Dr. Shuai Yan

Senior Editor

Currently, Dr. Yan serves as the China Advisor for the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), the China Ambassador for the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and the Honorary President of the Society of China University Journals (CUJS). He has previously served as the Director of Academic Relations for Greater China at Springer Nature, Deputy Editor-in-Chief and Director of the Journal Center at Tsinghua University Press, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology), and Director of the Editorial Office at Beijing Forestry University. Additionally, Dr. Yan has also served concurrently as the President of the CUJS, Vice President of the China Periodicals Association, and Vice Chairman of the China Editology Society of Science Periodicals.

Report Topic: Global Trends in Open Access Publishing

Professor Yuehong (Helen) Zhang

Senior Editor

Professor Yuehong (Helen) Zhang is the Managing Editor of Bio-Design and Manufacturing. Previously, she was the Chief Editor of Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE, and Vice-President of the Society of China University Journals. She had served as a council member of ALPSP (2011–2016) and a CrossRef Board Member (2014–2017). She received COPE’s first grant awarded in China in 2010 and has published many papers focused on anti-plagiarism policies in different disciplines, including several short papers in Nature and the book Against Plagiarism: A Guide for Editors and Authors in Springer. Since 2011, Zhang has won four consecutive China Publishing Government Award of Journal, Editor and Book.

Report Topic: Maintaining and Communicating a Trusted Scientific Record in an Age of AI

Xiaodong Qiao

Strategic Advisor at Wanfang Data, Second-level Researcher at the Ministry of Science and Technology

Formerly, Xiaodong Qiao served as Deputy General Manager of Wanfang Data and Chief Engineer at the Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC). He has long been engaged in research and application in the fields of knowledge management, knowledge technology, and scientific information services. Since the Ninth Five-Year Plan, Researcher Qiao has participated in multiple national scientific and technological research projects, key R&D programs, National Natural Science Foundation, and Social Science Foundation projects. He has authored numerous academic papers and received the State Council Special Allowance. Furthermore, he has been recognized as a national candidate in the “New Century National Millions of Talent Project” and was selected for the “Four Ones” project by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee. From 2017 to 2024, Researcher Qiao served as Vice President of the International Federation of Scientific and Technical Information.

Xibin Shen

Senior Editor

Director of the New Media Department, Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House

Xibin Shen is a senior editor and the director of the New Media Department at the Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House. He is also the deputy director and chair of the Publishing Committee of the Key Laboratory of Medical Journal Knowledge Discovery and Services under the National Press and Publication Administration (NPPA); deputy director of the Digital Publishing and Communication Professional Committee of the China Editology Society of Science Periodicals (CESSP); Deputy Director of the Academic Publishing New Technology Application and Public Service Laboratory of the China Periodicals Association; Member of the Fourth Medical Journals Professional Committee of the CESSP; Deputy Secretary-General of the Scientific Research Publication Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; Member of the Medical and Health Professional Committee of the Central Committee of the Jiusan Society; Member of the Academic and Editorial Advisory Committee of the Chinese Medical Journals Publishing House; Editorial board member of journals such as Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals, Acta Editologica, Digital Publishing Research, and Digital Medicine and Health; and an expert in financial project evaluation for the China Association for Science and Technology (CAST).

Senior Editor Shen has authored over 50 papers as the first/corresponding author in core editing journals, participated in compiling several monographs and policy reports, and presided over or undertaken a number of major projects from the Excellence Action Plan for China’s Scientific and Technological Journals, the CAST, and the NPPA. He has participated in the development of several digital publishing products, which have received numerous provincial and ministerial awards under the Integration Development Project of the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee.

Furthermore, Senior Editor Shen was selected for the first group of “Outstanding Talents in Publishing Integration Development” by the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee, and has received honors such as “Excellent Editor of the China Scientific and Technological Journals Excellence Action Plan” and the “Youth Editor Junma Award” for China’s scientific and technological journals.

Dialogue Theme: Data Platforms, Publishing Platforms, Cluster Development, and Academic Conferences

Shihua Liu

Senior Manager of Publishing Business at Clarivate

Shihua Liu is mainly responsible for the company's publishing business in the Greater China region. He has authored multiple papers in journals, such as Science-Technology & Publication and Chinese Journal of Scientific and Technical Periodicals. He has extensive experience in journal data analysis and over 10 years of service in the scientific information industry. As a lecturer, Liu has participated in several editorial talent development projects supported by the Excellence Action Plan. He is also a member of the Policy Consultation and Development Working Committee of the China Editology Society of Science Periodicals. Liu graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University and the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Report Topic: From SCI Inclusion Criteria to Conference Proceedings: A Holistic Path in Academic Publishing

Jingzhou Wang

Editor, Director

Medical Information Center and Journal Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University; Part-time Master’s Supervisor in Publishing, Jinan University; Chairman, Academic Integrity and Copyright Committee, China Society of University Science and Technology Journals; Vice Chairman and Secretary-General, Guangdong Society of University Journals; Vice Chairman, Guangdong Society of Scientific and Technical Periodicals Editors

Dialogue Theme: Journal Operations, Including Research Integrity and Guangdong Sci-Tech Journal Support Initiatives

Chunlin Tan

Senior Editor

Editor, Journal of South China Normal University (Natural Science Edition); Master’s Supervisor, School of Education Information Technology, South China Normal University; Vice Chairman, Publishing Integration Committee, China Society of University Science and Technology Journals

Professor Qingsheng Zeng

University of Quebec, Canada

IEEE Senior Member

University of Quebec, Canada; IEEE Senior Member; Distinguished Professor, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Dual-appointed Doctoral Supervisor; Senior Expert for International Authoritative Journals; Extensive leadership in international electromagnetics academic organizations.

