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Dr. Li Du is an Associate Professor at the University of Macau Faculty of Law, Macau SAR. He holds dual bachelor’s degrees in both clinical medicine and law (Wuhan University, China) and a Ph.D. in law (University of Alberta, Canada). His teaching and research interests include international law, food law, technology law, data protection and privacy law. Dr. Du has led many research projects on legal and ethical implications of novel and emerging technologies, e.g., genetic testing, cell-cultured meat, synthetic biotechnology, smart healthcare, etc. He shares his research findings at international conferences frequently and publishes articles regularly in leading academic journals.

Dr. Kevin (Ze) Hong is a behavioral scientist who studies human behavior and culture from evolutionary and cognitive perspectives. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in Biology from Grinnell College, a master’s degree in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University. He worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Zhejiang University and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Macau and a research associate in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Research-wise, He uses methodologically diverse approaches (e.g., theoretical modeling, quantitative analysis of historical data, ethnographic fieldwork) to study human behavior and culture from rainmaking to gambling, with special attention paid to information processing at the individual level and information transmission at the population level. Dr. Hong serves on the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Human Nature, and his publication appears in diverse journal venues such as Current Anthropology, American Anthropologist, Behavior and Brain Sciences, Human Nature, Human Ecology, Religion, Brain & Behavior, Journal of Theoretical Biology, and Cognitive Science. His current field sites include the Yi in southwest China and the Wa in China-Burma border where he focuses on the psychological and social factors that sustain divination and magic practices.

Xin Lin is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Macau. She received her Ph.D. in special education from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022. Her area of specialty in special education is mathematics learning disabilities. She aims to develop cost-effective interventions teachers can use with students experiencing mathematics difficulties. Recently, she obtained innovative results in knowledge forgetting, the roles of cognition, and prior knowledge on the maintenance of intervention effect and long-term mathematical development. As the first or corresponding author, she has published several academic papers in the top SSCI journals in education and psychology, such as the Review of Educational Research, Child Development, and Psychological Bulletin. She also served as a reviewer for the Journal of Learning Disabilities, Educational Psychology Review, Learning and Instruction, etc.

Dr. Pengyang Wang is an Assistant Professor in the State Key Lab of Smart Cities and Internet-of-Things at the University of Macau. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Central Florida, M.E. in Information Security from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and B.E. in Information Security from Xidian University, respectively. His research interests are in data mining, machine learning and big data analytics, especially in representation learning for Spatial-Temporal Graph-Structured data, with applications to smart cities, transportation, user/system behavior modeling, critical infrastructure defense, and complex network analysis. Pengyang has received “Global Top 100 Chinese Rising Stars in Artificial Intelligence”, one Best Student Paper Runner-up award of SIGKDD 2018, and one Best Paper Runner-up award of SIGSPATIAL 2020. Specifically, his work on automated urban planning has been featured by Synced and UCF Today, and his work on urban vibrancy has been highlighted by the Natural Science Foundation (NSF) of the U.S.