Speakers

Prof. Shaoying Liu

Fellow of IEEE, BCS, Hiroshima University, Japan

Biography: Shaoying Liu is a Professor of Software Engineering at Hiroshima University, Japan, IEEE Fellow, and BCS Fellow. He received the Ph.D in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, U.K in 1992. His research interests include Formal Engineering Methods, Specification Verification and Validation, Specification-based Program Inspection, Automatic Specification-based Testing, Testing-Based Formal Verification, and Intelligent Software Engineering Environments. He has published a book entitled "Formal Engineering for Industrial Software Development" with Springer-Verlag, 12 edited conference proceedings, and over 250 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 ICECCS 2022 and PC member for numerous international conferences. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability and Innovations of Systems and Software Engineering, respectively.

Prof. Maiga Chang

Athabasca University, Canada

Biography: Dr. Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca University, Canada. His research mainly focus on game-based learning, training and assessment; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; intelligent agent technology; health informatics; data mining; computational intelligence; natural language processing; artificial intelligence; museum education mobile learning and ubiquitous learning; healthcare technology, etc.

Dr. Chang is now Chair (2018~2023) of IEEE Technical Committee of Learning Technology (TCLT, https://tc.computer.org/tclt), Executive Committee member of IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities (https://www.computer.org/communities/special-technical-communities), Executive Committee member of Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (2017~2024, APSCE, https://www.apsce.net/) and Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (2016~2025, GCSCE, http://gcsce.org/), SVice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE, http://iasle.net/), and Chair (2021~) of Educational Activities Committee, IEEE Northern Canada Section. Dr. Chang is also a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS, https://its2021.iis-international.org/).

Dr. Chang is editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (https://www.j-ets.net/, Open Access SSCI), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (https://igi-global.com/ijdet, Open Access ESCI, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (https://tc.computer.org/tclt/bulletin/, Open Access ESCI).

Dr. Chang has given more than 125 talks and lectures in different events; He has participated in more than 310 international conferences and workshops as a Program Committee Member; and, he also has (co-)authored more than 240 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017), INNS (2004-2018), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

Prof. Chai Ching-sing

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Biography: Ching Sing CHAI received his B.A. from the National Taiwan University; PGDE and MA from Nanyang Technological University; and his Ed D from the University of Leicester. He served as a secondary Chinese language teacher and head of department, and as an associate professor in Nanyang Technological University. He is currently a professor in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published more than 100 SSCI papers. His research interests include technological pedagogical content knowledge, language learning, STEM and AI education, and teacher professional development.

Prof. Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Osaka University, Japan

Biography: Hirozumi Yamaguchi received the B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in information and computer science from Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, in 1994, 1996 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a full professor at Osaka University and leading the Mobile Computing Laboratory. His research interests lie in mobile and pervasive computing and communication networks. He has served on Elsevier/Springer journal editorial boards as an editor and on the organizing committees of ICDCN2021 and EAI Mobiquitous2021 as a general co-chair. He was awarded the Commendation for Science and Technology by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology in 2018. He is a member of IEEE and ACM, and an EAI Fellow.