Speakers 

Keynote Speaker I

• Prof. Raimir Holanda Filho
  
  University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil
  Dr. Raimir Holanda Filho (IEEE Senior Member) is a Full Professor of Computer Science, Director, and principal investigator of the Synapse Laboratory at the University of Fortaleza (UNIFOR), Brazil. He did a Post-Doc in Computer Science at Sorbonne Université, campus Pierre et Marie Curie - LIP6, France; received a Ph.D. degree in computer architecture from Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain and an M.Sc. degree and a five-year degree in engineering from the Federal University of Ceará, Brazil, His current research interests are Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security, Data Analytics, Deep Learning, Internet of Things and their emerging applications to health. His research results have been published in more than 140 papers in refereed international journals and conferences. He is or was the Leader of many Projects funded by CNPq (Brazil) and has also experience on projects evaluation belonging to the evaluation boards of the Funcap (Brazil). In the last years, Raimir has supervised 8 Ph.D. Thesis and 25 Master students. He has served as a reviewer for various journals such as IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, The Journal of Supercomputing, Journal of Applied Science and Engineering, Computer Networks, Sensors, Electronics and Journal of Advances in Information Technology.

 

Keynote Speaker II

 

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• Prof. Jerome Yen
  University of Macau, China
  Prof. Yen currently a Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at the University of Macau (UM). He obtained his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering and MIS from the University of Arizona. He used to hold appointments in the Department of Finance and Department of Mathematics at HKUST as adjunct professor as an honorary professor in the Dept of EEE at HKU. Prof. Yen is a well-established researcher and practitioner in the finance and banking community. He has published more than seventy journal papers in respectable journals and five books in China Financial Markets, Algo Trading and High Frequency Trading, as well as Pricing of Structured Products and Options Trading. His research has now focused on using hardware accelerators, like FPGA, GPU, and RSIC-V, to design platforms to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the financial computation.
  
  Prof. Yen was the Deputy Chief Risk Officer at Cathay Financial Holdings (CFH) from 2005 to 2007 and Director of the Internet Finance Division of Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI). He also provided advisory/consulting services to leading financial institutions, for example, Societe Generale, Hang Seng Bank, AIA, Bank of East Asia (BEA), Essences Securities in China, Great-wall Invesco, SinoPac, and China Construction Bank (CCB) in risk management, exotic options and structured products pricing, as well as building platform to support quick development of mutual funds.
  

 

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