Keynote Speakers
Prof. Lili Yang, Southern University of Science and Technology, China
Prof. Dr. Lili Yang, a professor in Department of Statistics
and Data Science at Southern University of Science and
Technology. She was working at Loughborough University in
the UK. She has been a tenure assistant professor, associate
professor and then professor in the School of Business and
Economics at Loughborough University, and a senate member of
the Loughborough University. She has also served as
Associate Director of the Service Management Research Center
and the head of the Emergency Management Research Group. She
was selected as a Fellow of the British Computer Society in
2008 (BCS Fellow). Recently she joined the Southern
University of Science and Technology. Professor Yang has
long been engaged in the research of theories and methods of
public safety emergency management to preside over and
complete more than 20 important projects funded by the
European Commission (European Commission FP7), the UK
National Engineering and Natural Sciences Fund (EPSRC), or
the British Ministry of Defence (MoD), etc. Her many
scientific research results have been successfully applied
into real life practices. She has published three books and
more than 100 papers. She has been acting as an EPSRC
Associate Peer Review Colleague for a long time and playing
the role as an expert reviewer for different scientific
funding bodies in the UK, China, Portugal and Luxembourg
etc. At present in Southern University of Science and
Technology, she is leading a project of the National Natural
Science Foundation of China, and a sub-project leader for
the project of National Key Research and Development Program
of the Ministry of Science and Technology.