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.