Invited Speakers

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Invited Speaker I

Prof. Shingo Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi University, Japan

Shingo Yamaguchi received his B.E., M.E., and D.E. degrees from Yamaguchi University in Japan in 1992, 1994, and 2002, respectively. In 2007, he was a visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, he is a full professor at the Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation and the director of the Center for Data Science and Information Education at Yamaguchi University. His research interests include AI, the IoT, and cybersecurity. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Internet of Things and Cyber-Assurance; an Editor of the ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology; and an Associate Editor of Springer Nature Computer Science. He has served on the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Board of Governors and as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. He has also served as Conference Chair for many conferences, including IEEE GCCE 2014, GCCE 2015, and ICCE 2021. He is a senior member of the IEEE.

 

Invited Speaker II

Dr. Chenglong Shao, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Chenglong Shao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Networks at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, a position he has held since 2023. He received his B.S. in Information and Communications Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Korea University, South Korea, in 2019. He previously served as a Research Professor at Korea University in 2019, a JSPS International Research Fellow at Kyushu University from 2021 to 2023, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside, in 2024. His research interests span wireless networking, IoT-enabled mobile computing, wireless security, and networked embedded systems. He has authored over 30 first-author papers in leading international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His work has been recognized with more than 10 international awards, such as the CANDAR 2022 Best Paper Award, the 25th Samsung Humantech Paper Award – Bronze Prize in 2019, and the 1st Place Transactions Award of 2018 Annual IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester W. Sall Memorial Awards in 2018. He serves as an editor for Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC) and the Journal of Information and Intelligence. He is an active member of the research community, contributing as a TPC member at over 20 international conferences and as a reviewer for more than 40 academic journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.