Professor Max Lu (逯高清)

AO, FAA, FTSE, DL, FIChemE, FRSC President and Vice-Chancellor University of Surrey

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 68 9249 Address: Room 13 SE 08 University of Surrey Guildford Surrey, UK GU2 7JP

Professor Max Lu has been President and Vice-Chancellor of University of Surrey since April 2016. Previously he was Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Queensland, Australia. He has been appointed to the Boards of National Physical Laboratory, Universities UK, Leadership Council of the National Centre for Universities and Business and as Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey. He is also a patron of Transform Housing. Professor Lu lectured at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 1994, and had held academic and leadership positions at the University of Queensland from 1994 to 2016, rising from senior lecturer to chair professor. He founded the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and served as its inaugural director for 8 years. He was awarded the Australian Research Council (ARC) Federation Fellowship twice, respectively, in 2003 and 2008. As a Thomson Reuters double Highly Cited Researcher in both Materials Science and Chemistry, he has published over 500 journal papers on nanomaterials (h=107 and over 44,000 citations @Scopus). He is co-inventor of more than 20 granted international patents. He has been honoured with numerous awards including Orica Award, RK Murphy Medal, Le Fevre Prize, ExxonMobil Award, China International Science and Technology Award, Japan Chemical Society Lecture Award, Chemeca Medal, and P.V. Danckwerts Lecture. He was also recently honoured with a Medal of the Order of Australia (Officer in the General Division) for his distinguished service to education and international research in the field of materials chemistry and nanotechnology, to engineering, and to Australia-China relations. Professor Lu has served on many government committees and advisory boards including those under the Australian Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, ARC College of Experts, Australian Synchrotron, Stem Cells Australia. He is Fellow of IChemE, Royal Society of Chemistry, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, and World Academy of Science. Professor Richard A. Williams

OBE, FREng, FTSE, FIChemE, FIMMM, CEng, CSci Principal and Vice-Chancellor Heriot-Watt University

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 131 451 3360 Address: George Heriot Wing Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, EH14 4AS

Professor Richard A. Williams is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. His background is an academic and entrepreneur in mineral engineering, energy storage systems and environmental technologies. He is a graduate of Imperial College (BSc (Eng), PhD) and has held posts at University of Manchester (UMIST), Exeter (Camborne School of Mines), and as Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Leeds (2005-2011) and University of Birmingham (2011-2015). He has founded several innovation based business. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK), a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (Australia) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has worked extensively in establishing new educational and research collaborations in Middle East, Africa, Singapore, Malaysia and China. He is a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), Tianjin University of Finance & Economics and at Southeast University (Nanjing). He is a trustee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, an Advisory Board member of the Lloyds Register Foundation, Lloyds Register 100A1 Ambassador, a Non-Executive Board Director of the British Geological Survey, a member of the Converge Challenge Strategic Advisory Board and Chair of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise.

Professor Paul Boyle

CBE FBA FRSE AcSS FRSGS Vice-Chancellor Swansea University

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1792 295154 Address: Swansea University Singleton Park Swansea, SA2 8PP

Professor Paul Boyle took up the post of Vice-Chancellor Elect at Swansea University from 1 April 2019. Previously he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester, having been appointed in September 2014; Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the UK’s largest funding agency for social science research; the International Champion of Research Councils UK, with responsibility for international strategy on behalf of all seven UK research councils; and President of Science Europe, representing over 50 European funding agencies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Royal Geographical Society of Scotland. Before joining the ESRC, he was Head of the School of Geography and Geosciences at the University of St Andrews, publishing widely in Demography and Epidemiology. He was Director of the ESRC Longitudinal Studies Centre – Scotland, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change, and Co-Investigator on the Wellcome Trust Scottish Health Informatics Programme. Scottish Health Informatics Programme. He was Founding Director of the Social Dimensions of Health Institute, a joint collaboration between the Universities of Dundee and St Andrews. Professor Boyle is Chair of the Scottish Science Advisory Council, which is Scotland’s highest level science advisory body; a Board Member of Universities UK, who provide leadership and support to executive heads of 133 UK University institutions as well as Chair of their Research Policy Network; and a Council Member and Trustee of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, which has over 500 member institutions in 37 Commonwealth countries. In April 2017 Professor Boyle was elected as a Board member of the European Universities Association and has subsequently become Vice-President. Paul is an ‘impact champion’ for the United Nations HeForShe global solidarity movement for gender equality and the Advisory Board of Sporting Equals, promoting ethnic diversity in sport and physical activity. Paul is married with four children. He enjoys running, swimming, cycling and spending time at the coast - and he regrets giving up regular football.

