Dr. Zhaohao Sun is currently a full professor of Information Technology, at the PNG University of Technology and an adjunct professor at Hebei University of Science & Technology and Chongqing Normal University, China. He graduated from Bond University, Australia, Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus, Germany, and Hebei University, China with Ph.D., MSc (Dipl.-Math.), MSc, and BSc, respectively. He used to an adjunct professor at the Federation University Australia, and a full professor of Hebei Normal Technology and held academic positions at RWTH Aachen and TU Cottbus, Germany; Bond University, University of Wollongong and University of Ballarat, Australia. Dr Sun has authored 10 books and 170+ refereed research paper publications, completed 30+ research grants, and lectured 46+ different courses for undergraduate/postgraduate students in Australia, China, and PNG. Prof. Sun is an editor or associate editor of five international journals. His current research interests include big data analytics, intelligent analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and data science. He is a senior member of ACS, and a distinguished member of AIS, and a member of ACM & IEEE.
Zhiyou Wu is a full professor of Chongqing Normal University. She is also the director of Chongqing Key Lab of Intelligent Finance and Big Data Analysis, a Humboldt Research Fellow, the New Century Talent of the Ministry of Education, one of the One hundred leading talents in academic disciplines in Chongqing, etc. She is also the Executive director of Operations Research Society of China, the President of Chongqing Operational Research Society, etc. Her research area is on optimization theory and algorithms, especially on global optimization. She is the Principal Investigator of more than 15 projects including three National Natural Science Foundation of China and Australian National Project (ARC), etc. She has published more than 70 papers in journals such as SIAM, J and OPTIM, and has won 3 Chongqing Natural Science Awards. She has visited many universities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, Germany and so on. She is an adjunct professor and adjunct doctoral supervisor at Shanghai University and Southwest Jiaotong University.