Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Biography: Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. She served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director and President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. Dr. Trajkovic serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Open Journal of Systems Engineering. She is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Prof. Yasin Ortakci
Karabuk University, Turkey

Biography: Yasin Ortakci received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering from Sakarya University and M.S. Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Karabuk University. In 2010, he conducted research on military applications of meta-heuristic algorithms as a visiting scholar at Auburn University, Alabama, USA. TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) awarded his PhD project the best projects award. He served as the Head of the Informatics Department between 2015-2017 in UNIKA and as the Safranbolu Vocational High School Director between 2017-2022. He work as a professor at Karabuk University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering since 2017. His research focus is artificial intelligence, machine learning, virtual reality, data analytics and he has many national and international projects and publications in these fields. Since 2022, he has been conducting research regarding artificial intelligence applications on social media as an academic visitor at Birmingham City University in the UK.

Prof. Chi-Chang Chang
Chung-Shan Medical University, Taiwan

Biography: Prof. Chang is Professor for the Medical Informatics School and president of Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan. He recently joined the International Advisory Board of Karadeniz Technical Universityand Süleyman Demirel University to support their internationalization mission in 2023.

His research contributions are focuses on clinical studies of specific diseases, including predicting cancer recurrence and Second Primary Cancer, diagnosing glaucoma and early chronic kidney disease, and analyzing posttraumatic growth and health behavior in clinical psychology. For practice issue, his team apply several innovative information technologies and collaborate across disciplines and countries around the world. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed articles in reputed international journals and conferences.

Prof. Chang have co-founded three international conferences, two AI forums, and the Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan with his team members. There are the International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI) in 2017, the International Conference on Healthcare Service Management (ICHSM) in 2018, the International Symposium on Medical Decision Science (ISMDS) in 2023, the Health Big Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Forum (HBAAI) in 2017, the Joint Executive Board on Medical Informatics Taiwan (JEBMI) in 2018 and the Medical Decision Science Association of Taiwan (MEDSAT) in 2022.

He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Decision Science in Medicine. He also an editor for some interdisciplinary journals, including those in the fields of medicine, computer science, and management science, include Intl Journal of Medical Sciences, Open Medicine, Therapeutics & Clinical Risk Management, Intl Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Frontiers in Genetics, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Intl Journal of Computers and Applications, Journal of Quality, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering, Intl Journal of Business and Systems Research, ACM, Intl Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences and Journal of Electronic Science and Technology etc. Details at “mdecisionlab.csmu.edu.tw”.