Professor Jie Lu
AO (Officer of the Order of Australia)
IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Laureate Fellow
Director of Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute
University of Technology Sydney， Australia
Title: Machine Learning for Decision Support in Complex Environments
Abstract:
The talk will present how machine learning can innovatively and effectively learn from data to support data-driven decision-making in uncertain and dynamic situations. A set of new transfer learning theories, methodologies and algorithms will be presented that can transfer knowledge learnt in more source domains to a target domain by building latent space, mapping functions and self-training to overcome tremendous uncertainties in data, learning processes and decision outputs. Another set of concept drift theories, methodologies and algorithms will be discussed about how to handle ever-changing dynamic data stream environments with unpredictable stream pattern drifts by effectively and accurately detecting concept drift in an explanatory way, indicating when, where and how concept drift occurs and reacting accordingly. These new developments enable advanced machine learning and therefore enhance data-driven prediction and decision support systems in uncertain and dynamic real-world environments.
Short Bio:
Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in the field of computational intelligence, primarily known for her work in fuzzy transfer learning, concept drift, recommender systems, and decision support systems. She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. Prof Lu is the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She has published over 500 papers in leading journals and conferences; won 10 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects as first chief investigator, and over 20 industry projects; and supervised 50 doctoral students to completion. Prof Lu serves as Editor-In-Chief for Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. She is a recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She is the recipient of two IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards (2019 and 2022), NeurIPS2022 Outstanding Paper Award, Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019), Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award (2022), and the Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2023.
Professor Qing-Long Han
Distinguished Professor Qing-Long Han
Member of the Academia Europaea(The Academy of Europe)
IEEE Fellow, IFAC Fellow, IEAust Fellow, CAA Fellow
Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality)
Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Title: Distributed Control and Optimization of Networked Microgrids
Abstract:
With the widespread integration of renewable distributed energy sources such as wind generation, photovoltaic and solar panels, a traditional electrical network has been experiencing a huge revolution towards a smart grid in various terms of generation, transmission, distribution and usage, and so on. Such a revolution poses new theoretical and technical challenges in operation and management of smart grids. To address these challenges, a multi-agent system based strategy is developed to address control and optimization issues in smart grids, showcasing its strong ability in improving efficiency, reliability and scalability. In this keynote talk, some backgrounds on smart grids from the perspective of multi-agent systems are introduced. Second, a distributed secondary control scheme with an event-triggered communication mechanism is presented to ensure frequency regulation and active power sharing of AC islanded microgrids while significantly reducing the utilization of communication resources. Third, a multi-objective distributed optimization method is provided to address current sharing and voltage regulation in DC microgrids. Finally, some challenging issues are discussed for future investigation.
Short Bio:
Professor Han is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Quality) and a Distinguished Professor at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. He held various academic and management positions at Griffith University and Central Queensland University, Australia.
Professor Han was awarded The 2021 Norbert Wiener Award (the Highest Award in systems science and engineering, and cybernetics), The 2021 M. A. Sargent Medal (the Highest Award of the Electrical College Board of Engineers Australia), The IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Andrew P. Sage Best Transactions Paper Award in 2022, 2020, and 2019, respectively, The IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica Norbert Wiener Review Award in 2021, and The IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics Outstanding Paper Award in 2020.
Professor Han is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe). He is a Fellow of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of The International Federation of Automatic Control (FIFAC), a Fellow of The Institution of Engineers Australia (FIEAust), and a Fellow of The Chinese Association of Automation (FCAA). He is a Highly Cited Researcher in both Engineering and Computer Science (Clarivate). He has served as an AdCom Member of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), a Member of IEEE IES Fellows Committee, a Member of IEEE IES Publications Committee, and the Chair of IEEE IES Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and the Co-Editor of Australian Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Professor Hai Jin
Distinguished Professor Hai Jin
IEEE Fellow, CCF Fellow, life member of the ACM
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Title: Dataflow based High Efficient Graph Processing
Abstract:
With the rapid growth of big data, it is harder and harder to processing these ever-growing data with traditional computer architecture. Dataflow-based architecture provides a new way to tackle above challenge. This talk first briefly introduce the challenges in processing big data and also the difficulties in processing graph computing, then introduce some research results we have done during these years in using dataflow for graph computing. Finally, some future directions for dataflow architecture and also when used in graph computing are introduced.
Short Bio:
Hai Jin is a Chair Professor of computer science and engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. Jin received his PhD in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded a German Academic Exchange Service fellowship to visit the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. Jin worked at The University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He was awarded Excellent Youth Award from the National Science Foundation of China in 2001.
Jin is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of CCF, and a life member of the ACM. He has co-authored more than 20 books and published over 900 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, big data processing, data storage, and system security.