Assoc.
Prof. Nan Yang
Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Nan Yang received the Ph.D. degree in Electronic
Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in
2011. Since July 2014, he has been with ANU College of
Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics at the Australian
National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, where he is
currently an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering
(SoEN), the leader of the multi-scale communications research
team, and the head of the Emerging Communications Laboratory. He
received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young
Researcher Award in 2014, and the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE
GlobeCOM 2022, IEEE GlobeCOM 2016 and IEEE VTC Spring 2013. He
is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (Class of 2023-2024)
and serving on the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on
Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and IEEE
Communications Letters. His current research interests include
terahertz communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency
communications, cyber-physical security, intelligent
communications, next-generation multiple access, and molecular
communications.
Speech Title: Enabling 6G and Beyond Wireless Networks with
Terahertz Communications
Abstract: The success of wireless communication systems in
the past decades has led to a fast growth of mobile devices
running data-hungry applications, such as high-resolution video
streaming. While the 5G wireless systems are now being deployed
worldwide, the telecommunications industry and research
community have already identified emerging use cases and
technologies needed to support an intelligent information
society in the 2030s, most of which have communication
requirements far beyond what 5G can offer. To satisfy these
requirements, including ultra-fast, near-instant, and
intelligence-inspired communications, the global research
community and industry has reached a consensus to design and
develop the sixth generation (6G) wireless technologies and
beyond. In this talk, I will give an overview of 6G wireless
networks, such as the vision, requirements, and use cases. Then
I will briefly introduce terahertz communications as a highly
promising technique for the 6G and beyond era, as well as
discussing some potential research directions.
Assoc. Prof. Minoru Kuribayashi
Okayama University, Japan
Minoru Kuribayashi received B.E., M.E., and D.E degrees from
Kobe University, Japan, in 1999, 2001, and 2004. He was a
Research Associate and an Assistant Professor at Kobe University
from 2002 to 2007 and from 2007 to 2015, respectively. Since
2015, he has been an Associate Professor in the Graduate School
of Natural Science and Technology, Okayama University. His
research interests include multimedia security, digital
watermarking, cryptography, and coding theory. He serves as an
associate editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Journal of
Information Security and Applications and IEICE. He is a chair
of APSIPA TC of Multimedia Security and Forensics, and a TC
member of IEEE SPS Information Forensics and Security. He
received the Young Professionals Award from IEEE Kansai Section
in 2014, and the Best Paper Award from IWDW 2015 and 2019. He is
a senior member of IEEE and IEICE.
Assoc. Prof. Hovannes Kulhandjian
California State University, Fresno, USA
Hovannes Kulhandjian (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S.
and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The State
University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, in 2010 and
2014, respectively. From December 2014 to July 2015, he was an
Associate Research Engineer with the Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA,
USA. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, California State
University, Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA. His current research
interests include wireless communications and networking, with
applications to underwater acoustic communications, visible
light communications, and applied machine learning. He actively
serves as a member of the Technical Program Committee for IEEE
and ACM conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, PIMRC, and ACM
WUWNet, among others. He has served as a Guest Editor for IEEE
ACCESS and MDPI Journals.
Speech Title: AI based Bridge and Road Inspection Framework
using Drones
Abstract: In this talk, I will focus on our ongoing work on
bridge and road inspection framework we developed using advanced
machine learning and drones. It is not sufficient to do
inspection using cameras, we plan to utilize infrared (IR)
camera along with a high resolution optical camera. The IR
camera can provide more details to the interior structural
damages of a bridge compared to an optical camera that is more
ideal for inspecting damages on the surface of a bridge. In
addition to that our drone inspection system is equipped with
computer on chip that runs Machine Learning algorithms that
enables autonomous driving of the drone and taking images of the
bridge or the road structure whenever it detects any damages.
Instead of having a person operate the drone it will
self-operate and carry out the inspection process on its own
using advanced AI algorithms we are developing.
