Keynote Speakers
Prof. Hong Shen, China National Endowed Expert, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Hong Shen received the BS degree from Beijing University of Science and Technology, MS degree from University of Science and Technology of China, and PhD degree from Abo Akademi University, Finland. He is Professor in Macao Polytechnic University, specially-appointed Professor in Sun Yat-sen University, and Adjunct Professor in University of Adelaide where he was a tenured Professor (Chair of Computer Science) for 15 years. With main research interests in parallel and distributed computing, privacy preserving computing and high performance networks, he has led numerous research centers and projects in different countries. He has published 400+ papers including over 100 papers in major international journals such as a variety of IEEE and ACM transactions. Prof. Shen received many honors and awards, and served on different roles in professional societies, journal editorial boards and conference committees.
Prof. Dr. Prabhas chongstitvatana, Department of computer engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Prabhas Chongstitvatana is a professor in the department of computer engineering, Chulalongkorn University. He earned B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from Kasetsart University, Thailand in 1980 and Ph.D. from the department of artificial intelligence, Edinburgh University, U.K. in 1992. His research involves robotics, evolutionary computation, computer architecture, bioinformatics and quantum computing. He is a lifetime member of Thailand Engineering Institute, senior member of Thai Academy of Science and Technology, senior adviser of Thai Robotics Society, founding member of Thai Embedded System Association and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. He was the president of ECTI Association of Thailand 2012-2013. He has been awarded "National Distinguished Researcher" by National Research Council of Thailand in 2009. His current interest is in building Quantum computer.
Prof. Jitkomut Songsiri, Department of Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Jitkomut was born and raised in Nakhon
Sawan, Thailand. She went to Triam Udom Suksa high
school and Chulalongkorn University (CU) in Bangkok. She
received Bachelor and Master degrees in 1999 and 2002,
all in Electrical Engineering (EE). She briefly worked
at SVI Initatives Ltd. and later joined the Control
Systems research group at EE, CU as a research assistant
until 2004. She went to University of California, Los
Angeles (UCLA) for a PhD in EE and graduated in 2010.
Her study in the U.S. was supported by the Royal Thai
government scholarship. At UCLA, she worked under the
guidance of Prof. Lieven Vandenberghe in the area of
convex optimization and its applications.
Jitkomut is currently an Associate Professor at Control
Systems Research Laboratory (CSRL), Department of
Electrical Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, in
short we refer to ourselves as Chula Engineering. It is
the oldest university in Thailand with a beautiful
campus located in the downtown Bangkok.