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Distinguished speakers in the field will be invited as Keynote speakers. Among the high-profile speakers to be invited are:
Dato’ Dr Hj Ahmad Sabirin Arshad is formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Aerospace Ventures, a subsidiary of oil and gas company, UZMA Berhad. He has also held various positions in Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd (ATSB), an MOF Inc. company, where he last served as Group Managing Director/CEO from 2000 to 2019.
He is among the pioneering group of engineers involved in the development of MEASAT-1 satellite at Hughes Aircraft Company (now Boeing). He is also in the pioneering team for the development of Malaysia’s first microsatellite, TiungSAT-1 which was launched into orbit on 26 September 2000. He subsequently led the team of engineers for the design, development, launch and operations of the country’s second satellite, RazakSAT. Dato’ Dr Hj Ahmad Sabirin is also instrumental in leading the team that provided logistics and scientific support for the launch of Malaysia’s first Angkasawan to the International Space Station in 2007.
Other notable programmes that he has led include the deployment of the National Tsunami Early Warning System (Sistem Amaran Awal Tsunami Nasional), and Environmental-Friendly Radiation Detector.
Nagen has been in the ICT industry for more than 30 years. A graduate in Applied Science from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. He is Result Oriented Business Technology consultant that majors in finding the right technology fit to an enterprise challenge.
He was entrepreneur for about 20 years building and managing a software development organization and then in 2006 joined MIMOS Bhd the National R&D for ICT as Director for Software. His role in MIMOS was to ensure products were developed using Frontier technology which was patented in the research labs.
He is now the CTO of Censof Holding Bhd driving the technology domain for various subsidiaries ensuring that the products are aligned to technologies such as AI/ML, RPA, Blockchain, Digital Payment and Enterprise Application Integration.
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Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. Dr. Pedrycz is a foreign member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is a recipient of several awards including Norbert Wiener award from the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, IEEE Canada Computer Engineering Medal, a Cajastur Prize for Soft Computing from the European Centre for Soft Computing, a Killam Prize, a Fuzzy Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and 2019 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society.
His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, Granular Computing, knowledge discovery, data science, and knowledge-based neural networks among others.
Dr. Pedrycz is involved in editorial activities. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Co-editor-in-Chief of Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer) and J. of Data Information and Management (Springer).
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Professor San Murugesan is Director of BRITE Professional Services; an Adjunct Professor in the School of Computing at Western Sydney University; and Honorary Professor at Amity University. He is former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Computer Society’s IT Professional magazine. He has vast experience in both academia and industry. He successfully led development of innovative IT projects; provided leadership in research and development; conceived and led several academic programs; and offered consultancy services. His expertise and interests span a range of areas: artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, quantum computing, green computing, cloud computing, digital transformation, sustainability, and emerging trends in IT.
He is editor or co-editor of 12 books and author of 17 book chapters and 17 reports on contemporary topics in IT. His books include Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing and Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, both published by Wiley and IEEE Press in 2016 and 2012; both these books translated into Chinese. He has guest edited 40 journal special issues on a range of topics. He is a Distinguished Speaker of ACM and Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society.
He worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the NASA Ames Research Center in California and served as professor of computer science at Southern Cross University in Australia. Prior to these, he worked at the Indian Space Agency in Bangalore in senior roles and led development of onboard microcomputer systems for attitude control of several Indian satellites.
Murugesan is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers and IICA. He is a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society and a Life Senior Member of IEEE.
In recognition of his “wide-ranging significant contributions,” he was awarded the IEEE Computer Society’s highest service award, “Distinguished Service Certificate.” For further details, see his Web page: www.tinyurl.com/san1bio.
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