Establishment of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Women Committee

Establishment of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Women Committee

June 20
23:08 2022

Women continue to play an important role in the advancements of science, technology and society. They have multiple identities and they play different roles. They are scientists, wives, mama, etc., and they are also themselves. Women scientists are making science that affects the world, and these women scientists, who continue to set new heights in research, are contributing to the world of research with their outstanding innovation. Women power is making change and impact.

Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) recently established the AAIA Women Committee, which is the first committee of AAIA, to promote their greater roles in all areas. AAIA values and encourages women to pursue careers in science and artificial intelligence. Our current female members are outstanding scientists with extensive influence worldwide, who have been playing important roles in the field of artificial intelligence. They have extensive work and research experience, and they have made great contributions to technological innovation and trained next generation of scientists.

The AAIA Women Committee is committed to building an environment that supports the career development of women scientists. We hope that by promoting international exchanges and cooperation among women scientists as well as expanding their research and academic networks, we can better help them with showing talents and playing roles. We welcome more women scientists to join AAIA.

The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) was incorporated in Hong Kong in 2021. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) is an academic, non-profit and non-governmental organization voluntarily formed 691 academicians worldwide. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) fellows come from Stanford University, Princeton University, MIT, California Institute of Technology, Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London, University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, University of Melbourne, Sydney University, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore National University, Peking University, Tsinghua university, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities, as well as the world’s top scientists in AI related fields from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Alibaba, Huawei, JD.com and other high-tech companies. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) fellows including academicians (such as member of US National Academy of Sciences, member of US National Academy of Engineering, member of the Academia Europea, member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, member of Canadian Academy of Engineering, member of Royal Academy of Engineering, member of Singapore Academy of Engineering, etc.), IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow, AAAI Fellow, IAPR Fellow, etc. The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) aims to build a broad AI industry, bringing together scientists and entrepreneurs related to AI applications to develop AI industries, including the AI Ocean, AI Transportation, AI Computing, AI Communication, AI Robot, AI Education, AI Agriculture, AI Finance, AI Medicine, AI Energy, and dozens of AI application fields. The main mission of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) is to strengthen scientists in the field of AI and other fields worldwide to promote the development and application of AI through academic research, academic exchanges, science education, science exhibitions, academic conferences, academic publications, summer/winter camps and other activities.

The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) Wuhan Branch was established on 11 June 2022. Other chapters, such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Melbourne, Berlin, Rome, Kolkata, Beijing and Shenyang are being organized. It is believed that in the near future, AAIA will develop into an international organization with greater influence. We welcome scientists and companies to join us in advancing breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology to better serve the world.

The scientists of AAIA Women Committee are listed below:

1) Animashree Anandkumar (IEEE Fellow; Bren professor at Caltech CMS department and a director of machine learning research at NVIDIA; Co-director of Dolcit and co-leads the AI4science initiative, along with Yisong Yue)

2) Aude Billard (Member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Professor with the School of Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL); Director of the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory at EPFL)

3) Aylin Yener (IEEE Fellow; Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Integrated Systems Engineering, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, all at Ohio State University)

4) Bhavani Thuraisingham (ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; AAAS Fellow; Fellow of British Computer Society; IMA Fellow; Founders Chair Professor at Department of Computer Science, Founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI), Co-Director of the Centers for Women in Cyber Security (WiCyS) and Women in Data Science (WiDS), University of Texas at Dallas)

5) Branka Vucetic (Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science; Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering; IEEE Fellow; Laureate Professor and Director of the Centre for IoT and Telecommunications in the School of Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney)

6) Carla Fabiana Chiasserini (IEEE Fellow; Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Research Associate with the Italian National Research Council (CNR))

7) Carme Torras (IEEE Fellow; EurAI Fellow; Member of Academia Europaea; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona; Professor of Research at the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC); Head of the Robot Perception and Manipulation Research Group at the Robotics Institute, CSIC-UPC)

