Prof. Guandong Xu（IET Fellow）

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Research area: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Recommender Systems, Social Computing and their applications

Brief: Dr Guandong Xu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Advanced Analytics Institute at University of Technology Sydney. He received MSc and BSc degree in Computer Science and Engineering, and PhD in Computer Science. Before he joined UTS in 2012, he took various research positions at European and Australian universities. His research has received research funding from Australian Research Council, government agencies, and industry corporates totalling over $5M in past years.

He is recipients of a number of awards from Academia and Industry, including 2018 Top 10 Analytics Leaders by Australian Analytics Professional Peak Body (IAPA), 2018 UTS Vice-Chancellor Research Excellence Award Finalist, 2018 Australian Computer Society Disruptor Award Finalists, 2018 Australasian Database Conference Best Student Paper Award, 2017 NSW Winner of Marketing Excellence Award in Customer Research, 2016 BigInsights Data Innovation Award Winner in Customer Insights.

Prof. Dave Towey（IEEE/ACM Senior Member）

University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China

Research area: Metamorphic Testing, Adaptive Random Testing, Technology-enhanced Teaching & Learning, Fault Localization, Computer Security

Brief: Professor Dave Towey received the BA and MA degrees in computer science, linguistics, and languages from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland; the MEd degree in education leadership from the University of Bristol, U.K.; and the PhD degree in computer science from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China. He has been with University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) since 2013, where he serves as the head of the School of Computer Science, and as deputy director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre. He previously served as the associate dean of education and student experience for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. His current research interests include software testing (especially adaptive random testing, for which he was amongst the earliest researchers who established the field, and metamorphic testing) and technology-enhanced education. He co-founded the ICSE International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing in 2016. He is a fellow of the HEA, and a senior member of the ACM and IEEE.

Title: Beyond the Oracle: Doing and Teaching Software Engineering Differently with Metamorphic Thinking

Prof. Jianping Yin

Dongguan University of Technology, China

Research area: Algorithm design and analysis, pattern recognition and machine learning

Brief: Jianping Yin received the Ph.D. degree from the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT), China in 1990. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Nanjing University, China from December, 1990 to January, 1993, and is currently a Distinguished Professor with the Dongguan University of Technology, China. His research interests include design and analysis of algorithm, pattern recognition and machine learning. He was a recipient of the National Famous Teacher, National Excellence Teacher, National Excellence Young Teacher in College and University, National Excellence Dissertation' Supervisor, National Excellence Education Achievement of China. He was the chairman of the Theoretical Computer Science Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation, the member of the Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition Technical Committee of the China Computer Federation, and is currently the deputy director of Steering Committee on the teaching of computer courses in university, China. He served as the Program Committee co-chair, Steering Committee co-chair, General Chair, Publicity chair, Social Network Chair, Program Committee senior member for dozens of conferences. He supervised dozens of excellent doctors and masters, and taught fundamentals of computer, design and analysis of algorithm, the beauty of mathematics and the way of computation for undergraduate student, computational complexity, artificial intelligence for Ph.D. student. He was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China and the National Science Foundation of China, was the chief editor of the branch of theoretical computer science in the Chinese Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (third edition), and one of the translators of Introduction to Algorithm (third edition) and Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (third edition). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, including IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-KDE, IEEE T-IP, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-C, IEEE T-CSVT, IEEE T-WC, PR, TOSN, NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, ACM MM, and MICCAI.

Title: Research on AI General Education and AI-enabled Education