2026 7th Asia-Pacific Conference on Image Processing, Electronics and Computers (IPEC 2026)

Prof. Zhang is a Changjiang Scholar and a nationally recognized high-level talent in China. He is the recipient of a major national talent program award and currently serves as Chief Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southeast University, China. He completed postdoctoral training at a leading university in the United States. He has held full-time and honorary academic positions—including department head, chair professor, and full professor—at numerous internationally recognized universities across the United States, United Kingdom, France, Australia, Spain, Saudi Arabia, and Japan, many of which are ranked within the top 150 globally by QS or Times Higher Education. Prof. Zhang has served as (co-)Principal Investigator for multiple national and international research projects, including those funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). He is currently the Principal Investigator of a National Key Research and Development Program project entitled “Multimodal Image Regeneration Technology …”, and a core participant in another National Key R&D project on “High-Resolution Cardiovascular …”. He has co-authored more than 100 papers in top-tier and second-tier journals classified by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), including over 80 papers in the IEEE Transactions series. His publications include more than 70 ESI Highly Cited Papers and over 20 ESI Hot Papers. According to Google Scholar, his work has received over 47,000 citations with an h-index of 116. Prof. Zhang is an Honorary Fellow of the World Leadership Academy, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation (EAI), and Fellow of the Society for Computing Machinery (SCM). He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM and serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He was recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher in China (Computer Science) from 2014 to 2018 and has been listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher globally from 2019 to 2025. He was also ranked among Stanford University’s Top 2% Scientists Worldwide from 2020 to 2023.

Raffaele Carli received his Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering with honours in 2002 and his PhD in Electrical and Information Engineering in 2016, both from Politecnico di Bari, Italy. From 2003 to 2004, he was a Reserve Officer with Italian Navy. From 2004 to 2012, he worked as System and Control Engineer and Technical Manager for a multinational company in the space and defense sector.

Currently, he is an Associate Professor in Systems and Control Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, where he is the technical lead for the Decision and Control Laboratory (coordinated by prof. http://dclab.poliba.it/people/mariagrazia-dotoli/) within the Department of Electric and Information Engineering. He has held national qualifications as a Full Professor since 2023. Since 2022 he has been Vice-Coordinator of the National PhD program in Autonomous Systems and since 2025 he has also served as Vice-Coordinator of the Interuniversity Ph.D Program in Smart and Sustainable Industry. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) journals as Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (awarded 2023 and 2024 Best Associate Editor) and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics. He is also an active member of the conference editorial boards of various events sponsored by IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) and IEEE, including those sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), and IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS). His organizational roles include positions on the committees of several IEEE conferences.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. During 1990-2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece and Heidelberg, Germany (DKFZ). During 2004-2018 he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as assoc. prof. in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, as well as visiting prof. of Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics in Communication Systems (2002-2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Digital and Intelligent Systems & Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General as well as adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the School of Basic Sciences, BIHER University, Chennai, India, as well as with the GLA university, Mathura, India and EPOKA & CIT universities, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana. He has published more than 80 research refereed journal papers in intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent & distributed systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image & signal processing/systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security and sustainability applications. He has served as program committee member as well as program/general chair at several international workshops and conferences in signal, image, communication and automation systems. He has been cited in more than 2500 research papers, and his H/G-indices are 21/51 (Google Scholar) and his Erdos number is 5. His RG score is 31.94, in the highest 10% of scientific researchers.

Xinguo Yu is the dean of CCNU Wollongong Joint Institute and a professor of National Engineering Research Center for E-Learning at Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. He is a senior member of both IEEE and ACM, and an adjunct professor of University of Wollongong, Australia. He is a vice director of Smart Educational Technology Branch Society under Automation Society in China, and the chair of Hubei Society of Artificial Intelligence in Research and Education. He received B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from Wuhan University of Technology, M. Eng degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, another M. Eng. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore. His current research mainly focuses on intelligent educational technology, educational robotics, multimedia analysis, computer vision, and machine learning. He has published over 170 research papers. He is Associate Editor and Guest Editors for several international journals. He was general chairs or program chairs or Keynote speakers for more than 30 international conferences. He is the main founder of annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education and Research.

