Proceedings of the 8^th World Congress
on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science (EECSS'22)

Dr. Garrison W. Cottrell
University of California, San Diego, USA
MVML'22 Plenary Speaker

Garrison W. (Gary) Cottrell is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and the Director of the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. He was a founding PI of the Perceptual Expertise Network, and directed the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, an NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center comprised of 40 PIs at 18 institutions in 4 countries. Professor Cottrell’s research is strongly interdisciplinary. His main interest is Cognitive Science and Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. He focuses on building working models of cognitive processes, and using them to explain psychological, developmental or neurological processes. In recent years, he has focused on anatomically-inspired deep learning models of the visual system. He has also worked on unsupervised feature learning (modeling precortical and cortical coding), face & object processing, visual salience, and visual attention. His other interest is applying AI to problems in other areas of science or engineering. Most recently he has been using deep learning to elucidate the structure of small (natural product) molecules from their NMR spectra in collaboration with Bill Gerwick at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. He received his PhD in 1985 from the University of Rochester under James F. Allen (thesis title: A connectionist approach to word sense disambiguation). He then did a postdoc with David E. Rumelhart at the Institute of Cognitive Science at UCSD until 1987, when he joined the CSE Department.

Topic of Plenary:
The Model 2.0: An Anatomically-Inspired Model of the Primate Visual System

Dr. Roger Narayan
University of North Carolina, USA
ICEBS'22 Plenary Speaker

Dr. Roger Narayan is a Distinguished Professor in the Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina and North Carolina State University. He is an author of over two hundred publications as well as several book chapters on processing of biomedical materials. He currently serves as an editorial board member for several academic journals, including as associate editor of Applied Physics Reviews (AIP Publishing). Dr. Narayan has also edited several books, including the textbook Biomedical Materials, Second Edition (Springer), the handbook Materials for Medical Devices (ASM International), and the Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering (Elsevier). He has previously served as director of the TMS Functional Materials Division, the ASM International Emerging Technologies Awareness Committee, and the American Ceramic Society Bioceramics Division. As the 2016-7 ASME Swanson Fellow, Dr. Narayan worked with America Makes, the US national additive manufacturing institute, on several activities to disseminate additive manufacturing technology, including the development of an workforce/education/outreach roadmap for additive manufacturing, and the development of a repository containing educational materials related to additive manufacturing. Dr. Narayan has received several honors for his research activities, including the NCSU Alcoa Foundation Engineering Research Achievement Award, the University of North Carolina Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, the National Science Faculty Early Career Development Award, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and the American Ceramic Society Richard M. Fulrath Award. He has been elected as Fellow of AAAS, ASME, ASM International, AIMBE, and American Ceramic Society.

Topic of Plenary:
Additive Manufacturing of Active Medical Devices

Dr. Roy Eagleson
Western University, Canada
MHCI'22 Keynote Speaker

Roy Eagleson is Professor of Engineering at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, is a Core Member of the UWO Brain and Mind Institute, and is a Scientist and Principal Investigator at CSTAR, the Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics centre. His 1992 PhD was supervised by Zenon Pylyshyn at the Centre for Cognitive Science, and he did post-doctoral research at the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science.His closest collaborating labs at UWO are directed by Terry Peters, Sandrine de Ribaupierre, Rajni Patel and Christopher Schlachta (CSTAR), and Mel Goodale (BMI). Professor Eagleson has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in Human-Computer Interface Design for the past two decades. His research programme is funded by Canadian Federal agencies (NSERC, CFI) as well as provincial agencies (OCE, Mitacs), and has been a visiting researcher at the Augmented Reality labs in Munich (with Nassir Navab and Philipp Fuernstahl) and Rennes (with Pierre Jannin).

Eagleson’s research involves the formulation of Multimedia User Interface Design and Evaluation methodologies for Medical Image Visualization, and Computer-Assisted Surgical Interventions. His research in Canada is supported by the NSERC Discovery Grants program, MITACS, and by the Epic Games MegaGrants program.

Topic of keynote:
Multimedia Augmented and Virtual Reality Human-Computer Interfaces Keynote Abstract

Dr. Vaclav Skala
University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
CIST'22 Keynote Speaker

Prof. Vaclav Skala as a professor at the University of West Bohemia (UWB), Pilsen [Plzen] at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. He has been with the Brunel University at London, U.K., Gavle University, Sweden, Moscow Power Engineering Institute, Russia and others. He is the Head of the Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization at UWB.

Prof. Vaclav Skala is a Fellow of the Eurographics Association. He has been serving as an associate editor of prestigious research journals such as Computers and Graphics (Elsevier), The Visual Computer (Springer), Computer Graphics Forum (John Wiley & Sons.) etc. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of WSCG and Computer Science Research Notes.

Prof. Vaclav Skala is active especially within computer graphics and visualization research communities and organizing research oriented conferences, e.g. WSCG, GraVisMa, HCI-Europe etc. He has been also serving as an international program committee member of many international conferences and member of editorial boards.

