Prof. Xiaofeng Ding

Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

BIO: I am currently a Professor and Pd.D Supervisor in the School of Computer Science and Technology at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). I received my Ph.D degree in Computer Science from HUST in 2009. I also worked as Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore and the University of South Australia during 2010-2013. My research interests mainly include data privacy and query processing, data encryption, graph databases and deep learning. Most of my works are published in reputable jounrals or conferences like IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) and etc.

Assoc.Prof. Pavel Loskot, IEEE Senior Member

Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Institute (ZJUI), China

BIO: Pavel Loskot joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute in January 2021 as the Associate Professor after being nearly 14 years with Swansea University in the UK. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. He is the Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, and the Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education. His current research interest focuses on problems involving statistical signal processing and importing methods from Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Science to other disciplines in order to improve the efficiency and the information power of system modeling and analysis.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Por Lip Yee

Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology Universiti Malaya

BIO: Lip Yee received his Ph.D. from University of Malaya, Malaysia under the supervision of Prof. Abdullah bin Gani in 2012. Currently, he is an Assoc. Professor at the Department of System and Computer Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, Malaysia. He is also a senior member of IEEE. Lip Yee and his team were the first few pioneers who received IRPA, E-Science, FRGS, ERGS, PRGS, HIR and IIRG grants. He was the first person who managed to secure 2 E-Science funds with the role of PI in 2008. He was also the first person at the FCSIT who managed to secure the PRGS and ERGS grants. Beside collaborators from Malaysia, Lip Yee also has international collaborators from France, UK New Zealand, Turkey, Hong Kong, Thailand and China. He also established his connection with his national and international collaborators with some industrial partners in Malaysia and other countries.