Organizing Committee
General Co-Chairs
Dickson LukoseTabcorp Holdings Ltd.
Dickson Lukose
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd.Head of AI and R&D
Professor Lukose has over 25 years of experience in professional consulting services, applied research and development in Artificial Intelligence Systems. Prior to joining Tabcorp, Prof. Lukose was with Monash Data Futures Institute at Monash University (Australia). Prof. Lukose was the Chief Data Scientist at GCS Agile Pty. Ltd. (Australia), leading a team of Data Engineers and Scientist building Predictive Models, Ontology Modelling and Engineering. During his role as the Chief Research Director and Director of Artificial Intelligence Centre in MIMOS Berhad (Malaysia) from 2007 to 2016 he was responsible for leading a team of 70 research scientists, software architects, software engineering and knowledge engineers in creating intellectual properties and commercialization of these patents by incorporating them into large scale national project for the private and public sectors in Malaysia. His role was to plot the strategic direction of his teams R&D in AI, in addition to mentor and guide his team on the application of novel AI techniques and technologies including Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, Social Network Analytics, and Natural Language Processing to solve challenging real-world problems. Earlier in his career, Prof. Lukose worked as Principal Knowledge Engineer with Mindbox Inc. (USA) and prior to that with Brightware Inc. (USA) responsible for architecture and development of high-performance Artificial Intelligence software for the Utility and Financial Sector. He holds a BSc (Hons) and a PhD from Deakin University (Australia).
More details about Prof. Lukose can be found at his LinkedIn profile.
Petrus MursantoUniversitas Indonesia
Petrus Mursanto
Universitas IndonesiaDean, Faculty of Computer Science
Dr. Petrus Mursanto received Bachelor degree from Electrical Engineering, UI (1992), M.Sc. in Computer Science from The University of Auckland, NZ (1999), and Doctor in Computer Science from UI (2007). He is an Associate Professor with interest in reconfigurable computing, embedded system and requirement engineering and data science.
More details about Prof. Mursanto can be found at his university profile.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Fenrong LiuTsinghua University
Fenrong Liu
Tsinghua UniversityChangjiang Distinguished Professor and Amsterdam-China Logic Chair
Fenrong Liu, Changjiang Distinguished Professor at Tsinghua University, Amsterdam-China Logic Chair at the University of Amsterdam, Co-Director of the Tsinghua - UvA Joint Research Centre for Logic. Her research areas include reasoning about preference and preference change, social network logics, causality and foundations of AI. She also maintains active interests in Chinese Ancient logic. Currently she is editing a Handbook of Logical Thought in China.
More details about Prof. Liu can be found at her personal page.
Arun Anand SadanandanSEEK, Australia
Arun Anand Sadanandan
SEEK, AustraliaHead of Data Science at SEEK
As an applied AI practitioner and Manager in Data Science specializing in Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Mr. Sadanandan have enjoyed working on several challenging real world problems. During this period, he has helped to build strong data science teams involved in creation of AI based production solutions, proof of concepts and projects. More details - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anandarun
More details about Mr. Sadanandan can be found at his linkedin profile.
Duc Nghia PhamMIMOS Berhad
Duc Nghia Pham
MIMOS BerhadPrincipal Data Scientist and Team Lead
Dr. Pham is currently the Principal Data Scientist and Team Leader of Data Analytics at MIMOS Berhad. He received his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Griffith University, Australia in 2006. His research interests include machine/deep learning, natural language processing, text mining, knowledge representation and reasoning, planning, constraint problem solving and boolean satisfiability. He won several prestigious international awards for his research works. He has successfully delivered several AI-based production solutions to clients in both public and private sectors to assist in making informed business decisions and improving productivity. Prior to MIMOS, Dr Pham worked for several years as a senior research scientist at NICTA Ltd (now CSIRO Data61) and Griffith University.
More details about Dr. Pham can be found at his linkedin profile.
