Speakers

Prof. Wanyang Dai

Nanjing University, China

BIO: Wanyang Dai is a Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University and Chief Scientist at Su Xia Control Technology. He is the current President and CEO of the U.S.-based (blockchain and quantum computing) SIR Forum, President of the Jiangsu Probability and Statistical Society, and Chairman of the Jiangsu BigData-Blockchain and Smart Information Special Committee. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics, systems, and industrial engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the USA. He was an MTS and principal investigator at U.S.-based AT&T Bell Labs (currently Nokia Bell Labs) with a project called “Technology Transfer,” now called a cloud system. He was the Chief Scientist at the DepthsData Digital Economic Research Institute. He published numerous influential papers in big-name journals, including Quantum Information Processing, Operations Research, Operational Research, Queueing Systems, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, Communications in Mathematical Sciences, and the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. He has received various academic awards and has presented over 50 keynote and plenary speeches at IEEE/ACM, big data and cloud computing, quantum computing and communication technology, computational and applied mathematics, biomedical engineering, mathematics and statistics, and other international conferences. He has been serving as IEEE/ACM conference chairs, editors-in-chief, and editorial board members for various international journals ranging from artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, wireless communication, pure mathematics, and statistics to their applications.

Prof. Weishan Zhang

China University of Petroleum (East China)

BIO: Weishan Zhang is a professor at the China University of Petroleum (East China). His main research directions are big data, intelligent processing, artificial intelligence, etc. He is the director of Credible Intelligent Lab in Shandong Province. He has published more than 100 papers. Currently, the H index is 27, and the and the i10 index is 77. He is the PI or co-PI of a number of projects, such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Key R&D Program. For his research on federated intelligence, he won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Qingdao City, the second prize of the Shandong Province Science and Technology Progress Award, and the third prize of the Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award.