Prof. Jun Cai

Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, China

Brief: Member of the Party Committee and Vice President of Guangdong Polytechnic Normal University, National-Level High-Level Talent Ph.D., Professor (Level 2), doctoral supervisor, Pearl River Scholar (Young), recipient of the Guangdong Provincial May 1st Labor Medal, Young Backbone Teacher in Guangdong Higher Education Institutions, and head of a national first-class undergraduate program. Awarded theFirst Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (first author), twice the First Prize of Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (first author), the 2021 China Industry-University-Research Collaboration Innovation Award (individual), and the Special Prize of Guangdong Provincial Teaching Achievement Award (second author). (Master's supervisor for Network and Information Security, and Science and Technology Education) Serves concurrently as Dean of the Guangdong Provincial Demonstration Industry College for Information Innovation and Cybersecurity, Head of the Innovation Team at Guangdong's Ordinary Higher Education Institutions, Director of the Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Software-Defined Low-Latency Networks, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for Future Networks, Director of the Guangdong Higher Education Institutions Engineering Research Center for Future Networks, Director of the Cai Jun Model Worker and Craftsmanship Talent Innovation Studio under the Guangdong Education, Science, Culture, Health and Sports Trade Union, Chairperson of the Cybersecurity Special Committee of the Guangdong Association for Industry-Education Integration, Chairperson of the Secondary Vocational Education Professional Committee of the Guangdong Computer Society, Chairperson of the Information Innovation Special Committee of the Guangdong Computer Information Network Security Association, and President of the Southern Institute of Network Information Security.

Prof. Weigang  Wu

Sun Yat-sen University, China

Brief: Vice Dean of the Computer College, doctoral supervisor, also serves as the deputy director of the Guangdong Medical Big Data Engineering Technology Research Center. In 1998 and 2003, he/she obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from Xi'an Jiaotong University respectively, and received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2007. In 2008, he/she entered the Computer Science Department of Sun Yat-sen University through the "Hundred Talents Program" of Sun Yat-sen University, and was selected as the first "Jiangsu River Science and Technology New Star" of Guangzhou in 2011. 

Having been engaged in research in the fields of networks and distributed computing for a long time, he has made numerous technological innovations at the international leading level. He has published over 190 academic papers, including more than 20 high-level papers in the first zone of the Chinese Academy of Sciences/Class A of the Computer Society of China in journals such as IEEE TPDS, IEEE TIFS, Infocom, and ICSE. He won the Best Paper Award at the renowned international conference ICA3PP2023. His papers have been cited nearly 700 times by SCI, and he has received wide recognition from the academic community both at home and abroad.

Prof. Yongsheng Ma

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Brief: Yongsheng Ma is a Tenured Professor and Associate Department Head of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). A recipient of theNational TalentScholar Award, he returned to China in 2021 from his position as a tenured full professor at the University of Alberta, Canada.Prof. Ma earned his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Manufacturing and Automation fromTsinghua Universityin 1986. He then obtained both his Master’s(1991)andPh.D. in CAD/CAM（1994）from UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in the UK andwas a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Alberta, Canada.

Professor Ma has accumulated over three decades of experience in top-tier international research, engineering education and industrial applications. His research focuses on engineering software informatics, smart design and manufacturing, and digital twins. Notably, he pioneered the "Associative Feature" theory in 1999. He has led 50+ research projects worldwide, published over 260 papers, and authored two monographs. Academically active, he serves as an Associate Editor for Advanced Engineering Informatics. He also directs the Zhejiang Tiantai Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, driving the integration of industry, academia, and research.

Speech Title: The approach of Knowledge-ability training balanced, Industry-research collaborative, and  Proactive undergraduate education at SUSTech

Abstract: As a newly established research university, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) actively explores a engineering teaching model aligned with the needs of our era, striving to develop a competitive and highly effective undergraduate education model. Through extensive reflection and refinement across multiple schools and departments, SUSTech has established a teaching management framework characterized by parallel development of diverse functions, integrated industry–research cultivation, and proactive student learning. This report will elaborate on SUSTech’s educational model, presenting innovative approaches alongside concrete measures for implementation.