<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call for paper***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">*************************************************************************************</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">18–20 November 2024, Nara, Japan</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="https://healthcom2024.ieee-healthcom.org/" style="color:rgb(149,79,114)">https://healthcom2024.ieee-healthcom.org/</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">*************************************************************************************</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE Healthcom 2024 aims at bringing together interested parties (universities, research centers, industries and stakeholders) from around the world working in the healthcare field to exchange opinions, discuss brand-new ideas, developing innovative and emerging solutions, and establishing new collaborations.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Healthcare is one of the largest industries with 5-18% of GDPs spent on health and Care globally. The healthcare budgets of the vast majority of nations continue to outgrow their GDPs. Social, demographic, economic and technological factors are the drivers for ever faster changing healthcare models. While the demographic shifts in the populations display significant socio-economic challenges they trigger more and more opportunities for innovators in the areas of sensor technology, the Internet of Things, Robotics, e-health, m-Health, Cloud Computing and emerging technologies such as 5G, Big Data, SDNs, NFV, Precision and Personalized Medicine. However, the integration of innovative technology into society is associated with a lot of complexities. Social technological alignment and societal acceptance of technology requires sound solutions with regards to ethical, legal, social and security challenges.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Authors are cordially invited to submit their original papers within the eHealth area. The topics include but are not limited to:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 22pt;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">l<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Signal/Data Processing and Computing For Health Systems</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">AI and machine learning for eHealth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Machine and deep learning approaches for Health Data</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Generative AI for eHealth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Fog/Edge/Cloud computing for wearable medical devices</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Virtual tele-rehabilitation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Biometric analysis (gait analysis, eye-tracking, falls, mHealth)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal processing for virus early detection</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Bioinformatics</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">AI for precision medicine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box">AI-driven drug discovery and development processes</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Federated learning for privacy-preserving health data analysis</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 22pt;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">l<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Communications and Networking</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Network coding and error detection/correction</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Delay-tolerant, fault-tolerant, and reliable communication</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">In-hospital networking, body area and cloud-integrated networking</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">B5G-based eHealth solutions</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Future network designs and deterministic networking for eHealth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Semantic communications for eHealth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Network security for eHealth</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoListParagraph" align="left" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 22pt;background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Wingdings">l<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-feature-settings:normal"> <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Medical, Biomedical & Health Communication Systems</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Medical imaging, image compression and detection</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Signal processing, data cleansing, management and mining</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Smart health and big data</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">IoT for eHealth and telemedicine</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">eHealth platforms</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Digital platforms for biopharmaceutical clinical trials<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="margin:0cm;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-image:none;background-position:0%;background-size:auto;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:padding-box;background-clip:border-box"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New R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LaTeX or Word using the official IEEE templates. Final submission of the manuscript will be in PDF format, and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Important Dates:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Paper Submission: 25 May 2024<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Notification of Acceptance: 30 August 2024<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Final Manuscript (Camera Ready): 30 September 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">General Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">TPC Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Payam Barnaghi, Imperial College London, U.K.<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Noriaki Kamiyama, Ritsumeikan University, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Danda B. Rawat, Howard University, USA <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Peiying Colleen Ruan, NVIDIA, Japan<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Panel Chair:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Honggang Wang, UMass Dartmouth, USA <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Tutorial Chair:</span></b></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Andrea Sciarrone, University of Genoa, Italy</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">   <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Workshop Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Dapeng Wu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Xuyu Wang, Florida International University, USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Poster Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Chiara Garibotto, University of Genoa, Italy <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Guangchi Liu, Southeast University, China <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Publication Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Zhicheng Jiao, Brown University, USA<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Financial Chairs:<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext">Zhe Sun, Juntendo University, Japan</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-Default" style="margin:0cm;font-size:medium;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family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</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:windowtext"></span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Steering Committee Vice Chair: Honggang Wang, Yeshiva University, USA</span><span lang="JA" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:11pt;font-family:"Yu Mincho",serif"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:-webkit-standard;font-size:medium"></span><br></div>