Invited Speakers
Prof. Dr. Shujun Zhang
Professor, School of Business, Computing and Applied Sciences, University of Gloucestershire, UK
Biography: Shujun Zhang is currently a Professor in applied computing and technology at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of Gloucestershire, U.K. He has worked at the University of Warwick more than ten years, Salford University for three years, and Jilin University for six years. He has published about 150 papers and undertaken more than 40 funded projects. His research interests include the areas of applied computing and bionics engineering and their applications to both engineering and business management, covering the various smart system design and development, intelligent algorithms, big data and data mining, engineering system modeling, analysis, simulation optimization and control, physiological signal capturing and analysis (such as cell pulsation wave forms, frequency and strength, ECG, EMG, and EEG), and bio-inspired physiological signal-based algorithms and systems for both healthy and cybersecurity applications.
Prof. Dr. Bedir Tekinerdogan
Professor, Chair Information Technology, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Biography: Professor Tekinerdogan is a computer scientist with over 25 years of experience in software/systems engineering and information technology. He earned both his MSc degree (1994) and a PhD degree (2000) in Computer Science from the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
He was a faculty member at the University of Twente from 2003 to 2008 before joining Bilkent University, where he worked until 2015. At Bilkent University, he founded and led the Bilkent Software Engineering Group to promote software engineering research and education in Turkey. He is currently a full professor and chair of the Information Technology group at Wageningen University in The Netherlands.
Throughout his career, he has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed scientific papers and 8 edited books. He has been involved in dozens of national and international research and consultancy projects with various large software companies as a principal researcher and leading software/system architect. His experience spans a broad range of domains, including consumer electronics, enterprise systems, automotive systems, critical infrastructures, cyber-physical systems, satellite systems, defense systems, production line systems, command and control systems, physical protection systems, radar systems, smart metering systems, energy systems, and precision farming. He takes a holistic, systemic, and multi-disciplinary approach to solve real industrial problems and has ample experience in software and systems architecting, software and systems product line engineering, cyber-physical systems, model-driven software engineering, aspect-oriented software engineering, global software development, systems engineering, system of systems engineering, data science, and artificial intelligence.
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