Keynote Speakers

Kong Xiangjie

The Vice Dean and Professor at the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology. He is a recipient of the Zhejiang Provincial Outstanding Youth Fund, a Qianjiang Distinguished Expert of Hangzhou, and a Canal Young Scholar at Zhejiang University of Technology. He is also the founder and director of the Urban Science and Social Computing Laboratory. His primary research areas include urban computing, social computing, and knowledge management. He has published and accepted over 200 papers in internationally renowned journals and conferences such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IJCAI, and ACM Computing Surveys, with more than 180 of these papers indexed by SCI. He has been consistently listed in Stanford's Global Top 2% Scientists (including both the Career-long and Single-year Impact lists) and has been recognized as a top scientist in the field of computer science, reported by authoritative media such as Nature Index and ScienceNet. He has been granted over 30 invention patents and has led the completion of numerous national and provincial-level research projects. He serves as an Editor for international SCI journals including Wireless Communications and Computing, PeerJ Computer Science, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and Electronics. Additionally, he has been a (Lead) Guest Editor for special issues of several international SCI journals such as Pervasive and Mobile Computing, IEEE Access, and International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks.

Dimitrios A. Karras

Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at EPOKA University, Albania, specializes in research areas including intelligent and distributed systems, complex systems and sustainability, multi-agent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing systems, biomedical systems, communications and networks, and security and sustainability applications. He has published over 99 high-quality journal papers and 191 conference papers in related fields, and has edited more than 20 books. As of September 10, 2024, his research has been cited over 3,500 times by other researchers, with H-index and G-index values of 25 and 73, respectively (Google Scholar). His Research Interest Score on ResearchGate is 1402, placing him in the top 5% of the ResearchGate member database. Currently, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovative Technology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (IJITIS) and International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering. Additionally, he is an editorial board member for journals such as Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Journal CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology.