Prof. Leilei Zhao

Nanjing Normal University, China

Brief: Zhao Leilei, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the School of Education Sciences of Nanjing Normal University, a member of the Labor and Science Engineering Education Working Committee of the China Wisdom Engineering Research Association, an expert member of the Artificial Intelligence Professional Committee of the China Education Technology Association, an expert member of the Intelligent Learning and Innovation Research Working Committee of the China Wisdom Engineering Research Association, the deputy secretary-general of the Jiangsu Education Society, a member of the Modern Education Management Professional Committee of the China Education Development Strategy Society, and has been selected for the Jiangsu Province Young Science and Technology Talent Support Program and the Young and Middle-aged Leading Talent Program of Nanjing Normal University. As the first author, he has published over 30 papers in CSSCI journals such as "Education Research", "Education Research and Experiment", "Chinese Journal of Education", "Teacher Education Research", and "Electrical Education Research". His main research fields are intelligent education and educational management. He has been responsible for several provincial and ministerial-level projects, including the National Social Science Foundation's Post-Grant Project, the Development Research Center of the State Administration for Market Regulation's commissioned project, the Humanities and Social Sciences Fund of the Ministry of Education project, the Commissioned Project of the Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of Education, the Key Project of Jiangsu Social Sciences Fund, the Key Post-Grant Project of Jiangsu Social Sciences Fund, the Major Project of Jiangsu University Philosophy and Social Science Research, and the Key Project of Jiangsu Education Science Planning. He has received awards such as the Second Prize of the Jiangsu Social Science Application Research Excellence Project, the Eighth "Degree and Graduate Education" Excellent Paper Award, the Third Prize of the Fifteenth "Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievements" of Wuxi, the Third Prize of the Sixteenth "Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievements" of Wuxi, and the Third Prize of the National University's Excellent Paper on Ideological and Political Work in 2020.

Prof. Xinwei Yao

Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Brief: Dr. Yao Xinwei, born in May 1986 in Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor of Zhejiang University of Technology, vice president of Advanced Technology Research Institute of Zhejiang University of Technology, winner of National Wu Wenjun Award for Outstanding Youth in Artificial Intelligence, winner of Zhejiang Outstanding Youth Fund, and one of the top Ten Young Science and Technology Talents in Hangzhou. CCF Distinguished Member of China Computer Society, CAAI Senior Member of China Society for Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Senior Member..

His main research fields are swarm intelligence computing, swarm intelligence perception and collaboration, intelligent Internet of Things and other basic theories, core technologies and comprehensive solutions. His scientific research achievements have won 9 provincial and ministerial awards, such as the National Wu Wenjun Award for Outstanding Youth in Artificial Intelligence (the first winner in Zhejiang Province), Wu Wenjun Award for Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress, Second Prize for Technological Invention, First Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Zhejiang Province, and second Prize for technological invention. Including IEEE TMC, ACM/IEEE ToN, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE IoT-J, IEEE TCAD and other TOP journal papers more than 40, 1 paper for the journal highly cited paper, published 3 English monographs, 3 chapters, published 1 Chinese book. It has obtained more than 30 authorized national invention patents and more than 10 software Copyrights.

Prof.Nikolaos M. Freris

University of Science and Technology of China, China

Brief: Nikolaos Freris (Nick), a Distinguished Visiting Professor and doctoral supervisor, is a Senior Member of IEEE. He received his advanced bachelor's degree from the National Technical University of Athens in 2005 and then went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States, where he obtained his master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007), a master's degree in Mathematics (2008), and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2010). From 2010 to 2012, he served as a postdoctoral scholar at the IBM Research Institute in Switzerland. From 2012 to 2014, he was a senior researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. From 2014 to 2018, he was an assistant professor on a tenure-track at New York University Abu Dhabi and concurrently held the position of assistant professor at the Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. In January 2019, he joined the School of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China as a Distinguished Visiting Professor. He has led numerous national and international research projects and has published over 30 academic papers in high-level academic journals and conferences such as IEEE TACON, VLDB Journal, SIMAX, CDC, Allerton, and ICASSP. He has also been invited to give research reports at universities and conferences both at home and abroad on multiple occasions. Currently, he holds two US patents and one Chinese patent. He has participated in organizing and hosting international conferences such as BigCom, IJCAI, Allerton, EUCCO, and IRAV, and serves as a reviewer for well-known journals such as IEEE TACON, ToN, TIT, TSP, Automatica, VLDBJ, KDD, and SIOPT. He also served as a guest editor for Neurocomputing in 2017.

Assoc. Prof. Cixiao Wang 

Beijing Normal University, China

Brief: Wang Cixiao, an associate professor at the School of Education of Beijing Normal University and a "Zhongying Young Scholar", holds a Bachelor's degree in Science from Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. from the joint program of Peking University and University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on digital learning, learning science, and human-computer collaborative teaching and learning. She has been the principal investigator of over 10 projects, including a National Natural Science Foundation of China project, a Youth Project, a Key Project of Beijing Education Science Planning, a Seed Funding from International Network of Educational Institutes (INEI), and a Young Talents Cultivation Project of Beijing Normal University. She has published 4 monographs and textbooks and has over 80 papers in SCI/CSSCI/EI indexed journals such as Computers & Education, Learning & Instruction, Journal of Educational Technology Research, and China Educational Technology. She has won the Fourth "National Excellent Achievement Award for Educational Empirical Research".