Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers 邀请报告人

 

Prof. Jianwen Sun

Central China Normal University, China

 

Jianwen Sun is currently a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor with the National Engineering Research Center of Educational Big Data and Faculty of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Central China Normal University. His education qualifications include Bachelor and PhD degrees in educational technology, both from the Central China Normal University. He is currently serving as the Deputy Secretary General of Research Association of Learning Sciences, CAHE (China Association of Higher Education), and also the Deputy Secretary General of Technical Committee on Intelligent Education, CAA (Chinese Association of Automation). His research interests include educational data mining, computational learning sciences, and intelligent tutoring systems. He has authored or coauthored more than 30 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings including Nature Computational Science, ACM TOIS, IEEE TNNLS/TEVC/TII/TLT/TCE, AAAI, WWW, and ACM MM. He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Chinese Association of Automation (CAA), and China Computer Federation (CCF).

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Vincent CS Lee

Monash University, Australia ( IEEE Senior Member)

 

Vincent CS Lee is currently an Associate Professor with the Faculty of IT, Monash University and a Senior Member of IEEE. His education qualifications include Bachelor and Master degrees in EEE, both from the National University of Singapore; MBA from Henley Management College in Oxford, England; BBus (Hons 1st class in Economics & Finance) and MBus (Accountancy), both from RMIT University in Melbourne; and PhD degree from University of Newcastle, NSW in Australia. He is an active researcher and educator (with Graduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching from Monash University) with 30 years as academicians for four universities including Monash University and Swinburne University, both in Melbourne, joint Monash-South East University in Suzhou, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was visiting Professors with School of Economics and Management, and School of Computing and Technology, Tsinghua University in Beijing. Lee’s research and higher education teaching (developed and delivered undergraduate and postgraduate courses) span multi-disciplinary domains across IT, Digital Health, Signal and Information Processing, Financial Engineering (FinTech), Educational Data Mining (with learner-centric education technology tools), Explainable AI, Deep ML, Computer Vision for dynamic objects tracking, and Multi-agent Autonomous Systems. Lee has published 200+ papers in IEEE/ACM SCImago ranked Q1 High Impact factors of Journals, and in CORE A/A* Peer-review International Conferences proceedings (AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, ICWS, ICDE, PAKDD, CIKM, WWW, IEEE IC Signal Processing, IC-EDM). Lee also served as invited keynote speakers for a number of these IEEE and ACM Flagship conferences’ and General Chair and Co-chair of steering committees and technical programs.

 

Senior Lecturer Dr. Qingqing Xing

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

 

Dr. Qingqing Xing is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Education Sciences, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). She holds a PhD in Education from Peking University and has more than 23 years of teaching experience in science and technology-oriented universities. She is committed to promoting research ideas and interdisciplinary collaboration, including as a Project Manager in the Bureau of International Cooperation at the National Science Foundation of China and as the Associate Director of the International Office at the Beijing Institute of Technology. These experiences have given her insights into promoting research-oriented education internationally, especially for the world's first interdisciplinary university as HKUST(GZ).
As an education practitioner, Dr. Xing actively explores the pedagogy of Project-Based Learning. In addition to her efforts to teach Interdisciplinary Design Thinking and Effective Academic Communication, she collaborates with interdisciplinary research teams in computational media and arts, metaverse research, and health care. As part of this collaboration, it uses educational technologies and artificial intelligence generated content tools to help students present their research ideas in engaging ways to facilitate their “niche” exploration process, with a focus on developing Self-Organized Maker Education. Within just one year of its inception, HKUST(GZ) research students have actively contributed insights and examples of project-based learning in higher education.

 

 

Reader Dr. Neil Gordon

University of Hull, UK

Neil Gordon is a Reader  in Computer Science at the University of Hull in England. Neil is a National Teaching Fellow, and a Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He has produced a number of reports for AdvanceHE, with major ones on the way that technology enhanced learning can enable flexible pedagogy, on the role of assessment in education, and on ways to address issues in retention and attainment in computing education. His awards include University Teaching Fellowships and awards for scholarship in teaching and learning. His research interests include applications of computer science to enable true technology enhanced learning, issues around sustainable development, as well as more discipline specific work on applications of computer algebra and formal methods. He has published over 50 journal articles, a similar number of refereed conference proceedings, along with a variety of book chapters, reports and other publications.


 

Assoc. Prof. Yang Chen

Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China


Yang Chen is currently an associate professor in the college of humanity and social sciences of Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen), China. She received her bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Communication University of China, master’s degree in digital media from Harbin Institute of Technology, China, and doctoral degree in computer graphics technology with a concentration in human-computer interaction from Purdue University, USA. Her research interests include social media, user experience, environmental communication, and educational gamification. As principal investigator, she has undertaken funded research projects on gamified pro-environmental communication, gamification in second language acquisition, and big data and education resources, which were funded by national/provincial social science foundations. She has publications in international journals including International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, sustainability, and International Journal of Language, Literature and Linguistics. She also published in international conferences such as ICBDE, ICESS, ICIET, WCEEE, and ELEARN. In addition, she serves as a reviewer for several prestigious international journals (such as Information, Communication & Society, Information Processing and Management, Social Media and Society, Behaviour & information Technology, and Interacting with Computers) and international conferences in the fields of social media, technology, and education.

 

 

Asst. Prof. Qi Cao

University of Glasgow, UK


Dr. Qi Cao is an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, U.K. and Singapore. He obtained his PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2007. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering degree from HuaZhong University of Science & Technology (HUST), Wuhan China in 2000. He has been with several organizations for many years research experiences. His research areas include Computational Intelligence, Data Analytics, Computing Science Education, Software Engineering Education, Technology Enhanced Learning with Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR). He has published more than 70 research papers and one book. He is the first inventor of two U.S. patents (granted). He has been the organising committee member of more than 10 international conferences. He has been the guest editor for three special issues on international journals. One of his journal papers received the IEEE MultiMedia 2020 Best Paper Award Runner-Up, by the IEEE Computer Society Publications Board.

More details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/computing/staff/qicao/


Title: Evaluations of Virtual & Augmented Reality Technology Enhanced Learning for Higher Education

 

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Hang Hu

Southwest University, China

 

Dr. Hu Hang received his Ph.D. degree from Northeast Normal University. He is the National Training Specialist, the Executive Director of the Specialized Committee on Information Technology Education for Primary and Secondary Schools of The Chinese Society of Education, the Youth Member of the Specialized Committee on Information Technology Education of the Chinese Association For Educational Technology, the Director of the Specialized Committee on Human Resource Education of the China Adult Education Association, and a member of the Society of International Chinese in Educational Technology (SICET). In recent years, he has mainly focused on the research and practical work of cognitive and deep learning (subject matter education technology), information technology education (STEM, Informatics Olympiad, etc.), vocational education informatization, ethnic education informatization, and regional informatization development strategy. He has led a national education science planning project, a Ministry of Education humanities and social science project, led or participated in more than 10 other ministry (municipal) and university projects, published more than 30 academic papers in CSSCI journals, and served as an external reviewer for CSSCI journals such as Research on Modern Distance Education, Journal of Distance Education, and Open Education Research.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Anuchai Theeraroungchaisri

Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

 

Dr. Anuchai Theeraroungchaisri is an Associate Professor in Department of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University. He is providing teaching and conducting research in Pharmacy Informatics, Pharmacy Education and Pharmacy Management. He also a member of information technology committee of The Pharmacy Council of Thailand; member of pharmacy education sub-committee of The Pharmacy Education Consortium of Thailand (PECT).