Seminar series “A Journey to Creative research”

Friday, 7 July, 2017

Room 624, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering,

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

9:00-11:20 Seminar I

Opening Speech

Talk 1. Prof. Witold Pedrycz

Talk 2. Prof. Peng Shi

Coffee Break

Talk 3. Prof. Loi Lei Lai

13:30-16:40 Seminar II

Talk 4. Richard Weber

Talk 5. Giuseppe Di Fatta

Coffee Break

Talk 6. Zhihua Cui

Talk 7. Daniel Yeung

Speaker Name: Xizhao Wang

Affiliation: Shenzhen University

Talk titles in English:  Opening speech

Talk titles in Chinese: 开场致辞

Speaker Name: Witold Pedrycz

Affiliation: University of Alberta

Talk titles in English: How to Conduct Creative Research, a Personal Journey

Talk titles in Chinese: 如何进行有创意的研究：个人经历

Witold Pedrycz (IEEE Fellow, 98) is Professor and Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Computational Intelligence in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He is also with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. He is an Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and Int. J. of Granular Computing (Springer). His main research directions involve Computational Intelligence, fuzzy modeling and Granular Computing, knowledge discovery and data mining, fuzzy control, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks, relational computing, and Software Engineering.

Speaker Name: Peng Shi

Affiliation: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Adelaide, Australia

Talk titles in English: Assessment on Research Grant Applications by Australian Research Council

Talk titles in Chinese: 澳大利亚研究委员会研究项目申请的评估

Peng Shi is a professor in the University of Adelaide, Australia. His research interests include system and control, intelligent systems, and operational research. He has been an editorial board of a number of journals, including Automatica; IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control; IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics; IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems; IEEE Control Systems-Letters; IEEE Access; and Information Sciences.

Speaker Name: Loi Lei Lai

Affiliation:  School of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology

Talk titles in English: Professional Network

Talk titles in Chinese: 專業網絡

Loi Lei Lai is University Distinguished Professor at Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou China. His research interests are in smart grid, clean energy and computational intelligence applications in power. He is a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee and IEEE Smart City Steering Committee

Speaker Name: Richard Weber

Affiliation:  Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile

Talk titles in English: Can Creativity be Taught and Learned?

Talk titles in Chinese: 创造力可以教与学吗？

Richard Weber is Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Director of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Universidad de Chile. His research interests include data mining, dynamic data mining, and computational intelligence. In these areas he published more than 80 scientific papers. He is Associate Editor of the journal “Applied Soft Computing” and serves on the editorial board of the journal “Intelligent Data Analysis”.

Speaker Name: Giuseppe Di Fatta

Affiliation:  Department of Computer Science, University of Reading, UK

Talk titles in English: Creativity: Human vs Artificial Intelligence

Talk titles in Chinese: 创意: 人类与人工智能的角力

Giuseppe Di Fatta is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and the Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Reading, UK. His research interests include data mining and machine learning algorithms, distributed and parallel computing, and multidisciplinary applications. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed conferences and journals. He serves in the editorial board of the Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications.

Speaker Name: Zhihua Cui

Affiliation:  School of Computer Science & Technology, Taiyuan University of Science & Technology

Talk titles in English: From reviewer to Editor

Talk titles in Chinese: 从审稿人到编辑

Zhihua Cui is a professor in the Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan, Shanxi, china. He is the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Bio-inspired Computation. His research interesting includes Computational Intelligence, stochastic optimization and complex system.

Speaker Name: Daniel S. Yeung

Affiliation: Past President, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

Talk titles in English: Is Creativity Part of your CV?

Talk titles in Chinese: 创意是您简历的一部分吗？