Prof. Kenji Suzuki
Institute of Integrated Research at Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan ( the merger between Tokyo Medical and Dental University and Tokyo Institute of Technology )

Kenji Suzuki, Ph.D. (Nagoya University) worked at Hitachi Medical Corp, Aichi Prefectural University, Japan, as a faculty member, in Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, as Assistant Professor, and Medical Imaging Research Center, Illinois Institute of Technology, as Associate Professor (Tenured). He is currently a Professor (Tenured) & Director of Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Research Unit in Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He published more than 395 papers (including 125 peer-reviewed journal papers). He has been actively researching on deep learning in medical imaging and AI-aided diagnosis in the past 25 years, especially his early deep-learning model was proposed in 1994. His papers were cited more than 16,000 times, and his h-index is 63. He is inventor on 38 patents (including ones of earliest deep-learning patents), which were licensed to several companies and commercialized. He published 15 books and edited 16 journal special issues. He has been awarded numerous grants including NIH, NEDO, and JST grants, totaling $17M. He serves as Editors of 34 leading international journals including Pattern Recognition. He chaired 114 international conferences. He received 27 awards, including 3 Best Paper Awards in leading journals. His research interests include Artificial intelligence, Deep learning, Machine learning, AI-aided system, Computer-aid diagnosis, Medical image analysis, Medical image processing, Data science.

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Chia-Feng Juang (IEEE Fellow)
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Chia-Feng Juang received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Control Engineering from the National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1993 and 1997, respectively. Since 2001, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, where he was appointed Distinguished Professor in 2009 and has served as Chair Professor since 2025. He served as the Chapter Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence, Taipei Chapter, in 2017-2018, during which the chapter won the Outstanding Chapter Award from IEEE Taipei Session. Dr. Juang has authored or coauthored over 110 journal papers (including over 65 IEEE journal papers), ten book chapters, and over 150 conference papers. His current research interests include computational intelligence, intelligent control, computer vision, intelligent robots, and AI-aided medical diagnosis.
Dr. Juang was the receipt of the Outstanding Automatic Control Engineering Award from Chinese Automatic Control Society (CACS), Taiwan, in 2014; the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, Taiwan, in 2019; and the Outstanding Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 2021. He was elevated to CACS Fellow in 2016, IEEE Fellow in 2019, and International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) Fellow in 2023. He was an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecture during 2020-2023. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS and Asian Journal of Control and an Area Editor for International Journal of Fuzzy Systems.

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Gaurav Sharma (IEEE Fellow, SPIE fellow)
University of Rochester, USA

Gaurav Sharma is a professor in the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics and Computational Biology, and a Distinguished Researcher in Center of Excellence in Data Science (CoE) at the Goergen Institute for Data Science at the University of Rochester. He received the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh in 1996. From 1993 through 2003, he was with the Xerox Innovation group in Webster, NY, most recently in the position of Principal Scientist and Project Leader. His research interests include data analytics, cyber physical systems, signal and image processing, computer vision, and media security; areas in which he has 56 patents and has authored over 225 journal and conference publications. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing from 2018 through 2020, and for the Journal of Electronic Imaging from 2011 through 2015. He is a member of the IEEE Publications, Products, and Services Board (PSPB), the IEEE Signal Processing Society Board of Governors, and chaired the IEEE Conference Publications Committee in 2017-18. He is the editor of the Digital Color Imaging Handbook published by CRC press in 2003. Dr. Sharma is a fellow of the IEEE, a fellow of SPIE, a fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) and has been elected to Sigma Xi, Phi Kappa Phi, and Pi Mu Epsilon. In recognition of his research contributions, he received an IEEE Region I technical innovation award in 2008 and the IS&T Bowman award in 2021. Dr. Sharma served as a 2020-2021 Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

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