Prof. Nikola Kassabov

Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

(H index: 73)(IEEE Fellow)

Introduction: Professor Nikola (Nik) Kirilov Kasabov (also spelled legally as Kassabov) is Life Fellow of IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers), Fellow of RSNZ (Royal Society of New Zealand), Fellow of the College of Fellows of INNS (International Neural Network Society), Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering UK, Fellow of the NZ IITP (Institute for IT Professionals), Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is the Founding Director of the Knowledge Engineering and Discovery Research Institute (KEDRI) and Professor Emeritus of Knowledge Engineering in the School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences at AUT.

His main interests are in the areas of computational intelligence, neuro-computing, bioinformatics, neuroinformatics, speech and image processing, data mining, knowledge representation and knowledge discovery.

Professor Kasabov is the Founding Director of Knowledgeengineering.ai. He has been appointed as Advisory Board member of Conscium.com, which is the world’s first applied AI consciousness research organisation with the aim to deepen our understanding of consciousness to pioneer efficient, intelligent, and safe AI that builds a better future for humanity.

Prof. Lu Sun

Xi’an Jiaotong University, China

Introduction: He has rich research achievements and practices in low-carbon cities and energy system optimization, ecological industrial parks, circular economy, low-carbon development of key industrial sectors, and energy big data analysis models. He has published more than 80 research papers in domestic and foreign journals, 4 ESI hot and highly cited papers, and 2 monographs. In recent years, he has been cited more than 3120 times by first-class international journals such as Nature, H-index 33, and was invited to be an expert reviewer of the circular economy development report of the Asia-Pacific Region of the United Nations Center for Regional Development (UNCRD), and an expert reviewer of the Sixth IPCC report. He has been interviewed by academic institutions, "Dragon TV", "People's Daily" and other media and relevant government departments.