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Paper submission due：
September 30, 2023October 15, 2023 -
Paper acceptance due：
November 15, 2023
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Camera-ready submission：
November 30, 2023
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Organizer：
Beijing University of Technology
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General Chair：
Jingsha He, Professor, Beijing University of Technology
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Conference Secretary：
Dr. Amy
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Email：
contact@netcit.org
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Jingsha He：Professor, Beijing University of Technology; Leading Professor, "Chutian Scholars Program" of Hubei Province, China.
Research field：computer networks; information safety; 3D printing; big data and cloud computing security; digital forensics.
Jingsha He received his Bachelor's degree in computer science from Xi'an Jiaotong University in China in July 1982 and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in U.S. in December 1984 and December 1990, respectively. Prof. He has been with the Faculty of Information Technology of Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) in Beijing, China since August 2003, starting therein as a distinguished professor of the Beijing municipality during the first three years. Prior to joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He had worked for several multi-national companies in the U.S., including IBM Corp. (as a senior computer scientist), MCI Communications Corp. (as a senior engineer) and Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. (as a senior member of research staff), and published more than 10 papers and received 12 U.S. patents. Since joining BJUT in August 2003, Prof. He has published over 300 papers in scholarly journals and major international conferences, received 90 Chinese patents and 53 software copyrights and authored or co-authored 9 books in software engineering and information security. Prof. He has been the principal investigator of more than 40 research projects, including grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, Ministry of Science and Technology and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission.
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Yudong Zhang：Professor, University of Leicester, UK.
Research field：artificial intelligence; deep learning; computer vision; pattern recognition; computer-aided medical diagnosis; medical image processing; biomedical engineering; graph neural network; IoT; optimization.
Prof. Yudong Zhang serves as a Chair Professor at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK. He is the Fellow of IET, Fellow of EAI, and Fellow of BCS. He is the Senior Member of IEEE, IES, and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of ACM. He was included in Most Cited Chinese Researchers (Computer Science) by Elsevier from 2014 to 2018. He was 2019, 2021 & 2022 recipient of Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is included in World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University from 2020 to 2022. He won Information Fusion 2022 Best Paper Award, etc. His three papers are included in Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
He has (co)authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles in the journals: Ann Oncol, JACC, JAMA Psychiatry, IJIM, Inf Fus, IEEE TFS, IEEE TII, IEEE TIP, IEEE TMI, IEEE IoTJ, Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, Pattern Recognition, IEEE TGRS, IEEE JBHI, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE TETCI, IEEE TCSS, IEEE JSTARS, IEEE TNSRE, IEEE SJ, ACM TKDD, ACM TOMM, IEEE/ACM TCBB, IEEE TCAS-II, IEEE JTEHM, ACM TMIS, etc. There are more than 60 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his (co)authored publications.
His citation reached 24192 in Google Scholar (h-index 86). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and academic grants from NIH, Royal Society, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, BBSRC, Hope, British Council, Fight for Sight, and NSFC. He has given over 120 invited talks at international conferences, universities, and companies. He has served as (Co-)Chair for more than 60 international conferences and workshops (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). His research outputs have been reported by more than 50 news press, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Physics World, UK Today News, EurekAlert! Science News, India Times, Association of Optometrists (AOP) news, Medical Xpress, etc.
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Hamid Reza Karimi：Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Italy.
Research field：control system synthesis; lyapunov methods; nonlinear control systems; uncertain systems; time-varying systems; observers and delays.
Hamidreza Karimi is currently Professor of Applied Mechanics with Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Prof. Karimi's original research are within control systems, vibrational systems, AI, Mechatronics with applications to vehicles, robotics. He is a Member of Academia Europa, Distinguished Fellow and Executive Director of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration, Fellow of The International Society for Condition Monitoring, Fellow of The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, Member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and a member of IFAC Technical Committees on Mechatronic Systems, Robust Control, and Automotive Control. He is the recipient of the 2021 CM Innovation Award, Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering, 2020 IEEE TCAS Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, August-Wilhelm-Scheer Professorship Award, JSPS Research Award, and Alexander-von-Humboldt-Stiftung research Award. Karimi is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor or Book Series Editor. He has also participated as General Chair, keynote speaker or program chair for several international conferences in the areas of Control Systems, Robotics and Mechatronics. -
Ping Wang：Associate Professor, York University, Canada.
Research field：wireless communications and networking; internet of things; machine learning; resource management in cloud computing; power energy management in smart grid.
Ping Wang (Fellow, IEEE) received the bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2008. She is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada, and the Tier 2 York Research Chair. Prior to that, she was with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, from 2008 to 2018. Her research interests include wireless communication networks, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things. Her scholarly works have been widely disseminated through top-ranked IEEE journals/conferences. She was the recipient of the best paper awards from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022, 2020, and 2012, from IEEE Communication Society: Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee in 2018, and from IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2007. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. -
Raja Sarath Kumar Boddu：Professor, Lenora College of Engineering, India.
