Prof. Jeng-Shyang Pan (IET Fellow)
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

Jeng-Shyang Pan received the B. S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology in 1986, the M. S. degree in Communication Engineering from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh, U.K. in 1996. He has published more than 900 papers in which around 500 papers are indexed by SCI, the H-Index is 79 and the total cited times are more than 25000. He owns more than 80 patents. He has edited or authored more than 100 books. He is the IET Fellow, UK and has been the Vice Chair of IEEE Tainan Section. He was Awarded Gold Prize in the International Micro Mechanisms Contest held in Tokyo, Japan in 2010. He was also awarded Gold Medal in the Pittsburgh Invention & New Product Exposition (INPEX) in 2010, Gold Medal in the International Exhibition of Geneva Inventions in 2011 and Gold Medal of the IENA, International “Ideas – Inventions – New products“, Nuremberg, Germany. His current research interests include computational intelligence, artificial intelligence and smart city.

Prof. Sergei Gorlatch
University of Muenster, Germany

Sergei Gorlatch has been Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster in Germany since 2003. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, all in Germany. His research interests include algorithms, software, and applications for high-performance parallel and distributed systems, as well as modern networking including SDN, e-Learning and online gaming.
Prof. Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in refereed international books, journals, and conferences. Among his recent achievements at top international conferences are the following: the paper at the ACM ICFP was recognized as an ACM SIGPLAN Research Highlight with a publication in the Communications of the ACM; the paper presented at the ACM/IEEE CGO was prized with the Best Paper Award of the conference.
Sergei Gorlatch holds MSc degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the National State University of Ukraine, PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, and Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the University of Passau in Germany.