Yuchen Jiang, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Harbin Institute of Technology. He has authored/co-authored over 50 SCI journal articles. He is a member of the "Fault Diagnosis and Safety of Technical Process" Professional Committee and the "Process Control" Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Automation, a member of the "Data Driven Control and Monitoring" Technical Committee and the "Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems" Technical Committee of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He serves as an editorial board member for top journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Cyber Physical Systems.

Dr. Lei Chen is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He earned his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa, Canada, following his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Shandong University. He is a member of the Shandong University Young Scholars Future Plan and the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA). His primary research interests include image processing, computer vision, visual quality assessment, image enhancement, abnormal behavior analysis, digital watermarking, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He currently leads several national and provincial-level projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), a sub-project of the National Key Research and Development Program of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation. He has also participated in projects funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). To date, he has published numerous papers in leading international journals and conferences, holds several national invention patents, and has served as a reviewer for internationally renowned journals and as an area chair for international conferences. He has also been invited to deliver keynote speeches and invited talks at international conferences on multiple occasions.

Chinthaka Premachandra (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Sri Lanka. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from Mie University, Tsu, Japan, in 2006 and 2008, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2011. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, Japan. From 2016 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, where he was an Associate Professor, from 2018 to 2022. In 2022, he was promoted to a Professor with the Department of Advance Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering and Graduate School of Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology, where he is currently the Director of the Image Processing and Robotic Laboratory. His research interests include AI, UAV, image processing, audio processing, intelligent transport systems (ITS), and mobile robotics. 

Pavel Loskot joined the ZJU-UIUC Institute in January 2021 as an Associate Professor after being 14 years with Swansea University in the UK. He received his PhD degree in Wireless Communications from the University of Alberta in Canada, and the MSc and BSc degrees in Radioelectronics and Biomedical Electronics, respectively, from the Czech Technical University of Prague in the Czech Republic. In the past 30 years, he was involved in numerous collaborative research and development projects, and also held a number of paid consultancy contracts with industry. He is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM and APSIPA, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education, and the IARIA 2025 Fellow. His current research interests focus on mathematical and probabilistic modeling, statistical signal processing and machine learning for multi-sensor and longitudinal data.

Dr. Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh Bhagat University in 2017 in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Swarm Intelligence and Network Simulation. He is currently working in School of Computer Science-Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam as Professor, Scientist, Vice-Chairman (Research) and Director- IoT and Intelligent Systems Lab. A Certified Professional with 125+ Professional certifications from CISCO, Microsoft, Amazon, EC-Council, Oracle, Google, Beingcert, EXIN, GAQM, Cyberoam and many more. Published more than 200+ Research Papers in various High-Quality ISI-SCI/SCIE/SSCI Impact Factor- Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 Journals cum Scopus/ESCI indexed Journals, 80+ Papers in International Conferences indexed with Springer, IEEE and ACM Digital Library, 60+ Book Chapters in various SCOPUS/WEB OF SCIENCE Indexed Books with Springer, CRC Press, Wiley, IET, Elsevier with Citations: (Google Scholar): 15300+, H-Index: 66 and I-Index: 246; (Scopus): 8000+; H-index: 47. Member of more than 60+ Associations as Senior and Life Member like: IEEE (Senior Member) and ACM (Senior Member). He has authored/co-authored cum Edited 60+ Books of Computer Science. Associated with more than 600+ International Conferences as Programme Committee/Chair/Advisory Board/Review Board member. He has 18 Australian Patents, 14 German Patents, 4 Japanese Patents, 40 Indian Design cum Utility Patents, 13 UK Patents, 1 USA Patent, 3 Indian Copyrights and 2 Canadian Copyrights to his credit in the area of Wireless Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IoT, Healthcare, Drones, Robotics and Image Processing. Awarded 48 Awards for Teaching and Research—Young Scientist, Best Scientist, Best Senior Scientist, Asia Top 50 Academicians and Researchers, Young Researcher Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, Excellence in Teaching, Best Senior Scientist Award, DTU Best Professor and Researcher Award- 2019, 2020-2021, 2022, 2022-2023 Distinguished Scientist Award by National University of Singapore, Obada Prize 2023, Lifetime Achievement Award 2023; Asian Admirable Achievers 2024; Distinguished Academic Leader 2024 and many more.

