Prof. Qing Li
IEEE, AAIA and IET Fellow
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
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, with over 45,000 citations and H-index of 87 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Computer & Education: X Realitty (CEXR) by Elsevier, associate editor of 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 in the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ER, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE, AAIA, and IET.
Prof. YANG Jin
Former Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of China to UNESCO
East China Normal University, China
Prof YANG Jin has developed his career as both a civil servant and
an academic researcher in the Chinese education system. He is
currently an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education of East
China Normal University. He worked progressively in different
branches of the Ministry of Education of China, as Director of
Division of Teaching and Learning Support of Department of
Vocational and Adult Education, Deputy Director-General of
Department of Basic Education, and then as Director-General and
Research Professor of the Central Institute for Vocational and
Technical Education (CIVTE). He was appointed as a member of the
10th session of the National Inspectorate of Education of China, and
elected as Vice President of both the Chinese Adult Education
Association and the Chinese Society for Technical and Vocational
Education.
He obtained international experiences in three successive positions
as Senior Programme Specialist in UNESCO Institute for Lifelong
Learning (UIL), Minister Counsellor for Education in the Embassy of
China to France, and then Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of China
to UNESCO.
He holds a B.Sc degree in mechanical engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong
University in China, an M.Ed degree in comparative education and a
PhD in economics of education from the University of Manchester in
the U.K.
His fields of research cover comparative education, lifelong
learning, learning science, STEM education, and education for
international understanding.