Assoc. Prof. Melchizedek Alipio
De La Salle University, Philippines
Dr. Melchizedek Alipio is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the
System Testing Intelligent Laboratory at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague. He
has also been affiliated as an Associate Professor at the
Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering at De La
Salle University, Manila, Philippines since 2019. He received
his BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering in 2010, ME
in Electronics Engineering in 2013, and Ph.D. in Electrical and
Electronics Engineering in 2018. He received the best paper
award at the 2017 IEEE Global Conference in Consumer Electronics
(GCCE) and the best presenter at the 2020 IEEE Information
Technology, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference
(IEMCON). He also received several fellowships from the Internet
Society (ISOC), Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers (ICANN), and the Asia Pacific Regional Internet
Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT). His research
interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, the Internet of
Things, Intelligent Systems, Applied Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning.
Asst.
Prof. Lee Sunwoo
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Sunwoo Lee (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in Electrical
and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY in
2010, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Columbia University, New York, NY in 2012 and 2016,
respectively, working on graphene synthesis and graphene-based
nano-electro-mechanical systems for signal processing and
sensing applications. Sunwoo was a recipient of Qualcomm
Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2012 as well as QInF 2013, and a
recipient of Pi-Star Award for Young Researcher Presentation at
CARBONHAGEN 2015. In 2016, he joined the Molnar Group in the
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell
University as a post-doctoral researcher and worked on
autonomous microsystems based on heterogeneously integrated CMOS
for physiological monitoring and opto-electrical high-speed
wirelines. In 2023, Dr. Lee joined the School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University as an
Assistant Professor.
Assoc. Prof. Norhudah Seman
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Norhudah Seman received B. Eng.
(Electrical-Telecommunications) from Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia, in 2003 and M. Eng. in Radio Frequency
and Microwave Communications from The University of Queensland,
Australia, in 2005. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from The University of Queensland in 2010. In 2003,
she was an Engineer at Motorola Technology Penang, where she was
involved with the RF and microwave components design and
testing. She was Director (Communication Engineering) from July
2018 to June 2021, and Acting Director (Communication
Engineering) from July 2021 to June 2022 at School of Electrical
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UTM. Currently, she is an
Associate Professor in Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE)
and HICoE Director of Wireless Communication Centre (WCC), UTM.
Her research interests concern the design of
microwave/millimeter-wave devices, the effects of
electromagnetic field radiation including specific absorption
rate (SAR) and power density, and wireless communications.
Prof.
Ghulam Abbas
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
GHULAM ABBAS received the B.S. degree in computer science from
University of Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2003, and the M.S. degree
in distributed systems and the Ph.D. degree in computer networks
from the University of Liverpool, U.K., in 2005 and 2010,
respectively. From 2006 to 2010, he was Research Associate with
Liverpool Hope University, U.K., where he was associated with
the Intelligent & Distributed Systems Laboratory. Since 2011, he
has been with the Faculty of Computer Sciences & Engineering,
GIK Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology, Pakistan.
He is currently working as Professor and Director ICT Academy.
Dr. Abbas is a Co-Founding Member of the Telecommunications and
Networking Research Center at GIK Institute. He is a Fellow of
the Institute of Science & Technology, U.K., a Fellow of the
British Computer Society, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. His
research interests include computer networks and wireless and
mobile communications.
Prof.
Iluminada Vivien R. Domingo
Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines
Iluminada Vivien R. Domingo graduated from Polytechnic
University of the Philippines, Philippines in 1986 with the
degree Bachelor in Business Education *Magna Cum laude, and got
her Master in Business Administration (MBA), an allied course of
Information Technology, from the University of Santo Tomas,
Manila, Philippines in 1990 and Doctor in Business
Administration degree from Polytechnic University of the
Philippines, in 2004. She started her teaching career in
information technology at St. Paul University of Quezon City in
1987. Dr. Domingo has attended various training programs in
information technology and taught various subjects in
information technology between 1987 to 1989. Dr. Domingo then
transferred to teach at Polytechnic University of the
Philippines, College of Computer Management and Information
Technology now College of Computer and Information Sciences from
1989 to the present, 2023. She holds a permanent position as
Full Professor 6 in the College of Computer and Information
Sciences, Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Dr. Domingo
is the faculty researcher for the Bachelor in Information
Technology course of the College of Computer and Information
Sciences. Dr. Domingo has published various research papers
indexed in scopus.com and in Commission on Higher Education
(CHED) accredited journal in 2020.
