Keynote Speakers will be announced soon.
Previous Keynote Speakers
Prof. Gabriel Wainer
SCS Fellow
Carleton University, Canada
GABRIEL A.
WAINER, FSCS, received the M.Sc. (1993) at
the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina,
and the Ph.D. (1998, with highest honors) at
UBA/Université d’Aix-Marseille III, France.
In July 2000, he joined the Department of
Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton
University (Ottawa, ON, Canada), where he is
now Full Professor. He has held visiting
positions at the University of Arizona; LSIS
(CNRS), Université Paul Cézanne, University
of Nice, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, Université
de Bordeaux (France); UCM, UPM, UPC (Spain),
University of Buenos Aires, National
University of Rosario (Argentina) and
others. He is one of the founders of the
SCS/ACM/IEEE Symposium on Theory of Modeling
and Simulation, SIMUTools and SCS/ACM/IEEE
SimAUD. Prof. Wainer was Vice-President
Conferences and Vice-President Publications
and is a member of the Board of Directors of
the SCS, Society for Modeling and Simulation
International. He has published over 400
research articles and five books in the
field of Modeling and Simulation. Prof.
Wainer is Editor in Chief of SIMULATION,
member of the Editorial Board of Journal of
Simulation (Taylor and Francis) IEEE
Computing in Science and Engineering,
Wireless Networks (Elsevier), Journal of
Defense Modeling and Simulation (SCS). He is
the head of the Advanced Real-Time
Simulation lab, located at Carleton
University's Centre for advanced Simulation
and Visualization (V-Sim). He helped
organizing over 150 conferences including
ACM SIGSIM PADS and Winter Simulation
Conference (co-sponsored by ACM). He has
been the recipient of various awards,
including the IBM Eclipse Innovation, SCS
Leadership, and various Best Papers. He has
been awarded Carleton University's Research
Achievement Award (2005, 2014), the SCS
Outstanding Professional Award (2011),
Carleton University’s Mentorship Award
(2013), the SCS Distinguished Professional
Award (2013), the SCS Distinguished Service
Award (2015), Nepean’s Canada 150th
Anniversary Medal (2017), ACM Recognition of
Service Award (2018), IEEE Outstanding
Engineering Award (Ottawa Section - 2019).
He is a Fellow of SCS.
Prof. Jian Sun
Tongji University, China
Prof. Sun Jian
graduated from the School of Transportation
Engineering at Tongji University in 2006,
where he subsequently joined as a faculty in
the same year. He was promoted to the
position of full professor in 2011, having
served as a lecturer in the intervening
period. Currently, he serves as the
director, professor, and doctoral supervisor
of the Department of Transportation
Engineering at Tongji University. His
research areas of focus include traffic flow
theory, traffic system modeling and
simulation, intelligent transportation
systems, and related subjects.
Prof. Sun Jian has presided over seven
National Natural Science Foundation projects
and more than 50 other research projects in
recent years. His research findings have
been published in more than 190 academic
papers, including over 110 articles in
indexed in SCI and more than 50 articles in
EI. Additionally, he has published three
monographs, participated in compiling three
provincial and ministerial specifications,
and has acquired 40 authorized invention
patents. Under his leadership, the research
program has won two first prizes and one
second prize from provincial and ministerial
science and technology awards.
Furthermore, Prof. Sun Jian serves as an
associate editor/editorial board member for
six domestic and foreign journals, including
IET Intelligent Transportation Systems,
Journal of Intelligent and Connected
Vehicles, Journal of China Highway and
Transport, and Journal of Tongji University.
He has been selected as the deputy director
of the Traffic Modeling and Simulation
Committee of the China System Simulation
Society and has been recognized as a
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Excellent Youth Fund recipient, a Young
Changjiang Scholar of the Ministry of
Education, and a National Natural Science
Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Fund
recipient, among other talent plans.