Speakers


Prof. & Dr. Lotfi Ben Romdhane, University of Sousse, Tunisia

Lotfi Ben Romdhane is a Professor in computer science with a major specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Social Networks Analysis. He is currently affiliated with the University of Sousse, Tunisia. He is co-founder of and is actually heading MARS (Modeling of Automated Reasoning Systems) research lab specialized in the design and analysis of complex systems. His research activities span the general area of intelligent systems and are focusing actually on social networks analysis, influence maximization, information diffusion and community detection in social graphs. His work has been published in well-known specialized international journals and conferences. Pr. Lotfi obtained the Ph.D. degree from the University of Sherbrooke, QC, Canada with excellent honors; and have been added to the Honor list of the University of Sherbrooke for excellence in research. He has been awarded the CIDA Doctoral fellowship. He is currently member of the Senate of the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI).


Prof. & Dr. Tianhai Tian, Monash University, Australia

Tianhai Tian received his PhD in Computational Mathematics in 2001 from the University of Queensland in Australia. He was a Research Fellow at the same University after submitting his PhD thesis. He obtained the Australian Research Fellowship from the Australian Research Council (ARC) in 2006 and then studied computational biology at the Institute for Molecular Bioscience in Queensland. He joined the University of Glasgow in Scotland as a Lord Kelvin Fellow in 2007 and became a Reader in 2009. In 2011 he returned to Australia and now is an Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University.


Prof. & Dr. Kibum Kim, Hanyang University, South Korea

Kibum Kim (Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in computer science from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 1998, the master’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Virginia Tech, in 2006. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Human-Computer Interaction, Hanyang University, South Korea. His research interests include human–computer interaction (HCI), computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL), and virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR).