University of New Brunswick, Canada
Conference Chair
Dr. Luigi Benedicenti received his Laurea in Electrical Engineering and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy. A full professor and dean in the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of New Brunswick, Benedicenti previously served as Associate Dean in charge of Special Projects and as Associate Vice-President (Academic) at the University of Regina. He is a Professional Engineer licensed in Saskatchewan and a licensed Italian Engineer. He created the Software Systems Engineering Program at the University of Regina and became its founding Program Chair. He led the accreditation process for the new program and was subsequently entrusted with the supervision of data collection and computation for all Engineering programs.
University of British Columbia, Canada
Conference Co-Chair
Dr. Zheng Liu received his first doctorate in engineering from Kyoto University (Japan) in 2000 and earned a second Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa in 2007. From 2000 to 2001, he was a research fellow with the control and instrumentation division of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined the Institute for Aerospace Research of National Research Council Canada (NRCC, Ottawa) as an NSERC governmental laboratory visiting fellow in 2001. From 2002 to 2012, he served as a research officer for NRCC. From 2012 to 2015, Dr. Liu worked for the Toyota Technological Institute (Nagoya, Japan) as a full professor. In 2015 fall, he returned to Canada and joined the University of British Columbia Okanagan and established the “Intelligent Sensing, Diagnostics, and Prognostics Research Lab.” He is currently an associate professor at the School of Engineering.