Prof. Zhiyong Cheng is a full professor of computer science at the School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, at Hefei University of Technology (HFUT). From 2019 to 2023, he was a researcher at Shandong Artificial Intelligence Insitute, China. From 2016 to 2018, he was a research fellow in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore, working with Professor Mohan Kankanhalli. He got my Ph.D degree from Singapore Management University (SMU) in 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Jialie Shen. He received my B.E. and M.E. degree from Huazhong University of Science & Technology (HUST) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He visited Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, and worked with Prof. Alexander G. Hauptmann from Aug. 2014 to July 2015. He was a research assistant in SIS, SMU from November 2009 to July 2011.
Prof. Xiaodong Liu received his PhD in Computer Science from De Montfort University and joined Napier in 1999. He is currently leading the Software Systems research group in the SoC, Edinburgh Napier University. He was the director of Centre for Information & Software Systems. Prof Liu is an active researcher in software engineering with internationally excellent reputation and leading expertise, focusing on its emerging themes including pervasive systems (Internet of Things), services-oriented architecture, evolution of cloud services, and intelligence-driven software engineering. He has meanwhile a successful track record of teaching in a number of software engineering courses which are widely informed by his research activities. He has led 10 externally funded projects as the PI, and published over 120 papers in established international journals and conferences, 5 book chapters and 3 research handbooks. He is the inventor of 1 patent registered in UK and USA and the founder of a spin-out company. He has been the chair, co-chair or PC member of a number of IEEE and IASTED International Conferences. He is the editorial board member of 4 international journals and editor of 3 research books and 2 journals special issues. He is a senior member of IEEE Society and a member of British Computer Society.
Prof. Jian Su, is a master supervisor, a member of China Computer Federation, a member of ACM and IEEE, a member of China Association for the Promotion of Industry-University-Research Cooperation, and a member of CAAI Intelligent Information Network Experts Committee. He is the editor-in-chief of Journal on Internet of Things, the editorial board member of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, and the program committee member of important international academic conferences such as IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE VTC, IEEE/ACM IWQoS, and ICAIS. His research interests include radio frequency integrated circuits and systems, backscatter communications, and IoT. In recent years, he has presided over National Natural Science Foundation project, Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation project, Jiangsu University Natural Science Research General Project, and a number of enterprise-entrusted projects.
