Keynote Speakers

Prof. Chin-Chen Chang
IEEE/IET/CS/AAIA Fellow
Feng Chia University, Taiwan, China

Biography: Professor Chin-Chen Chang has worked on many different topics in information security, cryptography, multimedia image processing and published several hundreds of papers in international conferences and journals and over 40 books. He was cited over 50,000 times and has an h-factor of 101 according to Google Scholar. Several well-known concepts and algorithms were adopted in textbooks. He also worked with the National Science Council, Ministry of Technology, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Economic Affairs and other Government agencies on more than 100 projects and holds 36 patents. He served as Honorary Professor, Consulting Professor, Distinguished Professor, Guest Professor at over 60 academic institutions and received Distinguished Alumni Award's from his Alma Master's. He also served as Editor or Chair of several international journals and conferences and had given almost a thousand invited talks at institutions including Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, The University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University and Peking University. Professor Chang has mentored 7 postdoctoral, 68 PhD students and 208 master students. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1998, a Fellow of IET in 2000, a Fellow of CS in 2020, an AAIA Fellow in 2021. In 2023, he was awarded the Honorary Ph.D. Degree in Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.

Prof. Lik-Kwan Shark
IET Fellow
University of Lancashire, UK

Biography: Professor Shark is the Emeritus Professor of Signal and Image Processing at the University of Lancashire, where he founded and led two prominent research centers: the Applied Digital Signal and Image Processing Research Centre (ADSIP) established in 2001 and the Advanced Digital Manufacturing Technology Research Centre (ADMT) established in 2008, with 77% of the research output rated as world-leading or internationally excellent by the UK Higher Education Funding Council.
In addition to being an IET Fellow, Professor Shark has held various honorary positions, including Visiting Professor at Lancaster University, the China State Key Laboratory of Hybrid Process Industry Automation System and Equipment Technology, and Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Guest Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology; and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Beijing Outstanding Talents Programme.
A particularly unique aspect of his research lies in development of innovative signal and image processing technologies through cross-fertilisation of ideas and translation of approaches between industrial non-destructive evaluation and medical non-invasive diagnosis, with synergistic processing of multimodal signals and images at its core. He has led several multi-million-pound initiatives; collaborated with over 160 organisations in more than 20 countries; and received research funding well above £86M from a diverse range of national and international grant bodies, as well as world-leading companies. He has authored over 180 publications (including books); and won various academic and industrial awards, such as the Sir Frank Whittle Award, two BAE Innovation Awards, and multiple best paper awards at international conferences. The most esteemed moment of his career was the profound honour of presenting his research to HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh during their royal visit to his research centre, as the first stop of their UK tour in celebration of The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
For external professional activities, Professor Shark serves on the advisory board of IET Image Processing among several editorial board and chief guest editor roles. He has presided as the general chair of 9 international conferences, including conferences sponsored by IET and IAPR. In addition to being a frequent grant reviewer for various research funding councils in the UK, he serves as an Information Science and Engineering Panel Expert for the European Research Council, and has acted as an international panel chair and reviewer for grant bodies in Asia, Europe and the USA.

Prof. Yen-Wei Chen
Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Biography: Yen-Wei Chen received the B.E. degree in 1985 from Kobe Univ., Kobe, Japan, the M.E. degree in 1987, and the D.E. degree in 1990, both from Osaka Univ., Osaka, Japan. He was a research fellow with the Institute for Laser Technology, Osaka, from 1991 to 1994. From Oct. 1994 to Mar. 2004, he was an associate Professor and a professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Univ. of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. He is currently a professor with the college of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. He is the founder and the first director of Center of Advanced ICT for Medicine and Healthcare, Ritsumeikan University.
His research interests include medical image analysis, computer vision and computational intelligence. He has published more than 300 research papers in a number of leading journals and leading conferences including IEEE Trans. Image Processing, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, CVPR, ICCV, MICCAI. He has received many distinguished awards including ICPR2012 Best Scientific Paper Award, 2014 JAMIT Best Paper Award. He is/was a leader of numerous national and industrial research projects. Professor Yen-Wei Chen is ranked in the World’s top 2% of scientists for both the single recent year (2023) and career-long (updated until to end-of-2022), according to Stanford/Elsevier's rankings.