KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Zhiwen Yu, Harbin Engineering University
Speech Title:
Crowd Sensing 2.0: From Human-Centered to Heterogeneous Crowd Sensing
Abstract:
Crowd sensing is a new sensing paradigm that uses individual mobile and ubiquitous sensing capability to accomplish complex sensing tasks. In this speech, I will introduce our work in crowd sensing in various aspects, such as theory, methods, and platform. Furthermore, I will present the main idea of crowd sensing 2.0, including the features and enabling technologies of heterogeneous crowd sensing.
Bio of the Keynote Speaker Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a vice president of Harbin Engineering University, China and a professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He has worked as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at Mannheim University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010, a research fellow at Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007. His research interests cover Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, and Crowd Sensing and Computing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. He has served as an associate/guest editor for a number of international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He received the CCF Young Scientist Award in 2011, the Humboldt Fellowship in 2008, and the CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2006. He got the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2017.
Bio of the Keynote Speaker Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a vice president of Harbin Engineering University, China and a professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He has worked as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at Mannheim University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010, a research fellow at Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007. His research interests cover Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, and Crowd Sensing and Computing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. He has served as an associate/guest editor for a number of international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He received the CCF Young Scientist Award in 2011, the Humboldt Fellowship in 2008, and the CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2006. He got the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2017.
Dave Towey, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
Speech Title:
Thinking Differently to Shape our Future Digital Society: Metamorphic Thinking
Bio of the Keynote Speaker
Dave Towey received his BA and MA degrees from The University of Dublin, Trinity College; PgCHE from University of Nottingham; PgCertTESOL from The Open University of Hong Kong; MEd from The University of Bristol; and PhD from The University of Hong Kong. He was the first foreign academic recipient of the Zhuhai municipal outstanding teacher award, in 2007, and he received the Lord Dearing award in 2017 for his outstanding contribution to the development of teaching and student learning. He is a full professor, and the head of the School of Computer Science, which he joined in September 2013. He also serves as deputy director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC). He was previously the associate dean for education and student experience for the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
After graduating from The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dave worked in Japan in the late 1990s, helping develop a breast cancer screening tool using ultrasound imaging technology and fuzzy reasoning. After this, he lived in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2005/2006, where, as well as completing his PhD, he worked at The University of Hong Kong, and as a teacher and teacher trainer in the local school system. In 2005, he became involved in a newly created liberal arts college in Zhuhai, Mainland China, the Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), where he remained until 2013. While at UIC, he taught modules related to computer science, linguistics, and education. He also held several roles, including deputy director of the English Language Centre, and coordinator (director) of the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) degree programme. In these roles, he oversaw delivery of a large number of pre-service and in-service training courses and workshops.
Dave's research interests span a number of areas, including technology-enhanced teaching and learning, and software testing, especially metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.
After graduating from The University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dave worked in Japan in the late 1990s, helping develop a breast cancer screening tool using ultrasound imaging technology and fuzzy reasoning. After this, he lived in Hong Kong from 2000 to 2005/2006, where, as well as completing his PhD, he worked at The University of Hong Kong, and as a teacher and teacher trainer in the local school system. In 2005, he became involved in a newly created liberal arts college in Zhuhai, Mainland China, the Beijing Normal University – Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), where he remained until 2013. While at UIC, he taught modules related to computer science, linguistics, and education. He also held several roles, including deputy director of the English Language Centre, and coordinator (director) of the Teaching English as a Second Language (TESL) degree programme. In these roles, he oversaw delivery of a large number of pre-service and in-service training courses and workshops.
Dave's research interests span a number of areas, including technology-enhanced teaching and learning, and software testing, especially metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing.
Bin Guo, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Speech Title:
Thinking Differently to Shape our Future Digital Society: Metamorphic Thinking
Bio of the Keynote Speaker Dr. Bin Guo is a professor and vice-dean with the School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in computer science from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2009. His current research interests include Ubiquitous Computing, AIoT, and Crowd Intelligence. He has published over 200 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings such as IEEE Comm. Surveys and Tutorials, ACM Computing Surveys, IEEE TMC, IEEE THMS, UbiComp, CSCW, IJCAI, etc. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine-Systems, ACM IMWUT, and so on. He is the program chair of ACM UbiComp’26, IEEE CPSCom’16, MUE’19, and GPC’20, the general chair of IEEE UIC’24 and AIoTSys’23. He is a senior member of IEEE and a distinguished member of CCF. He received the support of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2020, and the support from the National Youth Talent Support Program (Ten Thousand People Plan) in 2017. He is a Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier.