Modern Industrial IoT, Big Data and Supply Chain

Prof. Victor Chang is currently a Full Professor of Data Science and Information Systems at the School of Computing, Engineering and Digital Technologies, Teesside University, Middlesbrough, UK, since September 2019. He is a Research Group Leader for Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems Research Group at Teesside University. He was Senior Associate Professor, Director of Ph.D. (June 2016-May 2018) and Director of MRes (Sep 2017-Feb 2019) at International Business School Suzhou (IBSS), Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), Suzhou, China, between June 2016 and August 2019. He was also a very active and contributing key member at Research Institute of Big Data Analytics (RIBDA), XJTLU. He was Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Liverpool. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, UK, between September 2012 and May 2016. Within 4 years, he completed Ph.D. (CS, Southampton) and PGCert (Higher Education, Fellow, Greenwich) while working for several projects at the same time. Before becoming an academic, he has achieved 97% on average in 27 IT certifications. He won a European Award on Cloud Migration in 2011, IEEE Outstanding Service Award in 2015, best papers in 2012, 2015 and 2018, the 2016 European special award and Outstanding Young Scientist 2017. He is a visiting scholar/Ph.D. examiner at several universities, Editor-in-Chief of IJOCI & OJBD journals, Former Editor of FGCS, Associate Editor of TII & Information Fusion, Founding Chair of two international workshops and Founding Conference Chair of IoTBDS and COMPLEXIS since the year 2016. He is Founding Conference Chair for FEMIB since the year 2019. He published 3 books as sole authors and Editor of 2 books on cloud computing and related technologies. He gave 22 keynotes at international conferences. He is widely regarded as one of the most active and influential young scientists and experts in IoT/Data Science/Cloud/Security/AI/IS, as he has experiences to develop 10 different services for multiple disciplines.