Professor Jenny Higham

Principal St George’s University of London

Email: [email protected] Address: St George's, University of London Cranmer Terrace London, SW17 0RE

Professor Higham has held a number of leadership roles in academia, is a consultant gynaecologist and has research interests in reproductive medicine and medical education. She is also the first female Chair of the Medical School Council, the representative body for UK medical schools, where she has been actively involved in academic medical policy for a number of years. In May 2018 Professor Higham was awarded fellowship (FRCP) of the Royal College of Physicians for distinguishing herself in the practice of medicine. Professor Higham was also awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Brighton and Sussex Medical School. Clinical specialism She quickly specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, obtaining Membership of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG) in 1992 and subsequently became a Fellow (FRCOG) in 2005. She has maintained clinical roles throughout her career and continues to practice as a consultant gynaecologist. Academic career Prior to her appointment at St George's, Professor Higham worked at Imperial College London's Faculty of Medicine for 19 years, where she held a number of senior positions including Vice Dean for Institutional Affairs and Director of Education (2009-2015) and Head of Undergraduate Medicine (2006-2009). She was instrumental in establishing the Lee Kong Chian (LKC) School of Medicine in Singapore, a joint Medical School by Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University, and served as the new medical school's Senior Vice Dean from 2013 to 2015. She remains a visiting professor at LKC and oversees the distribution of the “Jenny Higham Award”. She has received a number of awards in the past five years for outstanding leadership, teaching excellence and the national Women of the Future Mentor of the Year in 2011. She continues to mentor and lecture nationally and internationally on Leadership. Earlier in her career, she held the post of Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at St Mary's (now Imperial College Healthcare Trust). Here, she made significant contributions to the amalgamation of the curricula from St Mary's, Charing Cross and Westminster medical schools on their merger to form the new medical school at Imperial College London.

Professor Jianguo Lin (林建国)

FREng (2013) Professor in Mechanics of Materials Division Imperial College London

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7594 7082 Address: Room 524, City and Guilds Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London, SW7 2AZ

EDUCATION • Xinjiang Shihezi University (1978 – 1982). BEng in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1982. • Taiyuan University of Technology (1982 – 1985). MEng in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1985. • University of Sheffield (1988 - 1991). PhD in Dept. of Mech. Eng., 1991. MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES: • Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) • Fellow of Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE, CEng) • Fellow of Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) CURRENT POST • Professor in Metal Forming (April 2008 – present). TATA Steel/RAEng Research Chair. Head of Mechanics of Materials Division, responsible for various activities, including budget, labs and 4 research groups of the Division, which has some 20 academic staff and over 130 PDRAs and PhDs. • Director of Manufacturing Future Lab. of Imperial College London • Director of BIAM Centre for materials characterisation, processing and modelling • Director of AVIC Centre for structural design and manufacture • Founding Director (Non-executive) of Impression technologies Ltd (ITL, Spin-off company of Imperial). PREVIOUS POSTS • Lecturer (1996–2004), Senior Lecturer (2004-2006), Reader in Solid Mechanics (2006- 2008), Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Birmingham. • Post-doctoral RA, University of Sheffield, Oct. 1991- Feb. 1993; and, UMIST, Feb. 1993 - Feb. 1996. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (Relevant papers are cited and listed) Research Profile: Professor Lin's research expertise is in advanced metal-forming technologies and materials and process modelling. He established the Metal-forming and Materials Modelling Group at Imperial College in 2008, which now has over 70 researchers (including PDRAs and PhDs) providing R&D services for aerospace/aeronautical, automotive, railway, metal-packaging, metal-forming and materials/equipment supply-chain industries. The Group has an international reputation in developing new metal-forming processes, multiscale materials and process modelling.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONTRACTS Professor Lin has been successful, as a PI, in obtaining research grants worth a total of over £16M, and involved projects over £75M, from the UK government (EPSRC & Innovate-UK), EC, UK/overseas industries. Professor Tao Dong (董涛)

