Honorary Chair

Prof. Lakhmi C. Jain

Founder, KES International, UK
Liverpool Hope University, UK.
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Dr. Lakhmi C. Jain, PhD, ME, BE(Hons), Fellow (Engineers Australia) is with the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and Liverpool Hope University, UK.

Professor Jain founded the KES International for providing a professional community the opportunities for publications, knowledge exchange, cooperation and teaming. Involving around 5,000 researchers drawn from universities and companies world-wide, KES facilitates international cooperation and generate synergy in teaching and research. KES regularly provides networking opportunities for professional community through one of the largest conferences of its kind in the area of KES. 

http://www.kesinternational.org/organisation.php 

General Chair 

Prof. Chong Shen
Hainan University

Deputy director of Hainan University Scientific Research Office , Ph. D. , Professor, PhD supervisor. Candidate Tutor. Graduated from School of Electronic Information of Wuhan University, University of Strathclyde MPhil, Cork Institute of Technology Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research Ph. D., Tyndall National Institute Post Doc、Senior engineer at Bell Labs Ireland Dublin. He has 23 core IP technologies related to Wireless Sensor Network and Internet of Things; Published more than 100 SCI and EI indexed papers; He has implemented projects from National Natural Science Foundation、Scientific Research Key Projects fund of Ministry of Education、International science and technology cooperation Key Projects of Hainan Province、Integrated innovation Key Projects of Hainan Province、Key Projects of Science and Technology Plan of Hainan Province、Natural Science Fund PCSIRT of Hainan Province and so on, There are more than 10 national and provincial scientific research projects. Project win the second prize of advance of science and technology of Hainan Province (First accomplisher); “Leading Talents” of High-level Talents in Hainan Province, Talents of “Nanhai Masters” Project in Hainan Province; The first-level candidate of the "515 Talent Project" in Hainan Province; the grantor of the special allowance of the State Council of China; Provincial and ministerial awards 5; Young scientists of the ministry of science and technology; Member of youth standing committee of China electronics association; Member of the Chinese association of Marine limnology; IEEE VTS senior member.

Prof. Dr.Roumen Kountchev
Faculty of Telecommunications, Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies at the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria

His scientific areas of interest are: digital signal and image processing, image compression, multimedia watermarking, video communications, pattern recognition and neural networks. Prof. Kountchev has 341 papers published in magazines and conference proceedings (71 international); 15 books; 46 book chapters; 20 patents (3 international). He had been principle investigator of 38 research projects (6 international).

At present he is a member of Euro Mediterranean Academy of Arts and Sciences (EMAAS) and President of Bulgarian Association for Pattern Recognition (member of Intern. Association for Pattern Recognition). Editorial board member of: Intern. Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems; Intern. Journal Broad Research in Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience; KES Focus Group on Intelligent Decision Technologies; Egyptian Computer Science Journal; Intern. Journal of Bio-Medical Informatics and e-Health, and Intern. Journal Intelligent Decision Technologies. He has been a plenary speaker at: WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing 2009, Istanbul; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Robotics and Automation, University of Cambridge 2010, UK; WSEAS Intern. Conf. on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry and Artificial Vision 2012, Istanbul, Turkey; Intern. Workshop on Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and e-Health 2013, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Workshop SCCIBOV 2015, Djillali Liabès University, Sidi Bel Abbès, Algérie; Intern. Conf. on Information Technology 2015 and 2017, Al Zayatoonah University, Amman, Jordan; WSEAS European Conf. of Computer Science 2016, Rome, Italy.

Prof. Kun Zhang
Hainan Tropical Ocean University, China

Zhang Kun, male; Ph.D; Professor; Master's Supervisor. Professor in Hainan Tropical Ocean University.Visiting Professor of the State Key Laboratory of Marine Resources Utilization in the South China Sea, Hainan University; Guest Master's Supervisor in Tianjin Science and Technology University; Visiting Scholar at the Harbin Institute of Technology； High-level talents in Hainan Province, “Top Talents”, and “Nanhai Masters” youth project talents in Hainan Province; candidate in the third level of Hainan province "515" Engineering; senior Member of Chinese Computer Society (CCF) and China Electronics Association (CIE); member of ACM and IEEE; Hainan Province Science and Technology Expert, Guangdong Province Science and Technology Expert, Sanya City Information Construction Expert, Sanya City Contracted Theoretical Expert; host of Key Laboratory of visual computer in Sanya; More than 160 papers have been published so far, including 20 SCI indexes published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP), Digital Signal Processing, IEEE Access, Cluster Computing, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, etc.

General Co-Chair

Prof.Dr. Xianpeng Wang Hainan University, China	Prof.Dr. Chuan Tian Vice chairman of Academic Committeeof  Institute of deep sea science and engineering,  Chinese Academy of Sciences Deputy director  of deep sea engineering technology department	Prof.Dr. Qinyu Zhang Harbin Institute of Technology
Prof.Dr. Feifei Gao Tsinghua University	Prof.Dr. Qian Wang Wuhan University	Prof.Dr. Peng Fei Huazhong University Science and Technology
Prof.Dr. Zhuang Li Hainan Tropical Ocean University	Prof.Dr. Liqiang Zheng Shenzhen Runan Technology Development corporation	Prof.Dr. Shi Jin Southeast University

Program Chair 

Prof. Dr.Srikanta Patnaik
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
SOA University, Bhubaneswar Odisha, India

Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999 and supervised 12 Ph. D. theses and more than 30 M. Tech theses in the area of Machine Intelligence, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published more than 60 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and edited 12 books and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.. Dr. Patnaik was the Principal Investigator of TAPTEC project “Building Cognition for Intelligent Robot” sponsored by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi and Major Research Project “Machine Learning and Perception using Cognition Methods” sponsored by University Grant Commission. He is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House,England and also Editors-in-chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany. 