8) Cathy H. Wu (ACM Fellow; Unidel Edward G. Jefferson Chair in Engineering and Computer Science,  Director of Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (CBCB), Director of Data Science Institute (DSI), Director of Protein Information Resource (PIR), Professor of Computer & Information Sciences, Professor of Biological Sciences, at University of Delaware)

9) Christel Baier (Member of the Academia Europaea; Professor and Chair for Algebraic and Logical Foundations of Computer Science in the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Dresden)

10) Danica Kragic (Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Member of The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Professor, Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH); Director, Centre for Autonomous Systems, Robotics, Perception and Learning Lab)

11) Diane Cook (Fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors; IEEE Fellow; Regents Professor and Huie-Rogers Chair in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University; Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems (CASAS))

12) Dimitra Simeonidou (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow; Royal Society Wolfson Scholar; Professor at the University of Bristol, the Co-Director of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute and the Director of Smart Internet Lab)

13) Elisa Bertino (IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Purdue University; Head of the Cyber Space Security Lab (Cyber2Slab); Research Director of the Center for Information and Research in Information Assurance and Security; Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University)

14) Elisabeth André (Member of Academy of Europe; Member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina; Member of AcademiaNet; Member of the CHI Academy; EurAI Fellow; Chair and Professor for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Applied Computer Science, University of Augsburg)

15) Esther Rodriguez-Villegas (Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; Professor and Chair of Low Power Electronics in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London)

16) Guiling (Grace) Wang (IEEE Fellow; Professor and Associate Dean for Research of Ying Wu College of Computing at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Founding Director of the AI Center for Research at New Jersey Institute of Technology)

17) Guoying Zhao (IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Member of Finnish Academy of Science and Letters; Full Professor with the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu; Academy Professor with the Academy of Finland)

18) Jing Xiao (IEEE Fellow; Deans’Excellent Professor and Head of Robotics Engineering Department of Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI); William B. Smith Distinguished Fellow in Robotics Engineering; Site Director of NSF I/UCRC ROSE-HUB; AIR Lab Director)

19) Judith Gal-Ezer (ACM Fellow; Professor of Computer Science at the Open University of Israel (OUI); Vice President for Academic Affairs at the Open University for almost 10 years: 1999–2005 and 2009–2012; Recipient of ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award and ACM SIGCSE Award)

20) Karen Panetta (IEEE Fellow; Professor and Dean of Graduate Education, School of Engineering, Tufts University; Presidential Award for Science and Engineering Education and Mentoring, National Science Foundation; CAREER Award, National Science Foundation)

21) Kerstin Dautenhahn (Canada 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Robotics, Waterloo, Canada. IEEE Fellow. AISB Fellow. Director of the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory (SIRRL))

22) Lili Qiu (IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; SIGMOBILE Chair; Professor in Computer Science Department at University of Texas at Austin)

23) Ljiljana Trajkovic (IEEE Fellow; Professor of Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems)

24) Ling Liu (IEEE Fellow; Professor at School of Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology; Head of the distributed data intensive systems (DiSL) lab at Georgia institute of technology; Editor in chief of ACM transaction on Internet Technology (TOIT))

25) Liuqing Yang (IEEE Fellow; Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Minnesota)

26) Maja Pantic (Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Professor of Affective and Behavioral Computing, Leader of the i·BUG group at Imperial College London; AI Scientific Research Lead in Facebook)

27) Maria-Gabriella Di Benedetto (IEEE Fellow; Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, the Faculty of Engineering of Sapienza University of Rome; Research Affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Cambridge, MA, USA)

28) Maria Gini (ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; AAAI Fellow; A. Nico Haberman Award; CSE Distinguished Professor and Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota)

29) Maria Pia Fanti (IEEE Fellow; Professor of System and Control Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic of Bari; Chair of the Laboratory of Automation and Control)

30) Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (Member of the Academia Europaea; Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science; Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at the University of Torino)

31) Mei-Ling Shyu (IEEE Fellow; AAAS Fellow; SIRI Fellow; Associate Chair and a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami)

32) Mei-Yuh Hwang (IEEE Fellow; AI Research Scientist at Meta; Affiliate Professor of EE Department at University of Washington)

