Prof. HaiquanZhaoIEEE Senior MemberSouthwest Jiaotong University, ChinaBiography:Zhao Haiquan, PhD in Engineering, Professor, Senior Member of IEEE and the Chinese Institute of Electronics, Elsevier Highly Cited Scholar, Global Top 0.05% Scholar (ScholarGPS), Global Top 2% Scientist (Stanford), Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province, Outstanding Expert with Outstanding Contributions in Sichuan Province, Winner of the Sichuan Province Outstanding Youth Fund, Distinguished Expert of the Haizhi Program of the Sichuan Association for Science and Technology, has published 280 SCI papers, received the First Prize of Natural Science from the Chinese Society of Automation, and six provincial and ministerial awards including the Second Prize for Science and Technology Progress from the Ministry of Education, the China Railway Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Tang Lixin Outstanding Scholar Award. He serves on the editorial boards of several international SCI journals including IEEE TASLP, IEEE TSMCA, IEEE SPL, and Signal Processing, among others. His main research areas are signal processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. |  |
| Prof. Guochao PengSun Yat-sen University, ChinaBiography: Prof. Guochao Peng is a Full Professor in Information Systems and Assistant to the Dean in the School of Information Management, as well as the Vice Dean of Big Data Institute, at Sun Yat-Sen University, China. He holds a BSc in Information Management (1st Class Honours) and a PhD in Information Systems (IS), both from the University of Sheffield, UK. He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI of 20 research grants funded by UK’s EPSRC, ESRC, China’s NSFC, industrial partners, University of Sheffield, and Sun Yat-Sen University, totaling over £2 million. Prof Peng has over 160 publications in the forms of high-quality journal papers, books, book chapters, full conference papers, and conference proceedings. He has also been the founder and chair of a number of international conferences in information systems and smart cities. |
