and facial beauty analysis, are famous in the world. So far, he has published over 20 monographs, 500 international journal papers and 40 patents from USA/Japan/China. He has been continuously listed as a Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Clarivate Analytics (formerly known as Thomson Reuters) for consecutive 8 years (2014-2021) (http://highlycited.com). He is also ranked about 85 with H-Index 123 at Top 1000 Scientists for international Computer Science and Electronics in 2021.

Prof. Nianyin Zeng

Xiamen University, China

Highly Cited Researcher for the year 2023， H-Index of 42
Nianyin Zeng is currently a Professor in the Department of Instrumental and Electrical Engineering at Xiamen University. From September 2017 to August 2018, he held the prestigious position of ISEF Fellow sponsored by the Korea Foundation for Advanced Studies, while also serving as a Visiting Professor at the esteemed Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Dr. Zeng currently holds or has held the position of Associate Editor for Neurocomputing Frontiers in Medical Technology and Evolutionary Intelligence, as well as serving on the Editorial Board for Computers in Biology and Medicine, Biomedical Engineering Online, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Journal of Image and Graphics. Additionally, he has acted as a Guest Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and Frontiers in Medical Technology. Furthermore, he has served as a program committee member for several prestigious international conferences focused on intelligent data analysis such as EAI ICMTEL, ACAIT, ICCSE. His current research interests encompass intelligent data analysis, machine learning, computer vision, computational intelligence, system modeling, and their applications. He has authored over 100 research papers in reputable journals and conferences as well as obtained 18 patents. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 10,000 times with an H-Index of 42.