Professor of Immunology, MRC Human Immunology Unit Founding Director (Oxford) of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute Supernumerary Fellow, University College University of Oxford

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) Address: Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine University of Oxford Old Road Campus, Headington Oxford, OX3 7BN

The main objective of Professor Dong group’s research is to focus on the functional aspects of the antigen specific T cells and studying the factors affecting T cells in controlling virus infection and cancer development. For important human infections, cancer development and the course of disease is influenced mainly by the T cell response - while a robust and appropriate T cell response is beneficial to the host, a weak or inappropriate response can be ineffective or even have a detrimental effect. Numerous factors influence the quality of the T cell response to viral infections, predominant among them being the microenvironment of the infection site, the type of cells infected and the variability of the virus. By understanding the key factors required for efficient viral control by the T cell response in a number of different viral infections and viral associated cancer, we aim to augment and control the immune response to as a way of improving the outcome of in several important human diseases. Current research program including: • To define the impact of IFTIM3 genetic variation on Influenza, and other virus infection, immune responses and disease outcome • To study the Viral OncoProtein(VOP) and Tumor Specific Protein(TSP) specific T cell responses in virus associated cancer (I.e. HBV/HCC; EBV/NPC and HPV/CC) To identify the factors determining functional avidity and anti-viral/cancer efficacy of antigen specific T cells in cancer micro-environment.

Professor Ziqiang Zhu (诸自强)

FREng (2016) Head of Electrical Machines and Drives Group University of Sheffield

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 114 222 5360 Address: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Sheffield 3 Solly Street Sheffield, S1 4DE

Prof. Zhu graduated with a BEng degree (1982) and an MSc degree (1984) from Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and a PhD degree (1991) from The University of Sheffield, UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, a Fellow of IEEE, USA, and a Fellow of IET, UK.

After working as a Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer at Zhejiang University from 1984 to 1988, he joined The University of Sheffield in 1988, initially as a Visiting Research Fellow sponsored by the British Council (1988-1989) and a Research Associate working on an EU funded project in co-operation with Philips (1989-1992), then on an established university post as a Senior Research Scientist/Officer (1992-2000), and is currently a Professor on Electrical Machines and Control Systems (2000-). He holds the Royal Academy of Engineering/Siemens Research Chair (2014-) and is the Head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group (2008-).

His research interests include the design and control of novel high torque/power density and high efficiency permanent magnet machines and drives for applications ranging from electric vehicles through domestic appliances to wind power generation and more electric aircraft. His research activities have been sponsored by the UK/EU government and the global industries based in the UK, Germany, Japan, Denmark, France, and China (e.g. Rolls Royce, Siemens, Valeo, ZF TRW, Jaguar, Midea, CRRC, Toyota, Nissan etc.), with research funding of >£30M. He is the Founding Academic Director of Sheffield Siemens Wind Power Research Centre on direct-drive permanent magnet wind power generators (2009-), the Founding Director of CRRC Electric Drives Technology Research Centre on the power trains for fast train propulsion (2014-), and the Founding Director of Midea Electric Machines and Controls Research Centres on low cost high performance electric motors and drives for domestic appliances (2010-).

He is the author/co-author of >100 patents and >1000 papers, including >400 IEEE Transactions and IET Proceedings papers. He received >30 Best Paper Awards, including 6 IEEE/IET society/journal awards, e.g. the 2018 IEEE Industry Applications Society Prize Paper Award (2nd place) on memory machine, the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Science, Measurement & Technology on iron loss modelling, the 2018 IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion Best Paper Award (3rd place) on magnetically geared machines.

He has served as the General Chair/Co-Chair of 2 international conferences and the Chair/Co-Chair of the Technical Programme/Organizing Committee for 15 international conferences. He was a Keynote Speaker at >26 international conferences.

