ICCCI 2026 Speakers

Prof. Chuan-Yu Chang
National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Dr. Chuan-Yu Chang (IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member) received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2000. He is currently a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech) and serves concurrently as the President of the university. He previously held several leadership positions at YunTech, including Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Dean of Research and Development, and Director of the Incubation Center for Academia-Industry Collaboration and Intellectual Property. He also served as the Deputy General Director of the Service Systems Technology Center at the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Taiwan.
Dr. Chang has long been devoted to research in computational intelligence and its applications, including medical image analysis, automated optical inspection, emotion recognition, and pattern recognition. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers. In terms of academic service, he has served as General Chair and Program Chair for numerous international conferences, as well as Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Tainan Chapter and Regional Representative for the Asia-Pacific Region. He also served as President of the Chinese Image Processing and Pattern Recognition Society (IPPR).
He has received numerous honors for his outstanding research and industry–academia contributions, including the National Industry-Academia Collaboration Master Award from the Ministry of Education (2021), the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (2021), recognition as the IEEE Consumer Technology Society Most Featured People (October 2022), being listed among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University (2022–2025), the Distinguished Engineering Professor Award from the Chinese Institute of Engineers (2023), and the Future Tech Award from the National Science and Technology Council (2020, 2023).

Prof. Kazuhiko Kinoshita
Tokushima University, Japan