Distinguished Prof. Mark Warschauer
University of California, USA

Mark Warschauer is a Professor of Education at UC Irvine with an affiliated appointment in Informatics, Language Science, and Psychologyical Science, and director of the Digital Learning Lab. He is one of the most widely-cited scholars in the world on digital learning topics such as computer-assisted language learning, digital literacy, the digital divide, one-to-one laptop classrooms, and artificial intelligence in education. His team is currently focusing on the use of conversational agents to support children’s learning and on the teaching and learning of computer science for linguistically diverse students.
A first generation college student and former community organizer for the United Farm Workers union, Dr. Warschauer began his educational career as a Spanish bilingual math and ESL teacher in San Francisco public schools. He has previously taught and conducted research in Hawaii, Moscow, Prague, Egypt, China, Japan, Singapore, Mexico, and Brazil. He has served as founding editor of Language Learning & Technology journal and inaugural editor of AERA Open. A former Fulbright Scholar and US Title VII Bilingual Education Fellow, he is a Fellow of the American Education Research Association and a Member of the National Academy of Education.

Chair 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 36700 citations and H-index of 78 (source: Google Scholars). He is actively involved in the research community and has served as an Editor-in-Chief of Computer & Education: X Realitty (CEXR) by Elsevier, an 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.Shaoying Liu
Hiroshima Univesrity, Japan

IEEE Fellow, BCS Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Shaoying Liu is currently a Professor of Software Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan. Previously, he was a Professor at Hosei University from April 2000 to March 2020. He received the Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, U.K in 1992. His research interests include Formal Methods and Formal Engineering Methods for Software Development, Specification Verification and Validation, Specification-based Program Inspection, Automatic Specification-based Testing, Testing-Based Formal Verification, Human-Machine Pair Programming, and Intelligent Software Engineering Environments. He has published a book entitled "Formal Engineering for Industrial Software Development" with Springer Verlag, twelve edited conference proceedings, and over 200 academic papers in refereed journals and international conferences. He proposed to use the terminology of "Formal Engineering Methods" in 1997, and has established Formal Engineering Methods as a research area based on his extensive research on the SOFL (Structured Object-Oriented Formal Language) method since 1989, and the development of ICFEM conference series since 1997. In recent years, he has served as the General Chair of QRS 2020 and ICFEM 2017, Steering Committee Chair of ICECCS, and PC member for numerous international conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability and the Journal of Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, respectively. He is IEEE Fellow, BCS Fellow, AAIA Fellow, and a member of IPSJ and IEICE.