Prof. Simon K.S. Cheung

Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Brief: Currently the Chief Information Officer in Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Dr. Simon K.S. Cheung has been working in the higher education sector for over 30 years in various administrative capacities, mainly in IT and educational technology, while also undertaking academic duties such as teaching, research, course development, and programme accreditation. He received his BSc and PhD in Computer Science, and Master of Public Administration from City University of Hong Kong and University of Hong Kong respectively. Dr. Cheung had been admitted as IET fellow, IMA fellow, BCS fellow, HKIE fellow, HKCS fellow, and IEEE senior member. He is active in research, with over 200 publications in two distinct areas, namely, software and systems engineering, and innovation and technology in education. Among other consultancy roles, he serves in the advisory board and editorial board for reputable international journals in these areas, including ETHE (SSCI, Q1), AJET (SSCI, Q1), and SN Computer Science (Scopus, Q1). Awards in recognition of his achievements include the Outstanding Research Publication Award from Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Outstanding CIO Award from Hong Kong IT Joint Council, and Honour for Excellence, CIO Award from the CIO Asia.

Prof. Dave Towey（IEEE/ACM Senior Member）

University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China

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

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