Smart Tourism

Dr. Yuanjia Hu is a Professor and Programme Coordinator of Medicinal Administration in the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Deputy Director of the Medical Informatics Center of the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, and Associate Head of the Department of Public Health and Medicinal Administration, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau. Dr. Hu received B.Sc. degree from China Pharmaceutical University, Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Macau, and Guest Researcher fellowship in Austrian Institute of Technology. His research primarily focuses on providing informatics solutions to critical challenges in the process of drug discovery through the multidisciplinary lens of administration and technology. Dr. Hu has led 25 domestic and foreign scientific research projects, and published more than 150 academic papers in international journals such as Nature Biotechnology, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Pharmacological Research. He is also Deputy Secretary-General and Executive Council Member in Specialty Committee on Network Pharmacology of World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies, Project Researcher in the Research Center of National Drug Policy & Ecosystem, and Policy Expert in Financial Innovation Pilot Platform of State Intellectual Property Operation Public Service Platform.

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.

Angus, C. C. Lam obtained his PhD in Structural Engineering of Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of University of Alberta, Canada. He is currently an Associate Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau. His major research field is experimental and numerical structural analysis of steel structures, masonry structures and composite materials. Those research results have been published in several international journals (such as: Journal of Structural Engineering (ASCE), Journal of Composites for Construction (ASCE), Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering, Journal of Constructional Steel Research, Engineering Structures) and international conferences. He is also appointed by the faculty/department for several services (such as: Academic Advisor of IAESTE Macau, Fellow of residential college SHEAC, Leader of CEE Program Accreditation Committee Structure Group, etc). For the service in Macau society, he is appointed by the Chief Executive of Macau as a member of Macau SAR Culture Heritage Committee (2013-2016) and vice-chair of Vice-chairman of Macau SAR Transport Consultative Committee (2021-2023). Currently, he is the Members of the Supervisory Board of The Macau Institution of Engineers (AEM); Council Member of the Society of Metal Structures of Macau (MSMS); Council Member of the Smart City Alliance Associate of Macau (SCAAM); Council Member of the Society of Traditional Architecture and Member of the Smart Tourism Research Team of Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management of University of Macau.

Dr. Ching is currently Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Faculty of Education in University of Macau. He received a PhD in Education from University of Oxford, with a specialization in Psychology and Education. Over the years, Dr. Ching has strived to weave theories from multiple psychological disciplines (developmental, social, and educational) and use empirical research to address theoretical and practical questions related to psychology and education. In Faculty of Education, he is committed to studying the cognitive aspects of children’s learning, such as how they learn mathematics, and their educational implications for mathematical assessments and instructional strategies for young children. Dr. Ching believes that education should not only concern students’ performance in academic subjects, but it should also care about students’ psychological well-being. Thus, his second strand of research broadly pertains to healthy self-development and education in adolescents and young adults. Finally, the third line of research originates from his interest in an idea called “essentialism”, which has close connections with how children develop an understanding of a concept and entails far-reaching implications for intergroup relations. He has published his work with his research group as a first author predominantly in SSCI Q1 journals (selected publications could be found in https://fed.um.edu.mo/boby-ho-hong-ching/). In recognition of the potential impact and contribution of his research to academia, he received an international-level research award from Jean Piaget Society and was nominated to join the Editorial Board of “Learning and Instruction”, a flagship journal in the field of educational psychology and education. Recently, Dr. Ching has joined the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management in University of Macau and he endeavors to use his knowledge in psychology to conduct research and understand virtual reality in smart tourism in particular.

Shan Wang is an assistant professor at University of Macau. Her research fields are linguistics, teaching Chinese as a second language and computational linguistics. She has published one English monograph, more than 60 papers, edited one set of Greater Chinese textbooks, participated in the compilation of two dictionaries, and guest edited an international journal. She has produced and released 16 MOOCs of game-based Chinese language teaching (over 72000 views till now) and seven MOOCs of teaching Chinese multiword expressions. One was fully reprinted by China Social Science Excellence in 2019. In the recent three years, she won four academic awards appraised by different institutions: (1) Nominated for The Sun Dejin Award for Outstanding Papers of Youth, The 5th International Forum on Linguistics and Chinese Education, Columbia University, USA, October 2019 (this conference only has nominations). (2) The First Level Award of The Young Talent Award of The Third International Conference on Language Teaching and Research, appraised by the CSSCI core journal “Language Teaching and Linguistic Studies”, October 2020; (3) The Excellent Paper Award, The 12th Annual Conference of the Educational Linguistics Professional Committee of the English-Chinese Comparative Research Association of China, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, May 2021; (4) The Outstanding Youth Paper Award, The 17th International Conference on Chinese as a Second Language, Beijing Language and Culture University, July 2021.