Prof. Victor Chang, Aston University, UK

Prof. Victor Chang is currently a Professor of Business Analytics at Aston Business School, Aston University, UK. He was a Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at SCEDT, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK, between September 2019 and May 2022. He was a Senior Associate Professor, Director of Ph.D. (June 2016- May 2018) and Director of MRes (Sep 2017 - Feb 2019) at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China, between June 2016 and August 2019. He was also a very active and contributing key member at Research Institute of Big Data Analytics (RIBDA), XJTLU. He was an Honorary Associate Professor at University of Liverpool. Previously he was a Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, between Sep 2012 and May 2016. Within 4 years, he completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the 2016 European special award and Outstanding Young Scientist 2017. He is a visiting scholar/Ph.D. examiner at several universities, an Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, former Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of IEEE TII, JGIM, IJBSR, IJEBM & Cyber Security & Apps. He's also an Editor of Information Fusion, IDD and Scientific Reports journal, a founding chair of two international workshops and founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS and COMPLEXIS since Year 2016. He is the founding Conference Chair for FEMIB since Year 2019. He published 3 books as sole authors and the editor of 2 books on Cloud Computing and related technologies. He gave 48 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/security/AI/IS, as he has experience developing 10 different services for multiple disciplines.

Prof. Kim Hua Tan, University of Nottingham, UK

Prof. Kim Hua Tan is a Professor in Operations and Innovation Management, Nottingham Business School. Prior to this, he was a researcher and teaching assistant at Centre for Strategy and Performance, University of Cambridge. Professor Tan spent many years in industry, before joining academia in 1999. His current research interests are lean management, operations strategy, decision making, and supply chain risk management. Professor Tan has published a book called 'Winning Decisions: Translating Business Strategy into Action Plans,' and numerous articles in academic journals such as Decision Sciences, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Innovation Management, and others. His areas of research include Accelerated product innovation, lean management, supply chain management, sustainable operations, lean green, operations strategy implementation.

Prof. Patrick C. K. Hung，Faculty of Business and IT, Ontario Tech University, Canada

Patrick C. K. Hung is a Professor and Graduate Program Director of Computer Science at Ontario Tech University, Faculty of Business and Information Technology. He is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Aston University, England, and an Honorable Guest Professor at Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Abertay University, Scotland, and a Visiting Researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Dr. Hung worked with Boeing Research and Technology in Seattle on aviation services-related research with two U.S. patents on the mobile network dynamic workflow system. Before that, he was a Research Scientist with Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization. He is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. In addition, he is an editorial board member for the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Prof. Dr. Xiaoyong Zhou, Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, China

Dr. Xiaoyong Zhou, born in November 1984 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, is Professor of Management and Master’s Supervisor. He has been selected as a Bagui Young Top Talent, a major talent program in Guangxi, in recognition of his outstanding academic achievements and leadership. He currently serves as Dean of the School of Management at Guilin University of Aerospace Technology, where he also holds the title of “Qihang Scholar”. Dr. Zhou is the academic leader of the key discipline “Management Science and Engineering” in Guangxi and leads the Innovation Team on Digital Intelligence, Carbon Neutrality, and Sustainable Supply Chains.

Dr. Zhou has been deeply engaged in scholarly service and academic exchange. He serves as an editorial board member, youth editorial board member, or academic editor for multiple journals, including Environmental Pollution & Control, and as a peer reviewer for more than 50 international and domestic journals, such as Energy Economics (SCI/SSCI) and other top-tier publications indexed in SCI, SSCI, and CSSCI.

His primary research interests lie in energy - environment - economy system modeling. In recent years, Dr. Zhou has undertaken more than 10 major research projects, including two funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, as well as projects supported by the Guangxi Natural Science Foundation and the Guangxi Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning Program.

Dr. Zhou has an impressive publication record, with more than 50 academic papers published in prestigious journals, including iScience (a Cell Press journal) and other high-impact outlets. Among these, 21 papers are indexed in SSCI/SCI, and his research has been recognized internationally, with one paper selected as an ESI Hot Paper (global top 0.1%) and four as ESI Highly Cited Papers (global top 1%). His work has been cited more than 970 times in SCI/SSCI journals, reflecting its strong influence in the field. Beyond academic publishing, he has also contributed theoretical articles to influential media outlets such as Economic Information Daily and Guangxi Daily.

