Prof. Jian Zhang
Beijing Information Science and Technology University,
China
Professor Zhang Jian is a doctoral supervisor at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Information Science and Technology. His research areas include information systems and intelligent decision-making, systems engineering, management science theory and methods, and knowledge management. He lectures on Management Information Systems, Management Decision Models, Advanced Information Management, and Intelligent Decision and Management Frontiers in undergraduate and master's courses. In addition, he has also held some social part-time jobs, such as a representative of the Haidian District People's Congress in Beijing and a member of the National Standardization Technical Committee for Article Codes. Professor Zhang Jian has received multiple honors, including the National Hundred, Thousand, and Ten Thousand Talents Project and the State Council Government Special Allowance.
Prof. Tiago Oliveira
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portuguese
Tiago Oliveira is a Full Professor of Information Management and Associate Dean for Research and Doctoral Studies at the NOVA Information Management School (IMS), Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Information Management, and Coordinator of the Information Systems research stream. He was an academic visitor at the Information Systems Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. His research is driven by the vision to marry information technology (IT) with the process of innovation diffusion (initiation, adoption, use, and value) across all adoption units (individuals, firms, and societies). With this research, he intends to spread transcendence on IT innovation's most important antecedents, developing new toolkits for emerging IT. His research has been published in several journals including Information & Management, Tourism Management, Decision Support Systems, Government Information Quarterly, Computers in Human Behavior, Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Global Information Management, Industrial Management & Data Systems, Computers in Industry, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, among others. Tiago has authored more than 150 scientific articles in Journals and conference proceedings. He has more than 10,000 citations.
Prof. Nripendra P. Rana
Swansea University, UK
Nripendra P. Rana is currently a Professor in Marketing at the College of Business and Economics at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar. He has done his MBA as well as PhD from Swansea University, UK. He has also worked as Professor in Information Systems at Swansea University, UK and the Head of International Business, Marketing and Branding Research Centre and Professor in Digital Marketing at the University of Bradford in the UK. His current research interests focus primarily on adoption and diffusion of emerging ICTs, e-commerce, m-commerce, e-government and digital, social media marketing, and role of artificial intelligence on consumer decision-making and behavior. He has published close to 300 research papers in a range of leading academic journals, conference proceedings, books etc. He has co-edited five books on digital and social media marketing, emerging markets and supply and operations management. Some of such journals where his papers got published include British Journal of Management, European Journal of Information Systems, Annals of Tourism Research, Public Management Review, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and International Journal of Information Management. He has been awarded the Clarivate Web of Science prestigious Highly Cited Researcher award for the two consecutive years in 2020 and 2021. Of the world’s scientists and social scientists, Highly Cited Researchers truly are one in 1,000.