Program

Prof. Paik Incheon , The University of Aizu

Dr. Incheon Paik received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Korea University in 1987 and 1992, respectively. During 1993-2000, he worked as an associate professor in Soonchunhyang university, Korea. From 1996 to 1998, he was a visiting researcher of State Key Laboratory, Beihang University, Beijing, China. He moved to the University of Aizu in Japan in 2001, and is a professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering of the univeristy. Dr. Paik's research interests include Deep Learning Applications in Semantic Web Services, Natural Language Processing, and Web Data together with Big Data Infrastructure and Analytics. He has organized numerous international conferences, and has served as a reviewer or editor of journals of JIPS, IEICE, Hindawi, IEEE. He is a senior member of IEEE, and regular member of IEICE, IEIE, and IPSJ. Also, he was a director of IEIE Japan Branch, an executive committee member of IEEE Sendai section, and served as a chair of IEICE Service Computing Technical Committee.

Prof. Le Doan Hoang , The University of Aizu

Hoang Le is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Aizu (UoA), Japan. His research interests are in the areas of optical wireless communications, satellite/vehicular networks, applied AI/ML, and network security-based quantum cryptography. He was a recipient of a number of awards, including the 2018 KICS/IEEE ICTC Best Paper Award, 2019 IEEE VTS Tokyo Chapter Young Researcher Encouragement Award, 2019 IEEE ComSoc Sendai Chapter Student Excellent Research Award, young researcher to participate in the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2022, 2022 IEEE ICCE Best Paper Award, 2023 ICETC Best Poster Award, 2024 IEICE Comex Top Downloaded Letter, and 2024 IEEE/IET CSNDSP Best Paper Award. Dr. Hoang Le is currently the president of SAISUA of the University of Aizu. He also served as a Chair of the IEEE University of Aizu Student Branch and a committee member of the IEEE Sendai Young Professionals Affinity Group. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE.

Prof. Jerry Chun-Wei Lin , Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2010. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. He has published more than 400 research articles in journals, and international conferences. His research interests include data mining, soft computing, and artificial intelligence/machine learning. Prof. Lin is the guest editor/an associate editor of several IEEE/ACM journals.

Mr. Do Ba Duc , Founder of Tokyo Techies & Tokyo Tech Lab

Mr. Do Ba Duc is the founder of Tokyo Techies Corp - a one-stop IT consulting firm that focuses on Data Science & AI, Cybersecurity, Robotics, and Software Development technologies. He is also the founder of Tokyo Tech Lab, an IT firm that aims to secure more talented IT resources and provides enterprise customers IT services with high agility and quality from outside Japan. In his previous jobs at Rakuten Inc. and Line Corp., he worked on many back-office services and was the lead front-end engineer in charge of core EC mobile apps. Duc was a senior product manager, project manager, and cloud architect at Softbank Business Development Unit, in charge of technical due diligence for investment projects, cloud product UX enhancement, quality control, and product roadmap management. He was also the product section manager at SB Cloud (a joint venture of SoftBank and Alibaba Cloud), a key person who largely contributed to the successful launch of Alibaba Cloud in Japan.

Prof. Viglietta Giovanni , The University of Aizu

Prof. Viglietta Giovanni is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Aizu (UoA), Japan. He received Master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at the University of Pisa, Italy. After that, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and ETH Zurich, Switzerland. In 2018, Dr. Viglietta joined the faculty of the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), Japan. His research interests include distributed computing, computational geometry, and combinatorial game theory.

Dr. Nguyen Van Duc , Tohoku Institute of Technology

Dr Nguyen Duc received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science and engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Researcher with KDDI Research Inc., Japan. Since 2021, he has been a Lecturer with the Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan. His research interests include multimedia communications, video streaming, multimedia quality assessment, virtual reality/augmented reality, data mining, and recommendation systems.