Invited Speakers
Assoc.
Prof. Pavel
Loskot
Zhejiang University -
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign Institute,
China
Biography: 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 25 years, he was involved in numerous collaborative research and development projects, and also held a number of paid consultancy contracts with industry. He is the Senior Member of the IEEE, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the UK, Recognized Research Supervisor of the UK Council for Graduate Education, and the IARIA Fellow. His current research interests focus on mathematical and probabilistic modeling, statistical signal processing and classical machine learning for multi-sensor data.
Assoc.
Prof. Syed Farooq Ali
University of Management &
Technology, Pakistan
Biography: Dr. Syed Farooq Ali
has around 18+ years of teaching
and research experience. His
areas of specialization include
Computer Vision, Digital Image
Processing, Medical Imaging, and
Image & Video Coding. He did his
BS from NUCES- FAST, Lahore, and
later earned an MS degree from
LUMS with Dean’s Honor List and
4th position out of a batch of
around 130 graduate students.
During his stay in MS, he was on
a LUMS fellowship. He also
completed his MS from Ohio State
University, (Col.), USA.
Moreover, he passed the Ph.D.
Comprehensive Exam (Qualifier
Exam) from Ohio State
University, Col. USA. Later, he
transferred his Ph.D. from Ohio
State University USA to UMT and
completed it.
During his
graduate studies at LUMS and
Ohio State University, he
studied a total of 34 courses.
Out of these, he studied ten
courses related to his depth
area (area of interest) that
included Computer Vision,
Medical Imaging, Image and Video
Coding, Digital Image
Processing, Artificial
Intelligence, Pattern
Recognition, Machine Learning,
Computer Graphics, Signals and
Systems, and Data Mining.
Currently, he is Associate
Professor and Chair Vision and
Image Processing Research Group
at UMT. He also served two times
as a Director Projects. Dr. Ali
has around 39 publications
including 23 journals, a book
chapter, and 15 international
conference papers. Dr. Ali is
also a reviewer of many
international conferences and
journals. He also won 8 Fundings
from National Grassroots ICT
Research Initiative (NGIRI) for
Final Year Projects. Details
available at my webpage
https://sites.google.com/site/farooq1us/home?authuser=0
Invited Speakers of 2025
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Prof. George C. Polyzos |
Prof. Wenzhe Gu |
Dr. Ahmad Bazzi |
Dr. Jianchao Zheng |
Dr. Zehong Chen |