Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers (Alphabetize by Last Name)


Ahmet Tugrul Bayrak
Ata Technology Platforms, Turkey
Speech Title: Comparing Few-Shot Prompting and Machine Learning Models for Multi-Class Text Classification

Ahmet Tugrul Bayrak is the Data Science Manager at Ata Technology Platforms in Turkey. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematical Engineering from Yildiz Technical University and another in Computer Engineering from The Technological University of the Shannon. Additionally, he attended Uppsala University for a Master's degree in Computer Science. With a career rooted in software engineering and data science, Mr. Bayrak has contributed to numerous projects, particularly in Natural Language Processing and Recommender Systems. Alongside his industry work, he remains active in academia, with a substantial portfolio of published research papers.


Kevin Xin
XINVISIONQ, INC., USA
Speech Title: On Scientific Discovery - A decision-machine approach

Kevin Xin is co-founder of XINVISIONQ, INC., and has published two papers and a book. His research interests include decision-making under uncertainty, time-series forecasting, and machine learning for scientific discovery. He was awarded Excellent Oral Presentation Award at the 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and Algorithms, and as CEO of XINVISINQ, INC., xINvisionQ has been accepted to two premier international startup programs. He graduated from ALVS Class of 2021 with exemplary student honors; was admitted to UIUC Class of 2025.



Invited Speakers in Past CEII



Asst. Prof. Hugo Wai Leung Mak
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


Asst. Prof. Hamza Djigal
Wenzhou Kean University, China


Assoc. Prof. Qiyu Kang
University of Science and Technology of China


Mr. Ahmet Tugrul Bayrak
Ata Technology Platforms

Prof. Jun Cai, IEEE Senior Member
Concordia University

Assoc. Prof. Boyang Zhou
Zhejiang Lab, China