HIGHLIGHTS OF EXPERIENCES
More than 20 years experience in the fields of climatology, and physical geography.
Managed and participated in many research projects in the fields of climate changes and relevant subjects.
Published more than 50 papers in the fields of climatology.
Experienced teaching in the universities on climate change and relevant sustainable development issues for more than 15 years.
Excellent command of English and knowledge of computer.
Strong technical, interpersonal, communication, problem solving, and leadership skills.

Education
Ph. D., Historical Climatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 1999
M. Sc., Physical Geography, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China,1996
B. Sc., Climatology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, 1983

Honors & Awards
The First Class Award For Academic Achievement in 1998, Graduated School of Wuhan University
The Example of Excellent Doctoral Candidate in 1998, Wuhan University
Excellent Student Award for Bao Steel and Iron Educational Foundation in 1998, Bao Steel & Iron Group of Shanghai, China
The First Class Award For Academic Achievement in 1997, Graduated School of Wuhan University
The first class award for Meteorological Sciences Progress, Hubei Province Meteorology Bureau, 1995
The third class award for Science and Technology Progress, The Government of Hubei Province, 1994

Wang Shuqi was born in Shaanxi, China, in 1974. He received the M.S. degrees in communication and Information system and Ph.D. degree in safety science and technology from Xi’an University of science and Technology, Shaanxi, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively.
He is a associate professor in School of communication and Information Engineering at Xi’an University of science and Technology. He has published over thirty papers in academic journals and international conference. His research interests focus on grounding grid corrosion diagnosis and wireless communication technology in coal mine.

He served as the chairman of IEEE Singapore Control Systems Chapter in 2002 and 2003, and the general chair of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Control and Automation held in Budapest , Hungary , 2005. He is currently serving as a member of Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, China (2008-). He was the recipient of the Best Poster Paper Award at the 2nd Asian Control Conference, Seoul, Korea (1997); University Researcher Award, National University of Singapore (2000); Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award, Institution of Engineers, Singapore (2001); Temasek Young Investigator Award, Defence Science & Technology Agency, Singapore (2003); Best Industrial Control Application Prize at the 5th Asian Control Conference, Melbourne, Australia (2004); and elected to IEEE Fellow , Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE), USA (2007). Associate Editor.

David Zhang graduated in Computer Science from Peking University. He received his MSc in Computer Science in 1982 and his PhD in 1985 from the Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT). From 1986 to 1988 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Tsinghua University and then an Associate Professor at the Academia Sinica, Beijing. In 1994 he received his second PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is a Head, Department of Computing, and a Chair Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University where he is the Founding Director of the Biometrics Technology Centre (UGC/CRC) supported by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 1998. He also serves as Visiting Chair Professor in Tsinghua University, and Adjunct Professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the University of Waterloo. He is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Image and Graphics (IJIG); Book Editor, Springer International Series on Biometrics (KISB); Organizer, the International Conference on Biometrics Authentication (ICBA); Associate Editor of more than ten international journals including IEEE Transactions and Pattern Recognition; Technical Committee Chair of IEEE CIS and the author of more than 10 books and 200 journal papers. Professor Zhang is a Croucher Senior Research Fellow, Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Computer Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and IAPR.

Hai Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He is now the Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology at HUST. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for visiting the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He worked for the University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster project. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He is the chief scientist of the largest grid computing project, ChinaGrid, in China.
Dr. Jin is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. He is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). He is the associated editor of Parallel Computing, International Journal of Computer and Applications, International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, International Journal of Web and Grid Services, Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing, Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence, Journal of Computer Science and Technology, Frontiers of Computer Science in China. He is IASTED technical committee member on Parallel & Distributed Computing and Systems. He is the steering committee chair of International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC), Asia-Pacific Services Computing Conference (APSCC). He is the steering committee member of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC), International Conference on Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC), International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (ATC), International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC), and served as program chair of GCC’04, SCC’05, HSI’05, NPC’05, UISW’05, UIC’06, FCST’06, and ICA3PP’07, program vice-chair of the CCGrid’01, PDCAT’03, NPC’04, EUC’05, e-Science’05, AINA’06, and CCGrid’06. He served as conference chairs of ATC’06, UASS’07, HICA’07, and NPC’07. He also served as program committee for more than 200 international conferences/workshops. He has co-authored 15 books and published over 300 research papers. His research interests include computer architecture, cluster computing and grid computing, virtualization technology, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, network security.

