Professor Mohammad Yamin obtained his PhD in Mathematics from the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Currently he is a professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) at the King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is also an Adjunct at the Research School of Computing of the Australian National University since 2012. During 1994 – 2009, Dr Yamin has served the Australian National University, University of Canberra in the capital of Australia. During 1997-2001, Professor Yamin has also served the Australian Federal Government Department of Human Services as a Software Analyst and Developer, and Data Administrator.

Professor Yamin has published about 120 articles, including several on Crowd Management, in leading International Journals. He is an expert on detecting and preventing stampedes in crowded events. Dr. Yamin also specializes in Cyber Privacy and Security, Road Safety Management, and Health Management with Modern technologies. In particular, he has contributed to several methods to protect privacy in the Internet of Things involving Location based Services. Mohammad has supervised several PhD students at the Australian National University, City University London, King Abdulaziz University, Management & Science University Kuala Lumpur, and Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Other areas of his expertise include Business Informatics, E-Government, E-Learning, E-Commerce, and social media. He has over 3000 citations.

Professor Mohammad Yamin is one of the two editors of the International Journal of Information technology (Scopus) published by Springer Nature (Germany). He is also the general chair of the International Conference of Information Engineering and Management (ICIEM), which has in the past held its meetings in Europe, China, and India. ICIEM 2024 will take place from 28 February to 2^nd March together with INDIACom 2024 at Bharti Vidyapeeth New Delhi.

Crowd Management with Modern Technology

Thousands of people have died in stampedes, hundreds die every year. Stampedes are primarily caused due to the lack of crowd management.  Despite colossal loss of lives every year, there doesn’t seem to be a collective effort to prevent these deaths. Unfortunately, whenever a stampede takes place, no efforts are made to identify the causes and no one is held responsible and accountable to this crime to humanity. Every year numerous regular and irregular crowded events take place. Unfortunately, many of the historic stampedes took place in the religious crowded events like Kumbh (India), Hajj (Makkah) and Arbaeen (Iraq), to name a few.

This talk will provide a glance of some of the crowded events, discuss the root cause of disasters in the crowded events, present a framework to safely manage the events and a model of organising crowded events during crisis like Covid-19 to prevent the spread of communicable diseases.

Dr TORIUMI Fujio is a Professor at Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

For details, please visit: https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/people/people003579.html

Information Health: Tackling Misinformation and Social Challenges in
the Digital Age

With the emergence of diverse information platforms, especially social
media, we find ourselves embroiled in severe societal pathologies such
as fake news and infodemics. At the core of these issues lies the
basic economic principle of the modern information space known as the
Attention Economy, leading to “overconsumption” and “biased
consumption” of information.

In this presentation, we will identify the issues present in the
modern digital space and introduce analyses based on large-scale data
that illustrate the actual state of these specific phenomena.
Furthermore, we discusses a concept termed “Information Health”, which
is crucial for addressing these problems. This involves realizing a
more discerning engagement with information in the modern digital
information space. The talk will also share attempts made toward
achieving Information Health, fostering a discourse on navigating the
digital information landscape in a healthier and more informed manner.

Dr Shah J Miah is a Professor of Business Analytics, Strategic Advisor to the Pro Vice-Chancellor, and Head of Business Analytics, Economics, and Politics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He was awarded his PhD from the Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia. His areas of interest include in AI apps, DSS, healthcare IT, Big-data analytics, and Business Intelligence.

Prof Miah has produced over 200 publications, including research books, journal articles, book chapters, and refereed conference articles. His outstanding work has appeared in top-tier outlets of the field, such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Information and Management, Information Technology and People, and Knowledge-Based Systems. He is actively involved in the Australian business industries for various consulting and problem-solving research activities and collaborations with national and international universities.

Prof Miah has examined over 40 PhD dissertations, to date has successfully supervised 15 PhD degree completions, and is currently supervising more than 14 PhD projects internally and externally. Following the background of expertise, Shah’s strong vision of research is to promote and contribute to the impact of digital transformation and robotic automation technology design and their adaptation in business organizations and explore opportunities for new research and future collaborations for building interdisciplinary research projects. The projects are mainly focused on the merits of the four organizational capabilities: 1) business process automation; 2) exploring opportunities of big data; 3) empowering process and practice improvement enabling transparent or/and evidence-based insight/decision making and 4) improving impact of machine-driven automation, creativity, and innovations.

Prof John Gammack (PhD Cambridge, 1988) is an adjunct Professor at Murdoch University in Perth, and also at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He has around 200 internationally recognised publications mostly concerning informatics, and was lead author of the first popular textbook in this general field. Professor Gammack is a former head of both IT and management schools, and was research director for cross-university interdisciplinary groups specialising in Internet studies and in user and societal (IT) needs. Currently John spends time at various Chinese institutions as a visiting faculty member, and continues his research in informatics and digital life.