33) Ming Liu (Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; IEEE Fellow; Director, Key Laboratory of Microelectronic Devices & Integrated Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Professor, Institute of Microelectronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

34) My T. Thai (IEEE Fellow; UF Research Foundation Professor of Computer & Information Sciences & Engineering, Associate Director of Nelms Institute for the Connected World at the University of Florida)

35) Pang Ai-Chun (IEEE Fellow; Professor of Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University)

36) Pau-Choo Chung (IEEE Fellow; Professor of Department of Electrical Engineering, Dean of College of Electrical Engineering, Dean of Miin Wu School of Computing at National Cheng Kung University)

37) Petra Perner (IAPR Fellow and AAIA Fellow; Professor, Director of FutureLab Artificial Intelligence IBaI-2 and Institute of Computer Vision and Applied Computer Sciences IBaI)

38) Pierangela Samarati (IEEE Fellow; ACM Fellow; IFIP Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; Professor at the Computer Science Department of the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

39) Richa Singh (IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; the Vice President (Publications) of the IEEE Biometrics Council; Professor and Head at Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur)

40) Rose Qingyang Hu (IEEE Fellow; Associate Dean for Research of College of Engineering at Utah State University; Full Professor of Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Utah State University)

41) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay (Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS); Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (INSA); Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI); IEEE Fellow; Professor, Machine Intelligence Unit, Indian Statistical Institute; Director, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India)

42) Sarit Kraus (AAAI Fellow; ECCAI Fellow; ACM Fellow; Member of the Academia Europaea; Member of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities; Professor of Computer Science at Bar-Ilan University)

43) Shira Lynn Broschat (IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the Institute of Physics; Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America; Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University)

44) Sonja Smets (Member of the Academia Europaea, corresponding member of the International Academy for Philosophy of Science (AIPS), Professor of Logic and Epistemology at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the University of Amsterdam. Professor II in the Logic and AI Group, Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen)

45) Sunita Sarawagi (Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE); ACM Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Director of the Center of Machine Intelligence and Data Science at IIT Bombay)

46) Sushmita Mitra (Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences; Fellow of Indian National Science Academy; Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering; Fellow National Academy of Sciences India; IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; Full Professor at the Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute)

47) Tanja Schultz (Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts; IEEE Fellow; Fellow of the International Speech Communcation Association; Spokesperson of the high-profile area “Minds, Media, Machines” at the University of Bremen; Member of the Board of Directors of the Leibniz Science Campus on Digital Public Health)

48) Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood (IEEE Fellow; AIMBE Fellow; IBM Fellow; Global leader for imaging AI in IBM Research)

49) Wenquan Che (IEEE Fellow; Fellow of  Chinese Institute of Electronics; Elected Member of IEEE MTT-S AdCom; Editor-in-Chief of Microwave and Optical Technology Letters; Professor at South China University of Technology; Deputy Director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves and Terahertz)

50) Xiaobo Sharon Hu (ACM Fellow; IEEE Fellow; Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, USA)

51) Yanyong Zhang (IEEE Fellow; Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China; Vice-Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China)

52) Yao Wang (IEEE Fellow; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Tandon School of Engineering at New York University; Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Tandon School of Engineering at New York University)

53) Yingli Tian (IEEE Fellow; IAPR Fellow; CUNY Distinguished Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at the City College of New York (CCNY) and Department of Computer Science at the Graduate Center, the City University of New York)

54) Yingying Chen (IEEE Fellow; NAI Fellow; Professor and Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Peter Cherasia Endowed Faculty Scholar at Rutgers University; Associate Director of Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB); Director of Data Analysis and Information Security (DAISY) Lab; The recipient of NSF CAREER Award and Google Faculty Research Award)

55) Yuan YUAN (Member (Academician), European Academy of Sciences and Arts; National Distinguished Professor; Director of The Center for OPTical IMagery Analysis and Learning at the Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), China; Rewards of National Qian-Ren, National Jie-Qing, National Wan-Ren, China)

56) Zhongdong Wang (IEEE Fellow; IET Fellow; Professor of Electrical Power Engineering at the University of Exeter; Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for the College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at the University of Exeter)

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