Prof. Zhiyun Lin

Southern University of Science and Technology, China 

(IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow)

Zhiyun Lin is currently a tenured full professor and vice dean of School of Systems Design and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, in 2005, and then he worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in University of Toronto from 2005 to 2007. He joined College of Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University in 2007 as a research professor and then promoted to a tenured full professor in 2011. In 2017, he moved to Hangzhou Dianzi University and worked as the Director of Artificial Intelligence Institute. He joined Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021. He held visiting professor positions at several universities including The Australian National University (Australia), University of Cagliari (Italy), University of Newcastle (Australia), University of Technology Sydney (Australia), and Yale University (USA). He is a technical committee member of The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) on Networked Systems, and on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems. He is Associate Editor of several international journals including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Control Systems Letters, Electronic, The Chinese Journal of Artificial Intelligence, etc. His research interests focus on multi-agent systems, distributed artificial intelligence, autonomous systems and swarm robots, and cyber-physical systems. He has authored and coauthored two monograph and over 230 peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals and conferences. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 8000 times. From 2014 to 2022, he has been consecutively selected in the list of Mostly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier. He is a Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the Russian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Fellow of AAIA.

Prof. Yanguo Jing

Leeds Trinity University, UK

Professor Dr Yanguo Jing is the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Computing and Digital Industries, Leeds Trinity University.He is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence.Prior joining LTU, Professor Jing was a Professor in Artificial Intelligence and an Associate Dean in Coventry University.

Professor Jing has a PhD (Heriot-Watt University), a MSc, a 1st class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and a PGCert in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.He has over 20 years’ teaching, research and enterprise experience in the UK and in China.Yanguo is a Certified Management & Business Educator, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, a Charter IT professional and a Principal Fellow of the Advance HE (PFHEA).Prof. Jing’s prime research interests are applied Artificial Intelligence.His recent research work focuses on the use of machine-learning methods to capture interaction and user behaviour patterns that can be used to develop intelligent applications.This research has been applied in applications such as medical domain, business analytics, sports analytics, and user behaviour pattern recognition in social networks and extra-care/ Assisted Living settings.He participated in several research, KTP and consultancy projects with sponsors and clients such as Cadent Gas, Pfizer, Welsh Government, KPIT, UK’s Comic Relief charity and JISC in the UK. Prof. Jing is interested in using technologies (e.g. Mobile and Internet) to support teaching and learning.He has over 10 years’ experience in facilitating online teaching in higher education.He chaired several national workshops on Teaching and Learning using Mobile and Tablet Devices.His work has led to a series of research papers in this area.