Sio-Iong Ao

Dr. SIO IONG AO is a world-renowned expert and inventor with more than 25 years experience in artificial intelligence, digiTech innovations and network engineering, authoring and/or editing 142 academic books (forty-one books published by Springer; one book by Taylor & Francis/CRC Press; one book by IEEE Computer Society; seven books by American Institute of Physics; seven books by World Scientific; eighty-five books by IAENG). Dr. Ao obtained his PhD on computational mathematics/AI from the University of Hong Kong, and finished his post-doctoral research in Oxford University Computing Laboratory, University of Oxford, and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. Dr. Ao is the laureate of the Young Distinguished Scientist Award (Artificial Intelligence) 2023, and the 21st Century Outstanding Young Engineer Award 2014. Dr. Ao is the the honorary chair of the IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence. Dr. Ao is the pioneer of the minimax linkage hierarchical clustering in AI/machine learning.

Dr. SIO IONG AO is the principal developer of of internationally famed AI software CLUSTAG and WCLUSTAG in medical sciences, and a prominent expert in high-level design thinking for AI and digitech programs, with many of Dr. Ao's 171 academic publications covering a wide spectrum of advances in this topic. The software CLUSTAG is the first real-world application of Dr. Ao's minimax linkage hierarchical clustering.

Dr. SIO IONG AO is a high-profile leader in smart edTech and expert with international recognition in communication technologies and high-level information security, spearheading transformative initiatives in open access smart edTech publishing, while navigating all cardinal technology and information security development and implementation since 2005. Dr. Ao has nineteen years leadership experience of serving as the secretary general of a non-profit international engineering/computer engineering association, with over 210,000 ordinary members and over one thousand committee members from about fifty different countries. Dr. Ao's exceptionally outstanding achievements demonstrate his eminently excellence at nurturing digitech innovations and initiatives among complex multinational environments for international entities.

Dr. SIO IONG AO is an esteemed pioneer and entrepreneur with worldwide collaborations in AI/digitech innovations, exploring the insights and/or commercialization potential of deep academic technologies. Dr. Ao has eighteen years chief executive experience of co-founding a pioneering digitech venture in Internet computing and network engineering.