Keynote Speakers

Prof. Akash Saxena, IEEE Senior Member
Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh

Dr. Akash received the Bachelor of Technology in Engineering with honors in Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Engineering College Kota, Kota Rajasthan, India in 2001,Master of Technology with honors in Power System Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India in 2008 and Ph.D. degree in Power System Dynamics from the Malaviya National Institute of Technology, India in 2015. Dr. Akash has presented research work at national/international conferences in India and abroad. He has had the good opportunity to gain a rich and diverse work experience of nearly a decade in both the corporate and academic worlds. His research interests are the Computational Intelligence, Application of Artificial Intelligence in the power system, Control theory, smart grid, signal processing and Metaheuristics. His research is focused on application oriented solutions that can be a beneficial tool for mankind and society. In particular, in a recent work a supervised architecture based on the Air Quality index values are proposed by Dr. Akash to classify the ambient air quality in various parts of India. During past three years, He got an opportunity to work on projects based on metaheuristic optimization algorithms. In these projects several variants of optimization algorithms was proposed and application of those are reported in Q1 journal papers (Elsevier). He recent published work in applied soft computing journal (Elsevier) on development of internal optimization based grey forecasting model is also an integral part of this project work. Addition to that, He have completed two government funded research projects sponsored by Rajasthan Technical University.

Prof. Yanjiao Chen, IEEE Senior Member
Zhejiang University, China

Yanjiao Chen received her B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2010 and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2015. She is currently a Bairen Researcher in the College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. Her research interests include ML security, AI in networking, and mobile sensing. Yanjiao has published papers in ACM CCS, IEEE INFOCOM, ICDCS, etc. Yanjiao has served on the editorial board of IEEE WCL and served as TPC member in IEEE INFOCOM, NDSS, ICNP, etc.

Assoc. Prof. Anwar P P Abdul Majeed, IEEE Senior Member
Xi'an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, China

Dr Anwar P.P. Abdul Majeed graduated with a first-class honours B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He obtained an MSc. in Nuclear Engineering from Imperial College London, United Kingdom. He then received his PhD in Rehabilitation Robotics from the Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP). He is currently serving as an Associate Professor at the School of Robotics, XJTLU. Prior to joining XJTLU, he was a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and the Head of Programme (Bachelor of Manufacturing Engineering Technology (Industrial Automation)) at the Faculty of Manufacturing and Mechatronics Engineering Technology, UMP. He is also currently serving as an adjunct lecturer at UCSI University, Malaysia. Dr Anwar is also a Visiting Research Fellow at EUREKA Robotics Centre, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.Dr Anwar is a Chartered Engineer, registered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), UK, a Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, as well as a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is also an active research member at the Innovative Manufacturing, Mechatronics and Sports Laboratory (iMAMS), UMP. His research interest includes rehabilitation robotics, computational mechanics, applied mechanics, sports engineering, renewable and nuclear energy, sports performance analysis as well as machine learning.He has authored over 60 papers in different journals, conference proceedings as well as books. He serves as a reviewer in a number of prolific journals. Dr Anwar is also a member of the Young Scientists Network of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN - ASM). With regards to learned/civil society activities, he is an active member of the IET Malaysia Local Network as well as acting as a Liaison Officer for the Imperial College Alumni Association Malaysia.