Prof.
Alex Kot
IEEE Fellow & IES Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Alex Kot (IEEE Fellow) has been with the Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore since
1991. He headed the Division of Information
Engineering at the School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering (EEE) for eight years. He was
the Vice Dean Research and Associate Chair
(Research) for the School of EEE for three years,
overseeing the research activities for the School
with over 200 faculty members. He was the Associate
Dean (Graduate Studies) for the College of
Engineering (COE) for eight years. He is currently
the Director of ROSE Lab [Rapid(Rich) Object SEearch
Lab) and the Director of NTU-PKU Joint Research
Institue . He has published extensively with over
300 technical papers in the areas of signal
processing for communication, biometrics
recognition, authentication, image forensics,
machine learning and AI. He has two USA and one
Singapore patents granted.
Dr. Kot served as Associate Editor for a number of
IEEE transactions, including IEEE TSP, IMM, TCSVT,
TCAS-I, TCAS-II, TIP, SPM, SPL, JSTSP, JASP, TIFS,
etc. He was a TC member for several IEEE Technical
Committee in SPS and CASS. He has served the IEEE in
various capacities such as the General Co-Chair for
the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Image
Processing (ICIP) and area/track chairs for several
IEEE flagship conferences. He also served as the
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished
Lecturer Program Coordinator and the Chapters Chair
for IEEE Signal Processing Chapters worldwide. He
received the Best Teacher of The Year Award at NTU,
the Microsoft MSRA Award and as a co-author for
several award papers. He was elected as the IEEE CAS
Distinguished Lecturer in 2005. He was a Vice
President in the Signal Processing Society and IEEE
Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer. He
is now a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering,
Singapore, a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IES.
Prof.
Inkyu Lee
IEEE Fellow
Korea University, South Korea
Inkyu
Lee received the B.S. degree (Hons.) in control and
instrumentation engineering from Seoul National
University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1990, and the
M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering
from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1992
and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 2002, he was a
Member of the Technical Staff with Bell
Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ,
USA, where he studied high-speed wireless system
designs. Since 2002, he has been with Korea
University, Seoul, where he is currently a Professor
with the School of Electrical Engineering. In 2009,
he was a Visiting Professor with the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He was
the Department Head of the School of Electrical
Engineering, Korea University, from 2019 to 2021. He
has authored or coauthored more than 220 journal
articles in IEEE publications and holds 30 U.S.
patents granted or pending. His research interests
include digital communications and signal processing
techniques applied for next-generation wireless
systems. He was elected as a member of the National
Academy of Engineering of Korea, in 2015. He was a
recipient of the IT Young Engineer Award from the
IEEE/IEEK Joint Award in 2006, the Best Paper Award
from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in
2009, the Best Research Award from the Korean
Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
in 2011, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE
International Symposium on Intelligent Signal
Processing and Communication Systems in 2013, the
Best Young Engineer Award from the National Academy
of Engineering of Korea in 2013, and the Korea
Engineering Award from the National Research
Foundation of Korea in 2017. He was a TPC Co-Chair
of the IEEE International Conference on
Communications (ICC), in 2022. He served as an
Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
COMMUNICATIONS, from 2001 to 2011, and IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, from 2007
to 2011. He was the Chief Guest Editor of the IEEE
JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS Special
Issue on ‘‘4G wireless systems’’ in 2006. He serves
as the Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of
Communications and Networks. He is the Director of
‘‘Augmented Cognition Meta-Communication’’ ERC
Research Center awarded from the National Research
Foundation of Korea. He is an IEEE fellow and a
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE.
Prof.
Steve Furnell
University of Nottingham, UK
Steve is Professor of Cyber Security in the School
of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham.
His research interests include security management
and culture, usability of security and privacy, and
technologies for user authentication and intrusion
detection. He has authored over 370 papers in
refereed international journals and conference
proceedings, as well as various books, book
chapters, and industry reports. Steve is the UK
representative to Technical Committee 11 (security
and privacy) within the International Federation for
Information Processing, and a board member of the
Chartered Institute of Information Security, and a
member of the Steering Group for the Cyber Security
Body of Knowledge (CyBOK) and the Careers and
Learning Working Group within the UK Cyber Security
Council.
Prof.
Yulin Wang
Wuhan University, China
Yulin Wang is a full professor in the School of
Computer Science, Wuhan University, China. His
research interests include image and video
processing, digital rights management, information
security, intelligent system, e-commerce, IoT, code
clone and so on.
He got his PhD degree from University of London, UK.
He got his master and bachelor degree from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology（HUST）and
Xi-Dian University respectively, both in China.
Before joining the Wuhan University, he has worked
in Hi-tech IT industry, including HUAWEI© and
national research institute, for more than ten
years. He has involved more than 15 national and
international research projects. In recently 10
years, Prof. Wang has published 1 book, and 50+
journal and conference papers, including in IEEE
TIP. He holds 10 authorized patents.