Keynote Speakers

Prof. Xuemin Lin (Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, IEEE Fellow)
Shanghai Jiaotong University, China

Xuemin Lin is a chair professor in the Department of Data and Business Intelligence at the Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and currently the head of Department of Data and Business Intelligence. Prof Lin is a foreign member of Academia Europaea and a fellow of IEEE.
Xuemin Lin got his PhD in Computer science from the University of Queensland in 1992 and his BSc in Applied Math from Fudan University in 1984. During 1984-1988, he studied for PhD in Applied Math at Fudan University.
Xuemin Lin started his teaching in the Computer Science Department at the University of Western Australia in Nov 1994 after a 2 years research fellow appointment at the University of Queensland. He joined the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Nov 1997. In 2005, he was a visiting researcher in Microsoft Asia Research Lab and visited Tokyo University as a JSPS fellow. He is a distinguished visiting Professor at Tsinghua University and a visiting Chair Professor at Fudan University. He has been an adiunct Professor at East Normal University, Zhejiang Gongshang University, and Guangzhou University. Xuemin was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2017 Jan - 2021 Dec). He was also an Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2015 Jan - 2017 Jan). He was an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Database Systems (2008-2014) and an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2013 Feb - 2015 Jan).

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. Yanchun Zhang (Foreign Member of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine of United Kingdoms (RSM Fellow))
Zhejiang Normal University, China

Yanchun Zhang is currently distinguished professor at Zhejiang Normal University, China, Emeritus Professor at Victoria University, Australia and Foreign Academician of The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
He is Fellow of The Royal Society of Medicine of UK. His research interests include databases, data mining, social networking, web services and e-health / digital health， especially in developing data analysis and AI techniques for smart medicine and health. He has published over 400 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He authored/co-authored 5 monographs and edited a dozen of books in the related areas. Dr. Zhang is a founding editor and editor-in-chief of World Wide Web Journal (Springer) and Health Information Science and Systems Journal (Springer).
He has serviced as an expert panel member at various international research funding agencies like Australia Research Council (ARC), UK’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC).