Keynote Speakers
Professor Chin-Chen Chang
Chin-Chen Chang, Ph.D.
Chair Professor, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, CS Fellow, AAIA Fellow, Member of Academia Europaea (AE), Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), Member of the US National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI)
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 52,690 times and has an h-index of 105 according to Google Scholar. Several well-known concepts and algorithms were adopted in textbooks. He is also the recipient of several awards, including the Top Citation Award from Pattern Recognition Letters, Outstanding Scholar Award from Journal of Systems and Software, and Ten Outstanding Young Men Award of Taiwan. 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, a Member of the Academy of Europe (AE) in 2022, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in the same year and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Artificial Intelligence (NAAI) in 2024.
Professor Charles Cuong Nguyen
Charles Cuong Nguyen, D.Sc.
Professor and Dean Emeritus, The Catholic University of America; Fellow of AAAS; Senior Member of IEEE
Dr. Charles Cuong Nguyen is a researcher, educator, administrator and presidential appointee. He is currently Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Catholic University of America (CUA). He served as Dean for 4 consecutive terms totaling 16 years. Elected Dean in 2001, he has been the first Vietnamese American Dean of a college at a major university in the U.S. He has also been the first Asian American dean at Catholic University in the history of the university. He was Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at CUA from September 1997–June 2001. He earned the Diplom Ingenieur in Electrical Engineering at Konstanz University, West Germany where he was also named "Best Graduate of the Class of 1978," in 1978. Later he received his Master of Science in 1980 and Doctor of Science in 1982 both with honors at George Washington University. Professor Nguyen has published over 100 technical and scientific papers in the area of control and robotics, co-edited three books and guest-edited 10 special issues in major journals. He also presented numerous research papers, organized and chaired numerous technical sessions at many international conferences. He is a fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and senior member of the IEEE. He is a member of the Board of Directors, Asian Division of the U.S. Library of Congress and member of the Board of Directors, Library and Education Assistance for Vietnam (LEAF-VN) and a member of the Advisory Board of the Vietnamese Culture and Science Association (VCSA).
He received the Asian Heritage Award from The Asian Heritage Society in November 2014 and the Academic Vice President Research Excellence Award in February 1989 from the Catholic University of America. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award from George Washington University in 2002. Among many other awards, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from World Automation Congress (WAC) for contribution to robotics and intelligent automation in June 2004 and the Community Service Award from Asia Entertainment for Achievements in Education in August 2004. He received the 2006 Excellence in Community Service Award from the Vietnamese American Medical Research Foundation (VAMRF) in February 2007, the Leadership Award from the International Network of Engineering Education and Research (INEER) in September 2007 and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies (DCCEAS), February 2009. In May 2004 he was appointed by President Bush to serve on the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF). As dean of the School of Engineering at CUA, he established numerous educational programs such as student's exchange programs and 2+2 programs with Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, Taiwan and Hong Kong. As one of the group leaders of BUILD-IT, a project funded by USAID for improvement of the educational system of Vietnam, Dr. Nguyen has given workshops to educational leaders of major Vietnamese universities that pursue assessment certification and accreditation from accreditation agencies including ABET and AUN (Asian University Network).
He is the Founder and founding Editor of International Journal of Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing (AutoSoft). He currently serves as the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of AutoSoft. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Journal of Intelligent Computing in Medical Informatics and Image Processing, TSI Publisher, an associate editor of the IEEE Systems Journal, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Publisher and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronics and Advanced Electrical Engineering (JEAEE). His research interests lie in the areas of medical robotics, time-varying control systems, control of large space structures, decentralized control, control of robot manipulators, closed-kinematic chain manipulators, robot vision, intelligent control and neural networks.