Professor Yi-Shin Chen is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU). She serves as the Chairman of the International Bachelor’s Program (IBP) at NTHU and the Executive Director of the Taiwanese Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI). Additionally, she is the Project Leader of the Taiwan Artificial Intelligence College Alliance (TAICA) program, supported by the Ministry of Education. Professor Chen earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 2002 and has since dedicated herself to academic research and education. Her research interests include web intelligence, social networks, and natural language processing. Passionate about fostering interdisciplinary AI talent and global education, she bridges academia and practice to cultivate professionals with technical expertise and a global perspective, advancing both Taiwan and the international AI community.

Associate Dean, Research & Innovation and Full Professor, Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, Canada

IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor on AI and Chatbot (2023~2025)

Vice President, International Association of Smart Learning Environments

Vice Chair, IEEE Northern Canada Section

Editor in Chief, Educational Technology and Society

Editor in Chief, International Journal of Distance Education Technologies

Editor in Chief, Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology

Dr. Maiga Chang is Associate Dean, Research & Innovation, and Full Professor at Faculty of Science and Technology, Athabasca University, Canada. Dr. Chang is IEEE Senior Member and has been appointed as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor for 2023 to 2025. He is also received Distinguished Researcher Award from Asia Pacific Society on Computers in Education (APSCE) in 2022.

Dr. Chang is Vice President (2022~) of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE) and editors-in-chief (2019~) of Journal of Educational Technology & Society (Open Access SSCI in Quartile Q1 with rank 14 among 756 journals in ESCI/SSCI/SCI in Education & Educational Research category by Journal Impact Factor 6.0), editor-in-chief (2014~) of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (Open Access ESCI in Quartile Q1 among 756 journals in ESCI/SSCI/SCI in Education & Educational Research category by Journal Citation Indicator 1.24, SCOPUS, EI), and editor-in-chief (2020~) of Bulletin of Technical Committee on Learning Technology (Open Access ESCI).

Dr. Chang is helping as a Steering Committee member (2020~) for International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) and has been conference chair (2024~) and general program chair (2017~2023) for IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) which was ranked as the second (2nd) by saliency in Educational Technology area, just follows CSCL (1st) in Microsoft Academic for the time 2000 to 2020.

Dr. Chang has given more than 165 talks and lectures in different events; He also has (co-)authored more than 263 book chapters, journal and international conference papers. He is an IEEE member since 1996 and also a member of ACM (2001-2017), AAAI (since 2001-2017), INNS (2004-2018), and Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society.

His current research mainly focus on artificial intelligence; natural language processing; learning behaviour analysis; learning analytics and academic analytics; game-based learning, training and assessment; intelligent agent technology; educational data mining; computational intelligence; health informatics and healthcare technology,etc.