DfP’25 – Asia-Pacific Committee

DfP’25 Asia-Pacific Conference Leadership:

  • Chen Jie (Chair), Founding Director of Shanghai Research Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University (IEEE Fellow, Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering)
  • Peiming (Executive Vice Chair), Executive Vice President of Tongji University (Professor of intercultural communication study, English education and higher education management).

Data for Policy Conference General Chairs:

  • Zeynep Engin, Founding Director & Chair, Data for Policy CIC
  • Jon Crowcroft, Marconi Professor of Communications Systems in the Computer Lab, at the University of Cambridge, and researcher-at-large at the Alan Turing Institute
  • Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer at the GovLab, NYU

     Conference Programme Committee:

    • Bin He, Professor with the Department of Control Science and Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Tongji University
    • David Barber, Director of the UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Director of The AI Hub in Generative Models
    • Anthony Graham Bellotti, Associate Professor in Computer Science, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, China
    • Ben M. Chen, Department Chairman and Graduate Division Head, the Chinese University of Hong kong
    • Yanyong Du, Professor in School of Humanities, Tongji University
    • Shuzhi Sam Ge, Director of Social Robotics Lab, National University of Singapore
    • Suneel Jethani, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
    • Jacqueline C.K. Lam, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) 
    • Tian Lan, Professor of Geographic Information Science, Wuhan University
    • Ruipeng Lei, Professor, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China/ Distinguished Professor of the Chang Jiang Scholars Program of the Ministry of Education of China
    • Nydia Remolina Leon, Singapore Management University, Singapore (TBC)
    • Canhui Liu, Research Fellow in AI Policy, UCL
    • Jiang Liu, Professor of  Faculty of Science and Engineering, Global Center for Science and Engineering, Waseda University 
    • Lei Ma, Associate Professor, the University of Tokyo, Japan/University of Alberta, Canada
    • Miguel Rodrigues, Professor of Information Theory and Processing, UCL (TBC)
    • Yang Shi, Professor,the University of Victoria, Canada
    • Jack Stilgoe, Professor of Science and Technology Policy, UCL (TBC)
    • Carrie Wang, Data Science Systems, UK
    • Zhuping Wang, Vice Director of Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Wilson Wong, Director and Associate Professor of Data Science and Policy Studies (DSPS) Programme,  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
    • Masaru Yarime, Associate Professor in the Division of Public Policy (PPOL), HKUST

    Conference Management Team:

    • Jenny Bright, Cambridge University Press
    • Andrew Hyde, Cambridge University Press
    • Kelly Li , Project Coordinator, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Canhui Liu, Research Fellow in AI Policy, UCL
    • Meng Liu, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Weiping Mo, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Pinar Ozgen, Community Manager, Data for Policy CIC
    • Shirley Qio, Project Coordinator, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Carrie Wang, Data Science Systems, UK
    • Lu Yu, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Qiyating Zhang,  Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University
    • Jiamin Zhao, Deputy Director, Shanghai Research Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Tongji University

    All regional Data for Policy conference committees will receive dedicated support from our general conference chairs, as well as our standing advisory and editorial committees. The full list of members can be found on this page.