Committee

General Chair:

Madjid Tavana, Ph.D.

Professor and Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics

Chairman, Business Systems and Analytics Department

La Salle University ● Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19141 ● United States

Honorary Professor, Business Information Systems Department

University of Paderborn, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany

Editor-in-Chief

Decision Analytics Journal (Elsevier)

Healthcare Analytics (Elsevier)

Space Mission Planning and Operations

International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences

International Journal of Management and Decision Making

International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining

International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems

Email: tavana@lasalle.edu  |  Phone: (215) 951-1129  |  Web: http://tavana.us

Madjid Tavana is Professor and Distinguished Chair of Business Analytics at La Salle University, where he serves as Chairman of the Business Systems and Analytics Department. He also holds an Honorary Professorship in Business Information Systems at the University of Paderborn in Germany.  Dr. Tavana is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kennedy Space Center, the Johnson Space Center, the Naval Research Laboratory at Stennis Space Center, and the Air Force Research Laboratory. He was recently honored with the prestigious Space Act Award by NASA. He holds an MBA, PMIS, and PhD in Management Information Systems and received his Post-Doctoral Diploma in Strategic Information Systems from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has published 22 books and over 300 research papers in international scholarly academic journals.  Dr. Tavana is the Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analytics Journal, Healthcare Analytics, Space Mission Planning and Operations, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, International Journal of Management and Decision Making, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems, and International Journal of Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining. He is also an editor of Annals of Operations Research, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Systems with Applications, and Journal of Innovation and Knowledge.

Publication&Programme Chair:

Prof. Dr.Srikanta Patnaik

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

SOA University, Bhubaneswar Odisha, India

Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and supervised 12 Ph. D. theses and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the area of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 60 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 12 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.. Dr. Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods” sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is the Editors-in-Chief ofInternational Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House,England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany.

Prof.Taosheng Wang

Hunan International Economics University,China

Taosheng Wang is a doctor, professor of Applied Economics (International Trade Direction), specialist of General Office of the State Council, director of Chinese Society of World Economy, Vice Chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Service, master tutor. He is the dean of School of Business of Hunan International Economics University, chief expert of the provincial-level social science key research base. He is also foregoer of provincial-level key construction course ‘International Trade’, provincial-level teaching team ‘International Trade’, provincial-level characteristic specialty ‘International Economics and Trade‘. His main research areas are international economic and trade theory and policy; institutional innovation and international trade; international competitive advantage and competitive strategy.

Organising Chair:

Prof. Zuhua Jiang

School of  Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 

He is a doctor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a deputy director of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management , School of Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of Shanghai dawn Scholar&Automotive Modernization Management Branch of China Society of Automotive Engineers in 2005. Member of the Industrial Engineering Committee of Shanghai Mechanical Engineering Society. In 2002 and 2006, he visited the University of Hong Kong and Konstanz Applied University respectively for half a year. Participate in the 973 project in Knowledge management method and technology of  innovative design in Grid Environment and National Natural Science Foundation key projects “ Virtual Manufacturing” and 863 key project “ Innovative design of passenger car ”. Responsible for or participated in more than 20 projects including 863 Project Concurrent Design, Shanghai Science and Technology Commission Project Concurrent Engineering, SAIC Mechanical CAD/CAE Project, Huawei and Baosteel Equipment Management Project. He obtained second prize of China State Shipbuilding Corporation and Jiangsu Science and Technology progress ( second and fourth). He extensive experiences with Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, Virtual Design, AI, Management Information System. He has published more than 60 papers, 5 of which are included by SCI and 20 of  which are included by EI. He is the author of two books and participated in the compilation of two books. He also has published one invention patent. He is mainly engaged in Knowledge Management, Decision Support System ( DSS), Customizing Product Designs, Ergonomics, Device Maintenance and Life Prediction research. 

Publicity Chair:

Prof. Dr.Yingxu Wang

FIEEE, FBCS, FI2CICC, FAAIA, FWIF, P.Eng

President, International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (I2CICC)

Dr. Yingxu Wang is professor of cognitive systems, brain science, software science, and intelligent mathematics. He is the founding President of International Institute of Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (I2CICC).  He is FIEEE, FBCS, FI2CICC, FAAIA, and FWIF. He has held visiting professor positions at Univ. of Oxford (1995, 2018-2022), Stanford Univ. (2008, 2016), UC Berkeley (2008), MIT (2012), and a distinguished visiting professor at Tsinghua Univ. (2019-2022). He received a PhD in Computer Science from the Nottingham Trent University, UK, in 1998 and has been a full professor since 1994. He is the founder and steering committee chair of IEEE Int’l Conference Series on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing (ICCI*CC) since 2002. He is founding Editor-in-Chiefs and Associate Editors of 10+ Int’l Journals and IEEE Transactions. He is Chair of IEEE SMCS TC-BCS on Brain-inspired Cognitive Systems, and Co-Chair of IEEE CS TC-CLS on Computational Life Science. His basic research has spanned across contemporary scientific disciplines of intelligence, mathematics, knowledge, robotics, computer, information, brain, cognition, software, data, systems, cybernetics, neurology, and linguistics. He has published 600+ peer reviewed papers and 38 books/proceedings. He has presented 65 invited keynote speeches in international conferences. He has served as honorary, general, and program chairs for 40 international conferences. He has led 10+ international, European, and Canadian research projects as PI. He is recognized by Google Scholar as world top 1 in Software Science, top 1 in Cognitive Robots, top 8 in Autonomous Systems, top 2 in Cognitive Computing, and top 1 in Knowledge Science with an h-index 62. He is recognized by ResearchGate as among the world’s top 1.0% scholars in general and in several contemporary fields encompassing artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, theoretical computer science, engineering mathematics, software engineering, cognitive science, information science, and computational linguistics, etc.

Finance Chair:

Mr. Zhou

Bin Hu

Changsha Normal University, China

Technical Program Committee:

Prof. Xilong Qu, Hunan University of Finance and Economics, China

Dr. Hao Wang, State Key Laboratory of Rolling and Automation, Northeastern University, China

Dr. Liang Zong, Shaoyang University, China

Prof. Junjie Lv, University of Wuhan Polytechnic, China

Dr. Xilang Tang, Airforce Engineering University, China

Dr. Zaid Ameen AbdulJabbar Al-Selmi,Basrah Univ. College of Education for Pure Science,Basrah, Iraq

Prof. Vladicescu Popentiu, Florin, City University, UK

Prof. Kittiwat Sirikasemsuk，King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand

Prof. Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University, USA

Prof. V.S.S. Yadavalli, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Prof. Bruno Apolloni, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Prof. Harry Bouwman, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Prof. Shyi-Ming Chen, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Prof. Yahaya Coulibaly, University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia

Prof. Ing Kong, RMIT University, Australia

Prof. Gerald Midgley, Centre for Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, UK

Prof. Khubaib Ahmed, Hamdard University, Pakistan

Prof. Moustafa Mohammed Eissa, Faculty of Engineering-Helwan University, Egypt

Dr. Zhaoxia Zhang,Hunan Chemical Industry Vacation Technology College,China

Dr. Fernando Boronat Seguí, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

Dr. Alexandros Fragkiadakis, Institute of Computer Science (FORTH-ICS), Greece

Dr. Cristina Alcaraz, University of Malaga, Spain

Dr. Mohamed Atef, Assiut University, Egypt

Dr. Weilin Wang , University of Georgia, USA

Ph.D. Xinxing Mu,University of Science and Technology Beijing,China

Dr. Zhixiao Wang, Xi'an University of Technology, China