TOCS2024

General Chair

Witold Pedrycz

Professor, IEEE Life Fellow, University of Alberta, Canada.

Research field: computational intelligence; fuzzy modeling and granular computing; knowledge discovery and data science; pattern recognition; data science; knowledge-based neural networks; control engineering.

Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sc. degrees from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland, in 1977, 1980, and 1984, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, the Department of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istinye University, Sariyer/Istanbul, Turkey, and also the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He has published numerous papers in these areas; the current H-index is 125 (Google Scholar). He is 82 on the list top-h scientists for computer science and electronics (https://www.guide2research.com/scientists/) (link is external). He is also the author of 21 research monographs and edited volumes covering various aspects of computational intelligence, data mining, and software engineering. His research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling and granular computing, knowledge discovery and data science, pattern recognition, data science, knowledge-based neural networks, and control engineering. In 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2007, he received the Prestigious Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. He was a recipient of 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 vigorously involved in editorial activities. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, the Editor-in-Chief of 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). He is a member of a number of editorial boards of international journals.

Sos S. Agaian

Professor, IEEE Fellow, The City University of New York, USA.

Research field: computational vision; machine learning; large-scale data analytics; multi-modal data fusion; biologically inspired signal/image processing modeling; multi-modal biometrics and AI; 3D imaging sensors; information processing; security; biomedical and health informatics.

Sos S. Agaian (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with the College of Staten Island (CSI), The City University of New York. He has authored more than 750 technical articles and ten books in these areas. He is a fellow of SPIE, IS&T, AAAS, and AAIA. He also serves as a Foreign Member for the Armenian National Academy. He received the Distinguished Research Award from The University of Texas at San Antonio. He was a recipient of the Innovator of the Year Award, in 2014, and the Tech Flash Titans-Top Researcher Award (San Antonio Business Journal). He is an Editorial Board Member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis and an Associate Editor of several journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (Hindawi Publishing Corporation), and Journal of Electronic Imaging (IS&T and SPIE).

Technical Program Chair

Lei Chen, Shandong University, China

Ping Yao, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China

Yang Yue, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Yanling Cai, Zhengzhou University, China

Zhenxing Zheng, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China

Technical Program Member

Aizaz Chaudhry, Carleton University, Canada

Artur Czerwinski, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland

Debao Zhou, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA

Minwoo Jake Lee, University of North Carolina Charlotte, USA

Giuseppe Carbone, University of Calabria, Italy

Dilbag Singh, New York University, USA

Sérgio D. Correia, Portalegre Polytechnic University, Portugal

Xiaodong Liu, Edinburgh Napier University, UK

Philip W. T. Pong, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

Pascal Lorenz, University of Haute Alsace, France

Pavel Loskot, ZJU-UIUC Institute, China

Roopa J, RV College of Engineering, India

Siwei Zeng, Clemson University, USA

Stefano Cirillo, University of Salerno, Italy

Rao Li, University of South Carolina Aiken, USA

Haibin Zhu, Nipissing University, Canada

Soumi Dutta, Sister Nivedita University, India

Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA

Grigorios N. Beligiannis, University of Patras, Greece

Muath Obaidat, City University of New York, USA

Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak, Quaid-i-Azam University, Pakistan

Sardar M N Islam, Victoria University, Australia

Lei Song, Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China

Huanyang Chen, Xiamen University, China

Zhensen Gao, Guangdong University of Technology, China

Yushan Zhou, Guangdong Society of Automotive Engineers, China

Publication Chair

Jinfeng Wang, Zhengzhou University, China

Sponsor

Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University

Zhengzhou University

Guangdong Society of Automotive Engineering

International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA)

International Association of Applied Science and Technology (IAAST)

Guangdong Promotion Association for Intelligent Connected Vehicle E/E Industry