Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Minjuan Wang Chair Professor of Emerging Technologies and Future Education; Associate Co-Director, Academy for Applied Policy Studies and Education Futures; and Executive Co-Director, Global Institute for Emerging Technologies; IEEE-TLT (Editor-in-Chief)
Minjuan Wang is newly appointed Chair Professor of Emerging Tech
and Future Education, at The Education University of Hong Kong.
She has also been a tenured professor of San Diego State
University. She is an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions
on Learning Technologies (TLT). She is also a new associate
Editor with Nature-HSSC (Humanities and Social Science
Communications).
Speech Title: Metaverse and Generative AI: Will They
Revolutionize Education?
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Prof. José Carlos Príncipe |
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University of Florida, USA |
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José C. Príncipe (Life Fellow,
IEEE) received the B.Sc. degree from the University of Porto,
Porto, Portugal, in 1972, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, in 1974 and
1979, respectively, all in electrical engineering.,He is
currently a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering, a
Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and the Don
D. and Ruth S. Eckis Chair of Electrical Engineering with the
University of Florida. He is the founding Director of the
Computational Neuroengineering Laboratory. His primary research
interests include advanced signal processing with
information-theoretic criteria, information-theoretic learning,
and adaptive models in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces, with
applications to deep learning, reinforcement learning, and
brain–machine interfaces.,Dr. Príncipe was the recipient of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Career Award,
the IEEE Neural Network Pioneer Award, and the IEEE Signal
Processing Society Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical
Achievement Award. He was the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He was the Chair of the
Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society and the President of the International Neural
Network Society. He is a Fellow of academy for biological and
medical engineering (ABME) and the American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering.
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Prof. Maiga Chang |
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Athabasca University, Canada |
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Maiga Chang is a Full Professor in
the School of Computing and Information Systems at Athabasca
University, Canada and Honorary Chair Professor,
Multidisciplinary Academic Research Center, National Dong Hwa
University, Taiwan. He is IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Chang has been
appointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for
2023 to 2025 (https://www.computer.org/profiles/maiga-chang) and
also recently received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia
Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022
(https://new.apsce.net/apsce-award-winners/).
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Prof. Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland |
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway |
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| Dr. Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland is Full Professor and Head of Innovative Immersive Technologies for Learning (IMTEL) research group and lab at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has been working with educational virtual worlds and immersive technologies since 2002, with over 100 publications in the field. She has been involved in developing educational XR simulations for a wide range of stakeholders, including industry, hospitals, Norwegian Armed Forces and Labour and Welfare Administration. Ekaterina is Norway's ambassador for Women in Immersive Tech.
Speech Title: Educational Immersive Technologies in a
cross-disciplinary context?
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