Prof. Dr. Hugo de Garis is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial Brain Lab (ABL) in the Cognitive Science Department of the School of Information Science & Technology (SIST), Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian Province. He has a 4 year contract (2008-2011) to build China’s first artificial brain, consisting of 1000s of evolved neural net modules to control the behaviors of French NAO robots. He has had two books published, “The Artilect War : Cosmists vs. Terrans : A Bitter Controversy Concerning Whether Humanity Should Build Godlike Massively Intelligent Machines”, and “Multis and Monos : What the Multicultured Can Teach the Monocultured : Towards the Creation of a Global State”. He is co-guest editor of a special issue of the Neurocomputing journal on the topic of “Artificial Brains”, the first of its kind worldwide, and is contracted by World Scientific to write a book on “Artificial Brains”. Before living in China, he was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Utah State University, in Utah, USA. He has lived in 7 countries (Australia, England, Holland, Belgium, Japan, America, China), and is married to a Chinese woman who is the daughter of a general who accompanied Mao Zedong on the long march.

was with School of Electrical Engineering , University of New South Wales, Australia, 1992-1999.He is a Fellow of IEEE. He was awarded the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Award in 2007 and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship in 1997. He was a visiting Fellow at National University of Singapore (1997), and Aachen Technology University , Germany (1997-1998). He has author or co-authored over 150 international journal papers including over 60 in IEEE Transactions. His current research interests include hybrid systems and control, system biology, and intelligent systems and control. Prof. Feng is an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, and Journal of Control Theory and Applications, and was an associate editor of IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, Part C and the Conference Editorial Board of IEEE Control System Society.

Ning Zhong received the Ph.D. degree in the Interdisciplinary Course on Advanced Science and Technology from the University of Tokyo. He is currently head of Knowledge Information Systems Laboratory, and a professor in Department of Life Science and Informatics at Maebashi Institute of Technology, Japan. He is also director and an adjunct professor in the International WIC Institute (WICI), Beijing University of Technology. He has conducted research in the areas of knowledge discovery and data mining, rough sets and granular-soft computing, Web intelligence, intelligent agents, brain informatics, and knowledge information systems, with over 200 journal and conference publications and 20 books. He has been the editor-in-chief of the Web Intelligence and Agent Systems journal (IOS Press), associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2003-2008), and Knowledge and Information Systems journal (Springer), a member of the editorial board of Transactions on Rough Sets and International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence.He has been a member of the editorial board of Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing(AI&KP) book series (Springer), Frontiers in AI and Applications book series (IOS Press), Chapman&Hall/CRC Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery book series, and editor (the area of intelligent systems) of the Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Engineering (Wiley). He has also been co-chair of Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC), chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics (TCII), chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Task Force on Brain Informatics (TF-BI), member of the steering committee of IEEE InternationalConferences on Data Mining (ICDM) (2000-2008), vice chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Technical Committee on Granular Computing, the steering committee of International Rough Set Society. He has served or is currently serving on the program committees of over 100international conferences and workshops, including IEEE ICDM'02(conference chair), IEEE ICDM'06 (program chair), IEEE/WIC WI-IAT'03(conference chair), IEEE/WIC/ACM WI-IAT'04 (program chair), and IJCAI'03
(advisory committee member). He was awarded the best paper awards of AMT'06, JSAI'03, IEEE TCCI/ICDM Outstanding Service Award in 2004, and Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD) Most Influential Paper Award (1999-2008).