Cognitive Systems and Signal Processing in Image Processing

Yu-Dong Zhang received his Ph.D. from Southeast University. He worked as postdoc from 2010 to 2012 in Columbia University, USA, and as an assistant research scientist from 2012 to 2013 at the Research Foundation of Mental Hygiene, USA. He served as a full professor from 2013 to 2017 in Nanjing Normal University, where he was the founding director of Advanced Medical Image Processing Group in NJNU. He currently works as a professor in the Department of Informatics, University of Leicester, UK. His research interests include deep learning, convolutional neural networks, graph convolutional networks, attention networks, explainable AI, medical image analysis, bio-inspired computing, pattern recognition, transfer learning and medical sensors.

Prof. Arun Kumar Sangaiah received his PhD from the School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India. He is currently a Full Professor with National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. He is also a Professor at the School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore, India. His areas of research interest include machine learning, Internet of Things, Sustainable Computing. He has published more than 300 research articles in refereed journals, 11 edited books, one patent (held and filed), as well as four projects funded by MOST-TAIWAN, one funded by Ministry of IT of India, and several international projects (CAS, Guangdong Research fund, Australian Research Council). Dr. Sangaiah has received many awards, Yushan Young Scholar, Clarivate Top 1% Highly Cited Researcher (2021,2022, 2023), Top 2% Scientist (Standord Report-2020,2021,2022, 2023), PIFI-CAS fellowship, Top-10 outstanding researcher, CSI significant Contributor etc. He is also serving as Editor-in-Chief and/or Associate Editor of various reputed ISI journals. Dr. Sangaiah is a visiting scientist (2018-2019) with Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China and visiting researcher of Université Paris-Est (UPEC), France (2019-2020) and etc.