Event Chairs

Conference Chair

Victor Chang
Department of Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University
United Kingdom
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Brief Bio
Prof. Victor Chang is a Professor of Business Analytics at Operations and Information Management, Aston Business School, Aston University, UK, since mid-May 2022. He was previously a Full Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, UK, since September 2019. He was previously a Senior Associate Professor, Director of Ph.D. and Director of MRes at International Business School Suzhou, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China. He was also a very active contributing key member at the Research Institute of Big Data Analytics , XJTLU. Before that, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Within 4 years, Prof Chang completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCe rt (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won 2001 full Scholarship, a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the 2016 European award: Best Project in Research, 2016-2018 SEID Excellent Scholar, Suzhou, China, Outstanding Young Scientist award in 2017, 2017 special award on Data Science, 2017-2022 INSTICC Service Awards, Talent Award Suzhou 2019, Top 2% Scientist 2019-2022, Highly Cited Researcher 2021, Outstanding Reviewer of several Elsevier journals 2018-2019 and Outstanding Editor of FGCS (stepped down). He is the Associate Editor of IEEE TII, JGIM, Expert Systems and IJBSR and an Editor of Information Fusion, Scientific Report and IDD journals. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI and OJBD journals, and holds important or lead guest editor roles in several prestigious journals. Prof Chang was involved in different projects worth more than £14 million in Europe and Asia. He has published 3 books as sole author and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He gave 48 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/Security/AI/IS, as he has the experience to develop 10 different services for multiple disciplines. He is the founding conference chair for IoTBDS, COMPLEXIS and FEMIB to build up and foster active research communities globally with positive impacts. ... More >>

Program Co-Chairs

Patricia Baudier
EM Normandie Business School
France

Brief Bio
Patricia Baudier prepared her PhD in management science within the Business School of Mines-Télécom Institut in 2013. She is a full professor of marketing at EM Normandie in Paris (France). Her research focuses on the acceptance of new technologies, innovations, consumers behavior and Digital Marketing. She spent 28 years within major American companies such as Apple and Kodak, mainly at marketing positions. Patricia has authored several papers in leading journals of innovation, management and marketing and a book "Lexique du digital".

Mitra Arami
Northeastern University London
United Kingdom

Brief Bio
Mitra is a vastly experienced Programme and Project Manager with demonstrable proficiency in leading complex business change and transformation solution programmes across global multi-national environments including global Telecom, Financial, IT, Education and Gaming. Deploys superior frameworks to drive rapid and consistent operational improvements across people, processes, and systems to drive significant revenue upside. Mitra has a BSc, MSc and PhD in Information Systems from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and has a wealth of HE and industry experience in consulting and project management, not onl y in the UK but also in the U.S.A, central and western Europe, and the Middle East. She is an Associate Professor in Digital Business and Project Management – Northeastern University London Campus. ... More >>

Local Chair

Marek Hudik
University of Economics, Prague
Czech Republic

Brief Bio
Marek gained his Ph.D. at the University of Economics in Prague, where he also taught until 2013. From 2013 to 2016, he was a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Theoretical Study at Charles University in Prague. After completing his post-doctoral fellowship, he spent three years at the International Business School Suzhou at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China. Currently, he works as a researcher at the University of Economics in Prague. Marek also held visiting positions at several renowned universities in China, Italy, and Germany. Between 2012 and 2013, he also worked for the Office of the Gov ernment of the Czech Republic. He has authored a number of papers on individual and strategic decision making, institutional and organizational economics and the history, and of economics. ... More >>

Publicity Chairs

Mohamed Abdel Baset
Zagazig University
Egypt

Brief Bio
Mohamed Abdel-Basset Received his B.Sc., M.Sc and the Ph.D in Information systems and technology from Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Egypt. His current research interests are Optimization, Operations Research, Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Applied Statistics, Decision support systems, Robust Optimization, Engineering Optimization, Multi-objective Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks. He is working on the application of multi-objective and robust meta-heuristic optimization techniques. He is also an/a Editor/reviewer in diff erent international journals and conferences. He has published more than 120 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He holds the program chair in many conferences in the fields of decision making, big data, optimization, complexity and the internet of things, as well as editorial collaboration in some journals of high impact. ... More >>

Chantal Ammi
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
France

Brief Bio
Prof. Chantal Ammi is a full Professor in marketing at Institute Mines Telecoms, Telecom Business School in France. She was Director of Ph.D program (2008 –2015), Founder and Director of a research laboratory in management science Litem (2013-2016) and Founder and Director of Laboratory of new technologies in health and handicap with international partners: Stanford, Columbia, Kaist (1996-2002) in France. Her researches focus on the acceptance of new technologies, innovations, consumer’s behavior and Information Systems. She’s responsible on editorial activities (2015- Ongoing) in ISTE- Wiley “Innovation and Tec hnologies” ... More >>

Publicity Chair

Chantal Ammi
Institut Mines-Télécom Business School
France

Mohamed Abdel-Basset
Zagazig University
Egypt

Brief Bio
Mohamed Abdel-Basset Received his B.Sc., M.Sc and the Ph.D in Information systems and technology from Faculty of Computers and Informatics, Zagazig University, Egypt. His current research interests are Optimization, Operations Research, Data Mining, Computational Intelligence, Applied Statistics, Decision support systems, Robust Optimization, Engineering Optimization, Multi-objective Optimization, Swarm Intelligence, Evolutionary Algorithms, and Artificial Neural Networks. He is working on the application of multi-objective and robust meta-heuristic optimization techniques. He is also an/a Editor/reviewer in different international journals and conferences. He has published more than 120 articles in international journals and conference proceedings. He holds the program chair in many conferences in the fields of decision making, big data, optimization, complexity and the internet of things, as well as editorial collaboration in some journals of high impact.