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Kaizhu Huang

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke Kunshan University

Director of Digital Intelligence Research Center, Duke Kunshan University

Email: kaizhu.huang@dukekunshan.edu.cn

Kaizhu Huang works on machine learning, neural information processing, and pattern recognition. Before joining DKU, he was a full professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU) and Associate Dean of research in School of Advanced Technology, XJTLU. He founded Suzhou Municipal Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computation and Applied Technology. Prof. Huang obtained his PhD degree from Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2004, Master degree from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000, and Bachelor degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1997. He worked at Fujitsu Research Centre, CUHK, University of Bristol, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Chinese Academy of Sciences from 2004 to 2012. He was the recipient of the 2011 Asia Pacific Neural Network Society Young Researcher Award. He received the best paper or book awards for seven times. He has published 9 books and over 230 international research papers including 120+ journal papers (e.g. IEEE T-PAMI, IEEE T-NNLS, IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-Cybernetics, JMLR) and 110+ conference papers (e.g. NeurIPS, IJCAI, SIGIR, UAI, CIKM, ICDM, ICML, ECML, CVPR). He serves as associated editors/advisory board members in a number of international journals and book series. He was invited as a keynote speaker in more than 30 international conferences or workshops.

Konstantinos Efstathiou

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke Kunshan University

Email: k.efstathiou@dukekunshan.edu.cn

He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and his Ph.D. in Physics from the His research interests are in the general areas of dynamical systems and mathematical physics, with the main focus being on the geometry of integrable Hamiltonian systems and the dynamics of coupled oscillator networks. He has published a monograph on integrable Hamiltonian systems and his research has appeared prestigious journals. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include foundational and advanced mathematics, with an emphasis on teaching innovation and student activation and inclusion. Over a 14-year teaching career, he has taught mathematics and physics courses at introductory and advanced levels, and has received a best teacher award for his Calculus for Chemistry course. Efstathiou has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in physics from the University of Athens, Greece, and a Ph.D. (highest distinction) in physics from the Universite Littoral Cote d’Opale, France. He also has an Undergraduate Teaching Qualification. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 2012 and 2013, he was a lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, where he also served as acting head of department.

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Duke Kunshan University

Email: lin.jiu@dukekunshan.edu.cn

His research focus includes number theory, combinatorics, symbolic computation, and probability. He is mainly interested in using symbolic computation and experimental mathematics to study topics in analytic number theory and combinatorics. He has published papers in leading academic journals including the Journal of Number Theory and the Journal of Symbolic Computation. Jiu has a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the Beijing Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Tulane University, New Orleans. He served as a postdoc consecutively at the Research Institute for Symbolic Computation, Johannes Kepler University, Austria; Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, Austrian Academy of Science, Austria; and Dalhousie University, Canada.

Marcus Werner

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Duke Kunshan University

Email: marcus.werner@dukekunshan.edu.cn

His research is in mathematical physics, at the intersection of geometry and astrophysics. In particular, he is interested in general relativity, its modifications and applications, such as mathematical properties of gravitational lensing. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan are in the applied mathematics major, especially geometrical topics, and in developing interdisciplinary courses. He has published in leading academic journals and has been a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Royal Astronomical Society (U.K.), and the German Physical Society. Werner has an M.A., an M.Nat.Sci. and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he taught in Duke University’s Department of Mathematics before moving to Japan in 2011 to serve first as a researcher at the University of Tokyo’s Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe and then as a Hakubi assistant professor at Kyoto University.

Myung-Joong Hwang

Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke Kunshan University

Email: myungjoong.hwang@dukekunshan.edu.cn

His research focuses on understanding quantum nature of light and matter and developing ways to harness them for next generation quantum technologies including quantum computing. His teaching interests at Duke Kunshan include integrated science and advanced physics. Hwang has a B.Sc. and a Ph.D in physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea. Before joining Duke Kunshan, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Theoretical Physics at Ulm University, Germany.