Proceedings of the 10th World Congress
on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science (EECSS 2024)
August 19 - 21, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
The keynote information for the 10th World Congress on Electrical Engineering and Computer Systems and Science (EECSS 2024) is as follows:
Plenary Speaker
Dr. Ramón Farré
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
ICBES 2024 Plenary Speakers
Dr. Jennifer G. Dy
Universität Bamberg, Austria
MVML 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
LMU Munich, Germany
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Bela Suki
Boston University, USA
ICBES 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Simon X. Yang
University of Guelph, Canada
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tom Gross
Universität Bamberg, Austria
MHCI 2024 Keynote Speaker
ICBES 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Ramón Farré
Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
ICBES 2024 Plenary Speaker
Ramon Farré is a Professor of Physiology at the Biophysics and Bioengineering Unit of the University of Barcelona, where he recently was the Head of Studies for its degree in Biomedical Engineering. He has served different officer positions in the European Respiratory Society (ERS), and is an elected fellow of this society and of the American Thoracic Society (ATS). He has received the 2023 ATS Research Innovation and Translation Achievement Award. He has published over 340 peer-reviewed papers on respiratory mechanics (in cells, animal models and patients) and on diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices.
Topic of Plenary:
Open-Source Design of Medical Devices: A Useful Biomedical Engineering Tool for Developing Countries
MVML 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Jennifer G. Dy
Northeastern University, USA
MVML 2024 Plenary Speaker
Jennifer G. Dy is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, where she first joined the faculty in 2002. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in 1997 and 2001 respectively from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, and her B.S. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of the Philippines, in 1993. Her research spans both foundations in machine learning and its application to biomedical imaging, health, science and engineering, with research contributions in unsupervised learning, interpretable models, explainable AI, dimensionality reduction, feature selection/sparse methods, learning from uncertain experts, active learning, Bayesian models, deep representation learning, continual learning, and trustworthy AI. She is Director of AI Faculty at the Institute for Experiential AI. She is also the Director of the Machine Learning Lab and is a founding faculty member of the SPIRAL (Signal Processing, Imaging, Reasoning, and Learning) Center at Northeastern. She received an NSF Career award in 2004. She has served or is serving as Secretary for the ICML Board (formerly, International Machine Learning Society), associate editor/editorial board member for the Journal of Machine Learning Research, Machine Learning journal, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, organizing and or technical program committee member for premier conferences in machine learning, AI, and data mining (ICML, NeurIPS, ACM SIGKDD, AAAI, IJCAI, UAI, AISTATS, ICLR, SIAM SDM), Program Chair for SIAM SDM 2013, ICML 2018, AISTATS 2023, and AAAI 2024. She is an AAAI Fellow
Topic of Plenary:
Interpretable/Explainable AI for Complex Medical Data
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Gitta Kutyniok
LMU Munich, Germany
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Gitta Kutyniok (https://www.ai.math.lmu.de/kutyniok) currently has a Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She received her Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science as well as her Ph.D. degree from the Universität Paderborn in Germany, and her Habilitation in Mathematics in 2006 at the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen. From 2001 to 2008 she held visiting positions at several US institutions, including Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington University in St. Louis. In 2008, she became a full professor of mathematics at the Universität Osnabrück, and moved to Berlin three years later, where she held an Einstein Chair in the Institute of Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering until 2020. In addition, Gitta Kutyniok held an Adjunct Professorship in Machine Learning at the University of Tromso from 2019 until 2023. Gitta Kutyniok has received various awards for her research such as an award from the Universität Paderborn in 2003, the Research Prize of the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen and a Heisenberg-Fellowship in 2006, and the von Kaven Prize by the DFG in 2007. She was invited as the Noether Lecturer at the ÖMG-DMV Congress in 2013, a plenary lecturer at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM)in 2021, and the lecturer of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Invited Lecture Series in 2022. She was also honored by invited lectures at both the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 (ICM 2022) and the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023). Moreover, she was elected as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2017 and of the European Academy of Sciences in 2022, and became a SIAM Fellow in 2019 and an IEEE Fellow in 2024. She currently acts as LMU-Director of the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI) in Munich, serves as Vice President-at-Large of SIAM, and is spokesperson of the DFG-Priority Program "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning" and of the AI-HUB@LMU, which is the interdisciplinaryplatform for research and teaching in AI and data science at LMU.
Topic of keynote:
Reliable AI: From Legal Requirements to Neuromorphic Computing
ICBES 2024 plenary Speaker
Dr. Bela Suki
Boston University, USA
ICBES 2024 Plenary Speaker
Béla Suki received his PhD from the University of Szeged, Hungary. Currently, he is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the Biomedical Engineering Society, and also received a presidential award from the National Institutes of Health. He has published over 250 peer-reviewed articles, one book and numerous book chapters in various areas including complexity, respiratory physiology, biomechanics, as well as modeling nonlinear and network phenomena in physiology and mechanobiology.
Topic of Keynote:
On The Role of Biomechanics in Respiratory Drug Discovery
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Dr. Simon X. Yang
University of Guelph, Canada
CIST 2024 Plenary Speaker
Prof. Simon X. Yang received the B.Sc. degree in engineering physics from Beijing University, China in 1987, the first of two M.Sc. degrees in biophysics from Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China in 1990, the second M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Houston, USA in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 1999. Prof. Yang joined the School of Engineering at the University of Guelph, Canada in 1999. Currently he is a Professor and the Head of the Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Systems (ARIS) Laboratory at the University of Guelph in Canada. Prof. Yang has diversified research expertise. His research interests include robotics, artificial intelligence, sensors and multi-sensor fusion, wireless sensor networks, intelligent control, machine learning, fuzzy systems, intelligent communication and transportation, and computational neuroscience. His significant research contributions can be reflected by his original and innovative work in biologically inspired intelligence with applications to real-time motion planning, tracking and control of various robotic systems, and various other engineering and biomedical systems. He has published over 600 referred papers, including over 330 journal papers. Prof. Yang he has been very active in various professional activities. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Intelligence & Robotics, and International Journal of Robotics and Automation; and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions of Artificial Intelligence, and several other journals. He has involved in the organization of many international conferences.
Topic of Plenary:
Intelligent Sensing and Multi-Sensor Fusion for Various Engineering Systems
MHCI 2024 Keynote Speaker
Dr. Tom Gross
Universität Bamberg, Austria
MHCI 2024 Keynote Speaker
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Topic of Keynote:
Interaction Research and Design in a User-Centred and Designerly Way: Keeping the Human(s)-in-the-Loop