Keynote Speakers
Prof. Wei Xiang
Fellow of IET
Fellow of Engineers
Australia
Vice Chair of the IEEE Northern
Australia Section
La Trobe
University, Australia
Biography: Wei Xiang (S’00–M’04–SM’10)
Professor Wei Xiang is Cisco Research Chair
of AI and IoT and Director of the Cisco-La
Trobe Centre for AI and IoT at La Trobe
University. Previously, he was Foundation
Chair and Head of Discipline of IoT
Engineering at James Cook University,
Cairns, Australia. Due to his instrumental
leadership in establishing Australia’s first
accredited Internet of Things Engineering
degree program, he was inducted into Pearcy
Foundation’s Hall of Fame in October 2018.
He is an elected Fellow of the IET in UK and
Engineers Australia. He received the TNQ
Innovation Award in 2016, and Pearcey
Entrepreneurship Award in 2017, and
Engineers Australia Cairns Engineer of the
Year in 2017. He was a co-recipient of four
Best Paper Awards at WiSATS’2019, WCSP’2015,
IEEE WCNC’2011, and ICWMC’2009. He has been
awarded several prestigious fellowship
titles. He was named a Queensland
International Fellow (2010-2011) by the
Queensland Government of Australia, an
Endeavour Research Fellow (2012-2013) by the
Commonwealth Government of Australia, a
Smart Futures Fellow (2012-2015) by the
Queensland Government of Australia, and a
JSPS Invitational Fellow jointly by the
Australian Academy of Science and Japanese
Society for Promotion of Science
(2014-2015). He was the Vice Chair of the
IEEE Northern Australia Section from
2016-2020. He was an Editor for IEEE
Communications Letters (2015-2017), and is
currently an Associate Editor for IEEE
Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE
Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, and
Nature journal of Scientific Reports. He has
published over 250 peer-reviewed papers
including 3 books and 200 journal articles.
He has severed in a large number of
international conferences in the capacity of
General Co-Chair, TPC Co-Chair, Symposium
Chair, etc. His research interest includes
the Internet of Things, wireless
communications, machine learning for IoT
data analytics, and computer vision.
Speech Title: When Artificial
Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things:
Motivations, Challenges, and Applications
Abstract: Artificial Intelligence of
Things (AIoT) is a newly emerging technology
that combines IoT and AI technologies to
enable decision making and analytics at IoT
devices. IoT enables networks of physical
objects that are equipped with sensors,
software, and other technologies to exchange
data with other devices and systems over the
internet, while AI enables data analytics
and automated decision making. This talk
will start with the motivations of combining
AI and IoT technologies as well as the
associated challenges. Then Prof. Wei Xiang
will talk about his experience in setting up
Australia’s first accredited IoT Engineering
program at James Cook University, as well as
establishing Australia’s only
industry-sponsored research centre that
specialises in synergizing between AI and
IoT technologies at La Trobe University.
Before concluding the talk, Prof. Wei Xiang
will talk about a wide range of applications
and use cases his AIoT Centre has been
working on in Australia.
Prof. Kanta Matsuura
Fellow of IPSJ
University of Tokyo,
Japan
Biography: Kanta Matsuura received his Ph.D.
degree in electronics from the University of
Tokyo in 1997. He is currently a Professor
of Institute of Industrial Science at the
University of Tokyo. From March 2000 to
March 2001, he was a visiting scholar at
University of Cambridge. His research
interests include cryptography,
computer/network security, and security
management such as security economics. He
was an Associated Editor of IPSJ Journal
(2001-2005) and IEICE Transactions on
Communications (2005-2008), and won
Distinguished-Service Award from the IEICE
Communications Society in 2008. He was
Editor-in-Chief of Security Management
(2008-2012), and is an Editorial-Board
member of Design, Codes, and Cryptography
(2010-present), and an Area Editor of
Journal of Cybersecurity (2022-present). He
is a fellow of IPSJ. He is a senior member
of IEEE, ACM, and IEICE. He is President of
JSSM (Japan Society of Security Management)
(2021-present).
Speech Title: Social Acceptability of
Blockchain and How to Reduce Its Electric
Power Consumption
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