Honorary Member  of the Honorable Editorial Board of the nonprofit peer reviewed open access IJBST Journal Group http://board.ijbst.org 

Organizing Chair

Dr.Silai Zhou
Founder of IRNet China

Contacting Chair

Dr. Bin Hu
Contacting Chair of IRNet China
China Mobile, Hunan Branch

 Technical Program Committee

• Prof. Hui Gao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications
• Dr., Agrawal, Dharma P., University of Cincinnati, USA
• Dr., Atiquzzaman, Mohammed, University of Oklahoma, USA
• Dr., Balakrishnan, N., Indian Institute of Science, India
• Dr., Bellur, Umesh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Dr., Bhargava, Bharat K., Purdue University, USA
• Dr., Biswas, Amitava, Cisco Systems Inc., USA
• Prof.,Biswas, Subir, Michigan State University, USA
• Prof.,Boutaba, Raouf, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Prof.,Chao, Han-Chieh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
• Prof.,Chen, Hsiao-Hwa, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Prof.,Chen, Jiming, Zhejiang University, China
• Prof., Chilamkurti, Naveen, La Trobe University, Australia
• Dr., Chockalingam, A., Indian Institute of Science, India
• Dr., Desai, U. B., Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India
• Dr., Dianati, Mehrdad, University of Surrey, UK
• Dr., Dumka, Ankur, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, India
• Dr., Fernando, Xavier, Ryerson University, Canada
• Dr., García Villalba, Luis Javier, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain
• Dr., Giridhar, K., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
• Dr., Gumaste, Ashwin, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
• Dr., Hsu, Ching-Hsien, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
• Dr., Jain, Raj, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
• Dr., Jhunjhunwala, Ashok, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras, India
• Dr., Kar, Subrat, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India
• Dr., Karandikar, Abhay, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Dr., Kim, Jongsung, Kyungnam University, South Korea
• Dr., Krithivasan, Kamala, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
• Dr., Leung, Victor C. M., The University of British Columbia, Canada
• Dr., Lilien, Leszek T., Western Michigan University, USA
• Dr., Linderman, Mark H., AFRL Information Directorate/RISE, USA
• Dr., Lloret Mauri, Jaime, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
• Dr., Madria, Sanjay, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
• Dr., Mahanti, Aniket, University of Auckland, New Zealand
• Dr., Manjunath, D., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
• Dr., Meghanathan, Natarajan, Jackson State University, USA
• Dr., Mouftah, Hussein, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Dr., Naït-Abdesselam, Farid, University of Paris Descartes, France
• Dr., Nayak, Amiya, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Dr., Obaidat, Mohammad S., Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
• Dr., Park, Jong Hyuk, Seoul National University of Science and Technology (SeoulTech), South Korea
• Prof.,Patnaik, Lalit M., National Institute of Advanced Studies, India
• Prof.,Patnaik, Srikanta, SOA University and Interscience Institute of Management and Technology, Bhubaneswar, India
• Dr., Rashvand, Habib F., University of Warwick, UK
• Dr., Rodrigues, Joel, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
• Dr., Sadeghi, M.-R. Rafsanjani, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
• Dr., Samanta, Debasis, Indian Institute of Technology, India
• Dr., Sekaran, K. Chandra, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India
• Dr., Sharma, Vinod, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• Prof.,Shu Lei, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, China
• Dr., Sinha, Bhabani P., Indian Statistical Institute, India
• Dr., Stojmenovic, Ivan, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Dr., Tran-Gia, Phuoc, University of Wuerzburg, Germany
• Dr., Traore, Issa, University of Victoria, Canada
• Dr., Vaidya, Binod, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Dr., Vasilakos, Athanasios, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
• Dr., Venkata Krishna, P., SPM University, India
• Dr., Verma, Dinesh, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA
• Dr., Wang, Shiuh-Jeng, Central Police University, Taiwan
• Dr.,Wang, Weichao, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
• Dr.,Wolfinger, Bernd E., University of Hamburg, Germany
• Dr.,Xin Qin, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands
• Dr.,Zeadally, Sherali, University of Kentucky, USA
• Dr.,Zhang Yan, University of Oslo and Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Dr., Biju Theruvil Sayed, Dhofar University,Sultanate of Oman
• Prof.,Nassim.ASBAI.University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene(U.S.T.H.B). Algiers, Algerian.
• Prof., Steven Sheng-Uei Guan, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool, China
• Dr., Jan Kubíček, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava
• Dr., Zhenguo Gao, Huaqiao University, China
• Dr., Loc Nguyen, Loc Nguyen’s Academic Network , Vietnam
• Dr., Fateh Mebarek-Oudina, University of 20 août 1955-Skikda, Algeria.
• Prof..Zahéra Mekkioui,University of Tlemcen, Algeria
• Prof., Jun Tao, Jianghan University, China
• Dr., Wei Wei , Xi'an University of Technology, China
• Dr.,Haining Yang,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China,China
• Dr.,Xiang Wu,China Academy of Information and Communications Technology,China
• Dr.,Hai Tao Wang,Nanjing Audit University,China
• Dr.,Xue Yong Ding,Sanya University Institute of Technology,China
  
• Dr., luoyun-xu, Huadian Electric Power Research Institute,China
  
• Dr.,Zhu Yao Hua, AstonUniversity,UK
• Dr.,ISIDOROS PERIKOS,University of Patras,Greece
• Dr.,Grzegorz Sierpiński, Silesian University of TechnologyFaculty of Transport,Polish