Computational Vision and Bio-Inspired Computing

João Manuel R. S. Tavares graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidade do Porto, Portugal, in 1992. He also earned his M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Universidade do Porto in 1995 and 2001 and attained his Habilitation in Mechanical Engineering in 2015. He is a senior researcher at the Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial (INEGI) and Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering (DEMec) of the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP). His main research areas include computational vision, medical imaging, computational mechanics, scientific visualization, human-computer interaction and new product development.

Dr. Fuqian Shi currently working as Graduate Faculty Scholar, College of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, USA. He has published more papers in standard journal and conferences. He has acted as a committee member in many international conferences and editorial board in refereed journals. He acted as a reviewer in many reputed journals. He is a member of professional bodies like IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, Society, Man and Cybernetics, Computational Information System, ACM, Zhejiang Provincial Industrial Design Association and Information Management Association of Wenzhou City. His research interest includes computer networks, computer programming, computer graphics, image processing, data structure, operating system and medical informatics.

Robert Bestak obtained Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from ENST Paris, France (2003) and M.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from Czech Technical University in Prague, CTU, Czech Republic (1999). Since 2004, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, CTU. He participated in several national, EU, and third party research projects. He is the Czech representative in the IFIP TC6 organization, and chair of the working group TC6 WG6.8. He annually serves as Steering and Technical Program Committee member of numerous IEEE/IFIP conferences (Networking, WMNC, NGMAST, etc.) and he is member of editorial board of several international journals (Computers & Electrical Engineering, Electronic Commerce Research Journal, etc.). His research interests include 5G networks, spectrum management and big data in mobile networks.