Local Organizing Chair
Adila Alfa KrisnadhiUniversitas Indonesia
Adila Alfa Krisnadhi
Universitas IndonesiaLecturer
Dr. Krisnadhi is a lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at Universitas Indonesia. He received a Ph.D. (2015) in Computer Science from Wright State University, USA under supervision of Prof. Pascal Hitzler. At Wright State, he joined the Data Semantics Lab (now moved to Kansas State) both for doctoral and postdoctoral research. His doctoral work was a study on the use of ontology design patterns for cross-repository data integration. The study has been supported by Fulbright, as well as the TROn, OceanLink, and GeoLink projects.
Prior to that he obtained a M.Sc. (2007) in Computational Logic from Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. His Master's thesis was a study of data complexity for the EL-family of description logics, which was supervised by Dr. Carsten Lutz at Prof. Franz Baader's Automata Theory Group. In addition, I am also an alumnus of the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia from which I obtained my Bachelor degree in Computer Science in 2002.
His research interests include Semantic Web technology, Linked Data, and Ontology, and their applications data management, publishing, and integration.
More details about Dr. Krisnadhi can be found at his Github page.
Publicity Co-Chairs
Panca Hadi PutraUniversitas Indonesia
Panca Hadi Putra
Universitas IndonesiaAssistant Professor
Dr. Panca Hadi Putra is an assistant professor in information systems at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. Apart from being an academic and active researcher, he serves as the Head of Public Relations at the faculty. Before entering the academia, he was an entrepreneur and served as a consultant for various brands ranging from Fortune 500 companies such as PT. Sony Indonesia, PT. Tupperware Indonesia, to category-leading companies such as PT. Kalbe Nutritionals, PT. Darya Varia Tbk., Del Monte Indonesia to non-profits such as British Council and Yayasan Sayap Ibu.
More details about Dr. Panca can be found at his university profile.
Md Khaled Ben IslamGriffith University
Md Khaled Ben Islam
Griffith UniversityPhD Candidate and Casual Academic
Mr. Islam is doing his PhD research in intelligent monitoring of water quality at Griffith University, Australia. He is also working as a casual academic at the very same institution. Prior to joining Griffith University, he was in the position of Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Pabna University of Science & Technology, Bangladesh.
More details about Mr. Islam can be found at his researchgate profile.
Workshop Co-Chairs
Evi YuliantiUniversitas Indonesia
Evi Yulianti
Universitas IndonesiaLecturer and Researcher
Dr. Yulianti is a lecturer and researcher at Fasilkom UI, Universitas Indonesia. She received her Ph.D in Computer Science from, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She completed her M.Comp.Sc. from the very same institution. She is interested in Information Retrieval, Summarization, and Machine Translation.
More details about Dr. Yulianti can be found at her university profile.
Takahiro UchiyaNagoya Institute of Technology
Takahiro Uchiya
Nagoya Institute of TechnologyAssociate Professor
Takahiro Uchiya is an associate professor of Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Nagoya, Japan. He received his Ph.D. degree from Tohoku University in 2004. His research interests include knowledge engineering and design methodologies of agent system. Dr.Uchiya is a member of IEICE and IPSJ.
More details about Prof. Uchiya can be found at his researchgate profile.
Tutorial Co-Chairs
Fariz DarariUniversitas Indonesia
Fariz Darari
Universitas IndonesiaAssistant Professor and Training Manager
Fariz Darari is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia, and Training Manager at Pusilkom UI. He is also Co-Director at Tokopedia-UI AI Center of Excellence. He holds a joint PhD from the Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy and Technische Universität Dresden, Germany. He is the recipient of the 2018 SWSA Distinguished Dissertation Award as well as the Enno Heidebroek Award from TU Dresden and the EMCL Best Thesis Award. His research interests range from AI and knowledge graphs to text analytics and computational logic.
More details about Dr. Darari can be found at his university profile.
M A Hakim NewtonUniversity of Newcastle
M A Hakim Newton
University of NewcastleLecturer in Data Science
M A Hakim Newton is a Lecturer in Data Science in the School of Information and Physical Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is also an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University, Australia. Newton received the B.Sc.Engg. and M.Sc.Engg. degrees from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and the Ph.D. degree from Strathclyde University, U.K. He was a Research Engineer at the National ICT Australia (NICTA). His research interests include artificial intelligence, intelligent search, machine learning, bioinformatics, and computer education research.
