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Fellow of IEEE
Syracuse University, USA The tentative topic: Developing an Internet and Blockchain Emulator for Research and Education Biography: Dr. Wenliang (Kevin) Du, IEEE Fellow, is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor at Syracuse University. His current research interest focuses on Internet/blockchain emulation and cybersecurity education. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1993 and Ph.D. degree from Purdue University in 2001. He founded the SEED-Labs open-source project in 2002. The cybersecurity lab exercises developed from this project are now being used by 1,070 institutes worldwide. His self-published book, “Computer & Internet Security: A Hands-on Approach”, has been adopted as textbook by 260 institutes. He is the recipient of the 2017 Academic Leadership award from the 21st Colloquium for Information System Security Education. His research has been sponsored by multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and Google. He is a recipient of the 2021 ACSAC Test-of-Time Award and the 2013 ACM CCS Test-of-Time Award. |
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Fellow of IEEE
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China The tentative topic: Constructing and Manipulating Educational Knowledge Graphs: Some Exotic Approaches Biography: Qing Li is a Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his B.Eng. from Hunan University (Changsha), and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), all in computer science. His research interests include multi-modal data management, conceptual data modeling, social media, Web services, and e-learning systems. He has authored/co-authored over 500 publications in these areas. He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an associate editor of a number of major technical journals including IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems (TCDS), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Data Science and Engineering (DSE), and World Wide Web (WWW) Journal, in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat on the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ER, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, WISE and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE. |
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San Diego State University, USA Biography: Dr. Minjuan Wang is Professor and Program Head of Learning Design and Technology (LDT) and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (TLT). Previously, she worked as a program manager for the Chancellor's Office of CSU. She teaches Methods of Inquiry, Designing and Developing Learning for the Global Audience, and Mobile Learning Design. Her research specialties are multidisciplinary, focusing on learning across the Metaverse, Cross-Reality (XR) and Immersive Learning, AI in education, and the sociocultural aspects of learning design and the use of technology. |
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Athabasca University, Canada Biography: Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His research mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; intelligent agent technology; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc. |
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Fellow of IET
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan The tentative topic: Revolutionizing Multimedia Applications in the Era of Advanced VLSI Technology (Abstract) Biography: Yeong-Kang Lai received the Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 1997. |
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CEO of e-Learning Corporation, the only Moodle Certified Premium Partner in Japan, and CEO of E-LEARNING LMS PET. LTD., Singapore
The tentative topic: Why Moodle is No.1 LMS in many countries? Biography: Mr. Takeshi Matsuzaki is the founder & CEO of e-Learning Corporation, the only Moodle Certified Premium Partner in Japan, and CEO of E-LEARNING LMS PET. LTD., Singapore. |