SMEI - Key Persons


Prof. Frank Werner

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Prof. Galina G. Kashevarova

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee
  • Member of Committee
  • Perm National Research Polytechnic University, Russia

Prof. Johan DEBAYLE

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee
  • Member of Committee

Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic

Job Titles:
  • IEEE Fellow, Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Member of Committee
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from the University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director and President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society and the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Prof. Pascal LORENZ

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee

Prof. Sandeep Saxena

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee
  • Member of Committee

Prof. Shuwen Xu

Job Titles:
  • IEEE Senior Member, Xidian University, China
  • Member of Committee
Shuwen Xu (IEEE Senior Member) was born in Huangshan city in Anhui, China. He received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees, both in electronic engineering, from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2006 and 2011, respectively. He worked at the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, after that. He worked as a visiting professor in Mcmaster University in 2017 and 2018, Canada. He is currently a professor with the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. He is also the vice director of National Collaborative Innovation Center of Information Sensing and Understanding and the Director of radar signal processing and data processing Department. His research interests are in the fields of radar target detection, statistical Learning, and SAR image processing.

Prof. Tarek Ismail Mohamed

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor
Tarek Ismail Mohamed is a professor of product design by computer at the College of Mass Communication at Ajman University, U.A.E. He is a specialist in visualizing 2d and 3d Designs by Computer. He worked as a 3d design educator by computer at the Product Design Department at the College of Applied Arts, Helwan University - Egypt, from 1990 to 1996. Then he moved to Germany to get a Ph.D. in collaboration with the College of Fine Arts (H.B.K.) in Braunschweig -from 1996 to 1999. The Ph.D. theme entitled "Establishing an educational form organization program given the utilization of computers." He worked in Saudi Arabia Universities in Art Pedagogy, Education Technology, Computer and Design departments at King Khaled University and Al Qassim University. He participated in a lot of visual and product design and project expeditions. Later he became the head of the Computer and Design Department. He got a full professor of 3d Product Design in 2009. In 2010, he started his work in the Graphic Design department at the College of Mass Communication at Ajman University in the United Arab Emirates. Prof. Tarek Ismail has published several books on Product Design, Design by Computer, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Interactive Design, Design Basics, Virtual Reality & 3D design, Digital Multimedia and Modern Technology, Artificial Design, and Design Theory. In 2019, Prof. Dr. Tarek Ismail got a 3d product design consultant position from the Egyptian Designers Syndicate, which qualifies him to manage and direct many activities, projects, and design expertise. He published several papers about the product, graphic design, and visual communication in International Conferences and Journals indexed by Scopus (QI, Q2). He studied, visited, and lectured in Germany, Egypt, the U.S.A., Japan, Turkey, Kuwait, Emirates, the Netherlands, Spain, and Greece. Finally, he got a grant from Microsoft Azur for Covid-19 Research; the grant topic is "Applying the health criteria in everyday product design in light of the coronavirus pandemic." He is a reviewer and editor in several international journals. Prof. Dr., Tarek Ismail Mohamed College of Mass Communication Ajman University The United Arab Emirates.

Prof. Wendong Xiao

Job Titles:
  • IEEE Senior Member, the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor
Wendong Xiao is currently a professor, doctoral supervisor, and director of the Collaborative Intelligent Sensing and Control Decision Laboratory at the School of Automation, University of Science and Technology Beijing.Professor Xiao serves as a senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Interactive Wearable Technology and Equipment Expert Committee, the deputy director of the Intelligent IoT System Professional Committee of the China Simulation Federation, the secretary-general of the Health Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering, consultant for the direction of active health in the National 14th Five-Year Plan, consultant of National Major Project of Modernization Technology and Equipment of Traditional Chinese Medicine, reviewer of National Engineering Research Center of National Development and Reform Commission, reviewer of Intelligent Manufacturing Major Project of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, reviewer of Key Laboratory of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, responsible expert and reviewer of National Key R&D Program Project, and expert of Science and Technology of Military Commission Commissioned.

Prof. Witold Pedrycz

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Professor
Witold Pedrycz is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. He is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of several awards including a Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, an IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and the 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society. His main research directions involve computational intelligence, granular computing, and machine learning. He serves as an editor-in-chief of Information Sciences and WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and co-editor-in-chief of Granular Computing and Journal of Data, Information and Management.

Prof. Zabih (Fary) Ghassemlooy

Job Titles:
  • Fellow of OSA, SMIEEE, Fellow of IET, Northumbria University, UK
  • Member of Committee
Professor Zabih Ghassemlooy (Fellow, OPTICA; Fellow, IET; Senior Member, IEEE; CEng, BSc (Hons.) MMU (1981), MSc (1984) and PhD (1987) Manchester Univ., UK. 1987-88 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, City Univ., UK. 1988-2004 Sheffield Hallam University and 2004- Northumbria University, UK, and is currently Head of Photonics Technology Laboratory and Optical Communications Research Group. Research Fellow (2016-2022) and Distinguished Professor (2015-2022) at Chinese Academy of Science, Vice-Chair of EU Cost Actions IC1101 (2011-16) and CA19111, 2020-2024. IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 2024-25, supervised 75 PhDs, 12 Research Fellows and with over 990 publications (429 journals and 8 books). Research interest: optical wireless communications, free space optics, visible light communications, and hybrid RF-OWC. Chief Editor: British J. of Applied Science and Technology and Intern. J. of Optics and Applications. Vice-Cahir of OSA Technical Group (Optics in Digital Systems-2018-).

Prof. Zhe Chen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Technical Program Committee
  • Member of Committee

Wenbing Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Senior Member
Wenbing Zhao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, in 2002.,He joined Cleveland State University (CSU), Cleveland, OH, USA, in 2004, as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CSU. He is the author of two research monographs titled Building Dependable Distributed Systems (Wiley-Scrivener, 2004) and From Traditional Fault Tolerance to Blockchain (Wiley-Scrivener, 2021). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journals and conference papers. His current research interests include dependable distributed computing and human-centered computing.,Dr. Zhao has served on the organizing and technical committees of numerous IEEE conferences. He has received the 2018 and 2020 IEEE Access Outstanding Associate Editor Award. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access.