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.

Prof. Tok Wang LING
National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Tok Wang LING is an emeritus professor in Computer Science Department at the National University of Singapore since 1 July 2021. He was the Head of IT Division, Deputy Head of the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, and Vice Dean of the School of Computing of the University. Before joining the University as a lecturer in 1979, he was a scientific staff at Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada. He received his PhD and M. Math., both in computer science, from University of Waterloo (Canada) and B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from Nanyang University (Singapore).
His research interests include Database Modelling, Entity-Relationship Approach, Object-Oriented Data Model, Normalization Theory, Semi-Structured Data Model, XML Twig Pattern Query Processing, XML and Relational Database Keyword Query Processing, and querying Relational Databases by natural language.
He served on the steering committees of 5 international conferences, including ER, DASFAA, and BigComp. He was the steering committee chair of both ER and DASFAA. He served as Conference Co-chair of 11 international conferences, including ER 2004, DASFAA 2005, SIGMOD 2007, VLDB 2010, and BigComp 2015. He served as Program Committee Co-chair of 6 international conferences, including DASFAA 1995, ER 1998, 2003, and 2011. He served on the program committee of more than 160 international database conferences.
He received the ACM Recognition of Service Award in 2007, the DASFAA Outstanding Contributions Award in 2010, and the Peter P. Chen Award in 2011. He is an ER Fellow, ACM Distinguished Scientist, IEEE Senior Life Member, Fellow of Singapore Computer Society.