Keynote Speaker_ICIET 2026

Fellow of the AAAS, ACM,and IEEE

the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Biography: Benjamin W. Wah is currently the Provost and Wei Lun Professor ofComputer Science and Engineering of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.He also serves as the Chair of the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.Before then, he served as the Director of the Advanced Digital SciencesCenter in Singapore, as well as the Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor ofElectrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of the CoordinatedScience Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Hereceived his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has received a number of awards for hisresearch contributions, which include the IEEE CS Technical AchievementAward (1998), the IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), the IEEE-CS W. WallaceMcDowell Award (2006), the Pan Wen-Yuan Outstanding Research Award(2006), the IEEE-CS Richard E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS TsutomuKanai Award (2009), and the Distinguished Alumni Award in ComputerScience of the University of California, Berkeley (2011). Wah's current research interests are in the areas of bigdata applications and multimedia signal processing. Wah cofounded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its Editor-in-Chiefbetween 1993 and 1996, and is the Honorary Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information Systems. He currentlyserves on the editorial boards of Information Sciences, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, Journalof VLSI Signal Processing, and World Wide Web. He has served the IEEE Computer Society in various capacities,including Vice President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM,and IEEE.