Professor Bo Chen (陈礴)

FAcSS Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Chair of Operational Research & Management Science University of Warwick

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)24-76524755 Address: Warwick Business School University of Warwick Scarman Road Coventry, CV4 7AL

Professor Bo Chen has been Professor of University of Warwick since October 2005. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics (Zhejiang University), an M.Sc. in Operational Research (Chinese Academy of Sciences), a Ph.D. in Operational Research (Erasmus University Rotterdam) and a Higher Doctorate D.Sc. (University of Warwick). Professor Chen lectured at Zhejiang University from January 1982 to August 1984. He joined University of Warwick as a faculty member in October 1994, rising from lecturer to senior lecturer and then to reader before being promoted to personal chair. Professor Chen is Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been awarded a Senior Management Research Fellowship by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and has received multi-million-pound National Science & Innovation Award from the UK Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council. Professor Chen has been Visiting Professor of Stanford University (2003), Guest Professor of Zhejiang University since 2006, Visiting Professor of Cambridge University (2011), Chair Professor of Tsinghua University (2005–2011), Taishan Scholar Chair Professor of Shandong Province (2007–2012), and Honoured Professor of Fudan University since 2013. He has been a nominator for Nobel Prize in Economics since 2006. Professor Chen currently serves as Associate Editor for ten international academic journals of high standing. His main research interests include (combinatorial) optimization, scheduling and transportation, and game theory.

Professor Ya Ping Wang (王亚平)

FAcSS Chair in Global City Futures (Urban Studies) University of Glasgow

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 141 330 5307 Address: Room 244, 29 Bute Gardens Urban Studies, School of Social & Political Sciences Glasgow, G12 8RS

Professor Ya Ping Wang is Director of the GCRF Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC). He was Head of Urban Studies from 2013 to 2015. Before moving to Glasgow, he was a Professor in Urban Studies at Heriot-Watt University, where he gained his PhD in 1991, and worked as research fellow, lecturer and reader in planning and housing. He was the founding Director of Scottish Centre for Chinese Urban and Environmental Studies, School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University from 2007 to 2012.

Ya Ping’s research focusses on housing, urban development and rural to urban migration in China. His projects were supported by the ESRC, DFID, British Academy, British Council, Leverhulme Trust, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Ya Ping is the author of Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China (Routledge in 2004), co-author of Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World (Routledge, 2007), as well as Housing Policy and Practice in China (Macmillan, 1999).

Ya Ping is PI for two ESRC supported research projects on China’s urban transformation: ‘The Remaking of Chinese Urban Neighbourhoods: socio-spatial transformation and access to public services’, co-funded by China’s NSFC in collaboration with Nankai University, and ‘Urban Development, Migration, Segregation and Inequality’, co-funded by the China Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and in collaboration with University of Sheffield and Institute of Urban Development and Environmental Studies of CASS. He is also the PI of the UKRI GCRF project on Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) to which China is one of the eight international partner countries.

Professor Hua Zhao (赵华)

FREng (2015) Vice-Dean Research Theme Leader for Advanced Powertrain and Fuels Brunel University

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)1895 266698 Address: Room HWLL109 Brunel University London Kingston Lane Uxbridge Middlesex, UB8 3PH

Professor Hua Zhao is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) and the Vice Dean (Research) of the College of Engineering, Design and Physical Science at Brunel University London. He is the Chairman of the Powertrain System and Fuels group of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). After his PhD at the University of Leeds, Professor Zhao worked as a research fellow at Cambridge University and Imperial College in London. Since 1994 Professor Zhao has been working at Brunel University and was the Head of Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering prior to the current appointment of the College Vice Dean. He is an adjunct Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Engines in Tianjin University. Prof Zhao has published 6 books on IC engines and over 300 papers. His significant contributions to IC engines and his international reputation are recognised by the award of the higher doctoral degree of DSc in 2009 ， elected Fellowship of SAE International in US in 2012 and Fellowship of Royal Academy of Engineering in UK in 2015.

Professor Jihong Wang (王吉红) Head of Power and Control Systems Research Laboratory Professor of Electrical Power & Control Engineering University of Warwick

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 24 765 23780 Address: Room A323 School of Engineering University of Warwick Coventry, CV4 7AL

Professor Wang received her BSc from Wuhan University of Technology in 1982, MSc from Shandong University of Science and Technology in 1985, and PhD from Coventry University in 1995. She is a professor in Electrical Power & Control Engineering, Head of Electrical Power Research Group, Head of Power and Control Systems Research Laboratory at University of Warwick. Her research includes nonlinear system control, energy efficient actuators and systems, energy storage technology and power generation system control and monitoring. She is currently the principal investigator for EPSRC Energy Storage Grand Challenge project -- Integrated Market-fit and Affordable Grid-scale Energy Storage (IMAGES).

