Prof. Tao-Sheng Wang is Ph. D., Professor of Applied Economics (International Trade Direction), specialist of General Office of the State Council, director of Chinese Society of World Economy, vice chairman of the Expert Committee of China Association of Trade in Service, master tutor. He is the dean of School of Business of Hunan International Economics University and chief expert of the provincial-level social science key research base. He is also a foregoer of provincial-level key construction course ‘International Trade,’ provincial-level teaching team ‘International Trade,’ provincial-level characteristic specialty ‘International Economics and Trade.’ He is responsible for project of provincial-level trial of the comprehensive reform major ‘International Economics and Trade,’ provincial-level excellent course ‘International Trade Affairs,’ and information-based teaching reform and construction project (top teacher class space of ‘International Trade Affairs’). He has presided one general program of Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), one subproject of major project of National Social Science Foundation, three provincial and ministerial-level major projects and five general items. He has published more than 50 papers in national authoritative journals such as ‘Management World,’ ‘Chinese Rural Economy,’ ‘Economic Perspectives,’ ‘Journal of International Trade,’ and so on, 5 academic works in Economic Science Press, China Economic Publishing House, etc. His research results have won the second prize of the 11th Hunan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award, third prize of the 9th Hunan Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award. He has chaired five teaching reform projects such as provincial-level teaching and learning quality engineering and others. The transformation of education achievements has been awarded second prize and third prize of the provincial higher education teaching achievement. He authors five textbooks, ‘A New Course in International Trade Practice’ of which has won Provincial Excellent Teaching Material Award. He was invited to attend the United Nations ‘2010 World Trade Summit Forum (New York)’ and ‘2015 World Trade Summit Forum (Geneva)’ as well as gave keynotes in ‘The 3rd International Conference on Finance and Economic Development (Hong Kong),’ ‘WTO and the 7th International Academic Conference of China (Shanghai),’ ‘World trade and China’ ‘The First International Academic Conference (Changsha)’ and ‘the 3rd International Conference on Business Computing and Global Informatization,’ and the research results have had a positive impact in International economics and trade fields. The results of the key application research projects hosted in 2015 received affirmative and important instructions from the main leaders of the provincial government.
Dr. Srikanta Patnaik is Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Technology, SOA University, Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India, in 1999 and supervised 25 Ph. D. Theses and more than 60 Master theses in the area of computational intelligence, soft computing applications and re-engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 32 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc. Dr. Patnaik is Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published by Inderscience Publishing House, England, and also Editor-in-chief of Book Series on ‘Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology’ published by Springer, Germany; Book Series on Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Book Series on Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practices (AMTCP), published by IGI-Global, USA. He is the Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering, published by Korean Institute of Information and Communication Convergence Engineering. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence (IJCINI), published by IGI-Global and International Journal of Granular Computing, Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems (IJGCRSIS) published by Inderscience Publishing House, England.
Dr. Chun Ho Jack Wu holds Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial and Systems Engineering and a PhD in Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering. He also holds a six-sigma black belt certification from the Hong Kong Society of Quality and he contributes regularly to research papers in the areas of Internet of things, engineering optimization and business intel