Report Topic: Building a Trusted Academic Ecosystem: Enhancing Journal Global Impact and Synergy Through Peer Review as a Quality Lever

Prof. Hanshu Cai

Lanzhou University, Associate Editor

Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at the School of Information Science & Engineering, Lanzhou University.

Deputy Secretary-General of the Neurobiofeedback Therapy and Intervention Branch ofthe China Association For Disaster & Emergency Rescue Medicine.

Prof. Cai currently serves as an editorial board member of the international SCI journal *IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems* and as a guest editor for *Frontiers in Neuroscience*.

He serves as the Principal Investigator of a General Program funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and leads a subproject under the Key Special Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology's National Key R&D Program on “Key Scientific Issues of Transformative Technologies.”

He has also participated as a core member in several major national projects, including the National “973” Program.

Prof. Cai has been granted for more than 10 domestic and international invention patents and published over 40 papers in top-tier international journals and conferences, with more than 1,900 citations.

He was honored with the 2023 IEEE SMC Society Best Associate Editor Award, the First Prize of the Gansu Provincial Patent Award in 2022, and was selected as a Gansu Longyuan Youth Talent in 2022.

Report Title: From Associate Editor to Community Catalyst: Evolving Impact and Innovation in IEEE TCSS

Prof. David Bassir

Dongguan University of Technology

Professor David BASSIR is Distinguish professor (Changjiang scholar Program) at Dongguan University of Technology at the Sino French Institute. He is also Head of Smart Structural Health Monitoring and Control Lab (SSHMC). and Expert at European Commission For Research Funds. He is also President of the Sino- French Association for Science and technology. Before joining DGUT, He was Professor in France at University or Technology UTBM and Also Senior researcher at ENS- Paris Saclay University. And before that he was, dean at the University of Lorraine (France), Attaché for Science and Technology at the French Embassy (China), General Director of Research at the ESTP (Paris) and Space Craft engineer at different space agencies such as Arianespace and Astrium Group. He has published more than 150 papers in Sci journals, books, indexed conference proceedings and patent. He supervised over 14 Phd and 34 Masters Students. He contributed to several research projects in France, in Europe and in China. His main research activities are based on Structural optimization, Composites, Multiscale modelling, Smart buildings and Advanced prediction using artificial intelligence. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Int. journal IJSMDO (EI) and also Scientific editors is few international journals. 

Report Title: IJSMDO Ranking Progress and Optimal Practices to Secure Your Publications

Prof. Helen S. Du

Guangdong University of Technoloby

Helen S. Du is the “100-talent program” distinguished professor at Guangdong University of Technoloby (GDUT). She received her Ph.D from the City University of Hong Kong, department of Informatin Systems. Prof. Du is currently the Director of Internatinal Cooperation and Certification Center at School of Management, GDUT. Her recent research interests include gamification design and innovation, human-AI interaction, digital consumer behavior, and sustainable management. As the principal investigator, she has taken charge of three National-level grant projects, and four Provincial-level grant projects. She has published over 60 articles in leading journals and international conferences, such as International Journal of Information Management, Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Decision Support Systems, Internet Research, among others. She has served as the editorial board member of Online Information Review (SSCI indexed) and the AE of Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (EI indexed) for many years. She is also serving as the China System Engineering Society Entrepreneurship and Innovation System Engineering Professional Committee member as well as the Guangdong Province Undergraduate E-commerce Teaching Steering Committee member.

Report Title: Publishing Your Research in International Journals such as OIR & JIKM

Dr. Jiajia Chen

Fudan University

Director of the Editorial Department, Senior Science Editor of Phenomics at Fudan University

Report Title: The Practice and Exploration of New Journal Establishment from the Perspective of Science Editing

Dr. Yuanyuan Liu

EDP Sciences

YuanYuan Liu, Editor of Security and Safety. Currently, she is a Senior Publishing Editor at EDP Sciences (Beijing office) and Science Editor at the Science China Press. She graduated from Zhengzhou University, Harbin Institute of Technology, and the University of Manchester, UK, for her Bachelors, Master's, and Doctoral degrees, respectively. She was a postdoctoral researcher at Beihang University before she joined the publishing house in 2020. Now she is mainly engaged in launching, editing, publishing and hosting journals, promoting the "going global" and "bringing in" of academic journals and serving global academic innovation.

Report Title: Meet the Editor: Security and Safety

Xuke Zhang

Journal Development Manager

KEOTongda (Henan) Information Technology Co.Ltd 

She holds a Master's degree in Engineering from Zhengzhou University and has extensive experience in academic journal publishing and scholarly content communication. She currently serves as the Publisher of Human-Centric Intelligent Systems (HCIN). Her work focuses on new journal development, content planning and curation, international dissemination strategies, and brand enhancement. With years of industry experience and strong editorial planning capabilities-combined with international journal management expertise-she is dedicated to advancing the journal's global influence and strengthening its academic reputation. 

Report Title: Focusing on the Development of HCIN Journal and Exploring Diverse Development Paths