More details about Dr. Newton can be found at his university profile.
Advisory Board
Abdul SattarGriffith University
Abdul Sattar
Griffith UniversityProfessor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Leader of AI4Life Lab and
Founding Director of IIIS
Prof. Abdul Sattar is a thought-leader in the space of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science. He successfully established the Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), a cross-disciplinary research centre at Griffith University, and was appointed as its founding director in 2003, and served until end of 2015. The growth of the centre in terms of prestige, international recognition and several performance metrics including the number of publications and HDR completions has been, at least in part, a testament to the energy, academic rigour and industry engagement of its leadership.
Prof. Sattar has published over 400 research papers, and successful graduation of over 35 PhD students, with 10 research awards won by the research team under his direct leadership. During his tenure at Griffith he has received in excess of $3m through nationally competitive grant schemes, including 12 major ARC funded projects. He has forged links with NICTA and other funding bodies in our space, and played a key role in founding NICTA’s Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL). He was also a Principal Researcher in the successful bid for the CRC Smart Internet. His efforts have seen IIIS create partnerships with other areas of excellence at Griffith, playing a pivotal role in such ground-breaking areas as socially-useful robotics, bioinformatics in biosecurity and computational proteomics.
A leader in his area of expertise, Prof. Sattar contributes to the development of his field as the Steering Committee Chair of Pacific Rim International Conference in Artificial Intelligence Series (PRICAI), Executive Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) National Committee on Artificial Intelligence, General Chair of several national and international conferences including AI 2007, AI 2013, PRIMA 2010 and PRICAI 2010, PRICAI 2019 as well as Conference Program Committee Chairs for AI 1997, AI2006, PRICAI 2002 and TIME 2003.
More details about professor sattar can be found at his university profile.
Seong-Bae ParkKyung Hee University
Seong-Bae Park
Kyung Hee UniversityProfessor of Computer Science and Engineering
Seong-Bae Park received his B.S. degree in computer science from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 1994, and the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University in 1996 and 2002, respectively. He was a professor of computer science and engineering with Kyungpook National University from 2004 to 2017. In 2018, he joined Kyung Hee University, where he is currently a full professor of computer science and engineering. His research interests include machine learning, natural language processing, text mining, information extraction, and bioinformatics.
More details about Prof. Park can be found at his university profile.
Tru Hoang CaoUniversity of Texas
Tru Hoang Cao
University of TexasAssociate Professor
Tru Cao is Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He obtained his Bachelor degree from Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology in 1990, Master degree from Asian Institute of Technology in 1995, and PhD degree from the University of Queensland in 1999. He then spent his postdoc at the University of Bristol and the University of California at Berkeley. Prior to his current position, Tru Cao was Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Eastern Washington University, and Full Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology. He was also co-Founder and Chair of Information Science of John von Neumann Institute, Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City. His past positions include Chair of Information and Communication Technologies, Scientific Council of Vietnam National University at Ho Chi Minh City (2009-2012), School Associate Dean (2002-2007), and Department Chair (2002-2006). In 2007, Tru Cao was in charge of his School’s World Bank funded project proposal that then resulted in the School’s ABET-accredited programs in Computer Engineering and in Computer Science effective from 2011 and 2012, respectively. He was also one of the founding members of the IEEE Vietnam Section established in 2007. From 2009 to 2016, he held the Visiting Professorship at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. Tru Cao is currently PRICAI’s Steering Committee member, served as Program Committee Co-Chair for ICADL 2007, PACIS 2012, and PAKDD 2015, and Program Committee member for more than one hundred international conferences. He has published three textbooks, one research book, seven edited books, seven book chapters, and over one hundred peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences in the fields of conceptual structures, soft computing, semantic web, data mining, machine learning, natural language processing, and intelligent health information systems.
More details about Prof. Cao can be found at his linkedin profile.
