Keynote Speakers 

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

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
 

Bio: Laura Ricci received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1983 and 1990, respectively. She is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa. She has been involved in several research projects. She is currently the local Coordinator of the H2020 European Project “Helios: A Context Aware Distributed Networking Framework.” Her research interests include distributed systems, peer-to-peer networks, cryptocurrencies, and blockchains and social network analysis. In these fields, she has coauthored more than 100 papers published on international journals and conference/workshop proceedings. She has served as the program committee member and the chair for several conferences. She is the Organizer of the Workshop LSDVE.
 

 

Prof. Gyu Myoung Lee
Liverpool John Moores University, UK
 

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.