Prof. Benjamin W. Wah
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
ACM Fellow, IEEE
Fellow
Benjamin W. Wah is a
Research Professor at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong, and Franklin W. Woeltge Professor Emeritus of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Previously, he served as the Provost and Wei Lun
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering of the
Chinese University of Hong Kong, as well as the
Franklin W. Woeltge Endowed Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering and Professor of the
Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. Wah received his
Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University
of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1979. He has
received many awards for his research and service
contributions, including the IEEE-CS W.
Wallace-McDowell Award (2006), the IEEE-CS Richard
E. Merwin Award (2007), the IEEE-CS Tsutomu Kanai
Award (2009), the Distinguished Alumni Award in
Computer Science of the University of California,
Berkeley (2011), and the Bronze Bauhinia Star of the
Hong Kong Self Administrative Region (2021). Wah's
research interests are nonlinear search and
optimization, multimedia technologies, and
artificial intelligence.
Wah co-founded the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge
and Data Engineering in 1988 and served as its
Editor-in-Chief between 1993 and 1996. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of Computers and Education:
Artificial Intelligence and the Honorary
Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge and Information
Systems. In addition, Wah served the IEEE Computer
Society in various capacities, including Vice
President for Publications (1998 and 1999) and
President (2001). He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM,
and IEEE.
Prof. Qing Li
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
IEEE Fellow
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 28100 total citations according to Google Scholars. He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an associate editor of a number of major technical journals including 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), in addition to being a Conference and Program Chair/Co-Chair of numerous major international conferences. He also sits/sat on the Steering Committees of DASFAA, ACM RecSys, IEEE U-MEDIA, ER, and ICWL. Prof. Li is a Fellow of IEEE.