Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker

Prof. Erik Cambria
(IEEE Fellow)
Nanyang Technological University

Biography: Erik Cambria is the Founder of SenticNet, a Singapore-based company offering B2B sentiment analysis services, and a Professor at Nanyang Technological University, where he also holds the appointment of Provost Chair in Computer Science and Engineering. Prior to joining NTU, he worked at Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing) and HP Labs India (Bangalore) and earned his PhD through a joint programme between the University of Stirling and MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on neurosymbolic AI for explainable natural language processing in domains like sentiment analysis, dialogue systems, and financial forecasting. He is recipient of several awards, e.g., IEEE Outstanding Career Award, was listed among the AI's 10 to Watch, and was featured in Forbes as one of the 5 People Building Our AI Future. He is an IEEE Fellow, Associate Editor of many top-tier AI journals, e.g., Information Fusion and IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and is involved in various international conferences as keynote speaker, program chair and senior program committee member.

Prof. Por Lip Yee
(IEEE Senior Member)
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Biography: Lip Yee Por is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. A Senior Member of IEEE, he is a recognized expert in security and machine learning. His research interests include AI, deep learning, support vector machines (SVM), IoT, authentication, computer vision, blockchain, cryptography, steganography, and watermarking. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in reputable international journals and has secured more than RM 7 million in competitive research funding as Principal Investigator. Prof. Por's impactful contributions have earned him numerous national and international awards, and he is consistently recognized as one of the top-rated lecturers at FCSIT.
In addition to his research and teaching excellence, he serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Public Health, Frontiers in Computer Science, and the Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, as well as Guest Editor for Applied Sciences. He is also an Editorial Board Member for CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua. He has held key leadership roles in national and international conferences as Program Chair, Technical Chair, and Local Chair, and serves as an external academic assessor for academic programs at TARUC, MMU, HELP, and APU. To date, he has delivered more than 20 keynote and invited speeches at national and international conferences.

Prof. Dr. Mohd Shahrizal Sunar
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Biography:
Niche Area : Extended Reality, Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality.
Professor Dr Mohd Shahrizal Sunar is the Director of Institute of Human Centered Engineering (iHumEn) and Founding Director of Media and Game Innovation Centre of Excellence (MaGICX), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He obtained his PhD from the National University of Malaysia. His major field of study is real-time and interactive computer graphics and virtual environment. He received his MSc in Computer Graphics and Virtual Environment from The University of Hull, United Kingdom and BSc degree in Computer Science majoring in Computer Graphics from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received scholarships awards from Sultan Iskandar Johor Foundation for both his postgraduate study. He served as an academic member at School of Computing, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Since 2009, he had been given the responsibility to become the Head for Department of Graphics and Multimedia as well as leading the Virtual, Visualisation and Vision research group (UTM ViCubeLab). Dr. Shahrizal is an active professional member of ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE Computer Society and International Association of Engineers (IAENG) and Fellow for European Alliance of Innovation (EAI). He is also the Deputy President of Malaysian Muslim Scientist Association (PERINTIS) and a member Malaysian Society of Mathematics and Science (PERSAMA).
He serves the government as the panel of experts and assessors such as Game Development Council of Malaysia (GDCoM), Malaysia Research Assessment (MyRA) and Malaysia Qualification Agency (MQA) in the field of Computing and Multimedia since 2005. He also serves to few Public and Private universities in Malaysia as an Advisory board member, academic program external examiner and Visiting Professor. The current research program that he lead are Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality, Gamification, User Interaction/User Experience (UI/UX) and Creative Content Technology. He had successfully led research and consultancy projects worth more than RM5 million.
He had published numerous articles in high-impact refereed journals, conference proceedings, books and technical papers including articles in magazines. Prof Shah had invented a number of innovative products to be commercialized from his research. He was also mentoring technology startup companies and entrepreneurs in his related field. MaGICX becomes a subsidiary company of UTM joint-venture with Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA) where he is the Chief Executive Officer in 2016. Dr. Shahrizal is one of the Ministry of Higher Education CEO@Faculty Programme 2.0 Fellow who attached with Petronas. He was mentored by Tan Sri Dato' Sri Syed Zainal Abidin Syed Mohamed Tahir, the CEO of Petronas Dagangan Berhad.