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

Prof. George C. Polyzos
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China

Prof. Wenzhe Gu
Huizhou University, China

Dr. Ahmad Bazzi
New York University Abu Ahabi, UAE

Dr. Jianchao Zheng
Huizhou University, China

Dr. Zehong Chen
Huizhou University, China