Academic &
Strategic Advisers.

Distinguished University Professor and Dr. Haykin Distinguished Professor of Engineering at McMaster University; Member of the Order of Canada; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Vice-President of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) for developed countries in the North (2023–2026); former President of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (2015–2017).

Professor at OISE, University of Toronto; former President and Honorary Fellow of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES); President Emerita of The Education University of Hong Kong; former First Secretary for Education, Science and Culture at the Canadian Embassy in China.

UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability; Professor at York University; Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute of Education for Sustainable Development in Beijing.

Principal’s Chair in Knowledge Technologies and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto; co-author of AI Era: Redefining Teaching and Learning. Former Canada Research Chair in Education and Technology.

Professor and doctoral supervisor at Beijing Normal University; UNESCO Chair on Artificial Intelligence in Education; Co-Dean of the Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University; Director of the National Engineering Research Center of Cyberlearning and Intelligent Technology.

Former President of East China Normal University and Shanghai Normal University, with extensive experience in educational leadership, international cooperation, and higher education innovation.

Computer vision expert; Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI); Fellow of IEEE, the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), and the International Artificial Intelligence Academy of Sciences (AAIS, formerly AAIA).