Professor Yang Gao (高扬)

Associate Dean (International) Professor of Space Autonomous Systems University of Surrey

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 68 3446 Address: Room 11 BA 01 University of Surrey Guildford Surrey, GU2 7JP Professor Yang Gao is the Associate Dean (International) for Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (FEPS) and the Professor of Space Autonomous Systems at Surrey Space Centre (SSC). She is also the Director of EPSRC/UKSA National Hub of Research Excellence on Future AI & Robotics for Space (FAIR-SPACE) and Head of the SSC-STAR Lab which specializes in autonomy and modelling, visual navigation, modern control theories, robot soil interaction and biomimetic mechanisms with applications to space systems and robots alike. She brings nearly 20 years of research experience in developing autonomous system technologies, in which she has been a principle investigator of internationally teamed projects funded by UK Research Councils (EPSRC/STFC), InnovateUK, Royal Academy of Engineering, European Commission, European Space Agency, UK Space Agency, as well as industrial companies such as Airbus D&S, NEPTEC, Sellafield, and OHB/Kayser Threde. Yang is also actively involved in space mission design and promoting the Surrey 'small-sat' engineering approach within missions like ExoMars, Proba3, LM1, MoonLITE and Moonraker, etc. In recent years, Yang's work has also been applied to several non-space sectors including nuclear and agriculture. In her research field, Yang has co-authored two books (one by Wiley-VCH and one by McGraw-Hill) and over hundred scientific papers in internationally refereed books, journals and conference proceedings. She had been named by the Times Higher Education as one of ten young leading academics in the UK who are making a very significant contribution to their disciplines in 2008. Yang's supervised doctoral research has also won various awards such as the IAF's 3AF Edmond Brun Silver Medal 2013 and COSPAR's outstanding paper award 2016. Yang is an elected Fellow of IET and RAeS, the Chair of IEEE CIS Task Force on Intelligent Space Systems and Operations, a Member of the IEEE CIS and RAS Technical Committees, the Royal Society Newton International Fellowship Committee, as well as a Member of various International Programme Committees for conferences in her field. She has also been the invited session chair, speaker and lecturer at various international conferences and summer schools such as IEEE CDC, iSAIRAS, IET public seminar, AMSAT symposium, UK astrobiology and planetary exploration meeting series, COSPAR summer school on planetary and space science. Yang is the Conference General Chair of TAROS-2017, the longest running UK-hosted international conference on robotics and autonomous systems. Prior to joining SSC in 2004, Yang was an awardee of the prestigious Singapore Millennium Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and worked on intelligent and autonomous vehicles. She gained the B.Eng. (First Class Honors) degree and Ph.D. degree from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2000 and 2003 respectively. Professor Shuang Zhang (张霜)

Professor of Engineering Science University of Birmingham

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 121 414 4719 Address: School of Physics and Astronomy University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, B15 2TT

Professor Shuang Zhang received BS in Physics from Jilin University, China, in 1993, MS. in Physics from Northeastern University, Boston, MA, in 1999, and Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2005. From December 2005 to August 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, and from August 2006 to March 2010, he was first a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and later an Assistant Research Engineer at the University of California Berkeley. In March 2010, he took the position of Reader in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Birmingham, and was promoted to professor in March, 2013.

Professor Zhang’s research focuses on metamaterials, topological photonics, plasmonics and nanophotonics. Prof. Zhang has published over 150 research papers in peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Science, Nature subjournals, Physical Review Letters. His publications have been cited more than 17,500 times (google scholar). He was the recipient of 2010 IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) Award in Optics for his pioneering work on optical metamaterials. In 2016, he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, and became a fellow of the Optical Society of America. He was named in the Clarivate Analytics list of Highly Cited Researchers for 2018 in the Physics category. He is currently holding an ERC consolidator grant (2015-2020) on development of topological metamaterials.

Professor Zhang is Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holder.

