President Founder Forum

Navigating the AI Era: Applications and Implications of Artificial Intelligence

Moderator

Sam Kwong, SMCS President, received his B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Ph.D. from Femuniversität Hagen, Germany. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), he was a Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada. He was responsible for designing diagnostic software to detect the manufacturing faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He later joined Bell-Northern Research as a Scientific Staff member working on the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) project. Kwong is currently Chair Professor at the CityU Department of Computer Science, where he served as Department Head and Professor from 2012 to 2018. Prof Kwong joined CityU as a lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1989. Prof. Kwong is currently the associate editor of leading TEEE transaction journals, including letE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, lEbe Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transactions on Cybemeties. He has filed 24 US patents, of which 13 have been granted. He has co-authored three research books, eight chapters, and over 300 technical papers. According to Google Scholar, his works have been cited more than 25,000 times with an h-index of 70.

Panellists

Dimitar Filev received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Czech Technical University in Prague in 1979. Since 1994 he was with the Ford Motor Company Research & Innovation Center (RIC) Where he served as a Senior Henry Ford Technical Fellow, the most prestigious technical leadership position at Ford https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford_Technical_Fellow, and a member of the Ford Technology Advisory Council until his retirement in Dec 2022. Dr. Filev was awarded 2023 Hagler Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University.
https://hias.tamu.edu/faculty-fellows/.

Prior to joining Ford Motor Company RIC, he was an Associate Professor of Information Science at the Machine Intelligence Institute, lona University. New Rochelle, MY, between 1991 and 1994 and Associate Professor at the Bulgarian Academy of Science between 1980 and 1991. He held visiting appointments at Osaka University as a Fellow of the Japanese Society for Promotion of Science USPS) in 1984, as a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Control Problems, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Moscow, in 1987, and as an IRBX Foundation Fellow at the Department of System Science. SUNY-Binghamton in 1991.

Dr. Dimitar Filev's contributions are in the area of applied research and industrial applications of computational intelligence, intelligent control, autonomous driving, including 2 research monographs, 2 edited volumes, more than 200 publications (with over 18,000 citations, H-Index 59), 132 granted US patents, over 100 patents in EU, Russia, China, Japan, and numerous original innovative applications to automotive product and manufacturing technologies. Filev's research & applied contributions have been recognized by awarding him 6 times with the highest Ford Motor Company award the Henry Ford Technology Award (in 1996, 1999. 2001, 2005, 2010, and 2013).

He was elected to the NAE for "contributions to automotive research and practice in the fields of intelligent information and control systems". Filev is a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IFSA, and recipient of the 2008 Norbert Wiener Award of the IEEE SMC Society and the 2015 Pioneer's Award of the CIS Society of IEEE. His long-term impact on R&D was recognized by rewarding him with the Ford Motor Company's inaugural " Haren Gandhi Research & Innovation Award.

Julie A. Adams (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree in computer science and the B.B.A. degree in accounting from Siena College, Albany, NY, USA, in 1989 and 1990, respectively, and the M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in computer and information sciences from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA, in 1993 and 1995, respectively. She is currently the Associate Director of Research with the Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute and a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University, where she directs the Human–Machine Teaming Laboratory. Her current research interests include distributed artificially intelligent algorithms and the development of complex human–machine systems for large human and robotic teams. 

BR41N.IO Hackathon

BR41N.IO is a brainstorming and collaborative marathon designed to be a learning experience for developers, technologists, engineers, students, artists, and scientists who cram and build brain-computer interface (BCI) applications together in teams. https://www.br41n.io/IEEE-SMC-2024

Who can participate?

Anyone can participate who has interests in BMI, BCI, robotics, AR, VR, machine learning, computing, sensors, human-machine interface systems, control, signal processing, big data, haptics, rehabilitation, and similar areas. Even better: it is for FREE. Participants do not have to be a BMI expert to participate on a team! Interdisciplinary teams with a combination of BMI and non-BMI skills are often successful in building solutions and producing working prototypes. I am a Unicorn Hybrid Black owner. How can I participate? Do you have a Unicorn Hybrid Black at home or at your University/Institution? Great! Let's put together a team of students and participate with your own Unicorn Hybrid Black at the virtual BR41N.IO Hackathon. Our programming projects are most suitable for you.

Can I submit a different project?

Professional teams can also participate to develop applications during the BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon to demonstrate the full potential of some of the sponsored hardware/software. If you are looking for additional skills from other team members, your project will be included among the BR41N.IO projects below for application. Submit your project to contact@br41n.io.

What's in there for me?

Be creative, think outside the box. The BR41N.IO Designers' Hackathon is fun and gets you to network and collaborate with other Geeks. The best BR41N.IO projects will be awarded with cash prizes:

Project Prizes Programming:

• 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
• 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
• 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400

• 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
• 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
• 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400

• 1st BR41N.IO Prize: $ 1000
• 2nd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 600
• 3rd BR41N.IO Prize: $ 400

Sign up for a BR41N.IO project!

There are several predefined projects which you can choose to work on. Below, the projects are described in detail including hard- and software requirements. The Unicorn Hybrid Black and the Unicorn Suite should be used to join a Programming Project. But, you can use your own hardware and software for the BR41N.IO hackathon. In case you don't have a BCI Headset, we recommend joining an Offline Data Analysis Project.

Meet your team virtually!

We will connect you with the team members of your project. Create your own virtual meeting space using Skype, Google Hangouts, Zoom, etc. to start working on your ideas.

Stay connected with us via Discord!

While you work on your groundbreaking new BCI applications, we are here to answer all the questions that might come up and support you wherever we can. Join g.tec's official Discord Server to connect with your team members!

Present your projects virtually and win!

You will be invited to present your results virtually via Zoom. Prepare yourself to explain what you did, what the results are and to show a demonstration (live or with a video) to the international audience and jury.