Prof. Nikola Kasabov
IEEE Fellow, INNS Fellow and RSNZ
Fellow
Auckland University of
Technology, New Zealand
IICT, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
Bulgaria
ISRC, University of Ulster, the UK
Biography: Professor Nikola Kasabov is
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of the Royal
Society of New Zealand, Fellow of the
INNS College of Fellows, DVF of the
Royal Academy of Engineering UK. He is
the Founding Director of the Knowledge
Engineering and Discovery Research
Institute (KEDRI), Auckland and
Professor at the School of Engineering,
Computing and Mathematical Sciences at
Auckland University of Technology, New
Zealand. Kasabov is the 2019 President
of the Asia Pacific Neural Network
Society(APNNS) and Past President of the
International Neural Network Society
(INNS). He is member of several
technical committees of IEEE
Computational Intelligence Society and
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE
(2012-2014). He is Editor of Springer
Handbook of Bio-Neuroinformatics,
Springer Series of Bio-and Neuro-systems
and Springer journal Evolving Systems.
He is Associate Editor of several
journals, including Neural Networks,
IEEE TrNN, Tr CDS, Information Sciences,
Applied Soft Computing. Kasabov holds
MSc and PhD from TU Sofia, Bulgaria. His
main research interests are in the areas
of neural networks, intelligent
information systems, soft computing,
bioinformatics, neuroinformatics. He has
published more than 620 publications
highly cited internationally. He has
extensive academic experience at various
academic and research organisations in
Europe and Asia, including: TU Sofia
Bulgaria; University of Essex UK;
University of Otago, NZ; Advisory
Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong
University and CASIA China, Visiting
Professor at ETH/University of Zurich
and Robert Gordon University UK,
Honorary Professor of Teesside
University, UK.Prof. Kasabov has
received a number of awards, among
them:Doctor Honoris Causa from Obuda
University, Budapest; INNS AdaLovelace
Meritorious Service Award; NN Best Paper
Award for2016; APNNA ‘Outstanding
Achievements Award’; INNS Gabor Awardfor
‘Outstanding contributions to
engineering applications of neural
networks’; EU Marie Curie Fellowship;
Bayer Science Innovation Award; APNNA
Excellent Service Award; RSNZ Science
and Technology Medal; 2015 AUT Medal;
Honorable Member of theBulgarian, the
Greek and the Scottish Societies for
ComputerScience. More information of
Prof. Kasabov can be found from:
https://academics.aut.ac.nz/nkasabov.
Prof. Fabrice Labeau
McGill University, Canada
Biography:
F. Labeau is the Deputy Provost (Student
Life and Learning) at McGill University.
His research interests are in
applications of signal processing. He
has (co-)authored more than 200 papers
in refereed journals and conference
proceedings in these areas.
At McGill, he has held different
administrative positions, including
Graduate Program Director, Acting
Department Chair, Associate Dean
(Faculty Affairs) and Acting Dean. He is
currently the Planning Chief for the
University’s Emergency Operations
Center.
As Deputy Provost, he leads a team of
600 employees offering all student
services at the University. He is the
Director of Operations of STARaCom, an
interuniversity research center grouping
50 professors and 500 researchers from
10 universities in the province of
Quebec, Canada.
He is Senior Past President of the IEEE
Sensors Council, former President
(2014-2015) of the IEEE Vehicular
Technology Society, and a former chair
of the Montreal IEEE Section. He was or
will be General co-chair for IEEE ICIP
2021, IEEE ICIP 2025, IEEE GlobalSIP
2019, IEEE SENSORSSENSORS, IEEE EPEC
2019, URSI GASS 2017 and IEEE VTC
2016-Fall. He was a TPC co-chair for
IEEE 5G World Forum 2021, IEEE CCECE
2018, IEEE ICIP 2015, IEEE VTC
2012-Fall, IEEE VTC 2006-Fall.
He was a recipient in 2015 and 2017 of
the McGill University Equity and
Community Building Award (team
category), of the 2008 and 2016
Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society and of the
2017 W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award
form IEEE Canada. He was recognized in
2018 “Ambassadeur Accrédité” for the
Montreal Convention Center.