Prof. Vaclav Skala has published over 135 research indexed papers with more than 720 (Scopus) and 1700 (Scholar) citations. His current research is targeted to geometric algebra, meshless (meshfree) methods for scalar and vector fields approximation, fundamental algorithms and data structures for computer graphics and visualization.

Topic of Keynote:
Radial Basis Functions: Meshless Interpolation and Approximation Methods

Dr. KC Santosh
University of South Dakota, USA
MVML'22 Keynote Speaker

Professor KC Santosh, Ph.D. is Chair of the Department of Computer Science at the University of South Dakota (USD). He also serves International Medical University as an Adjunct Professor (Full). Before joining USD, he worked as Research Fellow at the US National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Loria Research Centre (with industrial partner, ITESOFT (France)). He has demonstrated expertise in artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, image processing, and data mining with applications- such as medical imaging informatics, document imaging, biometrics, forensics and speech analysis. His research projects are funded (of more than $2m) by multiple agencies, such as SDCRGP, Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development. He is the proud recipient of the Cutler Award for Teaching and Research Excellence (USD, 2021), the President’s Research Excellence Award (USD, 2019), and the Ignite from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (2014). More info.: http://kc-santosh.org

Topic of Plenary:
AI For Medical Imaging Informatics: Where Have We Missed Explainability?

Dr. Gerhard Wunder
Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
MVML'22 Plenary Speaker

Gerhard Wunder studied electrical engineering and received his graduate degree in electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) from TU Berlin with highest honors in 1999. He received the PhD degree (Dr.-Ing.) with distinction (summa cum laude) in 2003 from TU Berlin and became a research group leader at the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut in Berlin. In 2007, he also received the habilitation degree (venia legendi) and became a Privatdozent (Associate Professor). In this period, he was a visiting professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Prof. Jayant) in Atlanta (USA, GA), and the Stanford University (Prof. Paulraj) in Palo Alto/USA (CA). In 2009 he was a consultant at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs (USA, NJ), both in Murray Hill (Prof. Stolyar) and Crawford Hill (Dr. Valenzuela). In 2015, he has become Heisenberg Fellow, granted for the first time to a communication engineer, and extraordinary professor heading the Heisenberg Communications and Information Theory (Heisenberg CIT Group) at the FU Berlin. Since 2021 he is a professor for Cybersecurity and AI at FU (Stiftungsprofessur Bundesdruckerei GmbH). Very recently, he has been nominated together with Dr. Müller (BOSCH Stuttgart) and Prof. Paar (Ruhr University Bochum) for the Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2017 on behalf of the PROPHYLAXE project.

Topic of Keynote:
How to Provably Generate Differentially-Private Synthetic Data

Dr. Gary H. Bernstein
University of Notre Dame, USA
EEE'22 Keynote Speaker

Gary H. Bernstein is the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. He has authored or co-authored 17 patents and more than 300 publications in the areas of infrared sensors, electron beam lithography, nanomagnetics, quantum electronics, high-speed integrated circuits, electromigration, MEMS, and electronics packaging. Bernstein was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 2006, and with his student received the Sensors and Transducers Journal Best Paper of the Year Award for 2006 and, as lead author, the IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging Best Paper of the Year Award in 2007. He received the Innovation Excellence Award from the Indiana Economic Development Center and Forbes Summit Group, Indianapolis, November, 2014, and the 1st Source Commercialization Award for Quilt Packaging development, April, 2016. Bernstein was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors in 2020. Bernstein is cofounder of Indiana Integrated Circuits, LLC (www.indianaic.com) based in South Bend, IN

Topic of Keynote:
Thermoelectrically Coupled Nanoantennas for Circularly-Polarized Light and Angle of Incidence Detection

Dr. Geng Yang
Zhejiang University, China
ICEBS'22 Keynote Speaker

Dr. Geng Yang received the B.Eng. and the M.Sc. degree from Zhejiang University (ZJU), and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, he is a Professor with the School of Mechanical Engineering, ZJU. His research interests include flexible and stretchable electronics, low-power biomedical microsystem, human-robot interface and interaction. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL AND HEALTH INFORMATICS (IEEE JBHI) and BIO-DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING (BDM). He also served as a guest editor of IEEE REVIEWS IN BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING (IEEE RBME).

Topic of Keynote:
Bionic Skin and Collaborative Robots in the context of Healthcare 4.0

Dr. Giacomo Oliveri
University of Trento, Italy
CIST'22 Keynote Speaker

Giacomo OLIVERI received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering (University of Trento) and a Board Member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Moreover, he is Adjunct Professor at CentraleSupélec and member of the Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec Gif-sur-Yvette (France). He has been a visiting researcher at L2S in 2012, 2013, and 2015, Invited Associate Professor at the University of Paris Sud, France, in 2014, and visiting professor at Université Paris-Saclay in 2016 and 2017.

Topic of Keynote:
Real-Time Coverage Control with 1-Bit RISs for B5G/6G Wireless Networks