INVITED SPEAKERS OF PRML 2024

 

Assoc. Prof. Weixu Liu
Anhui Medical University, China

Weixu Liu is currently an associate professor, deputy director and master supervisor at the department of computer science, Anhui medical University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University in 2022. He is a senior member of the China Instrument and Control Society and a member of the Chinese Society for Vibration Engineering. He has obtained more than ten authorized national invention patents, more than twenty utility model patents and more than ten national computer software copyrights. His research interests mainly include machine learning, non-destructive evaluation, and structural health monitoring. He serves as a reviewer for many journals and conferences. He has published over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. His research has been supported by both government and corporations.

Speech Title: "A Guided Wave Structural Monitoring Method based on Deep Transfer earning"

Abstract: Data-driven methodologies within structural health monitoring have garnered growing interest, with particular emphasis on the advancements in deep learning techniques, which have significantly propelled the progress of data-driven damage detection. Due to limited available guided wave samples and imbalance between data classes, this study reports a deep convolutional neural network-based transfer learning approach for the structure monitoring of switch rails using guided wave monitoring signals. A pretrained model based on Inception-ResNet-V2 was adopted and fine-tuned. Different methods for converting 1-D signals into 2-D images were investigated to find the optimal one that meets practical monitoring requirements. Affine transformations were used for data augmentation to improve generalization ability and to avoid the overfitting of the training model. Two sets of guided wave monitoring experiments were undertaken to assess the proposed approach in comparison to various traditional methods. The classification outcomes demonstrate the capability of the proposed method to detect damage in demanding scenarios, surpassing the performance of conventional methods.

 

Dr. Nie Xin
Chongqing JianZhu College, China

Nie Xin, a teacher at Chongqing JianZhu College. Ph.D. from City University of Macau, previously worked as a research and development engineer at Changan Automobile andZhongji Zhonglian Engineering Co., Ltd., with years of practical experience in computer system development. My main research directions are the integration and application of deep learning in medical big data, federated learning, and other related fields. Published multiple academic journal papers and participated in multiple National Natural Science Foundation funded projects.

 

 

 

 

 

Previous INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Yu Qi
Zhejiang University, China

Yu Qi is a tenure-track professor and doctoral supervisor at the MOE Frontier Science Center for Brain Science and Brain-machine Integration, and the Affiliated Mental Health Center & Hangzhou Seventh People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China. Her research interests include brain-computer interface, artificial intelligence, and brain-like computing. She has proposed a series of innovative methods and systems for the dynamic modeling of brain information. She has published more than 30 academic papers and representative studies are published in NeurIPS, IJCAI, Trans. on BME, TNSRE. She is the young editor of Cyborg and Bionic Systems, the topic editor of Frontiers in Neuroscience, the program committee member of top artificial intelligence conferences NeurIPS, IJCAI, and ICML, and the reviewer of top journals such as TNNLS, TBME, and TNSRE.

Assoc. Prof. Qiufeng Wang
Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China

Dr. Qiufeng Wang is currently a senior associate professor, the head of Department of Intelligent Science at School of Advanced Technology in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), and the Director of Suzhou Municipal Key Lab of Cognitive Computing and Applied Technology. He received the Ph.D degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligence Systems from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), and won Presidential Scholarship of Chinese Academy of Sciences. After that, he worked at the National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition (NLPR) in CASIA, and then Microsoft. Dr. Wang joined XJTLU in Feb. 2017. His research interests include pattern recognition and machine learning, specially document analysis and recognition. Dr. Wang has published 70+ papers, including IEEE T-PAMI, Patten Recognition, ICCV, ICML, and published one book about deep learning in Springer. His research has been supported by both government and industry, including NSFC young programme, NSFC general programme, and CCF-Tencent.

Assoc. Prof. Ji-Zhe Zhou
Sichuan University, China

Ji-Zhe Zhou, Associate Research Professor at the School of Computer Science, Sichuan University, master supervisor; graduated from the University of Macau with a doctorate in 2021; studied and lived in top universities in Macau, Hong Kong, and South Korea since undergraduate. He joined Sichuan University as Associate Research Professor in 2021. His main research interests include the application of deep learning in the field of multimedia content security and video synthesis. He has published many papers on multimedia content security filed in top CCF-A international conferences such as ACM MM, ACL, and IJCAI, as well as CCF-A international top journals such as TIFS, TNNLS, and TASLP. He devoted himself to the field of automatic filtering of video and live content for the purpose of content security, and expanded the application of deep learning in the content security of multimedia information. He participated in a number of projects jointly funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China and the Macao Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT) and made academic reports at several international conferences.

