Organization

Honorary Chair
Bernard Widrow, Stanford University, USA
International Advisory Committee Chair
Soon Fatt Yoon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
C. L. Philip Chen, University of Macau, Macau
General Chair
Guang‐Bin Huang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Organizing Chairs
Min Yao, Zhejiang University, China
Meng-Hiot Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Program Chairs
Kezhi Mao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Stefano Fusi, Columbia University, USA
Amaury Lendasse, University of Iowa, USA
M. Brandon Westover, Harvard Medical School, USA
Jonathan Wu, University of Winsor, Canada
Local Arrangement Chairs
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Huaping Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Panel Chair
Jonathan Tapson, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Special Session Chairs
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Newton Howard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chi Man Vong, University of Macau, Macau
Publication Chair
Jiuwen Cao, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Area Chairs
Kaj‐Mikael Björk, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Jin Seo Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Chenwei Deng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Zhao Yang Dong, University of Sydney, Australia
Qing He, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Vijay Manikandan Janakiraman, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Bao‐Liang Lu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Yoan Miche, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Finland
Alfredo Rosado, University of Valencia, Spain
Kar‐Ann Toh, Yonsei University, Korea
Xi‐Zhao Wang, Hebei University, China
Jianping Yin, National University of Defense Technology, China
Finance Chair
Qi Cao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
International Advisory Committee
Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, USA
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Derong Liu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
José Carlos Príncipe, University of Florida, USA
Jennie Si, Arizona State University, USA
Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michel Verleysen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong-Kong, China
Donald C. Wunsch, Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA
Zong‐Ben Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US