Prof. Geoff Webb
IEEE Fellow
Monash University, Australia
Geoff Webb is a leading data scientist. He is Research Director of the Monash University Data Futures Institute and a Technical Advisor to data science startups FROOMLE and BigML Inc. The latter have incorporated his best of class association discovery software, Magnum Opus, as a core component of their advanced Machine Learning service. He developed many of the key mechanisms of support-confidence association discovery in the late 1980s. His OPUS search algorithm remains the state-of-the-art in rule search. He pioneered multiple research areas as diverse as black-box user modelling, interactive data analytics and statistically-sound pattern discovery. He has developed many useful machine learning algorithms that are widely deployed. He has applied machine learning in a broad range of applications including manufacturing, finance, medicine, biology and geoscience. He was editor in chief of the premier data mining journal, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery from 2005 to 2014. He has been Program Committee Chair of the two top data mining conferences, ACM SIGKDD and IEEE ICDM, as well as General Chair of ICDM. He is an IEEE Fellow. His many awards include the prestigious inaugural Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Excellence in Data Science. His 250+ academic papers have received over 14,000 citations with an h-index of 60. Seven of his recent papers have been recognised as Clarivate Web of Science High Cite papers (top 1% of citations for the discipline).
Prof. Jun Fu
Northeastern University, China
Jun Fu received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, in 2009. He is a postdoctoral researcher in the department of mechanical engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA from 2010 to 2014. He is Dean of School of Future Technologies, and Executive Dean of Faculty of Robot Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. His current research is on dynamic optimization, switched systems, and constructive control. He has authored/co-authored over 100 publications, over 40 of which appeared in IEEE/IFAC journals. He is a winner of China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (NSFC), and also a Changjiang Scholar Chair professor. He won the 2018 Young Scientist Award in Science from MOE, China. He is Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Control Engineering Practice (IFAC), and Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization.
Prof. Yan Wu
Georgia Southern University, USA
Dr. Wu received the B.S. degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Beijing University of Technology in 1992, the M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering both from University of Akron in 1996 and 2000, respectively. In 2000, he joined Georgia Southern University as an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, where he is currently a full professor in Mathematics. He is also an adjunct research professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. His research interests include adaptive control, active disturbance rejection control, decentralized control, digital filter design, sampling theory and feature extractions, smart grid power systems, hydraulic systems, internal leakage prognosis with neural network, Tumor Models for Cancer Immunotherapy. He has two patents granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Prof. Yannis Dimitriadis
University of Valladolid, Spain
Dr. Yannis Dimitriadis is Full Professor of Telematics Engineering and ex Dean of the Doctoral School, University of Valladolid, Spain. He is also the coordinator of the GSIC/EMIC research group, an inter-disciplinary group, integrating over 20 researchers and practitioners from the field of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) and Pedagogy. His recent research work has focused on learning analytics and smart learning environments, alignment of learning design and learning analytics, design patterns, conceptual and technological support to the orchestration of computer-supported collaborative learning processes, active pedagogies at scale, and across-spaces (Web, 3D worlds and augmented reality) learning. He has participated in more than 50 competitive research projects on technology-enhanced learning, co-authored more than 100 journal papers and 215 conference papers (including several papers at LAK), and organized several workshops and symposia, at ECTEL, CSCL, ISLS, etc. Dr. Dimitriadis is also a senior member of IEEE, member of ISLS, and spent his most recent sabbatical year (2017-2018) at Berkeley, University of Edinburgh, and EPFL. He has recently delivered keynotes and webinars on Human-Centered Learning Analytics and co-organizes the corresponding workshop at LAK 21.
Prof. Hongzhi Wang
Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Hongzhi Wang, Professor, PHD supervisor, the head of massive data computing center, the secretary general of ACM SIGMOD China, outstanding CCF member, IEEE Senior member, a standing committee member CCF databases and a member of CCF big data committee. Research Fields include big data management and analysis, database systems, knowledge engineering and data quality. He was “starring track” visiting professor at MSRA and postdoctoral fellow at University of California, Irvine. Prof. Wang has been PI for more than 10 national or international projects including NSFC key project, NSFC projects and National Technical support project, and co-PI for more than 10 national projects include 973 project, 863 project and NSFC key projects. He also serves as a member of ACM Data Science Task Force. He has won First natural science prize of Heilongjiang Province, MOE technological First award, Microsoft Fellowship, IBM PHD Fellowship and Chinese excellent database engineer. His publications include over 300 papers in the journals and conferences such as VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, VLDB, SIGMOD, ICDE and SIGIR, 6 books and 6 book chapters. His PHD thesis was elected to be outstanding PHD dissertation of CCF and Harbin Institute of Technology. He severs as the reviewer of more than 20 international journal including VLDB Journal, IEEE TKDE, and PC members of over 50 international conferences including SIGMOD, VLDB, KDD, ICML, NeurpIS, ICDE, etc. His papers were cited more than 4000 times.
A. Prof. CHEW FONG PENG
Faculty of Education, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia
Associate Professor Dr. Chew Fong Peng is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya (UM), Malaysia, teaching Malay language education and early childhood education program. She has been presented approximately 170 working papers international and international seminars and conferences in Malaysia and foreign countries, published 9 books, 116 articles published in journals, 70 papers in conference proceedings, 39 chapters in books, 21 translated books including creative writings, 12 edited books, and edited creative writings. She is the book editor of Taylor & Francis, editor for Malaysian Year 4, 5 and 6 History textbooks and Year 1 Arts and Music Education textbooks. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chew has completed 19 research projects which 8 of them were led by Chew. She won many medals in the academy and innovative expo, besides being listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. Chew is an article reviewer for some established international journals listed in Web of Science and Scopus such as Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, Asia Pacific Journal of Education, SAGE Open, Educational Research and Reviews (ERR), Pertanika: Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, GEMA Online etc. Associate Professor Dr. Chew is also a member of the editorial board of 11 national and international journals including Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, Review of Educational Theory, GATR Global Journal for Business & Social Science Review, and Advisory of International Research and Development Center for Publication (IRDCP). She was invited as a visiting professor at the Peking University, China from October 2011 to June 2012.
