Welcome Prof. Xiangjie Kong to be the Conference General Chair!

Xiangjie Kong is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, a recipient of Zhejiang Outstanding Youth Fund, and a Canal Young Scholar of Zhejiang University of Technology. He is now a senior member of IEEE, a senior member of CCF, a member of ACM, a member of Information Systems Committee of Chinese Computer Society, a member of Pervasive Computing Committee of Chinese Computer Society, and a member of Parallel Intelligence Committee of Chinese Society of Automation. He has served as Editor of PeerJ Computer Science and other international SCI journals, as well as Guest Editor of Pervasive and Mobile Computing and other international SCI journals. He serves as a member of several international conference programme committees (TPC), including IEEE BigData, COMPLEX NETWORKS, IEEE UIC, IEEE ICC, and so on. He serves as a reviewer for top national and international journals such as IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, and Journal of Computing.

His main research interests include knowledge management, computational social science, and urban big data. He has published/accepted more than 130 papers in international journals or conferences, such as IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, etc., of which more than 100 are SCI retrieved papers. 13 papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (1%) (of which 9 are the first or corresponding authors), and 3 papers have been selected as ESI Hot Papers (0.1%) at the same time. The paper published in IEEE TVT as the first author won the 2020 IEEE Vehicle [1] Transportation Technology Society (VTS) Best Paper Award for Ground Transportation (Best Land Transport).In 2016 and 2017, he won the first prize of Liaoning Provincial Natural Science Academic Achievement Award twice as the first author. His research work has been widely reported by Nature Index, Web of Science and other media. He has been granted 16 invention patents (7 as the first inventor). He has presided over and completed a number of national and provincial level projects.