Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker I


Prof. Chin-Chen Chang
Feng Chia University

Professor C.C. Chang was born in Taichung, Taiwan on Nov. 12th, 1954. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from National Chiao Tung University. He's first degree is Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and master degree is Master of Science in computer and decision sciences. Both were awarded in National Tsing Hua University. Dr. Chang served in National Chung Cheng University from 1989 to 2005. His current title is Chair Professor in Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, Feng Chia University, from Feb. 2005.

Prior to joining Feng Chia University, Professor Chang was an associate professor in Chiao Tung University, professor in National Chung Hsing University, chair professor in National Chung Cheng University. He had also been Visiting Researcher and Visiting Scientist to Tokyo University and Kyoto University, Japan. During his service in Chung Cheng, Professor Chang served as Chairman of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dean of College of Engineering, Provost and then Acting President of Chung Cheng University and Director of Advisory Office in Ministry of Education, Taiwan.

Professor Chang's specialties include, but not limited to, data engineering, database systems, computer cryptography and information security. A researcher of acclaimed and distinguished services and contributions to his country and advancing human knowledge in the field of information science, Professor Chang has won many research awards and honorary positions by and in prestigious organizations both nationally and internationally. He is currently a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IEE, UK. And since his early years of career development, he consecutively won Outstanding Youth Award of the R. O. C., Outstanding Talent in Information Sciences of the R. O. C., AceR Dragon Award of the Ten Most Outstanding Talents, Outstanding Scholar Award of the R. O. C., Outstanding Engineering Professor Award of the R. O. C., Chung-Shan Academic Publication Awards, Distinguished Research Awards of National Science Council of the R. O. C., Outstanding Scholarly Contribution Award of the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, Top Fifteen Scholars in Systems and Software Engineering of the Journal of Systems and Software, and so on. On numerous occasions, he was invited to serve as Visiting Professor, Chair Professor, Honorary Professor, Honorary Director, Honorary Chairman, Distinguished Alumnus, Distinguished Researcher, Research Fellow by universities and research institutes. He also published over 1,100 papers in Information Sciences. In the meantime, he participates actively in international academic organizations and performs advisory work to government agencies and academic organizations.

 

Keynote Speaker II


Dr. Lekha Chaisorn
Secretary, IEEE Singapore Section
Research Group Leader, Signal Processing Dept.
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR

Dr Lekha Chaisorn completed Bachelor degree in Mathematics (Second class Honors), from Prince of Songkhla University, Thailand, a Master degree and PhD In Computer Science, from National University of Singapore. Dr Chaisorn was a team leader taking part in TRECVID 2003 evaluations under story segmentation and classification task (the result of the evaluations can be found on TRECVID 2003 web site: http://wwwnlpir.nist.gov/projects/tv2003/tv2003.html). And the system achieved the best performing system under this task.
 Dr Chaisorn received several awards such as Asian award, Dean Award, Australian fellowship award, etc. She is an IEEE senior member,  Chairman of IEEE Singapore Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group (AG) for year 2008 and Secretary of IEEE Main Section for year 2009.
 She joined Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR in 2005. She was an as Assistant Director of Media Division for a period in 2006. Dr Chaisorn also played important roles in professional activities, such as she served as the General Co-Chair of Infocomm Horizons 2007, Singapore; the publication Co-Chairs of CIVR2005 and ACM MM2005 conferences; a technical program committee of SPIE OpticsEast 2006 and 2007; MMM2006, MMM2007, MMM2008, SAMT 2008; technical reviewer of ACM MM2004, ICME 2006 and ICME2007, and the Publication Chair of ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI 2008. She has published a book chapter, several papers in leading conferences such as ACM MM, IEEE ICME, ACM SIGGRAPH VRCAI, and journal such WWW journal.
 Currently, Dr Chaisorn is working as a group leader of Interactive Media Processing group, Signal Processing Dept. Her research interests include video/multimedia content analysis, indexing and retrieval, interactive digital media, copy detection and music search and recommendation.

 

Keynote Speaker III


 Prof. Venkatesh Mahadevan,
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Dr Venkatesh Mahadevan is currently lecturering in Information Systems (IS) and eBusiness  the Faculty of Higher Education at Lilydale campus of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He has extensive research experience in the different phases of the usability design lifecycle, from user research, requirement specifications and conceptual design through to usability attributes testing of a Telecollaboration (TC) business system. Previously Venkatesh was attached to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) as Senior Research Associate/Lecturer working for a CSIRO-led CeNTIE (Centre for Networking Technologies for the Information Economy) TC project. He has a PhD from UTS in which he built a models and application framework for a Telecollaboration business system from the ground up in an agile collaborative environment that would enhance the virtually enabled collaborative practices of industry. This contemporary research from several perspectives (such as business process, knowledge, service, application and cognition) has met the necessity of addressing many of the theoretical, practical and methodological issues surrounding research on eBusiness/IT interface generally, and more specifically, research into the value-added Human Computer Interaction (HCI). In particular, he has researched how to integrate models from various domains into an integrated cognitive system without leveraging the usability attributes of a TC business system.

Venkatesh has presented his research findings at several Australian and international conferences and workshops. He has previously taught in India, Malaysia, and New Zealand. During his stay at UTS he was also actively involved in teaching and supervising undergraduate and postgraduate students.  His personal pedagogy improved greatly with a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching and Learning conducted by Institute for Interactive Media and Learning at UTS. Since then designing, developing, implementing and publishing new pedagogic techniques are his favorite academic activities.

 

Keynote Speaker IV


Dr. Jivesh Govil
Cisco Systems Inc., CA USA

Jivesh Govil is working with Cisco Systems, Inc. at California, USA. He completed Master of Science from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA in 2007 with focus on communication networks. Prior to this he completed his Bachelor of Engineering from University of Delhi, India. He also did graduate certificate course in Digital Communication Networks from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MIT), USA.  He has been decorated with President Gold Medal for his outstanding performance. He served as Industry Research Chair for ICWMC 2009, ICCGI 2009, and part of International Scientific Advisory Board for m-ICTE 2009. Currently, he is member of Technical Program Committees of numerous IEEE/ACM conferences, symposiums, and journals worldwide. He is an editorial board member of International Journal of Computing and Information technology. In past, he also served as reviewer for ACM/Springer Wireless Networks: Journal of Mobile Communication, Computation, and Information.
Mr. Govil has number of publications in IEEE/ACM related conference and scientific journals with special paper awards. He was honored with AT&T Pioneer Partner Award in July 2007 for Outstanding Performance and Lasting Contribution to the social community by devising wireless solution for Blinds that helped mitigate civilian safety issues at the same time maintaining the reputation of telecommunication services in United States and Canada. He has also been selected for Who’s Who in the World or 2010. Mr. Govil’s research interest lies in Computer Networking, Convergence of technologies, Wireless and Satellite Network Architecture Planning, Cellular Mobile Radio Communication, Wireless Personal Communications, Broadband Wireless Access, 3G/4G Networks, MIMO Wireless Communications and Adaptive Signal Processing & Low Power-high Frequency Signal Processing for Wireless Communication. He is also IEEE Communication Society member.