Hammam RizaKORIKA; University of Syiah Kuala
Hammam Riza
KORIKA; University of Syiah KualaPresident, KORIKA
Dr. Hammam Riza is an information and communication technology (ICT) expert from Indonesia who focuses on artificial intelligence. He has a Doctor of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering (cum laude) from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Kentucky, USA, and Bachelor in Electrical Engineering, majoring in Electronics and Control System.
Currently, he is the President of Indonesia Collaborative AI Association (KORIKA), Chairman of Institute of Indonesia Technology Auditor (IATI), Vice President of ASEAN CIO Association (ACIOA), senate member of Indonesia Internet Organization (PANDI) and MASTEL. He has certification from the Institute of Indonesian Engineers (BKE-PII) as Principal Professional Engineer (IPU) and received the Honorary Member of ASEAN engineers (AFEO). He is a member of the international advisory board of the Asian Federation of NLP (AFNLP), regional representative of International Speech and Communication Association (ISCA), and Oriental Coordinating Committee on Speech Database and Assessment Technique (O-COCOSDA).
More details about Dr. Riza can be found at his short biography, linkedin profile and wikipedia page.
M G M KhanUniversity of the South Pacific
M G M Khan
University of the South PacificAssociate Professor
M.G.M. Khan received his BSc degree from the University of Calcutta, MSc, and PhD degrees from Aligarh Muslim University. He is currently an Associate Professor in Statistics at the School of Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics (STEMP) at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He has been teaching statistics in STEMP for more than 21 years. Dr. Khan is conducting research in the areas of mathematical programming and its applications, stratification, survey sampling and calibration estimation, clustering, statistical modeling and forecasting, renewable energy studies and environmental science, optimization, Bayesian analysis, data science, and machine learning. In these research areas, he has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also successfully supervised 3 PhD and 25 MSc Students.
More details about Prof. Khan can be found at his researchgate profile.
Sankalp Khanna CSIRO, Australia
Sankalp Khanna
CSIRO, AustraliaPrincipal Research Scientist and Team Lead
Sankalp Khanna is a Principal Research Scientist and leads the Health Intelligence team at the CSIRO Australian e-Health Research Centre. His research is focussed on applying Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to model, analyse, predict, simulate and optimise patient flow through Australian public hospitals, and develop explainable algorithms for delivering decision support that clinicians can interpret and trust. Solutions developed by Sankalp have helped reshape workflow and policy in hospitals in Australia and overseas. Sankalp is also Adjunct Associate Professor at the Queensland University of Technology and Griffith University, the Secretary of the Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI) Steering Committee, and a founding Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health.
More details about Dr. Khanna can be found at his official page.
Patricia AnthonyLincoln University
Patricia Anthony
Lincoln UniversityAssociate Professor at School of Landscape Architecture
My research revolves around the agent and multi-agent systems. I utilise artificial intelligence (AI) techniques such as machine learning, evolutionary computation and text processing as the decision making strategies of the agents. I am a leading researcher in the use of intelligent agents in various domains including online auctions, agriculture and education. I am also working on sentiment analysis and emotion identification which can be used by agents to detect sentiments/emotions in a text.
More details about me can be found at my university profile.
Qingliang ChenJinan University
Qingliang Chen
Jinan UniversityProfessor of Computer Science
Qingliang Chen received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Sun Yat-Sen University, China. He is currently a professor with Department of Computer Science, Jinan University and an adjunct professor with Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Peking University, from 2010 to 2012. His research interests are machine learning and pattern recognition, and he has published more than 30 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI and ECCV, and has served as the principal investigator for three research grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China.
More details about Prof. Chen can be found at his researchgate profile.
