Prof.Mohand Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland

Professor M-Tahar Kechadi was awarded PhD and Masters degree - in Computer Science from University of Lille 1, France.  He joined the UCD School of Computer Science (CS) in 1999.  He is currently Professor of Computer Science at CS, UCD.  His research interests span the areas of Data Mining, distributed data mining heterogeneous distributed systems, Grid and Cloud Computing, and digital forensics and cyber-crime investigations.  Prof Kechadi has published over 260 research articles in refereed journals and conferences.  He serves on the scientific committees for a number of international conferences and he organised and hosted one of the leading conferences in his area.

Prof. Shangce Gao, University of Toyama, Japan

Shangce Gao received his B.S. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China in 2005, and M.E. and D.E. degrees from the University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He worked with Tongji University from 2011 as an Associate Professor. From 2014, he has been an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Toyama, Japan, and was promoted to Professor in 2023. His current research interests include nature-inspired technologies, the Internet of Things, machine learning, and neural networks for real-world applications.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serves as an Associate Editor for many international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, etc. He also serves as a Secretary for the Hokuriku Section, IEICE, and has served on the program committees for several international professional conferences, including AAAI, NeurIPS, IEEE CEC, etc.