Keynote Lectures

Exploring AI Capabilities in Operations Management: Going from a bibliometric analysis to Empirical Studies

 

Brief Bio
Dr. Samuel Fosso Wamba is the Associated Dean of Research at TBS Education, France. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at The University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and at the UCSI Graduate Business School, UCSI University, Malaysia. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on the business value of information technology, inter-organizational systems adoption, use and impacts, supply chain management, electronic commerce, blockchain, artificial intelligence for business, social media, business analytics, big data, and open data. He leads the Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics at TBS Education. He is among the 2% of the most influential scholars globally based on the Mendeley database that includes 100,000 top scientists for 2020, 2021, and 2022. He ranks in ClarivateTMs 1% most cited scholars in the world for 2020, 2021, and 2022 and in CDO Magazine's Leading Academic Data Leaders 2021. Based on the Research.com 2021 ranking, he is France's 3rd top business and management scientist.

Modern Computing for Smart Industries

 

Brief Bio
Dr. Sukhpal Singh Gill is an Assistant Professor of Cloud Computing at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. Prior to this, Dr. Gill has worked at Lancaster University, UK, and the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia. He was awarded Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2022. He was the winner of the Queen Mary University Education Excellence Award 2023 and the EECS 2023 Award for Widest Academic Staff Contribution at QMUL. Dr. Gill received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering with Distinction in 2010, the Degree of Master of Engineering in Software Engineering (Gold Medalist) in 2013, as well as a Doctoral Degree specialization in Autonomic Cloud Computing (DST INSPIRE Fellow) in 2016. Dr. Gill was a research visitor at Monash University, the University of Manitoba, the University of Manchester, and Imperial College London. He was a recipient of several awards, including the Distinguished Reviewer Award from Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley), 2018 and the Best Paper Award AusPDC at ACSW 2021. He has also served as the PC member for venues such as IEEE PerCom, UCC, Euro-Par, CCGRID, CLOUDS, ICFEC, and AusPDC. His one review paper has been nominated and selected for the ACM 21st annual Best of Computing Notable Books and Articles as one of the notable items published in computing – 2016. He has co-authored 150+ peer-reviewed papers (with Citations 8000+ and H-index 45+ as per Google Scholar) and has published in prominent international journals and conferences such as ACM CSUR, IEEE COMST, IEEE TCC, IEEE TSC, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TCE, ACM TOIT, IEEE TII, IEEE TNSM, IEEE IoT Journal, Elsevier JSS/FGCS, IEEE/ACM UCC, and IEEE CCGRID. Dr. Gill served as a Guest Editor for SPE (Wiley), JCC Springer Journal, Sustainability Journal (MDPI) and Sensors Journal (MDPI). He is a regular reviewer for IEEE TPDS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TSC, ACM CSUR, and Wiley SPE. Dr. Gill has reviewed 680+ research articles from high ranked journals and prestigious conferences as per the Web of Science. He has edited research books for Elsevier, Springer, and CRC Press. Dr. Gill is serving as an Associate Editor in the IEEE IoT Journal, Elsevier IoT Journal, Wiley SPE Journal, Wiley ETT Journal, and IET Networks Journal. Dr. Gill is Editor-in-Chief of IGI Global IJAEC and an Area Editor for the Springer Cluster Computing Journal. His name appears in the list of the World’s Top 2% of Scientists released by Stanford University and Elsevier BV (2022 and 2023). Dr. Gill has been serving as an editorial board member for IGI Global JOEUC, and MECS IJEME. One of his articles published by the IEEE IoT Journal is highlighted in IEEE Spectrum (the world’s leading engineering magazine). Dr. Gill wrote articles for international magazines such as Ars Technica, Tech Monitor, Cutter Consortium, and ICT Academy. He has been interviewed by Tallinn University, Estonia, to talk about “The capabilities and limitations of ChatGPT for Education“. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Software Engineering, Internet of Things and Energy Efficiency.

Towards a Responsible Thinking in the New Era of Gen AI: Walking the Walk

 

Brief Bio
Mona Diab is recently selected as ACL Fellow, and is Full Professor and the Director of the Language Technologies Institute within the school of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), in Pittsburgh, USA. She directs the R3LIT (read relit) Lab. Prior to joining CMU, she was a Lead Responsible AI Research Scientist with Meta, and full Professor of Computer Science at the George Washington University, where she directed the CARE4Lang NLP Lab. Before joining Meta, she led the Lex Conversational AI project within Amazon AWS AI. Her current focus is on Responsible AI and how to operationalize it for NLP technologies. Her interests span building robust technologies for low resource scenarios with a special interest in Arabic technologies, (mis) information propagation, computational socio-pragmatics, computational psycholinguistics, NLG evaluation metrics, Language modeling and resource creation. Mona has served the community in several capacities: Elected President of SIGLEX and SIGSemitic, and the elected President of ACL SIGDAT, the board supporting EMNLP conferences. She helped establish two research trends in NLP, namely computational approaches to Code Switching and Semantic Textual Similarity. She is also a founding member of the SEM conference, one of the top tier conferences in NLP. Mona has published more than 250 peer reviewed articles.