Dr. Zhou's research and teaching excellence have earned him wide recognition. He has received two commendatory instructions from provincial and ministerial leaders, the Second Prize for Outstanding Achievements in Social Sciences of Guangxi, and five Guangxi Higher Education Teaching Achievement Awards. He was honored as an Outstanding Contributor of Policy Advice among Guangxi Universities, and twice received the First Prize (Outstanding Advisor Award) in the National College Student's Energy Economics Innovation Competition.

Prof. Ali Emrouznejad, Surrey Business School, UK

Ali Emrouznejad is a Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at Surrey Business School, UK. He also serves as the director of the Centre for Business Analytics in Practice, leading research efforts in various fields, including performance measurement and management, efficiency and productivity analysis, as well as AI and big data. Prior to his current position, he held the role of head of the Business Analytics Group at Aston University. Ali Emrouznejad has been acknowledged as one of the top 2% most influential scientists globally by Stanford University. With h-index of over 80, he has been listed with “World Top 100 Business & Management / Business Administration Scientists 2024”. He holds the title of Fellow in various prestigious institutions, including the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA), the Institute for Sustainability, and the Institute for People-Centred Artificial Intelligence. Additionally, he is a member of the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) Talent Peer Review College (PRC). Prof Emrouznejad is editor-in-chief of Journal of Business Analytics and serves as the editor of Annals of Operations Research and holds roles as an associate editor or department editor, guest editor for various other journals, including the European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, OR Spectrum, RAIOR-Operations Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IMA journal of Management Mathematics, Journal of Medical Systems, International Journal of Energy Management Sector, and Data Envelopment Analysis journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards of several other scientific journals, including EURO Journal on Decision Processes, International Journal of Society Systems Science, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, Supply Chain Analytics, Decision Analytics, and Central European Review of Economics and Management.

Prof. Bing Xu, Heriot Watt University, UK

Prof. Bing Xu is a Professor of Finance, Heriot Watt University, UK. Her research focuses on banking and investment analytics by modelling the impact of uncertainty on banks’/firms’ performance, their lending/investment, and risk-taking behaviours. She is also passionate on scrutinizing the causes of sustainable finance gap, and the consequences of climate-related risks on firms’ performances and access to finance. Another strand of Bing’s research is around the design of multidimensional frameworks (e.g., DEA, multi-criteria decision-making analysis-based approaches) to evaluate energy strategies and prediction models. She also has works around modelling/forecasting oil prices and studying the dynamic impact of oil price shocks on the economy. Edinburgh. Bing leverages social science innovations to tackle the challenges associated with achieving net zero, particularly in the areas of low carbon fuels, circular economy, and sustainable cold chains. Prof. Xu has worked on a portfolio of UKRI funded multidisciplinary projects on low carbon fuels, sustainable cold-chains, and circular chemical economy which are recognized as central to achieving net zero. Currently, Bing is working on several UKRI funded projects around business models, sustainable finance, performance analytics, social dynamics, and policy, with five successful grants. She leads on “Policy, Society and Finance” theme of work to address barriers related to business and finance models, social dynamics, multi-criteria decision making analysis and policy, such as Zero Emission Cold-Chain (EP/V042548/1); GREEN-ICEs (EP/T022701/1); UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy (EP/V011863/1); Digital Circular Electrochemical Economy (EP/V042432/1); CCUS for UK cluster decarbonisation (IDRIC Wave 2).

Dr. Giray Gozgor, University of Bradford, UK

Dr. Giray Gozgor is an Associate Professor of Economics/Finance at the School of Management, University of Bradford. He received a PhD in Economics in 2012 from Istanbul University. He worked as a visiting scholar at Ghent University (2013/14) and the University of California, Irvine (2014/15). He was promoted to Full Professor (Chair) position at Istanbul Medeniyet University in 2020. He has been included in Clarivate's Highly Cited Researchers 2023 List. Dr Gozgor is the Research Affiliate of the CESifo Network at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the Research Associate of the Centre for Blockchain Technologies at the University College London (UCL). Dr Gozgor published more than 140 papers in the Web of Science (SSCI and SCIE) indexed journals, including CABS 4 and CABS 3 journals, such as Annals of Operations Research; Annals of Tourism Research; Economics Letters; Energy Economics; International Journal of Finance & Economics; International Review of Financial Analysis; Journal of Environmental Management; Journal of Human Capital; Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money; Journal of Travel Research; and Public Choice. His research interests include applied econometrics, climate change economics, financial economics, international economics, international finance, and political economy.