Prof. Honggang Zhang, IEEE Fellow, AAIA Fellow, AIIA Fellow, AAIS Fellow
Macau University of Science and Technology, China

Prof. Honggang Zhang is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of IEEE, AAIA, and AIIA. His long-term research interests focus on artificial intelligence, intelligent native networks, intelligent computing, cognitive communications, and semantic communications. He pioneered the convergence of AI and communication networks and proposed the "AI-native network architecture," significantly advancing interdisciplinary AI research and applications. He played a key role in the IEEE 802.15 UWB wireless communication and WPAN international standards, contributing as a major proposer and contributor to the DS-UWB standard. He served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks, and has been General Chair or TPC Chair for more than ten international conferences including IEEE Globecom. He received the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Paper Award and the IEEE IoT-J Best Paper Award in 2021. He was also the Founding Executive Editor-in-Chief of Intelligent Computing.

Prof. Pedro Isaías
Universidade Aberta, Portugal

Prof. Pedro Isaías is an associate professor with Habilitation at Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University) in Lisbon, Portugal. Previously, Pedro was an associate professor at the Information Systems & Technology Management School of The University of New South Wales (UNSW – Sydney), Australia, an associate professor at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and an invited professor at ISEG-University of Lisbon, Portugal. At Universidade Aberta, he is currently responsible for several courses in the Information Systems areas and also a member of the coordination team of the postgraduation in Digital Innovation and Business Analytics. At Universidade Aberta, Pedro was director of the master degree program in Management / MBA and also director of the master degree program in Electronic Commerce and Internet for 10 years.
He is co-founder and president of IADIS – International Association for Development of the Information Society, a scientific non-profit association. Author of several books, book chapters, papers and research reports, all in the information systems area, he has headed several conferences and workshops within the mentioned area. He has also been responsible for the scientific coordination of several EU funded research projects and has had participation as a principal investigator in various research projects. Currently he conducts research activity related to MIS in general, and more specifically Learning Technologies, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation, e-Business and WWW related areas. Pedro has more than 198 publications: 34 journal papers, 76 conference papers, 11 authored books, 33 edited books, 24 book chapters, and 21 journal special issues. Pedro has delivered 35 keynote/invited talks & workshop panels and has received over 4,913 citations, resulting in an h-index of 36 (Google Scholar, June 2026).

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