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Athabasca University, Canada Speech Title: Natural Language Processing and Regular Expression based Services (Click for abstract) 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. Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT, https://tc.computer.org/tclt), Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities (https://www.computer.org/communities/special-technical-communities), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, https://www.apsce.net/) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, http://gcsce.org/), SVice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, http://iasle.net/), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, https://its2021.iis-international.org/). Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (https://www.j-ets.net/, Open Access SSCI), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (https://igi-global.com/ijdet, Open Access ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (https://tc.computer.org/tclt/bulletin/, Open Access ESCI). Dr. Chang has given more than 125 talks and lectures in different events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 240 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017), INNS (2004-2018), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society. |
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Biography: Ching Sing CHAI received his B.A. from the National Taiwan University; PGDE and MA from Nanyang Technological University; and his Ed D from the University of Leicester. He served as a secondary Chinese language teacher and head of department, and as an associate professor in Nanyang Technological University. He is currently a professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 100 SSCI papers. His research interests include technological pedagogical content knowledge, language learning, STEM and AI education, and teacher professional development. |