He is listed in Top 2% Scientists as per Stanford University (2020, 2021, 2022) , Ad Index (Rank No:1 Duy Tan University, Rank No:1 Computer Science in Viet Nam) and Listed on Research.com (Top Scientist of Computer Science in Viet Nam- National Ranking: 2; D-Index: 42; World Ranking: 6968).

He is acting as Associate Editor for Wireless Networks (Springer), Computer Communications (Elsevier), International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET) (Inderscience), Computers Materials and Continua (CMC), Tech Science Press- IASC, Cogent Engineering,  Human Centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), PeerJ Computer Science, IET-Quantum Communications, IET Networks, IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI), Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IJFC, IJISP, IJDST, IJCINI, IJGC, IJSIR, IJBDCN, IJNR, IJSI. He is acting as Managing Editor of IGI-Global Journal, USA titled “International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS)” and Editor-in-Chief of IGI-Global, USA Journal titled “International Journal of Smart Vehicles and Smart Transportation (IJSVST)”. He has reviewed more than 5100+ Articles for diverse Web of Science and Scopus Indexed Journals. He is currently researching in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Swarm Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Healthcare Informatics, Big Data and Wireless Communications.

Deepak Kumar Jain (Senior Member, IEEE, Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China) received the B.E. degree in electronics and instrumentation from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, India, in 2010, the M. Tech. degree in electronic and telecommunication from the Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology, Raghogarh-Vijaypur, India, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system from the Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2018., Area Chair of The 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey 2024. Area Chair of The IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), New York, USA, 2024.Editorial Board Member of Information Fusion Journal, He has presented several papers in peer-reviewed conferences and has authored or co-authored numerous studies in science cited journals. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, pattern recognition, and computer vision.

Suraiya Jabin, ACM professional membership Professor in Department of Computer Science, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. She brings 22 years of extensive experience in teaching and conducting research in the field of Computer Science. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Department of Computer Science, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India in 2009. Her research interests include Pattern recognition, Artificial intelligence, Behavioral biometrics, Smartphone-sensors & EEG based biometrics, Computational Biology, and Medical Imaging. Her work focuses on providing AI and deep learning based solutions to problems in Biometrics, Healthcare, and Postgenomic biology.

Dr. Pooja Singh received her Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University). She has experience of 21 years in world’s leading CMMi-5 software multinational companies, research organizations and academic institutes. She is currently Assistant Professor in SIES Graduate School of Technology, Navi Mumbai, and has distinction of working in the field of Image processing, Artificial intelligence, Mathematical Modelling, reliability engineering, safety engineering and other mathematical sciences for to solve the various technical challenges in Nuclear Power Plants. She has an illustrious career and succeeded in several critical jobs assigned to him in his illustrious career, though, each of them was challenging. Her assignments over the years range from design, development, testing, IV&V, related research and site validation of the safety critical computer based systems of Indian Nuclear Power Plants. She has published several research papers in journals of high impact factor like IEEE Transactions, IEEE Computer, ACM, Elsevier, Quality & Reliability International, etc. She is recipient of many awards like prestigious IEEE K. Shankar award, publication award, etc. She has also received IEEE Woman Technologist award. She is a reviewer of several SCI indexed journals of high impact factor, including 14 different IEEE Transactions. She is a life member of Indian Nuclear Society. She is a Senior Member of IEEE. She has been invited for keynote speeches, and talks in many international IEEE and other conferences. She is a member of editorial board of many reputed journals and guest lead editor of many special issues. She is supervising many PhD students of different reputed institutes. She is actively involved in formation of interdisciplinary Centre of Dependability Engineering at IIT (BHU). She has several international research collaborations. Her research interests are in the area of mathematical modelling, image processing, artificial intelligence, reliability, system design, safety and security of safety critical computer based systems. So far she has completed many projects of Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India and Department of Science and Technology, India.