Prof.Benjamin W.Wah
IEEE&ACM Fellow, CUHK, China
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.
Research field: Nonlinear search and optimization, Multimedia technologies and artificial intelligence
Prof. Dr. Fahriye Altınay
Faculty of Education, Near East University, North Cyprus
Prof. Dr. Fahriye Altınay has been teaching undergraduate courses in educational instructional technologies and material design, classroom management, ethics in education, social responsibility, scientific research methods, and more since 2002. She also teaches postgraduate courses such as project management, education management, contemporary education supervision, and society, culture, and education.
Dr. Altinay is a full-time faculty member at Near East University, North Cyprus, working scientifically and administratively on issues such as higher education boards, multiculturalism, quality studies, strategic planning, unimpeded informatics, and smart society. Prof. Dr. Altınay is the vice director of the Graduate Education Institute, the chair of the Center for Social Research and Development, and the head of the Education Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department and Computer Education and Instructional Technologies. She is also an editor and referee for international journals and books. Her research interests include
developing critical friends and skills online with international perspectives and practices, participation in online learning, online learning readiness of higher education institutions, education and distance education practices of disabled individuals in the pandemic period, open education resources, MOOCs, barrier-free tourism, and education. She is currently working on projects on the disabled, inclusive education practices, entrepreneurship, and community analysis during the pandemic period.
Professor Huang Wuyuan 's resume
Dean, Institute of Technology, Donghua University, Taiwan
Distinguished Professor, Institute of Network Learning Technology, Taiwan Central University
The main research directions are artificial intelligence education and multimedia human-computer interaction, especially the human-computer interaction of intelligent learning and creative learning in real situations.
From 2007 to 2017, according to the performance of papers published in 65 high-quality SSCI journals in the field of instructional design and technology, Dr. Huang ranked among the top seven in the world. ( https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/bjet.12712) )
In 2020, the Computer Assisted Learning journal ( SSCI ), which has the highest impact factor in the field of technology-enhanced language learning ( IF = 5.964, 2022 ), counted its publication over a 12-year period ( 2008-2019 ). Dr. Huang is number one in the number of publications, H-index papers and impact factors. This shows that Dr. Huang 's contribution in the field of technology-assisted language learning has been greatly recognized. ( https://doi )
