Conference General Chair

Prof. Yudong Zhang, IEEE Senior member, University of Leicester, UK

Biography: Prof. Yudong Zhang is a chair professor at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, UK. He is a Fellow of IET, a Fellow of EAI, and a Fellow of BCS. He is a senior member of IEEE and ACM. He is the Distinguished Speaker of the ACM. He was the 2019–2021–2022 recipient of the Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher award. He has co-authored over 400 peer-reviewed articles. There are more than 50 ESI Highly Cited Papers and 5 ESI Hot Papers in his co-authored publications. His citation reached 22936 in Google Scholar (h-index 84). He is the editor of Neural Networks, IEEE TITS, IEEE TCSVT, etc. He has conducted many successful industrial projects and received academic grants from the NIH, Royal Society, GCRF, EPSRC, MRC, Hope, British Council, and NSFC. He has served as co-chair for more than 60 international conferences (including more than 20 IEEE or ACM conferences). More than 50 news outlets have reported his research outputs, such as Reuters, BBC, Telegraph, Physics World, UK Today News, etc.

Publication Chairs

Dr. Hoshang Kolivand, IEEE Senior member, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Biography: Hoshang Kolivand is an accomplished researcher in the field of computer science, specializing in AI and mixed reality. He received his MS degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, in 1999. He went on to pursue his PhD at the Media and Games Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGIC-X) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, completing it in 2013. Dr. Kolivand further honed his expertise in augmented reality through a postdoctoral program at UTM in 2014. With a rich academic background, Hoshang has previously served as a lecturer at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, and later as a senior lecturer at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Currently, he holds the position of Reader (Associate Professor) in AI and Mixed Reality at Liverpool John Moores University and is also a Visiting Professor at Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research (BIHER, Chennai, India. Throughout his career, Hoshang has made significant contributions to the academic community. He has authored numerous articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and technical papers, including book chapters. Additionally, he has published several books on object-oriented programming and mathematics.

Dr. Kolivand is recognized as a senior member of IEEE and actively contributes to various conferences and international journals as a Technical Program Committee (TCP) member. His dedication to advancing the field of computer science and his passion for research continues to drive his pursuit of knowledge and innovation.

Dr. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: Dr. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, an Associate Professor at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology in China, holds a PhD in Electronic Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University in India. He is a distinguished member of IEEE and ACM, as well as a Life Member of the Instrument Society of India and a Lifetime Member of the Speed Society of India. Additionally, he contributes to the academic community as a valued member of various editorial teams for international conferences and journals. Dr. Moshayedi's academic achievements are marked by a portfolio of over 90 papers published across esteemed national and international journals and conferences. In addition to his scholarly publications, he has authored three books and is credited with two patents and nine copyrights, emblematic of his pioneering contributions to the field. His research interests include robotics and automation, sensor modelling, bio-inspired robots, mobile robot olfaction, plume tracking, embedded systems, machine-vision-based systems, virtual reality, machine vision, artificial intelligence.

Technical Program Committee Chair

Prof. Sailesh Iyer, Rai University, Ahmedabad, India

Biography: Dr. Sailesh Iyer has a Ph.D. (Computer Science) degree from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA (a public university ranked among the top 100 public universities) and is currently serving as a professor at Rai University, Ahmedabad. He has more than 23 years of experience in academics, industry, and corporate training, of which 18 are in core academics. He has been awarded the Research Excellence Award for years 2021 and 2022 by Rai University and is an honorary adjunct research scientist at Neurolabs International under the Dana Brain Health Institute, Iran, from August 2022 to August 2025. He has several patents granted and published to his credit and is involved as an editor for various book projects with Elsevier, IGI Global (USA), CRC Press Taylor & Francis (UK), and Bentham Science (UAE). He has been invited to speak as a keynote speaker at various international conferences held in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Haiti, Ukraine, Italy, and India. A hardcore academician and administrator, he has excelled in corporate training and delivered 150+ expert talks in various AICTE-sponsored STTPs, ATAL FDPs, reputed universities, government-organized workshops,  and orientation and refresher courses organized by HRDC, Gujarat University. Research contributions include reputed publications, Track Chair at ICDLAIR 2020 (Springer Italy), icSoftComp 2020, IEMIS 2020 (Springer), ICRITO 2020 (IEEE), ARISE-2021, FTSE-2021, and TPC. Member of various reputed international and national conferences, reviewer of international journals like Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer), Journal of Computer Science (Scopus Indexed), International Journal of Big Data Analytics in Healthcare (IGI Global), Journal of Renewable Energy and Environment, and editor in various journals Expert talks on research-based topics in various universities and conferences, in addition to guiding research scholars as supervisors. He has also been invited as a judge for various events, an examiner for reputed universities, 

Organizing Committee Chair

Biography: Xin Xu received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2004 and 2012, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China. His research deals with image processing, computer vision, and deep learning. More specifically, his research areas focus on building a hierarchical person-identification architecture, including detection and recognition for nighttime surveillance scenarios. He has published more than 150 high-level papers in academic journals and at academic conferences. His publication was selected as the cover paper of the journal International Journal of Intelligent Systems in 2022. He was shortlisted as the Best Paper Finalist of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2021.

Organizing Committee Members

International Technology Committee Members