Committee
Conference General Chair
Prof. Ram Bilas Pachori
Fellow of IETE, IEI, and IET
Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India
Biography：
Ram Bilas Pachori received the B.E. degree with honours in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Rajiv Gandhi Technological University, Bhopal, India in 2001, the M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 2003 and 2008, respectively.
He worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Charles Delaunay Institute, University of Technology of Troyes, France during 2007-2008. He served as an Assistant Professor at Communication Research Center, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India during 2008-2009. He served as an Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India during 2009-2013. He worked as an Associate Professor at Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore during 2013-2017 where presently he has been working as a Professor since 2017. Currently, he is also associated with Center for Advanced Electronics at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He was a Visiting Professor at Neural Dynamics of Visual Cognition Lab, Free University of Berlin, Germany during July-September, 2022. He has served as a Visiting Professor at School of Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Taylor’s University, Malaysia during 2018-2019. Previously, he has worked as a Visiting Scholar at Intelligent Systems Research Center, Ulster University, Londonderry, UK during December 2014.
His research interests are in the areas of Signal and Image Processing, Biomedical Signal Processing, Nonstationary Signal Processing, Speech Signal Processing, Brain-Computer Interfacing, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence & Internet of Things in Healthcare.
He is an Associate Editor of Electronics Letters, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control and an Editor of IETE Technical Review journal. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of IETE, IEI, and IET. He has served as member of
review boards for more than 100 scientific journals. He has also served in the scientific committees of various national and international conferences. He has delivered more than 250 talks and lectures in conferences, workshops, short term courses, and academic events organized by various institutes. He has been ranked #21 in India among top scientists for 2022 in the field of Computer Science by Research.com website (March, 2022). He has been listed in the world's top 2 % scientists in the study carried out at Stanford University, USA (October, 2020, October, 2021, and October, 2022). He has received several awards including Achievement Award (IICAI conference, 2011), Best Paper Award (ICHIT conference, 2012), Excellent Grade in the Review of Sponsored Project (DST, 2014), Best Research Paper Awards (IIT Indore, 2015 & 2016), Premium Awards for Best Papers (IET Science, Measurement & Technology journal, 2019 & 2020), IETE Prof. SVC Aiya Memorial Award (2021), and Best Paper Award (DSPA Conference, 2022).
He has supervised 14 Ph.D., 23 M.Tech., and 42 B.Tech. students for their theses and projects (15 Ph.D., 03 M.Tech., 01 M.S. (by Research), and 07 B.Tech. under progress). He has 266 publications which include journal papers (164), conference papers (72), books (08), and book chapters (22). He has also three patents: 01 Australian patent (granted) and 02 Indian patents (filed). His publications have been cited approximately 12,000 times with h-index of 57 according to Google Scholar. He has worked on various research projects with funding support from SERB, DST, DBT, CSIR, and ICMR.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Mohamed Elhag
King Abdulaziz Univeristy, Saudi Arabia
Biography：
Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhag obtained his Ph.D. degree from an Interdepartmental Program, School of Agricultural Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece in Water Resources Management. He is the author of several articles published in reputed journals and is a member of different international working groups related to hisbackground. Prof. Elhag teaches a wide variety of Remote Sensing courses for under and postgraduate students. He is a Professor of Remote Sensing, Springer Nature Editorial Board (AJGS, ESEV), MDPI Editorial Board (Sustainability),IUCN member of Commission on Ecosystem Management (CEM). He is a Tenure track Professor of Department of Water Resources, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia and a Research Fellow inThe State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), China.
Organizing Committee Chair
Prof. Chunmei Wang
Northwest University, China
Biography：
Wang Chunmei, professor and doctoral supervisor of Northwest University. She has been a visiting scholar at Iowa State University, USA, and CSIRO, Australia. Her research is mainly about quantitatively assessing regional soil erosion using remote sensing and GIS. In recent years, she has chaired 3 national projects, including the National Key R&D Program of China for young scientists and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She also participated in more than 10 national projects, including the National 973 Project, the National Key R&D Program of China, and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, et al.. She has published more than 70 papers and 5 monographs. Her main academic contributions are to participate in proposing remote sensing survey methods for soil and water loss assessment applicable to large regions, and she has conducted a series of works in multi-scale gully erosion monitoring and simulation and built the ephemeral gully location prediction model at the regional scale. The methods for soil and water conservation survey in extreme rainstorms raised by Prof. Wang was adopted by the Ministry of Water Resources of P.R. China.
Publication Chair
A. Prof. Lei Chen
Shandong University, China
Biography：
Chen Lei, Ph.D., Associate Professor and master Tutor, School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University. He received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Ottawa, Canada, and his bachelor and master degrees from the School of Information Science and Engineering of Shandong University. Future Program for Young Scholars, Shandong University, member of the Chinese Association of Automation.His research interests include image processing and computer vision, digital watermarking and visual quality assessment, and machine learning and artificial intelligence. He is now the director of the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Key Research and Development Program sub-project, the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province, the China Postdoctoral Fund, and has participated in a number of national provincial and ministerial scientific research projects such as the Canadian Science and Engineering Research Fund. At present, he has published a number of important international academic journals and conferences, obtained a number of national invention patents, and served as the reviewer of some internationally renowned journals and the field chairman of international conferences.
| Organizing Committee Member |
Prof. Qiangqiang Yuan, Wuhan University, China
Prof. Chunmei Wang, Northwest University, China
Prof. Hongtao Duan, Northwest University, China
Prof. Xuhong Wang, Northwest University, China
Prof. Maja Molna, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Croatia
Prof. Jan Kratzer, Berlin Institute of Technology, Germany
A.Prof. Yansheng Li, Wuhan University, China
Assoc. Prof. Chang Huang, Northwest University, China
Assoc. Prof. Lei Wang, Northwest University, China
Assoc. Prof. Jianhong Liu,Northwest University, China
Assoc. Prof. Peijun Sun, Northwest University, China
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zhaowu Yu, Fudan University，China
Assoc. Prof. Ashraf Dewan，Curtin University, Australia
Dr. Siaka Abdulfatai, Federal University，Nigeria
Dr. Azad Rasul, Soran University, Iraq
| Technical Program Committee Member |
Prof. Eng. Massimiliano Pepe University G. D’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Assis. Prof. Dr. Ran Duan, The Hongkong Polytechnic University, China
Assoc. Prof. Jian Yang, China University of Geosciences, China
Assoc. Prof. Chen Tao, China University of Geosciences, China
Assoc. Prof. Thota Sivasankar, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Area, NIIT University, India
Assoc. Prof. Yufu Zang, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Qingyun Yan, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China
Assoc. Prof. Li Wei, Lanzhou Jiaotong University, China
Assoc. Prof. Qingzhi Zhao, Xi'an University of Science and Technology, China
Dr. Tao Zhang, Beijing Institute of Satellite Information Engineering, China
Dr. Anxin Ding, Hefei University of Technology, China
