2025 Keynote Speakers (Ubi-Media)

Dr. Chia-Hui Chang is a full Professor at National Central University, Taiwan. Her research interests include web intelligence, data mining, natural language understanding, chatbot and dialog systems construction, AI in education, and machine learning applications in GPS and HCI. Dr. Chang has published over 80 papers at refereed conferences and journals, including WWW, PAKDD, TKDE, IEEE Intelligent Systems, etc., and was elected one of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists (Career Impact) in 2023 and 2024. She is actively involved in organizing major conferences in her field, including serving as local chair for AACL 2022/ACML 2010, General Chair for ROCLING 2021 and TAAI 2020, area co-chair for ACL 2017 and NAACL 2018. She served as the President of the Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI) from 2020-2022 and the President of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing (ACLCLP) from 2019-2021. She serves as the convenor of the Intelligent Computing Department of the National Science and Technology Council in Taiwan since 2024.

Prof. Chia-Hui Chang

National Central University, Taiwan

Director for Office of Institutional Research

2025 Keynote Speakers (I-SPAN)

Timothy K. Shih (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Distinguished Professor with National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. In NCU, he was the Vice Dean of the College of EECS and the Founding Director of the Innovative AI Research Center. He was the Dean of the College of Computer Science, Asia University, Taiwan, and the Chairperson of the CSIE Department, Tamkang University, Taiwan. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). He was the Founding Chairman Emeritus of the IET Taipei Local Network. In addition, he is a Senior Member of ACM. He was the Founder and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, USA. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Computing. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He was the Conference Co-Chair of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME’2004). He has received many research awards, including the Research Award from the National Science Council of Taiwan, the IIAS Research Award from Germany, the HSSS Award from Greece, the Brandon Hall Award from USA, the 2015 Google MOOC Focused Research Award, and several best paper awards from international conferences. He was named the 2014 Outstanding Alumnus by Santa Clara University

Prof. Timothy K. Shih

National Central University, Taiwan

Senior Member, IEEE

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