Prof. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.,He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He is also the Project Leader of SPMF, an open-source data mining library, which is a toolkit offering multiple types of data mining algorithms. He has published more than 500 research papers in refereed journals and international conferences. His research interests include data mining, soft computing, artificial intelligence, social computing, multimedia and image processing, and privacy-preserving and security technologies.,Prof. Lin also serves as the Editor-in-Chief for the International Journal of Data Science and Pattern Recognition and an Associate Editor for several top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. He is the Fellow of IET and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Prof. Ning Xiong, Mälardalen University, Sweden

Ning Xiong is Professor of Artificial Intelligence. He obtained the Ph.D with Excellent distinction from the University of Kaiserslautern (Germany) in 2000. His research addresses various aspects of computational intelligence techniques, incuding machine learning and big data analytics, evolutionary computing, fuzzy systems, uncertainty management, as well as multi-sensor data fusion, for building self-learning and adaptive systems in industrial and medical domains. He is serving as editorial board members for three international journals. He also has been invited keynote speakers, program committee chairs for internastional conferences and guest editors of special issues for leading journals.

Prof. Jianhua Zhang, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway

Jianhua Zhang is currently a Professor of Computer Science at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. His recent research interests are in the fields of computational intelligence, machine learning, intelligent systems and control, biomedical signal processing, and neurocomputing. In those fields he has published 4 books, 11 book chapters, and around 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. Dr Zhang served as Chair of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee on Human-Machine Systems for two consecutive terms (2017-2023) and Vice Chair of IEEE Norway Section (2019-2023). He currently serves as Vice Chair of IFAC Technical Committee on Human-Machine Systems and Vice Chair for IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society) Norway Chapter. Dr Zhang is on editorial board of four international journals, including Frontiers in Neuroscience, Cognitive Neurodynamics (Springer), and Cognition, Technology & Work (Springer). He served as IPC Co-Chair for IFAC LSS 2013 (Shanghai) and HMS 2016 (Kyoto), and IPC Chair for IFAC HMS 2019 (Tallinn) and HMS 2022 (San Jose). He was also a keynote speaker or chair for a number of other international scientific conferences.

Assoc. Prof. Sami Brandt, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Prof. Sami Brandt got his doctoral degree in 2002 in Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, on the geometric branch of computer vision applied to electron tomography. After the doctoral degree he worked for one year as a research scientist in Instrumentarium Corporation Imaging Division, Finland, a couple of years in Helsinki University of Technology, Oulu University, Finland, and Malmö University, Sweden, and Nordic Bioscience Imaging/Synarc Imaging Technologies in Denmark. He currently work as associate professor in the Image Group in University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He have been a member of the IEEE, member of the Pattern Recognition Society of Finland, member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and member of the Finnish Inverse Problems Society.