ICTA Series International Conference on Advances in Information and Communication Technology
ICTA - International Conference Series
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- Institute of Robotics and Cybernetics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (FEI), Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU)
- Chairman of Academic Senate FEI STU
- Member of IFAC Technical Committee TC 4.3. Robotics
- Author of scientific monograph, several university textbooks, 50+ publications in foreign journals and 200+ other publications
- Research and lecture activities: servo systems, theory of dynamical systems, motion control systems, robotics and automation
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Vassilis C. Gerogiannis is a full-time Professor and Head in the Department of Digital Systems at the University of Thessaly in Greece. His academic subject is “Analysis & Design of Systems & Projects with Emphasis on Decision Making”. He is also adjunct Professor at the Hellenic Open University (Greece). He holds a Diploma in Computer Engineering (1992) and a PhD in Software Engineering (2001) from the University of Patras in Greece. His research interests include fuzzy decision making, software engineering, requirements engineering, systems analysis and design, software project management and machine learning. From 1992 until present, he has been participated in several R&D projects. He has been author/co-author of over 180 papers which have been published in international journals/conference proceedings and cited in a plethora of citations. He has been co-author/editor of three scientific books, member of the editorial board, guest editor and reviewer in international journals. He has served as conference chair/program chair and invited speaker in several international conferences. He has received the “best paper award” in five international conferences. He has served as member of the management board of the Hellenic National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC) and member of the Council for Research & Innovation in Thessaly region of Greece. At present, he is a member of the management committee of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Research Institute of the Research Center IASON at the University of Thessaly, member of the management committee of the Technical Chamber of Engineers in Central and Western Greece, member of the central assembly of the Technical Chamber of Engineers in Greece, member of the scientific committee of Electronics Engineers in the Technical Chamber of Greece and also member of the ACM.
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Juin J. Liou received the B.S. (honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA in 1982, 1983, and 1987, respectively. In 1987, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Central Florida (UCF), Orlando, Florida where he held the positions of Pegasus Distinguished Professor, Lockheed Martin St. Laurent Professor, and UCF-Analog Devices Fellow. Dr. Liou is currently a chair professor at North Minzu University, China. Dr. Liou’s research interests are electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection design, modeling and simulation, and characterization.
Dr. Liou holds 25 patents and has published 13 books, more than 370 journal papers (including 25 invited review articles), and more than 275 papers (including more than 130 keynote and invited papers) in international and national conference proceedings. Dr. Liou has served as a technical reviewer for various journals and publishers, general chair or technical program chair for a large number of international conferences, regional editor (in USA, Canada and South America) of the Microelectronics Reliability journal, and guest editor of 7 special issues in the IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, Microelectronics Reliability, Solid-State Electronics, World Scientific Journal, and International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.
Dr. Liou received ten different awards on excellence in teaching and research from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and six different awards from the IEEE. Among them, he was awarded the UCF Pegasus Distinguished Professor (2009) – the highest honor bestowed to a faculty member at UCF, UCF Distinguished Researcher Award (four times: 1992, 1998, 2002,, UCF Research Incentive Award (four times: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015), IEEE Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2004 for exemplary engineering teaching, research, and international collaboration, and IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award in 2014 for promoting and inspiring global education and learning in the field of electron devices. His other honors are Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, Fellow of AAIA, Fellow of Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Fellow of UCF-Analog Devices, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Electron Device Society (EDS), and Distinguished Lecturer of National Science Council. He holds several honorary professorships, including the Chang Jiang Scholar Endowed Professor – the highest honorary professorship in China.
Dr. Liou had served as the IEEE EDS Vice-President of Regions/Chapters, IEEE EDS Treasurer, IEEE EDS Finance Committee Chair, Member of IEEE EDS Board of Governors, and Member of IEEE EDS Educational Activities Committee.
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Oscal Tzyh-Chiang Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University in 1987, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He worked with the Computer Processor Architecture Department, Computer Communication & Research Laboratories (CCL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), serving a system design engineer, project leader, and section chief from 1994 to 1995. He was an associate professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University (NCCU), Chiayi, Taiwan, from September 1995 to August 2003. He also served as the Director of the Academic Development Division, Office of Research and Development, NCCU, from July 2001 to July 2004, and the Director of the Technology Transfer Center, NCCU, from July 2003 to July 2004. Since August 2003, he has been a Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, NCCU, in which he served as the Department Chair from August 2018 to July 2021. He was a visiting scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, from December 2007 to May 2008, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, from February 2011 to July 2011. He has published more than 180 journal and conference papers and five book chapters, and holds 36 Taiwan patents, 22 U.S. patents, and one Chinese patent. His research interests include multimedia processing and understanding, neural networks, VLSI systems, and communication systems. He is a life member of the Chinese Fuzzy Systems Association. In the technical society, he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine, from August 2003 to December 2006, and a founding member of the Multimedia Systems and Applications Technical Committee of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. He also participated in the technical program committees of many IEEE international conferences and symposiums. Prof. Chen has been listed among world’s top 2% of most-cited scientists by Stanford University Ranking 2021 and 2022 (Scopus).