Assoc. Prof. Mohd Faizal Abdollah
University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Associate Profesor Dr Mohd Faizal Abdollah is currently a senior lecturer in University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka. The research area more focuses on network security, malware detection and network management. In cybersecurity, Dr Mohd Faizal led the sub project under CMERP project with the collaboration with Cyber Security Malaysia. This project more focuses on malware detection, eradication and mitigation. Currently, involve in developing EDR together with the Cybersecurity Malaysia. Others than that, Dr Mohd Faizal also involve in various grant sponsor by Ministry of Education, Industrial grant and University grant such as Fundamental Grant for detecting botnet activity, Transdisciplinary Grant for detecting the inside threat, ISIF grant for botnet detection using graph theory. He also teaches UTeM course such as Information Technology and IT Security, Network Management and Administration, Advanced Scalable Network and also manage to produce various conference paper and journal in cybersecurity related field.
Assoc. Prof. Fwen Hoon Wee
Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia
Fwen Hoon Wee, PhD, was received the B.Eng and PhD degrees in
Communication Engineering from Universiti Malaysia Perlis in
2009 and 2013 respectively. She is currently an Associate
Professor at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering & Technology,
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP). In 2013, she had served as
the Program Chairperson of Communication Engineering in SCCE on
2016- 2019. Prior to that, she was being attached to Keysight
Technologies, Penang for one-year industrial attachment, working
in an RND department for the instrument hardware development. In
2020, She joined Penang Skill Development Centre, Malaysia,
worked in compliance test and measurement for 4 months. She
researches actively in her areas of interest: dielectric
resonator antennas, antennas for 5G and automation, and
dielectric material measurement. To date, he has/is leading
nationally and industrial funded projects, and she currently
(co)supervises 2 postgraduate projects, and have successfully
(co)supervised 3 PhD and 4 MSc students to completion.
Asst. Prof. Anand Nayyar
Duy Tan University, Vietnam
Dr. Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh
Bhagat University in 2017 in the area of Wireless Sensor
Networks, Swarm Intelligence and Network Simulation. He is
currently working in School of Computer Science-Duy Tan
University, Da Nang, Vietnam as Professor, Scientist,
Vice-Chairman (Research) and Director- IoT and Intelligent
Systems Lab. A Certified Professional with 100+ Professional
certifications from CISCO, Microsoft, Amazon, EC-Council,
Oracle, Google, Beingcert, EXIN, GAQM, Cyberoam and many more.
Published more than 150+ Research Papers in various High-Quality
ISI-SCI/SCIE/SSCI Impact Factor Journals cum Scopus/ESCI indexed
Journals, with Citations: 8500+, H-Index: 48 and I-Index: 167.
Member of more than 60+ Associations as Senior and Life Member
including IEEE, ACM. He has authored/co-authored cum Edited 40+
Books of Computer Science. Awarded 39 Awards for Teaching and
Research—Young Scientist, Best Scientist, Best Senior Scientist,
Asia Top 50 Academicians and Researchers, Young Researcher
Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, Excellence in Teaching,
Best Senior Scientist Award, DTU Best Professor and Researcher
Award- 2019, 2020-2021, 2022 and many more. He is listed in Top
2% Scientists as per Stanford University (2020, 2021, 2022).
