Speakers 

Keynote Speaker I

• Prof. Tokuro Matsuo
  Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology, Japan
  Dr. Tokuro Matsuo is a full professor at Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology since 2012. He received the doctor degree of engineering from Dept. of Computer Science at Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2006. He is an invited professor at University of Nevada, Jas Vegas, USA since 2016; a guest professor at Bina Nusantara University, Indonesia since 2015; a research project professor of Collective Intelligence Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan since 2015; a research fellow of SEITI in Central Michigan University, USA since 2010; and an executive director of International Institute of Applied Informatics since 2011. He was a visiting researcher at University of California at Irvine in 2010-2011; was a research fellow at Shanghai University between 2010 to 2013; and was a research project professor of Green Computing Research Center at Nagoya Institute of Technology between 2011 to 2014. His current research interests include electronic commerce and business, service science and marketing, business management, artificial intelligence, material informatics, tourism informatics, convention administration research, and incentive design on e-services. Some of his researches are presented in the top international conferences on AAAI, IEEE CEC, AAMAS, and WWW. He chaired a lot of international conferences including IEEE/ACIS SNPD 2009, 2012 and 2014, IEEE/ACIS ICIS 2010 and 2013, IEEE IWEA 2007-2012, ACAN 2005-2012, and AAI 2012-2016. He gave over 70 keynotes and invited talk at international conferences, symposia, and seminars. He also received over 40 awards and research grants from research foundations, company and Government. He is also commissioned as Japan Conference Ambassador, Kumamoto City MICE Ambassador, and Adviser of Information Promotion of Japan.

 

Keynote Speaker II

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• Prof. Thomas Hanne
  University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
  Thomas Hanne received master's degrees in Economics and Computer Science, and a PhD in Economics. From 1999 to 2007 he worked at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) as senior scientist. Since then he is Professor for Information Systems at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and Head of the Competence Center Systems Engineering since 2012.
  Thomas Hanne is author of more than 230 journal articles, conference papers, and other publications and editor of several journals and special issues. His current research interests include computational intelligence, evolutionary algorithms, metaheuristics, optimization, simulation, multicriteria decision analysis, natural language processing, machine learning, systems engineering, software development, logistics, and supply chain management.

   

  Keynote Speaker III

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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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