

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar
University of Nottingham, UK
Prof. Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar currently works as a Research Fellow in optical metrology, robotics and machine learning at the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK. He earned his BSc, MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering (Control discipline) from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran.He has accumulated over 15 years of teaching and research experience across Iran, Denmark and the United Kingdom, previously serving as Assistant Professor at Semnan University and Invited Assistant Professor at IAU Iran, as well as postdoc researcher at Technical University of Denmark.His core research covers precision optical metrology, industrial robot calibration, interval type-2 fuzzy control, sliding-mode intelligent control, machine learning and digital twin for advanced manufacturing.He has authored two academic monographs published by Springer & Elsevier, over 100 SCI journal papers and dozens of EI indexed conference papers. He holds associate editor roles for multiple SCI journals including Human-Centric Intelligent Systems, Energies, and serves as IEEE Senior Member, ASME Member, IET Member and BCS Member.He has hosted/chaired many international conferences and undertaken multiple UK EPSRC-funded key research projects focusing on high-precision robotic measurement and intelligent industrial systems, winning several international paper awards and industrial innovation honors.

Prof. Maode Ma
Qatar University, Qatar
Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science atthe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Prof. Ma is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology. Before joining SUAT, he had been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University and Qatar University for over 25 years. He has extensive research interests in network security, AI security, and wireless networking. He has about 550 international academic publications, which include more than 280 journal papers and about 260 conference papers. His publication has received close to 13,000 citations in Google Scholar. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Communication and Network Security, the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering, and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society. Prof. Ma has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

Prof. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi
DGUT-CNAM Institute of Dongguan University of Technology, China
Prof. Ata Jahangir Moshayedi received his Ph.D. in Electronic Science from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India in 2016.Prof. Ata is an Associate Professor at Sino-French Institute of Engineering, Dongguan University of Technology. Before joining DGUT, he worked as an academic staff at Jiangxi University of Science and Technology and Islamic Azad University in Iran for more than 17 years.He focuses his research on electronic nose/mobile olfaction, service robotics, embedded systems, machine vision and intelligent agricultural monitoring.He has authored nearly 100 SCI journal papers and over 100 EI conference papers, with abundant published academic monographs and authorized patents.Prof. Ata currently works as editorial board member for dozens of international journals and serves as session chair or keynote speaker for numerous worldwide academic conferences.He holds senior memberships of IEEE, ACM and CCF, and has been an IEEE distinguished speaker and invited reviewer for many top-tier international journals.