Prof. Yan Zhang

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Member of the European Academy of Sciences, IEEE/IET Fellow

Professor Yan Zhang is a full professor at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). He is a Fellow of both IEEE and IET, a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences. He is also a National Distinguished Expert and has been recognized as a Clarivate Analytics "Highly Cited Researcher". Prof. Zhang currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics and holds editorial positions on several other leading IEEE journals. He is the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Satellite, Space, and Terrestrial Communications, and previously served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Computing and Communications. His research interests include intelligent networking and communications, as well as intelligent and secure Internet of Things (IoT). He has published extensively, with over 53,000 citations and an H-index of 118. He is the author of academic books including Mobile Edge Computing and Digital Twin. Among his many accolades, he has received the Nanyang Technological University Alumni Achievement Award and the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing Distinguished Technical Achievement Award.

Prof. Dave Towey

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Professor Dave Towey is a full professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China, and also serves as Deputy Director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre (IDIC). He holds a BA and an MA from Trinity College Dublin, and a PhD from the University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on software testing, with particular interests in metamorphic testing and adaptive random testing, and he is currently especially interested in testing so-called "untestable systems" such as those involving big data and machine learning. He has worked on breast cancer screening tool development in Japan, at the University of Hong Kong, and at United International College (UIC) in Zhuhai before joining the University of Nottingham Ningbo China in 2013. He received the Zhuhai Municipal Outstanding Teacher Award (2007) and the Lord Dearing Award (2017) in recognition of his contributions to teaching and student learning.

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