Prof. Kelum Gamage (PFHEA, FIET, FRSA)
University of Glasgow, UK
Bio: Prof. Kelum Gamage (BSc, PhD, PgCAP, CEng, PFHEA, FIET, FRSA, SMIEEE) is a Full Professor in the James Watt School of Engineering at the University of Glasgow and a winner of the University of Glasgow Teaching Excellence Individual Award (2020/21). He is the Learning & Teaching Enhancement lead of the College of Science and Engineering and the Co-Director of the Centre for Educational Development and Innovation. Prof. Gamage has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, where he is the lead editor of "The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching" (ISBN: 978-1-119-85283-4) and also the Editor-in-Chief for the STEM Education Section of the Education Sciences Journal (Publisher: MDPI, Switzerland, ISSN 2227-7102). He is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Chartered Engineer (CEng) of the Engineering Council (UK), a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (SMIEEE).
Prof. Zhi Liu
Central China Normal University, China
Bio: Zhi Liu is a Professor, PhD Supervisor, and Deputy Head of the Department of Data Science within the Faculty of Artificial
Intelligence in Education at Central China Normal University (CCNU), who has also maintained a long-term appointment as a
Guest Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin since 2017 and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the German Research Center for
Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) for the 2025-2026 term. Specializing in text mining, educational data mining, and intelligent tutoring systems,
Professor Liu has published over 60 SCI/SSCI-indexed papers in top-tier journals such as Knowledge-Based Systems, Computers & Education, and IEEE Transactions
on Learning Technologies, including six ESI Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%), and his significant scholarly impact is further underscored by his recognition as a Top
1% Highly Cited Scholar by CNKI for two consecutive years (2024-2025). As a leading researcher, he serves as the Principal Investigator for the National Key R&D Program
of China (2030 Major Projects) and several projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, while also holding various key academic leadership roles,
including Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the national-level journal Teacher Education Forum, Chair of the Organizing Committee for ICET, Guest Associate Editor for Frontiers
in Artificial Intelligence, and Editorial Board Member for Discover Education. His distinguished contributions have earned him numerous prestigious accolades, most notably
the First Prize of the Hubei Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award (2025), the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of Hubei Province (2024), and the
First Prize of the Hubei Province Teaching Achievement Award (2022).
Speech Title: Intelligent Analysis of Learning Engagement in
Collaborative Inquiry: A Perspective Based on the
"Perception-Anlysis-Regulation" Three-Stage Methodology