Professor Shujun Li (李树钧)

Professor of Cyber Security University of Kent

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1227 82 3821 Address: School of Computing University of Kent Canterbury Kent, UK CT2 7NF

Professor Shujun Li has been the Professor of Cyber Security and the Head of the Cyber Security Group at the School of Computing, University of Kent since November 2017. He is also leading the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Centre in Cyber Security (KirCCS) at the Director. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer and then Reader at the Department of Computer Science, University of Surrey between 2011 and 2017, and a Deputy Director of the Surrey Centre for Cyber Security (SCCS) between 2014 and 2017. Before coming to the UK, Professor Li was working at the Universität Konstanz in Germany as a 5-year Zukunftskolleg Fellow from 2008-2011. Prior to that, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow visiting the FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany. Professor Li’s earlier career was spent in China, first at the Xi’an Jiaotong University as an undergraduate and a master’s student, and then a PhD student from 1999-2003. Professor Li’s PhD thesis won an Outstanding PhD Thesis Award from the Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2004. After graduating from the Xi’an Jiaotong University, he worked at the City University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University conducting postdoctoral research. Professor Li have published over 100 papers at international journals and conferences, with 2 Best Paper Awards received in 2011 and 2017. A lot of work he has done is interdisciplinary, and his publications span several subjects including Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Cyber Security and Forensic Sciences. His h- index is 41 according to Google Scholar (with over 6,000 citations). He is co-inventor of 2 patent applications. In 2012 he received an ISO/IEC Certificate of Appreciation, for being the lead editor of ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011, the 2nd edition of the MPEG RVC (Reconfigurable Video Coding) standard. Professor Li was/is on editorial boards of 6 international journals, and has served on organising and technical program committees of over 100 international conferences and workshops. He is a Fellow of BCS, a Senior Member of IEEE, and a Professional Member of ACM. He is on a number of experts groups such as Technical Committees of IEEE, IFIP WG11.12, and Europol’s Criminal Use of Information Hiding (CUIng) Initative.

Professor Jiangzhou Wang (王江舟)

FREng (2018), FIEEE (2017) Professor of Telecommunications University of Kent

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 122 782 3707 Address: Room 1.33b Jennison Building University of Kent Canterbury Kent, CT2 7NT

Professor Jiangzhou Wang is a professor and the former Head of the School of Engineering and Digital Arts at the University of Kent. He has published over 300 papers in international journals and conferences in the area of wireless mobile communications. He has written/edited three books. His awards and honours include: • Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering • Fellow of IEEE • Fellow of IET • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer (2013 - 2014) • Recipient of the Best Paper Award at IEEE Globecom2012, California • Conference organizing chair, including Executive Chair of IEEE ICC2015, London, and Technical Program Chair of IEEE ICC2019, Shanghai • Editor or guest editor for a number of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications (1998 - 2013) Professor Wang's research interests are in the area of wireless mobile communications, including: • Massive MIMO and beamforming technologies • Cloud radio access networks (C-RAN) and distributed antenna systems (DAS) • Multiple access techniques, including NOMA and OFDMA • Device to device communications (D2D) • Vehicular communications (V2X) • Emergency communications • Machine learning for mobile communications • Drone communications

Professor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙)

School of Chemical Engineering Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage University of Birmingham

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)121 414 5279 Address: Chemical Engineering University of Birmingham Edgbaston Birmingham, UK B15 2TT

Professor Yulong Ding holds the founding Chamberlain chair of Chemical Engineering and RAEng- Highview Chair of Cryogenic Energy Storage. He is the founding Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage at the University of Birmingham (UoB) and founding Co-Director of Joint UoB – GEIRIEU Lab for Energy Storage Research. He joined Birmingham in October 2013. Prior to his appointment at the University, he was Professor and Director of Institute of Particle Science & Engineering at the University of Leeds. He was the founding director (2010 – 2014) of the joint Institute for Energy Storage between University of Leeds and Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research has been multidisciplinary, across energy engineering, chemical & process engineering, materials and physics. His current research interests cover both fundamental and applied aspects, with the fundamental research focusing on multiphase transport phenomena across the length scales, and the applied research concentrating on new energy storage technologies, and microstructured materials for heat transfer intensification and energy harvesting and storage applications. He has filed over 30 patents, and published over 400 papers with ~250 in peer reviewed journals (H-Index of ~ 48), and was listed as top 1% highly cited researchers in the engineering category by Thomson Reuters in 2014. He is an inventor of the liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of development of the technology. His work on liquid air energy storage made a major contribution to the 2011 ‘The Engineer’ Energy & Environmental and Grand Prix awards, and 2012 Rushlight Energy Environmental and Power Generation and Transmission awards.