Stéphane BressanNational University of Singapore
Stéphane Bressan
National University of SingaporeAssociate Professor
Stéphane Bressan is an Associate Professor at the School of Computing (SoC) of the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is a Track leader for Maritime Information Technologies at NUS Centre for Maritime Studies, an Affiliate Professor at NUS Business Analytics Centre, a Researcher at the International Research Laboratory on Artificial Intelligence (IPAL), Singapore-France CNRS IRL 2955, and a Faculty Affiliate of NUS Institute of Data Science (NUS IDS). Stéphane received a PhD in Computer Science from the Laboratoire D'informatique Fondamentale of the University of Lille (France) in 1992. He was a researcher at the European Computer-industry Research Centre (ECRC) of Bull, ICL, and Siemens in Munich (Germany) from 1991 to 1996 and a Research Associate at the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (United States of America). He joined NUS in 1998. Stéphane's research includes the integration, management and analysis of data from heterogeneous, disparate and distributed sources, data- and physics-driven modelling, simulation and optimization with data mining and machine learning algorithms and their application to arts and social sciences, mathematics and science, environmental engineering, and to the maritime industry. Stéphane is a founding member and member of the Steering Committee of the Organization for Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services (@WAS) (1999-present) and a member (2013 - 2018), emeritus member (2018 – 2021), Vice-chair (2021 – current) of the Database Systems for Advanced Applications Steering Committee.
More details about Prof Bressan can be found at his university profile.
Jirapun DaengdejMerlin's Solutions International
Jirapun Daengdej
Merlin's Solutions InternationalCTO at Merlin's Solutions International Co., Ltd and Founder of Innocop Co., Ltd.
Jirapun Daengdej was awarded a Ph.D. in Computer Science in the area of Artificial Intelligence from University of New England, Australia in 1999. He received the IBM Faculty Award in 2009 and again in 2012 for his research, which dealt with problems of software development in a real-world environment. He used to serve as Executive Technical Advisor for a company that develops software tools used by many large organizations such as NASA, Boeing, DaimlerChrysler, Lockheed Martin, Rolls Royce, DHL, NEC, and most of the car companies in the world for 15 years. He is currently working as a CTO of Merlin’s Solution International, a company specializing in providing consultants on Design and Development of airport systems. Recently, he is also founder of Innocorp Co., Ltd, a company that focuses mainly on designing and developing AI solutions for various organizations, particularly designing and development of fraud detection systems for financial institutes.
More details about Dr. Daengdej can be found at his linkedin profile.
Takayuki ItoKyoto University
Takayuki Ito
Kyoto UniversityProfessor
Dr. Takayuki ITO is Professor of Kyoto University. He received the Doctor of Engineering from the Nagoya Institute of Technology in 2000. He was a JSPS research fellow, an associate professor of JAIST, and a visiting scholar at USC/ISI, Harvard University, and MIT twice. He served as a board member of IFAAMAS, the Program Chair of AAMAS2013, PRIMA2009, JST/ERCIM2021-2022 workshops, General-Chair of PRIMA2014, IEEE ICA2016, the Local Arrangements Chair of IJCAI2020, and a SPC/PC member in many top-level conferences (IJCAI, AAMAS, ECAI, AAAI, etc). He received the JSAI Contribution Award, the JSAI Achievement Award, the JSPS Prize, the Fundamental Research Award of JSSST, the Prize for Science and Technology of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT), the Young Scientists' Prize of the Commendation for Science and Technology by the MEXT, the Nagao Special Research Award of IPSJ, the Best Paper Award of AAMAS2006, the 2005 Best Paper Award of JSSST, and the Super Creator Award of 2004 IPA Exploratory Software Creation Project. He was a JST PREST Researcher, and a principal investigator of the Japan Cabinet Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers. He is currently principal investigator of his 2nd JST CREST project.
More details about professor Ito can be found at his university profile.
Hideyuki NakashimaSapporo City University
Hideyuki Nakashima
Sapporo City UniversityPresident
Hideyuki Nakashima is the president of Sapporo City University. He received his Ph. D. in Information Engineering at the University of Tokyo in 1983, and joined ETL (Electrotechnical Laboratories). From 2001 to 2004, he was the director of Cyber Assist Research Center of
AIST (National Institute of Advanced Institute for Industrial Science and Technology). From 2004 to 2016, he served as the president of Future University Hakodate (currently a President Emeritus). From 2016 to 2018, he was a Project Professor for Chair for Frontier AI
Education, The University of Tokyo. From 2018, he is in the current position.
More details about Prof. Nakashima can be found at his personal page.