Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Mohammad S. Obaidat
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of SCS and Fellow of FTRA Disting
Distinguished/Honorary Professor, King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, (KASIT), The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat is an internationally known academic/researcher/scientist/ scholar. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Computer Science from The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He has received extensive research funding and published To Date (2023) over One Thousand and Two Hundred (1,200) refereed technical articles-About half of them are journal articles, over 100 books, and 70 Book Chapters. He is Editor-in-Chief of 3 scholarly journals and an editor of many other international journals.
He is the Editor-in Chief of the Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems and Founding Editor-in Chief of Wiley Security and Privacy Journal. He is also the founding Advisory Editor of the Cybersecurity and Applications Journal, KeAi. Moreover, he is the founder or co-founder of 5 International Conferences. Among his previous positions areAdvisor to the President of Philadelphia University for Research, Development and Information Technology, President and Chair of Board of Directors of the Society for Molding and Simulation International (SCS), Senior Vice President of SCS, SCS VP for Membership and SCS VP for Conferences, Dean of the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University, Founding Dean of the College of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, Chair and tenured Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science and Director of the MS Graduate Program in Data Analytics at Fordham University, Chair and tenured Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the Graduate Program at Monmouth University, Chair and Professor of Computer Science Department at University of Texas-Permian Basin, Distinguished Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Dhanbad. Tenured Full Professor at King Abdullah II School of Information Technology (KASIT), University of Jordan, The PR of China Ministry of Education Distinguished Overseas Professor at the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China and an Honorary Distinguished Professor at the Amity University - A Global University. He is now a Distinguished Professor at KASIT, University of Jordan. He is also a Distinguished Professor at SRM University, India. He has chaired numerous(Over 185) international conferences and has given numerous (Over 185) keynote speeches worldwide. He has served as ABET/CSAB evaluator and on IEEE CS Fellow Evaluation Committee. He has served as IEEE CS Distinguished Speaker/Lecturer and an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Since 2004 has been serving as an SCS Distinguished Lecturer. He received many best paper awards for his papers including ones from IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, AICSA, CITS, SPECTS, DCNET and IEEE ICCCA International conferences. He also received Best Paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal in 2018 and in 2019 (2 Best Paper Awards). In 2020, he received 4 best paper awards from IEEE Systems Journal and also in 2021 received the best paper award from IEEE System Journal. During his tenure as founding dean of college of Computing and Informatics at the University of Sharjah, the computer science program has been ranked by Times for Higher Education (THE) as NUMBER 1 in UAE and for the first time in the history of the university. He also received many other worldwide awards for his technical contributions including: The 2018 IEEE ComSoc-Technical Committee on Communications Software 2018 Technical Achievement Award for contribution to Cybersecurity, Wireless Networks, Computer Networks and Modeling and Simulation, SCS prestigious McLeod Founder's Award , Presidential Service Award, SCS Hall of Fame –Lifetime Achievement Award for his technical contribution to modeling and simulation and for his outstanding visionary leadership and dedication to increasing the effectiveness and broadening the applications of modeling and simulation worldwide. He also received the SCS Outstanding Service Award. He was awarded the IEEE CITS Hall of Fame Distinguished and Eminent Award. He also received the Nokia Distinguished Fellowship Award and Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award, among others.
He is on the World's Top Career-long top 2% Scientists as per Stanford University recent list. In 2024, ScholarGPS has ranked him Number 1 Scholar Worldwide in Telecommunications and Telecommunication Systems Management. He was ranked recently by research.com agency as the number ONE Computer Scientist and number ONE Scholar in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Jordan. In recognition of his significant scientific contribution, Springer published in 2022 a book honoring his contributions in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity. It is entitled: Advances in Computing, Informatics, Networking and Cybersecurity - A Book Honoring Professor Mohammad S. Obaidat’s Significant Scientific Contributions. Prof. Obaidat is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of FTRA, Fellow of AIIA, and a Fellow of SCS.
Prof. Lei Yang
Zhengzhou University
Lei Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in electronic information engineering from Tianjin Polytechnic University, Tianjin, China, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and control engineering from the State Key Laboratory of Management and Control for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, and the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests include deep learning, intelligent detection, and image analysis.
Assoc. Prof. Deepak Kumar Jain
Dalian University of Technology
Deepak Kumar Jain received the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2018.,He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Automation, Institute of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China. His research interests include block chain and deep-learning-based network security
Assoc. Prof. Dimitrios A. Karras
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. During 1990-2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece and Heidelberg, Germany (DKFZ). During 2004-2018 he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as assoc. prof. in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, as well as visiting prof. at Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics in Communication Systems (2002-2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Digital and Intelligent Systems & Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General (https://en.uoa.gr, dakarras@uoa.gr) as well as adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the School of Basic Sciences, BIHER University, Chennai, India, as well as with the GLA university, Mathura, India (https://www.gla.ac.in/academics/faculty-detail/871/prof-dimitrios-karras) and EPOKA & CIT universities, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana (https://fae.epoka.edu.al/home-computer-engineering-424-1119.htm, https://eis.epoka.edu.al/cv/fullcv/301 ). He has published more than 94 research refereed journal papers in intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics, more than 15 edited books in international publishers and more than 191 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. He has given more than 170 invited and keynote speeches at international conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent & distributed systems, complex systems and sustainability, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image & signal processing/systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security and sustainability applications. He has served as program committee member as well as program/general chair at many international peer reviewed conferences and workshops in signal, image, communications, and automation systems as well as he is serving as editor in chief and editorial board member in several peer reviewed journals. Citations of his research works from other researchers (10/9/2024)- excluding self-citations- appear in more than 3395//2244 (Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IxQurTMAAAAJ&hl=en) //Semantic Scholar) and 2481 (ResearchGate Index https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Karras2/, with more than 23626 ResearchGate Index Reads metric) research papers, as well as in more than 1737 research papers in Scopus peer reviewed research database, with H/G indexes 26/71 (Google Scholar), Scopus-H index 17 and RG-Research Interest score 1315 (in the top 5% of the ResearchGate members database).