Professor Christopher Huang

Professor of Cell Physiology University of Cambridge

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1223 333822 Address: Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge

Chris Huang was awarded a Florence Heale Scholarship to read Medicine and Physiology at The Queen's College, Oxford and completed his preregistration clinical appointments in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He joined Gonville and Caius College as an MRC Scholar to complete a PhD in membrane biophysics, and then successively became an Assistant Lecturer and Lecturer in Physiology, Reader and finally the Professor of Cell Physiology at Cambridge, whilst being Fellow and Director of Medical Studies at Murray Edwards College. He is also independent nonexecutive director of Hutchison China Meditech and Hutchison Biofilm Solutions, and Manager of the Prince Philip Scholarship fund. Chris Huang received the LEPRA Award (British Leprosy Relief Association), the Benefactor's (Queen's, Oxford) and Brian Johnson Prizes (Oxford Medical School), as well as the Rolleston (Oxford) and Gedge Prizes (Cambridge) for physiological research. He is/has been editor of the Journal of Physiology, the Monographs of the Physiological Society, Biological Reviews, BMC Physiology and Europace, and has been visiting professor to the Universities of Debrecen (Hungary) and Hong Kong, and Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, Adjunct Professor in Cardiology to Xi’an Jiaotong University (China) and President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society..

Christopher Huang has contributed to understanding of the transduction and propagation of biological signaling events at the cellular and systems levels. This includes the initiation of striated muscle and osteoclast activity, mechanisms of cardiac arrhythmogenesis and cortical spreading depression in the central nervous system. This involved developing and integrating electrophysiological, spectrofluorimetric, confocal/electronmicroscope, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and mathematical modeling methods latterly in genetically modified murine systems. His current translational work on cardiac arrhythmogenesis similarly studies spreading physiological cellular and systems phenomena. It has separated the roles of after- depolarization phenomena, conduction velocity, restitution gradients, refractoriness and altered intracellular Ca2+homeostasis in ventricular arrhythmogenesis in hypokalaemic and genetically modified murine cardiac models for the Brugada, LQT3, LQT5, Scn3b-/-, catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardic and metabolic syndromes. These arrhythmic exemplars are being used to develop a systematic classification of arrhythmogenic mechanisms in these conditions. It is separating the roles of after-depolarization and refractory phenomena, restitution gradients and altered intracellular Ca2+ homeostasis and conduction velocity in initiation of ventricular arrhythmogenesis potentially leading to sudden cardiac death. Having characterized fundamental arrhythmic mechanisms in experimental platforms recapitulating specific ion channel disorders, He is now proceeding to examine arrhythmic events in translational models for common human disorders such as metabolic disease and cardiac failure. Professor Wen G. Jiang (姜文国), MBE

Dean of International Director, Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative Professor of Surgery and Tumour Biology Cardiff University

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 29 2068 7065 Address: CCMRC, Henry Wellcome Building Heath Park Cardiff University Wales, CF23 5NB

Professor Jiang graduated from Peking University Health Science Centre (Previous Beijing Medical University) and received his MD degree from University of Wales College of Medicine (Presently Cardiff University). Since 1989, he has been a research fellow, senior research fellow, senior lecturer and become professor of surgery and tumour biology in 2004 at Cardiff University. Presently, he is the Dean of International of Cardiff University, Director of Cardiff China Medical Research Collaborative (CCMRC), UK Director of Cardiff University-Peking University Cancer Institute at Cardiff. Professor Jiang is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, Fellow of the Society of Biology and received awards of Man of the Year in Medicine. He holds honorary professorship at Peking University, Capital Medical University and Inner Mongolia Medical University, and is an international consultant of Beijing Lung Cancer Centre. He has created China Medical Scholarship in the UK which has supported medics and medical researchers to study and work in the UK and devoted to UK-China collaboration in medicine, medical research and education. The collaborations between Cardiff University and its partners in China won the TIMES Higher Education International Collaboration of the Year. He is a member of British, American and European Societies of Cancer Research. Professor Jiang is the chief editor of Cancer Metastasis, Journal of Molecular and Genetic Medicine ， World Journal of Oncology, and sits on editorial board of more than 20 international journals. Professor Jiang’s main interest is cancer metastasis and angiogenesis, cancer genetic tests and therapeutics. He has authored and co-authored 5 books and more than 550 SCI publications. He received an MBE recognition in 2018 Queen’s Near Year Honours for his contribution to international cancer research.

