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Plenary Speakers Prof. Mihai Datcu - Paris Institute of Technology, Telecom Paris (France) Prof. Marios Polycarpou - University of Cyprus (Cyprus) Prof. Gerhard X Ritter - University of Florida (US) Prof. Ali A. Ghorbani - University of New Brunswick (Canada) Prof. James Llinas - Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) Prof. Éloi Bossé - Defence Research and Development (DRDC Valcartier) (Canada)Prof. Mihai Datcu
Mihai Datcu received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics and Telecommunications from the University "Politechnica" of Bucharest UPB, Romania, in 1978 and 1986. In 1999 he received the title "Habilitation à diriger des recherches" from Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. He holds a professorship in electronics and telecommunications with UPB since 1981. Since 1993 he is scientist with the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen. He is developing algorithms for model based information retrieval from high complexity signals and methods for scene understanding from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and interferometric SAR data. He is engaged in research related to information theoretical aspects and semantic representations in advanced communication systems. Currently he is Senior Scientist and Image Analysis research group leader with the Remote Sensing Technology Institute (IMF) of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, coordinator of the CNES-DLR-ENST Competence Centre on Information Extraction and Image Understanding for Earth Observation, and professor at Paris Institute of Technology/GET Telecom Paris. His interests are in Bayesian inference, information and complexity theory, stochastic processes, model-based scene understanding, image information mining, for applications in information retrieval and understanding of high resolution SAR and optical observations. He has held visiting professor appointments from 1991 to 1992 with the Department of Mathematics of the University of Oviedo, Spain, from 2000 to 2002 with the Université Louis Pasteur, and the International Space University, both in Strasbourg, France. In 1994 was guest scientist with the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (CSCS), Manno, Switzerland and in 2003 he was visiting professor with the University of Siegen, Germany. From 1992 to 2002 he had a longer invited professor assignment with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zürich. He is involved in advanced research programs for information extraction, data mining and knowledge discovery and data understanding with the European Space Agency (ESA), Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), NASA, and in a variety of European projects. He is member of the European Image Information Mining Coordination Group (IIMCG). Prof. Marios Polycarpou
Marios M. Polycarpou is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Interim Director of the KIOS Research Center for Intelligent Systems and Networks. He received the B.A. degree in Computer Science and the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering both from Rice University, Houston, TX, USA in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, in 1989 and 1992 respectively. In 1992, he joined the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, where he reached the rank of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science. In 2001, he was the first faculty member to join the newly established Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. Dr. Polycarpou has published more than 175 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored (with Jay Farrell) the book Adaptive Approximation Based Control, published by Wiley in 2006. He is also the holder of 3 patents. His research has been funded by several agencies in the United States, the European Commission, and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus. He was the recipient of the William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award at the University of Cincinnati (1997) and was nominated by students for the Professor of the Year award (1996). He served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-05) and as Vice President, Conferences, of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2002-03). Dr. Polycarpou is a Fellow of the IEEE and he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. Prof. Gerhard X Ritter
Much of my research has been devoted to autonomous target recognition. A direct result of this research was the development of the theory of image algebra, the theory of morphological neural networks, the notion of dendritic computing, and the notion of the generalized matrix product and its applications. My current research efforts cover such diverse areas as mine detection in the acoustic domain as well as in hyperspectral imagery, biomimetics, autonomous guidance of spinning projectiles, and further research in the area of artificial neurons with dendritic and axonal tree structures. Prof. Ali-Akbar Ghorbani
Dr. Ali Ghorbani has held a variety of positions in academia for the past 30 years including heading up project and research groups and as department chair, director of computing services, director of extended learning and as assistant dean. He received his PhD and Master’s in Computer Science from the University of New Brunswick, and the George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA, respectively. Dr. Ghorbani currently serves as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science. He holds UNB Research Scholar position. His current research focus is Web Intelligence, Network & Information Security, Complex Adaptive Systems, and Critical Infrastructure Protection. He authored more than 220 reports and research papers in journals and conference proceedings and has edited 8 volumes. He served as General Chair and Program Chair/co-Chair for 7 International Conferences, and organized over 10 International Workshops. He has also supervised more than 120 research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Ghorbani is the founding Director of Information Security Centre of Excellence at UNB. He is also the coordinator of the Privacy, Security and Trust (PST) network at UNB. Dr. Ghorbani is the co-Editor-In-Chief of Computational Intelligence, an international journal, and associate editor of the International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering and the ISC journal of Information Security. His book, Intrusion detection and Prevention Systems: Concepts and Techniques, published by Springer in October 2009. Prof. James Llinas
Dr. Llinas brings over 35 years of experience in multisource information processing and data fusion technology to his research, teaching, and business development activities. He is an internationally-recognized expert in sensor, data, and information fusion, co-authored the first integrated book on Multisensor Data Fusion, and has lectured internationally for over 30 years on this topic. In addition to the original book, Dr. Llinas is also the co-editor of the "Handbook of Multisensor Data Fusion" published in 2001. Dr. Llinas is a Technical Advisor to the Defense Department's Joint Directors of Laboratories Data Fusion Group, the only US DoD technology oversight group for Data Fusion, a position he has held for 20+ years. Dr. Llinas is a recipient of the Joseph Mignona Award (1999), given to one person per year by the Data Fusion Group as signifying lifelong contributions to the field of Data Fusion. His experience in applying this technology to different problem areas ranges from defense applications to non-defense applications to include intelligent transportation systems, medical diagnostics, and condition-based maintenance, among others. Prof. Éloi Bossé
Éloi Bossé received the B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, in 1979, 1981, and 1990, respectively. In 1981, he joined the Communications Research Centre, Ottawa, ON, Canada, where he worked on radar signal processing, high-resolution spectral analysis and radar tracking in multipath. In 1988, he was transferred to the Defence Research Establishment Ottawa (DREO) and in 1992, to the Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC Valcartier) where he worked on data and information fusion, uncertainty modeling and cognitive systems to support situation awareness and decision making. He is an Adjunct Professor at Laval University, and McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. He now heads the Decision Support Systems Section. He has published over 80 papers in journals and conference proceedings. |
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