ICCDA 2026 Keynote Speakers

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Prof. KWONG Sam Tak Wu (IEEE Fellow)
Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China

Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research)
J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence

Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu is the Associate Vice-President (Strategic Research), J.K. Lee Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence and the Dean of the School of Graduate Studies of Lingnan University. Professor Kwong is a distinguished scholar in evolutionary computation, artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, and image/video processing, with a strong record of scientific innovations and real-world impacts. Professor Kwong is one of the most highly cited researchers by Clarivate in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He has also been actively engaged in knowledge transfer between academia and industry. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2014 for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding. He was the President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMCS) in 2021-22. He is a fellow of US National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Professor Kwong has a prolific publication record with over 500 journal articles, and 160 conference papers with an h-index of 99 based on Google Scholar. He is currently the associate editor of a number of leading IEEE transaction journals.