Prof. Shuai Liu（EAI Fellow）

HunanNormal University,China

Professor Liu Shuai is an EAI Fellow, an outstanding member of the China Computer Federation, a senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, a member of the CCF Education Special Committee, a director of the Hunan Computer Society/Artificial Intelligence Society, and a deputy director of the Education Working Committee of the Hunan Artificial Intelligence Society.

His main research directions are intelligent educational technology, educational information processing, etc. He presided over and participated in the completion of several national science/social science funds, published more than 80 high-level papers in such journals as Inf Fus, Inf Sci, IEEE TFS/TMM/TITS/Re, and IEEE IOTJ, and was cited more than 6000 times in total.

Prof. Jon-Chao Hong

National Taiwan Normal University, China

Prof. Jon-Chao Hong is currently working as a research professor at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). As the director of Digital Game-based Learning Laboratory (GBL), he has developed more than 20 Apps for learning domain knowledge as well as thinking skill, such as “Collaborative game for developing imagination and creativity in composition, Computational thinking board game. Additionally, his team has also developed VR in skill development, such as fire escaping, sense of danger. Currently, he also applied AI for language learning.

He also organizes several creative contests to develop participants’ hands-on skill and STEAM knowledge, such as PowerTech Contest to invite elementary, junior and senior high school students to produce miniatures models in the morning and using these to compete in the afternoon to ensure students’ hands-on creation without parents or teachers’ assistance. As the International Chairman of International Exhibition for Young Inventors (IEYI), he also promotes the innovation contest to cultivated students’ inquiry and thinking attitude and ability of STEAM.

In addition, he has published a number of academic articles in international journals. In recent three years, he has more than 60 articles published on SSCI journals. He has received the Outstanding Research Prize from Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan. In 2022 and 2023, he was also ranked as the top 2% scientists rated by Sandford University.