From 2-4 December 2021, the 15th IEEE-RIVF International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies is taking place at Le Quy Don Technical University (LQDTU), Hanoi, Vietnam.

     RIVF (Research, Innovation and Vision for the Future) has become a major scientific event for researchers in the fields of Computing and Communication Technologies in the world since 2003. The RIVF is a premier forum designed for researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge ideas, discuss problems, share their research results, identify emerging issues, and establish academic collaborations in various disciplines of computing and communications. The RIVF series has been held alternatively between the northern and southern parts of Vietnam. It has become an IEEE conference since the IEEE Vietnam Section was formed in 2007, and indexed by SCOPUS and ISI Web of Science.

     This year, the RIVF includes ten sessions of four main topics focusing on: i) AI, Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics; ii) Image, Language and Speech Processing; iii) Information and Network Security; and iv) Discrete and continuous computational models. For more information, please visit the official website of the conference: https://rivf.net/#/program.

     It is also a pleasure for us to announce that RIVF 2021 is going to have the presence of three keynotes from leading researchers in the field of artificial intelligence. The detailed keynotes are:

1.    Prof. Witold Pedrycz from the University of Alberta, Canada, with the topic “Federated Unsupervised Design of Information Granules” (8:45-9:45 on 2 December).

2.    Prof. Hani Hagras University of Essex, UK, with the topic “Towards human-friendly explainable artificial intelligence” (14:00-15:00 on 2 December)

3.    Prof. Mengjie Zhang from Victoria University of Wellington, with the topic “Evolutionary Deep Learning and Applications” (8:30-9:30 on 3 December)

     The listers and researchers interested in the topics can freely join the Zoom links listed on the official website. Participating in the conference brings the chance to catch up with state-of-the-art research directions in artificial intelligence and potentially open up research cooperation.