Keynote Speechs
Professor Dr. Patrick Then
Professor, Head of School - Computing & Director - Centre for Digital Future PhD, MSc, BIT(Hons)
Biography
Professor Patrick Then the Director for the Centre for Digital Futures Swinburne Sarawak. Patrick is a strong advocate of R&D and commercialization of innovations in Big Data, Data Mining and Internet of Things.
He has established industry collaboration at national and international levels. He has been leading multiple industry-funded projects in research and development in collaboration with prominent ICT partners such as Sarawak Information Systems Sdn Bhd (SAINS), IDS (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd in Sarawak, and organizations around the world. Patrick has established partnership between Swinburne and international commercial partners such as Fusionex International Ltd, UK, D&J Human Care, South Korea, and Easy Global Market, France.
Patrick has won, and has been managing and leading projects worth millions funded by industry and government agencies at national and international level. He works closely with international researchers, which include Texas A&M University-Commerce (TAMUC), USA, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), USA, University College of Southeast Norway (USN), Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour (UPPA), France, National University Hospital Singapore (NUHS), and Universitas Sanata Dharma University (USD), Indonesia.
He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers USA and the Australian Computer Society.
Research Interests
Big Data, Data Mining, Health Informatics, and Internet of Things
Professor Dr. Yoosoo Oh
Assistant Professor, School of Artificial Intelligence, Daegu University
Biography
Yoosoo Oh received his Bachelor's degree in Department of Electronics and Engineering from Kyungpook National University in 2002. He obtained his Master’s degree in Department of Information and Communications from Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 2003.
In 2010, he received his Ph.D. degree in School of Information and Mechatronics from GIST. In the meantime, he was an executed team leader at Culture Technology Institute, GIST, 2010-2012.
In 2011, he worked in Lancaster University, UK as a visiting scholar. In September 2012, he joined Daegu University, where he is currently an assistant professor in School of Computer and Communication Engineering, Daegu University.
From 2015-2017, He worked as a director in Enterprise Supporting Office of LINC Project Group, Daegu University. His research interests include Activity Fusion & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Context-aware Middleware, Human Computer Interaction, etc. He has received several awards, with the Worldwide Lifetime Achievement in 2017 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by MARQUIS Who'sWho, 2017 awards in The Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems, and 2016 Excellent Research Award in Daegu University.
Research Interests
Intelligent middleware (server), AIoT, HCI, Machine learning