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Institute of Automation, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. He was an awardee of CAS-TWAS Presidential Fellowship from 2014 to 2018. He was invited as "Foreign Experts" by Shandong Taian Administration of Foreign Expert Affairs. He has presented several papers in peer-reviewed conferences and has published numerous studies in science cited journals. His research interests include deep learning, machine learning, pattern recognition and computer vision.
Yanhui Guo received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, Utah State University, USA. He was Research Fellow in the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan and Assistant Professor at St. Thomas University. Dr. Guo is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Springfield. Dr. Guo's research area includes computer vision, machine learning, data analytics, neutrosophic set, computer-aided detection/diagnosis and computer-assisted surgery. He has published 3 books, more than 110 journal papers and 40 conference papers, completed more than 10 grant-funded research projects, has 2 patents and worked as Associate Editor of different international journals and Reviewer for top journals and conferences. Dr. Guo successfully applied neutrosophic set into image processing in 2008 and has published many research works in this area. Dr. Guo was Co-founder and Chief Scientist of MedSights Tech Inc., a high technology company focusing on a computer-assisted surgery system. Dr. Guo was awarded a University Scholar in 2019, the university system's highest faculty honor, recognizing outstanding teaching and scholarship.
Amira S. Ashour is Assistant Professor and Head of Department at Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt, since 2016. She is Head of the MICSCAS Research Laboratory (Medical Image Computing Systems and Computer-Assisted Surgery Laboratory), Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. She is ICT Manager of Huawei Academy, Tanta University, Egypt, during 2019 and 2020. She obtained her M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering (Enhancement of Electromagnetic Non-Destructive Evaluation Performance using Advanced Signal Processing Techniques) and Ph.D. in smart antenna from the Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tanta University, Egypt. Her research interests include Biomedical Engineering, Medical Devices, Medical Image and Signal Processing, Medical Imaging, Ablation Therapy, Machine Learning, Optimization, Smart Antenna, Target Tracking and Direction of Arrival Estimation. She is Co-editor of Advances in Ubiquitous Sensing Applications for Healthcare, book series, Elsevier. She is Editorial Board Member of several reputable journals. She published 120 journal papers and conference proceedings and edited/authored about 20 books (Elsevier/Springer).
Atef Zaguia received the bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Ottawa and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the École de Téchnologie Supérieure (E.T.S.), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada. For one year, he held Postdoctoral position at E.T.S., University of Quebec. He was working on developing application for newborn cry-based diagnosis system with the integration of interaction context, supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is currently Associate Professor at the College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Saudi Arabia. He has published papers in national and international conferences and journals. His research interests include multimodal systems, pervasive and ubiquitous computing, IoT, AI and context-aware systems. He was Program Committee Member of the Tenth International Conference on Mobile UbiquitousComputing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM 2016), Venice, Italy.