Professor Kent G. Deng (邓钢)

FRHistS Professor of Economic History London School of Economics and Political Science

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0)20 7955 6163 Address: Room SAR 5.13 London School of Economics and Political Science Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE

Professor Kent Deng is currently Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Professor Deng joined London School of Economics and Political Science and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1995 after taught at Australia (Flinders University) and New Zealand (Victoria University of Wellington). His PhD dissertation won a major international prize in 1994 for ‘The Best Thesis in the Last Four Years’ by The International Economic History Association. This was the first time for a Chinese scholar to win this prize His main research interests and academic speciality include (1) Chinese economic growth and development since 1000 AD till the present day, (2) comparative growth and development towards industrialisation and modernity in East Asia and Southeast Asia, (3) globalisation since circa 1600 till the present day, regarding especially shipping and sea power. So far, he has published eight books and 20 peer-reviewed journal articles. Meanwhile, he has served as visiting professors of 10 universities in China, Japan, Taiwan, Italy and Germany. He has also served Editor of Economic History Series, Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Professor Gang Li (李刚)

Professor of Tourism Economics Director of International Relations University of Surrey

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 1483 68 6356 Address: 16 AP 02 University of Surrey Guildford Surrey, GU2 7JP

Professor Li received his PhD from the University of Surrey, where he has been working in the past fifteen years. His research focuses on methodological developments in tourism demand modelling and forecasting, particularly the system of equations approach to tourism demand analysis. His research is regularly published in top forecasting and tourism journals such as International Journal of Forecasting, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management and Journal of Travel Research. He has also worked with international organisations, such as The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, World Travel and Tourism Council and Pacific Asia Tourism Association, on a number of research projects. Professor Li is the regional (Europe) editor of the Journal of China Tourism Research, an associate editor of Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, and an editorial board member of a number of leading tourism journals. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Tourism Economics, and a founding member of the International Association of China Tourism Studies. In 2017 Prof Li was elected to the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, and became one of the youngest fellows of the Academy.

Professor Yu Xiong (熊榆) Chair of Technology and Operations Management Northampton University

Email: [email protected] Telephone: +44 (0) 191 349 5533 Address: Newcastle Business School Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST

Professor Yu Xiong is the Chair of Technology and Operations Management in Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University. Before he joined Northumbria University, he was a Senior Lecturer/Associate Director for Enterprise, Engagement and External Relations of Norwich Business School of University of East Anglia and a Lecturer/director of China Management Research Institute in Queen's University Management School, Belfast. His research focuses on sustainable manufacturing and supply chain strategies, in the international environment. He is a Fellow of University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a visiting Fellow of Durham University Business School. Professor Yu Xiong has been publishing constantly in international leading/excellence level journals, including European Journal of Operational Research (ABS 4*), International Journal of Production Research (ABS 3*), International Journal of Production Economics (ABS 3*), Journal of Operational Research Society(ABS 3*), etc. As principal investigator, He is constantly getting funding from national funding bodies, including the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Relations, British Academy, British Council, Innovation UK, Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, Satellite Application Catapult, Chinese National Nature Science Research Council etc. In addition, he has been lead guest editors to many international excellence journals, including International Journal of Technology Management (ABS 2*), Technovation (ABS 3*) etc. Professor Xiong has won 2018 Chongqing Development Research Award, presented by the Chongqing Government of China. His research about remanufacturing was cited by report of All Party Parliament Sustainable Resources Group. One of his publications was selected by the best business school of German, Manheim Business School, as teaching and assessment material.