Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Life Fellow) is Professor 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, and Machine Learning, among others. Professor Pedrycz serves as 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).
Hongbin Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 1991 and 1994, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, in 1999, all in electrical engineering.
From July 1996 to May 1999, he was a Research Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida. Since July 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, where he is a Professor. He was a Summer Visiting Faculty Member at the Air Force Research Laboratory in the summers of 2003, 2004 and 2009. His general research interests include statistical signal processing, wireless communications, and radars.
Dr. Li received the IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2013 for the best systems paper published in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE AFICON Conference in 2011, the Harvey N. Davis Teaching Award in 2003 and the Jess H. Davis Memorial Award for excellence in research in 2001 from Stevens Institute of Technology, and the Sigma Xi Graduate Research Award from the University of Florida in 1999. He has been a member of the IEEE SPS Signal Processing Theory and Methods (2011 to now) Technical Committee (TC) and the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel TC (2006--2012). He is an Associate Editor for Signal Processing (Elsevier), and served on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He was a Guest Editor for EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He has been involved in various conference organization activities, including serving as a General Co-Chair for the 7th IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) Workshop, Hoboken, NJ, June 17-20, 2012. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research has made key contributions to microwave photonics, and he is internationally renowned as a world leader in the field of photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide. Professor Minasian has contributed over 412 research publications, including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He has presented 100 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Papers at leading international conferences. He has served as Chair, Program Chair, steering and technical committees of numerous international conferences. He is the Founding Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics Laboratory. Professor Minasian was the recipient of the ATERB Medal. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (now Optica), and a Fellow of The Royal Society of NSW.
Jin-Song Dong is a professor at the National University of Singapore. His research spans a range of fields, including formal methods, safety and security systems, probabilistic reasoning, sports analytics, trusted machine learning, and verified LLM code synthesis. He co-founded the widely used commercialized PAT verification system and trusted machine learning system Silas (www.depintel.com). He served on the editorial board of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Formal Aspects of Computing, and Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, A NASA Journal. He has successfully supervised 33 PhD students, many of whom have become tenured faculty members at leading universities worldwide. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia. Jin Song developed Markov Decision Process (MDP) models for tennis strategy analysis using PAT, assisting professional players with pre-match analysis (outperforming the world's best). In his spare time, he is a Junior Grand Slam coach and takes pleasure in coaching tennis to his students, and his three children, all of whom have reached the #1 national junior ranking in Singapore/Australia. Two of his children have earned NCAA Division 1 full scholarships, while his second son, Chen Dong (professionally ranked in ATP), played #1 singles for Australia in the Junior Davis Cup World Final and participated in both the Australian Open and US Open Junior Grand Slams.