 

Prof. Hongtao Lu
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Hongtao Lu is a professor at the department of computer science and engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research interests include machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and pattern recognition. He has authored or co-authored more than 100 research papers in journals and conference such as IEEE Transactions, Pattern Recognition, CVPR, ECCV, AAAI etc. His published papers have gotten more than 1300 citations from Web of Science, and more than 4000 citations from Google Scholar, his H-index is 37. He had served as PIs for dozens of projects from NSFC, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, Municipal Government of Shanghai, and industries. He has been continuously listed among the most cited researchers in computer science in China by Elsevier from years of 2014 to 2018. He also got several research awards from the government.

Assoc. Prof. Feng Liu
Shenzhen Univers
ity, China

Feng Liu is currently an Associate Professor at School of Computer Science & Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. She obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees both from Xidian University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China. She received her Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Department of Computing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2014. Her research interests include pattern recognition and image processing, especially focus on their applications to fingerprints. Dr. Liu has published more than 40 papers at some international journals and conferences, including IEEE TIP, TFIS, TCYB, PR, ECCV, AAAI, etc., and participated in many research projects either as principal investigators or as primary researchers. She is a reviewer for many renowned field journals and conferences and a member of the IEEE.

Dr. Kok Chin Chai
NEUON, Malaysia

Dr. Kok Chin Chai is a currently a technopreneur who received his PhD degree and completed his postdoctoral research in 2016 and 2017, respectively. He was recognized as professional technologist by Malaysia Board of Technology in 2021. He has developed novel AI models over 8 years, resulting in over 10 scientific publications in collaboration with team members at Deakin University and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. He managed several industrial-university research projects in Malaysia and Taiwan. By aggregating his research skills and business experiences, he has founded FLINKEN (Automated Manufacturing Factory) and NEUON (AI consultancy and solutions provider). Currently, he is the CEO of NEUON.

Prof. Fan Liu
Hohai University, China

Fan Liu is currently a professor of Hohai University. He received his B.S. degree of networking and Ph.D. degree of technology for computer applications from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST) in 2009 and 2015. From September 2008 to December 2008, he studied at Ajou University in South Korea. From February 2014 to May 2014, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia. His research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, and machine learning. Dr. Liu also serves as a reviewer of IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TKDE, ACM TIST, Information Sciences, Neurocomputing, Pattern Analysis and Application.

Prof. Grienggrai Rajchakit
Maejo University, Thailand

Grienggrai Rajchakit was born in 1981. He received the B.S. (Mathematics), Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, in 2003. He received the M.S. (Applied Mathematics), Chiangmai University, Chiangmai, Thailand, in 2005. He was awarded a Ph.D. (Applied Mathematics), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand, in the field of mathematics with specialized area of stability and control of neural networks. Currently, he is working as a lecturer at Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. He was the recipient of Thailand Frontier author Award by Thomson Reuters Web of Science in the year 2016 and TRF-OHEC-Scopus Researcher Awards by The Thailand Research Fund (TRF), Office of the Higher Education Commission (OHEC) and Scopus in the year 2016. His research interests are complex-valued NNs, complex dynamical networks, control theory, stability analysis, sampled-data control, multi-agent systems, T-S fuzzy theory, and cryptography, etc. Dr. Grienggrai Rajchakit serves as a reviewer for various SCI journals. He has authored and co-authored more than 149 research articles in various SCI journals.

Prof. Yaohua Wang
National University of Defense Technology, China

Yaohua Wang is a Professor and PhD advisor in the School of Computer Science of National University of Defense Technology. He was a Visiting Professor of ETHZ (2016-2017).His current research interests include computer architecture, compiler, and memory subsystem. He has published in prestigious conferences (such as ISCA(2018,2021), MICRO(2018, 2020), HPCA(2013), CVPR(2020), and DAC(2022)) and top-tier journals (such as IEEE TC(2018), IEEE TPDS(2021), and IEEE TCAD(2020)). His research received Best Paper Award at IEEE CAL 2012.

Dr. Van Thanh Huynh
Deakin University, Australia

Dr. Van Thanh Huynh is an early career researcher and lecturer at Deakin University. He received his PhD degree in robotics and control systems in 2019. Leveraging the nexus of applied mathematics and engineering, he is inspired to develop enabling technologies and engineering methodologies that assist in efficiently and effectively solving robotic, interdisciplinary, and science-driven problems. He has published in prestigious journals, including SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, IEEE Systems Journal, etc. His research is recognised with Deakin University awards. He has successfully attracted competitive funding from both industry and not-for-profit organisations.