The 5th International Conference on
Intelligent Education and Intelligent Research

Prof. Zhigeng Pan

Zhigeng Pan , Professor, Hangzhou International Innovation Institute (H3I), Beihang University, China. He served as the dean of the School of Artificial Intelligence (School of Future Technology) at Nanjing University of Information Science& Technology, China. He received the Ph.D Degree in 1993 from Zhejiang University. He has published more than 200 papers on international journals, national journals and international conferences. His research interests include virtual reality, intelligent system and HCI. Currently, he is a member of SIGGRAPH, IEEE. He is on the director board of the International Society of VSMM (Virtual System and Multimedia), a member of IFIP Technical Committee on Entertainment Computing (acting as representative from China).

Prof. Longkai Wu

Dr. Longkai Wu is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the Faculty of Artificial Intelligence in Education, Central China Normal University (CCNU). He serves as the Principal Investigator for Key Projects of the National Social Science Fund of China and is a core member of the National Engineering Research Center of Educational Big Data and the Strategic Research Base of Educational Informatization, Ministry of Education. Dr. Wu holds a Ph.D. in Learning Sciences and Technologies from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Prior to his current appointment, he spent over a decade in Singapore as a Researcher at the National Institute of Education (NIE/NTU) and served as a consultant for the Curriculum Planning and Development Division (CPDD) of the Ministry of Education, Singapore.

His primary research interests include Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIEd), Intelligent Educational Evaluation, and Educational Informatization Policy and Practice. He is currently the Chief Expert for the "14th Five-Year Plan" National General Project of Education Science focused on intelligent technology-enhanced educational evaluation. Dr. Wu has also led or co-led numerous international research grants funded by the National Institute of Education (Singapore) and the Ministry of Education (China). He has authored or edited several influential books published by Springer Nature and Science Press and has published extensively in top-tier journals such as Educational Technology Research and Development (ETR&D) and Interactive Learning Environments.

Dr. Wu maintains a high international profile through various leadership roles, including serving as an Editorial Board Member for Springer Nature, an Executive Committee Member of the Global Chinese Society for Computing in Education (GCSCE), and a Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology. He is frequently invited as a keynote speaker at major international conferences (e.g., ICCE, GCCCE) to share insights on digital transformation and interest-driven learning.

Dr. Diana Andone

Dr. Diana Andone is the Director of the Digital Education and Distance Education Department of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, responsible for planning and implementing digital education and associate professor in multimedia, interactive and web technologies.

Since 1998, she teaches course modules in universities from UK, France, USA, Finland, Italy, Greece. She has extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books, 100 research papers, 11 Best paper Awards, reviewer at 6 major journals and several other publications, associate editor at IEEE Transactions on Education, co-chair IEEE ICALT iOpenLearn) and more than 30 research and educational international projects. Dr. Andone is EDEN Senior Fellow, IEEE Education Society 2021 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award winner, EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities (2018-2021), and member in IEEE Education Society Board of Governors (2021-present), in IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair (2019-present) and in EUA Digital Transformation Steering Committee. She also acts in the Board of Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation), in Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Task Force and in other voluntary organisations (Rotary International).

She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people's life, she actively supports the use of OERs, MOOCs and the open education principles, developing UniCampus.eu for training for digital skills, but also the local start-up movement, women in tech, and the digital culture. She initiated several projects for transforming communities, is invited as speaker at conferences and in the last 25 years involved in the digital education community movement in Romania, recently through the Together Online webinars and the digital culture and heritage with Spotlight Heritage Timisoara.