Organization
Adjunct Professor, Botswana University, Botswana
Visiting Professor, Nairobi University, Kenya
Temporary Professor, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Pier Paolo Piccaluga is an Associate Professor of Pathology at the Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Bologna University School of Medicine. He is also a co-founder and Executive Physician at the Biobank of Research, IRCCS S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital in Italy. He has led the Molecular Hematopathology Laboratory for many years.In 2018, he was appointed to teach at Queen Mary University of London (UK) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi (Kenya), and since 2023, at the University of Nairobi and the University of Botswana. He is the author of several international publications indexed in the Current Contents (including Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Journal of Experimental Medicine, Journal of Clinical Oncology, Blood, Lancet Oncology, and Lancet Infectious Diseases, with a total impact factor >1,000, a mean impact factor >6, and an H-index of 62 (ranked among the VIA-Academy Top Italian Scientists). He is the author of several presentations at national and international conferences.Dr. Piccaluga has participated in several clinical trials as a coordinator or sub-investigator and has won multiple awards for his contributions to study and research. He has served as a Principal Investigator (PI) in various research projects funded by nationally and internationally recognized organizations. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the World Journal of Hematology, Digital Medicine and Healthcare Technology, Advances in Precision Medicine, and the Journal of Cancer Biomoleculars and Therapeutics.
Carlos M. Travieso-González is a Full Professor of Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition and Head of Signals and Communications Department at ULPGC. He is co-author of 4 books, co-editor of 25 Proceedings Books, and Guest Editor for 8 JCR-ISI international journals and up to 24 book chapters. He has over 500 papers published in international journals and conferences (100 indexed on JCR – ISI - Web of Science). He is the founder of The IEEE IWOBI conference series and President of its Steering Committee, The InnoEducaTIC conference series; and The APPIS conference series. He is an evaluator of project proposals for the European Union (Horizon Europe and H2020 - EU), Medical Research Council (MRC – UK), Spanish Government (ANECA - Spain), Spanish Research Agency (AEI – Spain), Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ – Croatia), Research National Agency (ANR - France), DAAD in Spain (Germany), Argentinian Government and Colombian Institutions. He has been reviewer in different indexed international journals (<75) and conferences (<250) since 2001. He is member of IASTED Technical Committee on Image Processing since 2007 and member of IASTED Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems since 2011. He will be APPIS 2024 General Chair, , and was APPIS 2024, General Chair APPIS 2023 General Chair, APPIS 2022 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2022, ACM-APPIS 2020 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2019 General Chair, APPIS 2019 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2018 General Chair, APPIS 2018 General Chair, InnoEducaTIC 2017 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2017 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2015 General Chair, InnoEducaTIC 2014 General Chair, IEEE-IWOBI 2014 General Chair, IEEE-INES 2013 General Chair, NoLISP 2011 General Chair, JRBP 2012 General Chair and IEEE-ICCST 2005 Co-Chair. He is Associate Editor on Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience journal (Hindawi – Q2 JCR-ISI), in Entropy (MDPI – Q2 JCR-ISI) and Sensors (MDPI – Q1 JCR-ISI). In 2022, he was one of the researchers included as a member of the two percent most influential group in the world, according to the Stanford ranking in the 2022 edition.
Zefeng Wang, Distinguished Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of Huzhou University, Director of the Institute of Perception and Control Technology, College of Information Engineering, Huzhou University. He successively obtained a Bachelor's degree in applied Physics, a Master's degree in mechanical and Systems Engineering, and a Doctor's degree in mechanics, electronics, acoustics and robotics from Université Paris VI. After that, he served as an Associate Professor at the Catholic University of Paris. He moved to China in 2017 as a Distinguished Professor and concurrently served as a Guest Professor at JUNIA Grande école d'ingénieurs. At the end of 2020, he joined Huzhou University as a Distinguished Professor and jointly trained doctoral students with Sorbonne University and Lille University.
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Aamir Jalal Al-Mosawi, Children Teaching Hospital of Baghdad Medical City, Iraq
Ata Jahangir Moshayedi, Jiangxi University of science and Technology, China
Bechan Sharma, University of Allahabad, India
Belgin Sever, Anadolu University, Turkey
Congcong Zhou, Zhejiang University, China
Dilip Kumar Pratihar, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Eleni Kaldoudi, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Emin Taner Elmas, Igdir University, Turkey
Farid Menaa, CIC-Fluorotronics, Inc., USA
Ghulam Abbas, University of Nizwa, Oman
Habib Zaidi, Geneva University, Switzerland
Huseyin Canbolat, Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University, Turkey
Joanna Bojarska, Lodz University of Technology, Poland
Kenta Nakai, University of Tokyo, Japan
Kwa Lay Hoon, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Michele Mishto, King's College London, UK
Mohana Kumara Patel, Institue Posdoc and SERB Young Scientist at IIT Madras, India
Mokhnache Mohamed, Ferhat ABBAS University, Algeria
Murtaza Hasan, Department of Biotechnology, The Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan
Nan Zhang, University College Dublin, Ireland
Neelam Singh Sangwan, Central University of Haryana Mahendergarh Jant Pali, India
Olga Rybytska, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine
Oon Chern Ein, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia
Raheleh Kafieh, Durham University, UK
Rajanikanth Aluvalu, Deemed University, India
Tan Xiao Jian, Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Malaysia
Thomas Böldicke, Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany
Thomas J. Vogl, Universitätsmedizin Frankfurt, Germany
Vladimir Valentinovich Egorov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
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Cong Yan, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, China
Linhua Jiang, Overseas Chinese Science and Technology Innovation Alliance
Jianlin Lou, Huzhou University, China