Keynote Speakers
Professor Nian-Shing Chen
Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences and Program of Learning Sciences
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
Dr. Nian-Shing Chen is a Chair Professor in the Institute for Research Excellence in Learning Sciences and Program of Learning Sciences at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. His research areas include robot-assisted language learning, embodied cognition, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, and the application of educational robots in education.
Professor Chen received the National Outstanding Research award three times in 2008, 2011, and 2015. He is ranked in second place on the Top Authors list by article count in Computers & Education. He is ranked number 4 on the top scholar list in the educational technology field based on an article published in the British Journal of Educational Technology. One of his papers published in Innovations in Education and Teaching International was awarded as the top-cited article in 2010.
Professor Chen is ranked third in the list of Social Sciences and Humanities Scientists in Taiwan. Based on AD Scientific Index 2023, Prof. Chen is ranked number 8 in Asia and is ranked number 103 in the world in Education Research. He is also listed as one of Scopus World Top 2% Scientists (2021) (Ioannidis, 2022).
Professor Chen was served as the Editor-in-Chief for Educational Technology & Society (ET&S) journal. He is a golden core member of IEEE, a lifelong member of ACM, and the former Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology.
Professor Kunliang Chuang
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature
Feng Chia University, Taiwan
Dr. Kun-liang Chuang is currently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Feng Chia University. He received his Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Southern California, USA, and once served as the Chair of English Department and the Dean of the Office of International Affairs at National Taiwan Normal University. He was the first President of the Irish Studies Association in Taiwan. His researches include James Joyce studies, Postcolonial Studies, Translation Studies, and Teaching literature in an ESL class. He has published several books including Dubliners (Chinese translation), James Joyce Studies in Taiwan (ed.), Traveling Aesthetics (ed.), A Literary Perspective on English Language Teaching and Learning(英語教學的文學觀點) (2017), Play with English(活學活用玩英文) (2017), Moments of life: Kunliang Chuang’s Writings and Paintings (人間筆記: 莊坤良書畫集) (2018), Ireland is in my Heart(戀戀愛爾蘭) (2019), and A Journey of Self-discovery: 101Ways of Traveling (消失的旅行) (2021).
Professor Sachi Nakachi
Department of English, Tsuru University, Japan
Dr. Sachi Nakachi is Professor of English and Gender Studies at Tsuru University, Japan. She received her PhD in English from Ohio University, USA (2001) and has served as a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, UK (2009). She was a Fulbright scholar at New York University (2009), at the University of California, Berkeley (2010), and at the University of Hawaii, Manoa (2023). Nakachi has published articles on Richard Wright’s haiku in books such as The Other World of Richard Wright（University Press of Mississippi, 2011), African American Haiku: Cultural Visions (University Press of Mississippi, 2016), and Richard Wright: Writing American at Home and from Abroad (University Press of Mississippi, 2016). She has also published numerous articles on Asian American literature, comparative literature, and American Japonisme in various books and journals across Japan. She is currently working on the Asian Transborder Literature Studies Project with other Japanese scholars.
Professor Lu Jiqun Luke
School of Humanities, Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Luke Lu is currently Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Before academia, Luke was a secondary school teacher for five years. He is primarily interested in approaches to interactional sociolinguistics and ethnography, pertaining to issues such as transnational mobility, education, language rights, language planning and policy, and ethnicity. His most recent funded projects involve examining the pedagogical value of Singlish in ELT classrooms, as well as recovering a grassroots and transnational history of Chinese language reforms in Singapore. Luke has been a member of the Ministry of Education's English Language and Linguistics Syllabus Review Committee since 2020.