Keynote Speakers
More keynote speakers will be announced soon.
Prof.
Farid Meziane
University of Derby, UK
Farid Meziane obtained a PhD in Computer
Science from the University of Salford on
his work on producing formal specification
from Natural Language requirements. He is
currently holding a chair in Data and
Knowledge Engineering and is the director of
the informatics research centre at the
University of Derby, UK. He has authored
over 100 scientific papers and participated
in many national and international research
projects. He is the co-chair of the
international conference on application of
Natural Language to information systems and
in the programme committee of over ten
international conferences and in the
editorial board of three international
journals. He was awarded the Highly
Commended Award from the Literati Club, 2001
for his paper on Intelligent Systems in
Manufacturing: Current Development and
Future Prospects. His research expertise
includes Natural Language processing,
semantic computing, data mining and big data
and knowledge Engineering.
