Prof. Minho JoIEEE Senior Member
Korea University, South Korea
Speech Title: 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 Title: Addressing the blockchain trilemma: scalability solutions for Bitcoin and Ethereum (Speech
abstract)
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 Title: Towards AI powered Trustworthy Decentralized Internet (Speech
abstract)
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.