謝浩然

Prof. XIE Haoran is a Professor and the Person-in-Charge of Division of Artificial Intelligence, the Acting Associate Dean of School of Data Science, and the Director of LEO Dr. David P. Chan Institute of Data Science at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Natural Language Processing Journal (Elsevier), Computers & Education: Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and Computers & Education: X Reality (Elsevier), Co-Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management and E-Learning (HKU) the Associate Editor of International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics (Springer), Array (Elseiver), International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (InderScience). He has totally published 414 research publications including 239 journal articles (63 papers as first or corresponding author), 7 edited books, 67 book chapters, 96 conference proceedings and 5 patents. Among all 239 journal articles, there are 189 SCI/SSCI indexed. Some journals like IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TKDE, IEEE TCYB, IEEE TAC, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Multimedia, Information Sciences, Neural Networks, Neurocomputing, Knowledge-Based Systems, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers & Education, British Journal of Educational Technology, Educational Technology & Society, Interactive Learning Environments are top-tier journals in the related fields. Among all book chapters and conference proceedings, there are many papers from top-tier conferences like AAAI, IJCAI, CVPR, ICCV, ACL, EMNLP, WWW, CIKM, DASFAA, etc. He has served as 19 guest editors in special issues of journals, editors of 7 books, organization committee chairs/members of more than 59 conferences, and reviewers of 40 international journals. Till Sep 2024, his totally Google Scholar citation counts is 18,647, h-index is 55, and i-10 index is 180 at Google Scholar. One of his work about Least squares generative adversarial networks (LSGAN) which has received more than 5500 citations in Google Scholar, published in ICCV 2017 and TPAMI 2019, included by computer science courses of Stanford University and National Taiwan University, and implemented by Google TensorFlow. He has obtained 24 research awards including the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, Research Output Excellence Award by Lingnan University, the Teaching Excellence Award from Lingnan University, Most Cited Article from Elsevier Publisher, Literia Award 2020 (Outstanding Paper) from Emerald Publisher, the Gold Medal and the Special Award from International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada 2022 and 2019, Silver Award from International Innovation and Invention Competition Taiwan 2020, Silver Award from Geneva’s Invention Expo, Silver Award from Multimedia Grand Challenges of ACM Multimedia 2019, Outstanding Research Achievement Award from Asia Pacific Society for Computing and Information Technology, President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Research in Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK), Faculty’s Research Output Award in EdUHK, and 5 best/excellent paper awards from international conferences including WI-IAT 2020, ICBL 2020, DASFAA 2017, ICBL 2016 and SECOP 2015.

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Educational Technologies