Organization

Honorary Chair
Bernard Widrow, Stanford University, USA
International Advisory Committee Chair
Soon Fatt Yoon, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
General Chairs
Guang‐Bin Huang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
M. Brandon Westover, Harvard Medical School, USA
Organizing Chairs
Meng-Hiot Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Newton Howard, University of Oxford, UK
Fuchun Sun, Tsinghua University, China
Program Chairs
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Amaury Lendasse, University of Iowa, USA
Yoan Miche, Nokia Solutions and Networks, Finland
Chi Man Vong, University of Macau, Macau
Local Arrangement Chair
Hao Yu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Publication Chair
Jiuwen Cao, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China
Award Committee Chair
Lei Zhang, Chongqing University, China
Special Session Chairs
Erik Cambria, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Newton Howard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Chi Man Vong, University of Macau, Macau
Area Chairs
Aryaz Baradarani, University of Windsor, Canada
Kaj‐Mikael Björk, Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland
Huajun Chen, Zhejiang University, China
Yiqiang Chen, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Jin Seo Cho, Yonsei University, Korea
Chenwei Deng, Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Zhao Yang Dong, University of Sydney, Australia
Qing He, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Vijay Manikandan Janakiraman, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Nan Liu, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Bao‐Liang Lu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Muhammad Rizwan, George Institute of Technology, USA
Emilio Soria, University of Valencia, Spain
Xi‐Zhao Wang, Shenzhen University, China
Zhu Liang Yu, South China University of Technology, China
Finance Chair
Qi Cao, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
International Advisory Committee
Bir Bhanu, University of California, Riverside, USA
Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, UK
Hisao Ishibuchi, Osaka Prefecture University, Japan
Yoshifusa Ito, Aichi Medical University, Japan
Yaochu Jin, University of Surrey, UK
Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Kay Chen Tan, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michel Verleysen, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Jun Wang, Chinese University of Hong-Kong, China
Zidong Wang, Brunel University, UK
Zong‐Ben Xu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China
Min Yao, Zhejiang University, China
Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, UK
Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US