Research field：data science; machine learning; big data.
Prof. Raja Sarath Kumar Boddu presently working as a Professor, Faculty of Computer Science and Principal at Lenora College of Engineering with 21 years of experience in Engineering Education. Dr. Boddu has authored 5 books in Computer Science and published 50 research papers and invented 7 Computer Science patents so far. Dr. Boddu did, Post Graduate Certificate in Business Administration from IIM-Visakhapatnam, Ph.D. and Master’s from Andhra University in Computer Science, Visakhapatnam, India. Dr. Boddu has supervised 16 PG and 10 groups of UG dissertations so far, guiding 3 PhD students, Keynote Speaker at International conferences and travelled 4 countries on research work. Dr. Boddu’s general research areas Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, IoT, Deep Learning, Data Science and Big Data. Further, Dr. Boddu is a Fellow of IEI(India), Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and Life Member of IETE, ISCA and CSI. Dr. Boddu serves as a reviewer for Springer’s Journal of Supercomputing, IEI Springers, Hindawi, Tech Science Press and IEEE access journals. -
Pooja Singh：Assistant Professor, SIES Graduate School of Technology, India.
Research field：mathematical modelling; image processing; artificial intelligence; reliability; system design; safety and security of safety critical computer based systems.
Dr. Pooja Singh received his Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). She has experience of 21 years in world’s leading CMMi-5 software multinational companies, research organizations and academic institutes. She is currently Assistant Professor in SIES Graduate School of Technology, Navi Mumbai, and has distinction of working in the field of Image processing, Artificial intelligence, Mathematical Modelling, reliability engineering, safety engineering and other mathematical sciences for to solve the various technical challenges in Nuclear Power Plants. She has an illustrious career and succeeded in several critical jobs assigned to him in his illustrious career, though, each of them was challenging. Her assignments over the years range from design, development, testing, IV&V, related research and site validation of the safety critical computer based systems of Indian Nuclear Power Plants. She has published several research papers in journals of high impact factor like IEEE Transactions, IEEE Computer, ACM, Elsevier, Quality & Reliability International, etc. She is recipient of many awards like prestigious IEEE K. Shankar award, publication award, etc. She has also received IEEE Woman Technologist award. She is a reviewer of several SCI indexed journals of high impact factor, including 14 different IEEE Transactions. She is a life member of Indian Nuclear Society. She has been invited for keynote speeches, and talks in many international IEEE and other conferences. She is a member of editorial board of many reputed journals and guest lead editor of many special issues. She is supervising many PhD students of different reputed institutes. She is actively involved in formation of interdisciplinary Centre of Dependability Engineering at IIT (BHU). She has several international research collaborations. Her research interests are in the area of mathematical modelling, image processing, artificial intelligence, reliability, system design, safety and security of safety critical computer based systems. So far she has completed 8 projects of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. -
Issa Khalil：Principal Scientist with the Cyber Security Group, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI); Member, Qatar Foundation, Qatar.
Research field：computer security and privacy; security data analytics; network security; AI security; private data sharing.
Issa Khalil (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 2007. He is currently a Principal Scientist with the Cyber Security Group, Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), and a member of Qatar Foundation. Before Joining QCRI, he was an Associate Professor and the Department Head of the Information Security Department, College of Information Technology (CIT), United Arab Emirates University. His research interests include computer security and privacy. He is also especially interested in security data analytics, network security, AI security, and private data sharing. His novel techniques to discover malicious domains following the guilt-by-association social principle attract the attention of local media and stakeholders, and received the Best Paper Award in CODASPY 2018. His research in detecting and predicting threat indicators through data analytics has been translated into a full-fledged system for threat intelligence generation and sharing that can be consumed by end users as well as SOC/NOC operators. His research is very well received by the research community as evidenced by the thousands of citations and the tens of thousands of downloads and reads. He has served as an Organizer, Technical Program Committee Member, and a Reviewer for many international conferences and journals. He is a member of ACM and delivers invited talks and keynotes in many local and international forums. In June 2011, he was granted the CIT Outstanding Professor Award for outstanding performance in research, teaching, and service. -
Himal A. Suraweera：Senior Lecturer, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka.
Research field：cooperative relay networks; full–duplex communications; multipleinput– multiple–output systems; energy harvesting communications; and cognitive radio systems.
Himal A. Suraweera (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc.Eng. degree (Hons.) in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree from Monash University, Australia, in 2007. He is currently a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Peradeniya. His research interests include cooperative relay networks, full–duplex communications, multipleinput– multiple–output systems, energy harvesting communications, and cognitive radio systems. He was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the IEEE ComSoc Asia–Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2011, the WCSP Best Paper Award in 2013, and the SigTelCom Best Paper Award in 2017. He served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2014 to 2019 and the IEEE Communications Letters from 2010 to 2015. He is currently serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was a Co–Chair of the Signal Processing for Communications Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2015 and the Emerging Technologies, Architectures, and Services Track of IEEE WCNC 2018.