Keynote Speakers
Prof. Shahram Latifi
IEEE Fellow, University of
Nevada, USA
Shahram Latifi,
an IEEE Fellow, received the Master of Science egree
in Electrical Engineering from Fanni, Teheran
University, Iran in 1980. He received the Master of
Science and the PhD degrees both in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, in 1986 and 1989,
respectively. He is currently a Professor of
Electrical Engineering at the University of Nevada,
Las Vegas. Dr. Latifi is the director of the Center
for Information and Communication Technology (CICT)
at UNLV. He has designed and taught graduate courses
on Bio-Surveillance, Image Processing, Computer
Networks, Fault Tolerant Computing, and Data
Compression in the past twenty years. He has given
seminars on the aforementioned topics all over the
world. He has authored over 200 technical articles
in the areas of image processing, biosurveillance,
biometrics, document analysis, computer networks,
fault tolerant computing, parallel processing, and
data compression. His research has been funded by
NSF, NASA, DOE, Boeing, Lockheed and Cray Inc. Dr.
Latifi was an Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Computers (1999-2006) and Co-founder
and General Chair of the IEEE Int'l Conf. on
Information Technology. He is also a Registered
Professional Engineer in the State of Nevada.
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Prof. Nannan Wang
Xidian University, China
Wang Nannan, Huashan Scholar distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at Xidian University, is currently the director of Intelligent information processing center in State Key Laboratory of Integrated Services Networks. In recent years, he has been engaged in the research of computer vision and statistical machine learning. His research mainly involves cross-domain image reconstruction and credible identity authentication, including sketch-photo synthesis and recognition, image/video super-resolution reconstruction, image restoration, behavior analysis and recognition, person re-identification, etc. He has published over 150 papers in top international journals and conferences such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICML, etc. He has received Outstanding Youth Foundation from National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has been selected as Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by China Association of Science and Technology (CAST). He has been awarded the first prize for Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the first prize for Shaanxi Province Science and Technology Award, the second prize of China Society of Image and Graphics (CSIG) Natural Science Award. He is the recipient of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) Outstanding Doctorate Dissertations Award and Shaanxi Province Outstanding Doctorate Dissertations Award.
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