Speaker I: Prof. Witold Pedrycz, University of Alberta, Canada, IEEE Life Fellow
Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor and the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in computational intelligence with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He is a Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He was a recipient of several awards including, the Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, the IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, the Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, the Killam Prize, the Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley) and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Granular Computing (Springer) and Journal of Data Information and Management (Springer).
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Speaker II: Prof. Michael Khoo Boon Chong, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Michael B.C. Khoo is a Professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He received his PhD in Applied Statistics in 2001 from USM. His research interest is in Statistical Process Control and Statistical Quality Control. He has authored and co-authored about 300 papers in reputable peer-reviewed international journals, most of which are indexed in the SCI/SCIE database, including Q1 and Q2 journals indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) database. He was listed as the Top 2% Scientists in the World in their Respective Fields (Citation Impact in Single Year) by Stanford University (USA) for the year 2019, 2020 and 2022. He was ranked 3rd in Malaysia and 2599th in the world for Best Scientists in Mathematics for the Year 2023 by Research.com. 3 of his articles have been awarded the Top Cited Article 2021-2022 (John Wiley). He sits on the editorial boards of Quality and Reliability Engineering International (John Wiley & Sons), European Journal of Industrial Engineering (Inderscience) and Measurement-Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives (Taylor & Francis). He has reviewed 229 journal articles, where most of them are indexed in the WoS database. His active research collaborators in his research network consist of researchers from Malaysia, France, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Pakistan, Iran and UAE, to name some. Furthermore, he has been a Principal Investigator of 8 national and university grants, and a co-researcher of 19 national and university grants. He has successfully graduated 25 PhD and 13 MSc students (both by research mode). He was a program Committee member of various conferences. He is a Senate member of USM since 2020.
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