Dr. Adam Wong Yoon Khang
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Malaysia
Adam Wong Yoon Khang received his Ph.D. Degree from Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia in 2018. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in
the Fakulti Teknologi Kejuruteraan Elektrik dan Elektronik,
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). He is also a
Professional Technologist for the Malaysia Board of
Technologists (MBOT). Before joining the academia, he served
various companies from 2007 until 2011 as a commercial engineer
in industries ranging from manufacturing to service providers.
His current research interests are the Internet of Things,
Hybrid Optical Wireless, simulation optimization, ad hoc network
and passive optical network but not limited to the mentioned
topic here. He actively publishes research articles and received
grants from the government and private sectors, universities and
international collaboration.
Speech Title: Towards Integrated Multi-Farming Hydroponic
with Sustainable and Robust Automated Monitoring System
Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the newest
matters in both industry and academia of the communication
engineering world. On the other hand, wireless mesh networks, a
network topology that has been debate for decades that haven’t
been put into use in great scale, can make a transformation when
it arises to the network in the IoT world nowadays. A Mesh IoT
network is a local network architecture in which linked devices
cooperate and route data using a specified protocol. Typically,
IoT devices exchange sensor data by connecting to an IoT
gateway. However, there are certain limitations if it involves
to large number of sensors and the data that should be received
is difficult to analyse. The work aims to implement a
self-configuring mesh network in IoT sensor devices for better
independent data collection quality. The research conducted is
to build a mesh network using NodeMCU will aid in collecting
data collected by sensors, with two types of sensor. allowing
for analysis. The hydroponics grower will have complete wireless
management of the grow room atmospheric conditions, with
user-inputted sensor thresholds that, if exceeded, will warn or
take action as needed. On top of that, it also couples with the
use solar energy to reduce reliance on traditional energy
sources Through the approaches adopted, integrated farming with
an IoT mesh now network based on renewable energy will be
efficient for the automated hydroponic system.
Asst.
Prof. Muhammad Waqas
University of Bahrain, Bahrain
MUHAMMAD WAQAS (Senior Member, IEEE) received his PhD degree
with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua
University, Bei- jing, China in 2019. From Oct. 2019 to Sept.
2021, he was a Research Associate at the Faculty of Information
Technology, Beijing University of Tech- nology, Beijing, China.
Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Computer
Engineering Department, College of Information Technology,
University of Bahrain, Bahrain. He is also an Adjunct Senior
Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University,
Australia. He has more than 100 research publications in reputed
Journals and Conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the
International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems. His
current research interests are in the areas of Wireless
Communication, vehicular networks, Fog/Mobile Edge Computing,
Internet of Things and Machine Learning. He is recognised as a
Global Talent in the area of Wireless Communications by UK
Research and Innovation and Professional Member of Engineer
Australia.
Speech Title: The Role of Artificial Intelligence/Machine
Learning in Wireless Communications/Networks Security
Abstract: Security is one of the biggest challenges
concerning networks and communications. The problem becomes
aggravated with the proliferation of wireless devices.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising
solution, and a volume of literature exists on the
methodological studies of AI to resolve the security challenge.
In this talk, I will present a taxonomy of security threats and
review distinct aspects and the potential of AI to resolve the
challenge. Furthermore, I will discuss AI solutions for all
possible security types and threats. I will also present the
lessons learned from the existing AI techniques and
contributions of up-to-date literature, future directions of AI
in security, open issues that need to be investigated further
through AI, and discuss how AI can be more effectively used to
overcome the upcoming advanced security threats.
Dr. Wibowo Hardjawana
The University of Sydney, Australia
Dr. Wibowo Hardjawana received a PhD in electrical engineering
from The University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently a
Senior Lecturer in Telecommunications with the School of
Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of
Sydney. Prior to that, he was with Singapore Telecom Ltd.,
managing core and radio access networks. His current fundamental
and applied research interests, working with industries, are in
AI applications for 5/6G cellular radio access and wireless
local area networks. His focus is in system architectures,
resource scheduling, interference, signal processing, and the
development of corresponding standard-compliant prototypes. He
has worked with several industries. He was an Australian
Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow.