2009 GRC Conference Keynote Speakers
Xue-wen Chen
Xue-wen Chen is currently an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the director of the Bioinformatics and Computational Life Sciences Laboratory in the Information and Telecommunication Technology Center at the University of Kansas. He is a senior IEEE member, the chair of task force in Systems Biology in the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Technical Committee, and a member in the IEEE Computer Society Bioinformatics and Biomedicine Steering Committee. He is the co-editor in Chief of the International Journal of Data Mining and Bioinformatics (SCI indexed) and also serves in the editorial board in three other international journals.
Dr. Chen received his PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA in 2001. He was a recipient of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award in 2007. He served as conference chair (and co-chairs) for the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine in 2009 and the International Conference in Machine Learning and Applications in 2008. He also served as a program committee member in numerous conferences such as KDD, CIKM and CEC. His research interest includes machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, systems biology, and statistical modeling.
T.Y.LIN
Tsau Young (T. Y.) Lin received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University, and is a Professor of Computer Science at San Jose State University and a fellow in Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing, University of California. He is the President of International Granular Computing Society, Founding President of International Rough Set Society. He shares the editor-in-Chief with Tony Xiaohua Hu for the International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems. He has/had served on various roles in reputable international journals and conferences. His interests includes data/ text/web mining, data security, granular/rough/soft computing. He received the best contribution awards from ICDM01 and International Rough Set Society (2005), and a pioneer award from GrC 2008.
Sadaaki Miyamoto
Sadaaki Miyamoto is currently a professor of the Department of Risk Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. He was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1950. He received the B.S.,M.S. and the Dr. Eng. degrees in Applied Mathematics and Physics Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1973, 1975, and 1978, respectively. Prior to his professorship at the University of Tsukuba, he was an Assistant Professor from 1980 to 1987 and Associate Professor from 1987 to 1990 in the University of Tsukuba. He also was a research scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria in 1986. He was a Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokushima, where he was working from 1990 to 1994.
His current research interests include methodology for fuzzy systems and uncertainty modeling. In particular he has been working on data clustering algorithms and related classification methods, image indexing and retrieval, bags (multisets), rough sets, metaheuristic optimization, and algorithms for data mining. He is a member of the Society of Instrumentation and Control, Engineers of Japan, Information Processing Society of Japan, the Japan Society of Fuzzy Theory and Systems, and the Institute of Systems, Control, Information Engineers of Japan, and IEEE. He has served a number of international conferences as chairs, co-chairs and committee members. He received excellent paper awards from the Japan Society of Fuzzy Theory and Systems in 1994 and 1999. He has published three books of which two are in English and the other is in Japanese. He also has published 1 edited book and over 200 research papers. In 2007, he became a fellow of the International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA).
Stephen Kwok-Wing TSUI
Stephen Kwok-Wing TSUI is currently a professor in the School of Biomedical Sciences and the directors of the Hong Kong Bioinformatics Centre and Centre for Microbial Genomics and Proteomics in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Dr. Tsui received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and 1995, respectively. He joined the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor in the Biochemistry Department in 1997. In the last 15 years, his team had characterized and named more than ten novel human genes . He is also a member of the International HapMap Consortium and had been worked on the single nucleotide polymorphisms of the chromosome 3p. During the SARS outbreak in 2003, his team was one of the earliest teams that cracked the complete genome of the SARS-coronavirus. Totally, he has published over 70 scientific papers in international journals, including Nature, New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, PNAS and Circulation.
His research interests are in bioinformatics, comparative genomics and molecular biology of clinical pathogens including human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, influenza virus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Besides, his team is also working on the identification of human non-coding RNA and the changes in human methylome during cancer progression.
Xindong Wu
Xingdong Wu is a Professor and the Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Vermont, USA. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh, Britain. His research interests include data mining, knowledge-based systems, and Web information exploration. He has published over 180 refereed papers in these areas in various journals and conferences, including IEEE TKDE, TPAMI, ACM TOIS, DMKD, KAIS, IJCAI, AAAI, ICML, KDD, ICDM, and WWW, as well as 23 books and conference proceedings. His research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, as well as industrial companies including U.S. West Advanced Technologies and Empact Solutions.
Dr. Wu is the founder and current Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), the founder and current Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems (KAIS, by Springer), the Founding Chair (2002-2006) of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), and a Series Editor of the Springer Book Series on Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP). He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE, by the IEEE Computer Society) between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2008, and served as Program Committee Chair for ICDM '03 (the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) and as Program Committee Co-Chair for KDD-07 (the 13th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining).
Professor Wu is the 2004 ACM SIGKDD Service Award winner, the 2006 IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award winner, and a 2005 Chair Professor in the Changjiang (or Yangtze River) Scholars Programme at the Hefei University of Technology appointed by the Ministry of Education of China. He has been an invited/keynote speaker at numerous international conferences including IDEAL 2009, JCKBSE 2008, HAIS 2008, NSF-NGDM'07, PAKDD-07, IEEE EDOC'06, IEEE ICTAI'04, IEEE/WIC/ACM WI'04/IAT'04, SEKE 2002, and PADD-97.
Laurence T. Yang
Dr. Laurence T. Yang is a professor in department of computer science at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes high performance, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing.
He has published around 300 papers (including around 100 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions) in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and more than 300 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), the chair of IEEE Task force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence. He is also in the steering committee of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing conference series.
In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of several international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 25 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won 5 Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)); 2 IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; 2 IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007 and 2008; one Best Paper Nomination, 2007; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 99-02/02-05/05-08.
