ICMIP-KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Prof. Hiroyuki Kudo, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Hiroyuki Kudo received the B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Communications, Tohoku University, Japan, in1985, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, in 1990. In 1992, he joined the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is currently a Professor with the Institute of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research areas include medical imaging, image processing, and inverse problems. In particular, he is actively working on tomographic image reconstruction for X-ray CT, PET, SPECT, and electron tomography. He received best paper awards more than 10 times from various international and Japanese societies. He received the IEICE (The Institute of Electronics, Information, and Communication Engineers, Japan) Fellow award for his contributions on “cross-sectional image reconstruction methods in medical computed tomography”. In 2018, he obtained Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology for his contributions on “research on design method and image reconstruction method for new CT”. For 2011-2016, he was an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Medical Imaging Technology (MIT). For 2020-2024, he was a president of Japanese Society of Medical Imaging Technology (JAMIT).

Prof. John See, Heriot-Watt University (Malaysia Campus), Malaysia

Biography: Dr. John See is a Professor at School of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Heriot-Watt University (Malaysia Campus) and an Associate Professor before that. He also leads the Multimedia Data Analysis (MuDA) Lab. Previously, he was a Senior Lecturer at Multimedia University, Malaysia where he was the Chair of the Centre for Visual Computing (CVC), and founded the Visual Processing (ViPr) Lab. From 2017-2019, he was also a Visiting Research Fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) as a recipient of the Belt and Road Initiative Young Scientist Fellowship. He received his Bachelor, Masters and PhD degrees from Multimedia University. Dr. See has published more than 140 articles in reputable journals and conferences such as IEEE T-PAMI, T-AC, T-MM, T-CSVT, and top-ranked computer vision and AI conferences such as CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, ACM Multimedia, AAAI and NeurIPS. He has served as chair of several workshops, special sessions, and in the technical programme committee of various international conferences. Over the span of his academic career, he has received more than MYR 3 million in research funding from international, national, and industrial grants as Principal Investigator (PI)/Co-PI.