IEEE ICIBA 2024 Keynote Speakers


Dr. Lei Zhang, University of Regina, Canada

Dr. Lei Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Regina (Canada). She received her MSc degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Durham University (UK) in 2006, and her PhD degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Brunel University (UK) in 2012. From 2006 to 2013, she worked in the UK as an electronic design engineer with The Welding Institute, and later as a hardware design consultant with the Cambridge Technology Group. She is the electronic system designer for the commercial ultrasound testing system Teletest Focus+. Dr. Zhang has been granted with the title of Chartered Engineer (CEng) by British Engineering Council, and the title of European Engineer (EUR ING) by the European Federation of National Engineering Associations (FEANI). She is a registered Professional Engineer (PEng) in Canada with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Saskatchewan (APEGS).


Dr. Zhiyuan Zhu, Southwest University

Dr. Zhiyuan Zhu is currently a Professor at Southwest University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from Peking University in January 2016. And then he joined Zhejiang University as an assistant professor. In September 2019, he joined Southwest University as a full professor. Prof. Zhu has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and contributed 10 invited or keynote conference talks. He also served as TPC member or Session Chair for more than 10 conferences. Prof. Zhu was awarded as the outstanding researchers at Chongqing Institute of Electronics in 2021. He is the formal Committee member of IoT Young Scientist Technical Group at Chinese Institute of Electronics. He also serves as editorial board member for Plos One, Electronics and guest editor for Sensors, Processes.


Dr. Xiaoyang Liu, Chongqing University of Technology

Pro.dr. Xiaoyang Liu is a full professor of Computer Science at the Chongqing University of Technology. He is a high-level innovative talent of Elite Plan of Banan District.He received Ph.D. degree in communication and information systems from Northwestern Polytechnical University. He has completed his first Post-doctoral fellow in Chongqing University, China. Then he completed his second Post-doctoral fellow in department of electrical of computer engineering, The University of Alabama, USA. He is a distinguished member of CCF,and a member of IEEE and ACM. His main research interests are in the areas of social network, information diffusion, complex network, data mining, computer application. He is a reviewer of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, Computer Networks and other authoritative journals. He has presided research on more than 50 national and provincial projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the National Social Science Foundation, Science and Technology projects of the National Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Education. In Expert Systems with Applications, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Nonlinear Dynamics, Physica A, Applied Intelligence and other important journals and conferences at home and abroad more than 100 academic papers (SCI included); more than 30 national invention patents have been authorized. He has published 4 academic monographs.