Dr. Chuan-Yu Chang (IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member) received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) and serves concurrently as the President of the university. He previously held several leadership positions at YunTech, including Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dean of Research and Development, and Director of the Incubation Center for Academia-Industry Collaboration and Intellectual Property. He also served as the Deputy General Director of the Service Systems Technology Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan.
Dr. Chang has long been devoted to research in computational intelligence and its applications, including medical image analysis, automated optical inspection, emotion recognition, and pattern recognition. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers. In terms of academic service, he has served as General Chair and Program Chair for numerous international conferences, as well as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Tainan Chapter and Regional Representative for the Asia-Pacific Region. He also served as President of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (IPPR). He has received numerous honors for his outstanding research and industry–academia contributions, including the National Industry-Academia Collaboration Master Award from the Ministry of Education (2021), the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (2021), recognition as the IEEE Consumer Technology Society Most Featured People (October 2022), being listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2022–2025), the Distinguished Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers (2023), and the Future Tech Award from the National Science and Technology Council (2020, 2023).

BIO: TBA

BIO: TBA

BIO: Wadii Boulila received his B.Sc. degree (First-Class Honours with Distinction) in Computer Science from the Aviation School of Borj El Amri in 2005, his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the National School of Computer Science (ENSI) at the University of Manouba, Tunisia, in 2007, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science through a joint program between ENSI and Télécom Bretagne, University of Rennes 1, France, in 2012. He is currently a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the RIOTU Laboratory at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. In addition, he serves as a Senior Researcher with the RIADI Laboratory at the University of Manouba and previously held the position of Senior Research Fellow with the ITI Department at the University of Rennes 1, France. Prof. Boulila has been the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Best Young Researcher in Computer Science Award in 2021 from Beit El-Hikma, the Best Researcher Award from the University of Manouba in 2021, the Most Cited Researcher Award from the University of Manouba in 2022, and the Research Excellence Award as well as the Best Faculty Member for Most Impactful Research Output Award from Prince Sultan University. He has actively contributed to numerous research and industrial projects, with primary research interests spanning data science, computer vision, big data analytics, deep learning, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and uncertainty modeling. Prof. Boulila has served as a chair, reviewer, and technical program committee (TPC) member for many leading international conferences and journals. His work has garnered global recognition, and he has been named among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in his field by Stanford University. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of ACM and AAAI, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) in the U.K.