Jun Zhang, Professor, Nankai University. He received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong in 2002. Professor Zhang's research activities are mainly in the areas of Computational Intelligence (CI). Based on his research in Evolutionary Computation (EC) and its applications, Professor Zhang Jun has published more than 600 peer-reviewed research papers, of which more than 200 have been published in IEEE Transactions. Professor Zhang is Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher rank in the top 1% for field in Computer Science, and was awarded the "Outstanding Young Scientist Fund" by NSFC in 2011, and was appointed as a "Changjiang Chair Professor" in 2013. He currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He holds well-recognised expertise and impactful contributions to AI in education.

Yue-Jiao Gong, Professor, South China University of Technology. She received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Sun Yat-sen University, China, in 2010 and 2014, respectively. She is currently a Full Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, China. Her research interests include optimization methods based on swarm intelligence, deep learning, reinforcement learning, and their applications in smart cities and intelligent transportation. She has published over 100 papers, including more than 60 in ACM/IEEE Transactions and over 50 at renowned conferences such as NeurIPS, ICLR, and GECCO. Dr. Gong was awarded the Pearl River Young Scholar by the Guangdong Education Department in 2017 and the Guangdong Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2022. She currently serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation.