Aras Bozkurt is a researcher and faculty member in the Department of Distance Education, Open Education Faculty at Anadolu University, Turkey. He holds MA and PhD degrees in distance education. Dr. Bozkurt conducts empirical studies on distance education, open and distance learning, online learning and networked learning to which he applies various critical theories, such as connectivism, rhizomatic learning, and heutagogy. He is also interested in emerging research paradigms, including social network analysis, sentiment analysis, and data mining.

 Quang Ngoc NGUYEN received the B.Eng. Degree in Information Technology, Honor Computer Science Program conducted in English from Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT), Hanoi, Vietnam in 2012, and became one of the youngest Faculty members of the Institute. He received an M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan in 2015 and 2019, respectively. Currently, he serves as 5G Vietnam Program Manager at HCL Technologies. Also, he is a Visiting faculty member with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Waseda University, where he was an Asst. Professor from 2019 to 2021. He has hosted and participated in many research projects, including the collaborative EU-Japan research projects funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme (e.g., the Green ICN and 5G! Pagoda projects), and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication (MIC) of Japan. His research has also been funded by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan, Waseda University, and Fujitsu Ltd. and Fujitsu Lab. He was the sole Awardee of Asia Special Scholarship for Fall 2013 admission to the Graduate School of Global Information and Telecommunication Studies (GITS), Waseda University. He was also a recipient of young author recognition awarded by the International Telecommunication Union for young first-author of highly potential research under 30 years old, and actively contributed to many ITU-T standardization activities related to Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and Future Internet architecture. He has been a Guest Editor and Keynote Speaker at the 2nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Manufacturing (AIAM 2020), Shanghai, China and IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computer Applications (ICAICA 2021), June 2021, Dalian, Chinas. He served as the sole and lead Editor of a book entitled “Congestion Control: Design, Applications and Protocols”, Nova Science Publishers, March 2021. In addition, he is a Topic Editor of Electronics, Switzerland and a Series Editor of Atlantis Highlights in Engineering, and Advances in Engineering Research (WoS). Also, Dr. Quang is currently serving as the Senior Advisor to the Strategic Council for Science and Technology at Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Technology (PTIT).

 Lam Ching-Chi (Cindia) is the Academic Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree Programmes (Chinese Medium) and has been a member of the governing committee, Technical and Scientific Council, for years. Dr Lam is a local from Macao, graduated from University of Southern Queensland (Australia) with a Bachelor of Science, completed her master degree at Heriot-Watt University (England) and earned her Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Portugal (Portugal). Dr Lam specializes in teaching service quality and accounting related courses. Her research focuses on tourism and hospitality areas that spans from the development of tourism products (including wine tourism) and destination positioning to service quality, customer behavior and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Her research works have been published in different books and journals. Dr Lam has also worked on many government policy and commercial consultancy projects.