Dr. Hongmei (Mary) He (FHEA, SIEEE) is an associate professor of cybersecurity in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University. Previously, she was a lecturer in AI and cyber security at Cranfield University. She received her PhD in computer science from Loughborough University in the UK in 2006 and gained sustained experience as a postdoctoral researcher at various universities. She has worked as an academic in the field of computer science and engineering for many years and has brief industrial experience at Motorola Design House in China as a senior embedded system engineer. Her research can be briefly divided into four themes: AI and data science, cognitive cybersecurity, cognitive robotics and trustworthy autonomous systems, and computing theory and optimization. Dr. He is a senior member of IEEE in the Computational Intelligence, Cybersecurity, RAS, and Women in Engineering Societies.

Dr. Weiheng Liao, DPhil (Oxon), is a computer scientist and technology entrepreneur in AI. He has authored and co-authored a number of influential papers in top journals and conferences and is the visiting scholar of several research universities. His interests include machine learning, AutoML, deep learning, explainable AI, natural language processing, and their applications in finance and investment. He cofounded YouShore, one of the world's first teams to employ deep NLP to analyze social media data, to extract alternative data, and to construct alpha signals.

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