Keynote Speakers 

Prof. Minho Jo
IEEE Senior Member
Korea University, South Korea
 

Speech: A State Space Model Overcoming Transformer

Bio: Minho Jo (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.A. degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju, South Korea, in 1984, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, in 1994.He is the Full Professor with the Department of Computer Convergence Software, Korea University, Sejong, South Korea, where he is the Director of the IoT & AI Lab. Prof. Jo is the Director of Brain Korea 21 "IoT Data Science" supported by the Korean government. Prof. Minho Jo is named in the 2024 World’s TOP 2% Scientists List, which is made by Stanford University and Elsevier. His current research interests include IoT, blockchain, LLM/ChatGPT, artificial intelligence and optimization theory, big data, network security, cloud/edge computing, wireless energy harvesting, and autonomous vehicles. The average number of citations per publication authored by Prof. Minho Jo (from 2013 through 2022) is 41.7 and Average Field-Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) of Prof. Minho Jo (from 2013 through 2022) is 4.42 (based on SCOPUS SciVal. Exactly FWCI = 1 means that the output performs just as expected for the global average. FWCI = 4.42 means 342% more cited than the global average.)

Prof. Jo is a recipient of the 2018 IET Best Paper Premium Award by the United Kingdom's Royal Institute of Engineering and Technology. He was awarded with 2011 Headong Outstanding Scholar Prize. He is one of the founders of the Samsung Electronics LCD Division. He is the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (SCIE/JCR and SCOPUS indexed. https://itiis.org). He was the South Korea's Presidential Commission on Policy Planning. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE SYSTEMS JOURNAL, IEEE ACCESS, IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL, Editor of IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and Editor of NETWORK, respectively. Prof. Minho Jo is the Chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information and Communication Technologies (AICT 2023), and the General Co-Chair of VTC2021-Fall (2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference), respectively.

 

Prof. Laura Ricci
University of Pisa, Italy
 

Speech: Addressing the blockchain trilemma: scalability solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum (Read more)

Bio: Laura Ricci received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, where she is currently a full professor. Her research interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchains, web3 and metaverse, and social network analysis. She has published over 150 papers in international journals and international conference/workshop proceedings, served as local coordinator of the H2020 European Helios project, and chaired several workshops. She is currently co-chair of the BRAIN workshop on Blockchain theory and Applications and has also been a TPC co-chair and chair of international conferences on blockchain technology. She has been a member of the Italian national commission for the definition of a national strategy for blockchain, and a member of the Bank of Italy committee for the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the call for proposals on Distributed Ledger Technology. She is associate editor of the following journals: Elsevier BlockchainResearch and Applications, ACM DLT Technologie, Springer Peer to Peer Networking and Applications, Springer Applied Network science.
 

 

Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
 

Speech:  Towards AI powered Trustworthy Decentralized Internet  (Read more)

Bio: Gyu Myoung Lee is a professor at the Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU), UK. He was affiliated with KAIST, Daejeon, Rep. of Korea, as an Adjunct Professor from 2012 to 2024. Before joining the LJMU in 2014, he worked at the Institut Mines-Telecom from 2008. Until 2012, he was invited to work at ETRI, Rep. of Korea. He worked as a research professor at KAIST, Rep. of Korea and as a guest researcher at NIST, USA, in 2007. His research interests include Internet of Things, digital twin, computational trust, blockchain with privacy preservation, data and AI governance, knowledge centric networking and services considering all vertical services, Smart Grid, energy saving networks, cloud-based big data analytics platform and multimedia networking and services.
Prof. Lee has been actively participating in standardization meetings including ITU-T SG 13 and SG20, IETF and oneM2M, etc., and currently serves as a Working Party chair and the Rapporteur of Q16/13 on trustworthy networking and services and Q4/20 on data analytics, sharing, processing and management in ITU-T. He is the Vice-Chair of ITU-T FG-AINN as well as the Convenor of Web3-adhoc. He was also the chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Data Processing and Management (FG-DPM). He has contributed more than 500 proposals for standards and published more than 200 papers in academic journals and conferences. He received several Best Paper Awards in international and domestic conferences and served as a reviewer of IEEE journals/conference papers and an organizer/member of committee of international conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.