Keynote Speakers
Prof. Minho Jo, Korea University, South Korea
Minho Jo (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.A. degree from
the Department of Industrial Engineering, Chosun University,
Gwangju, South Korea, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh
University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 1994.
He is the Full Professor with the Department of Computer
Convergence Software, Korea University, Sejong, South Korea,
where he is the Director of the IoT & AI Lab. Prof. Jo is
the Director of Brain Korea 21 “IoT Data Science” supported
by the Korean government. His current research interests
include IoT, blockchain, LLM/ChatGPT, artificial
intelligence and optimization theory, big data, network
security, cloud/edge computing, wireless energy harvesting,
and autonomous vehicles. The average number of citations per
publication authored by Prof. Minho Jo (from 2013 through
2022) is 41.7 and Average Field-Weighted Citation Impact
(FWCI) of Prof. Minho Jo (from 2013 through 2022) is 4.42
(based on SCOPUS SciVal. Exactly FWCI = 1 means that the
output performs just as expected for the global average.
FWCI = 4.42 means 342% more cited than the global average.)
Prof. Jo is a recipient of the 2018 IET Best Paper Premium
Award by the United Kingdom’s Royal Institute of Engineering
and Technology. He was awarded with 2011 Headong Outstanding
Scholar Prize. He is one of the founders of the Samsung
Electronics LCD Division. He is the Founder and the
Editor-in-Chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and
Information Systems (SCIE/JCR and SCOPUS indexed.
https://itiis.org). He was the South Korea’s Presidential
Commission on Policy Planning. He served as an Associate
Editor of IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE INTERNET
OF THINGS JOURNAL, Editor of IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS,
and Editor of NETWORK, respectively. Prof. Minho Jo is the
Chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced
Information and Communication Technologies (AICT 2023), and
the General Co-Chair of VTC2021-Fall (2021 IEEE 94th
Vehicular Technology Conference), respectively.
Prof. Lili Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Lili Yang, a professor in Department of Statistics
and Data Science at Southern University of Science and
Technology. She was working at Loughborough University in
the UK. She has been a tenure assistant professor, associate
professor and then professor in the School of Business and
Economics at Loughborough University, and a senate member of
the Loughborough University. She has also served as
Associate Director of the Service Management Research Center
and the head of the Emergency Management Research Group. She
was selected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in
2008 (BCS Fellow). Recently she joined the Southern
University of Science and Technology. Professor Yang has
long been engaged in the research of theories and methods of
public safety emergency management to preside over and
complete more than 20 important projects funded by the
European Commission (European Commission FP7), the UK
National Engineering and Natural Sciences Fund (EPSRC), or
the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), etc. Her many
scientific research results have been successfully applied
into real life practices. She has published three books and
more than 100 papers. She has been acting as an EPSRC
Associate Peer Review Colleague for a long time and playing
the role as an expert reviewer for different scientific
funding bodies in the UK, China, Portugal and Luxembourg
etc. At present in Southern University of Science and
Technology, she is leading a project of the National Natural
Science Foundation of China, and a sub-project leader for
the project of National Key Research and Development Program
of the Ministry of Science and Technology.