Prof. Zengjun Peng

St. Cloud State University, USA

Peng Zengjun holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri and is a tenured professor in the Department of Mass Communication and Film at Saint Louis University, USA. He serves as the Chairperson of The World Hualliwood Academy (WHA) and is a distinguished researcher at the Media Development Research Center of Wuhan University. He graduated from Nankai University with a degree in English and later earned a master's degree in International Cultural Exchange from the Department of International Politics at Peking University. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Missouri. In China, he served as Executive Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Review, a leading Chinese publication on international affairs; News Director at Hexun.com; and as a judge for the State Council's "Seven-One Project." Abroad, he has worked as a lecturer at the Missouri School of Journalism and as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research focuses on journalism theory and practice, international communication and national image, and narrative strategies.

Prof. Yun Xia

Rider University, USA

Peng Zengjun holds a Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Missouri and is a tenured professor in the Department of Mass Communication and Film at Saint Louis University, USA. He serves as the Chairperson of The World Hualliwood Academy (WHA) and is a distinguished researcher at the Media Development Research Center of Wuhan University. He graduated from Nankai University with a degree in English and later earned a master's degree in International Cultural Exchange from the Department of International Politics at Peking University. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Missouri. In China, he served as Executive Editor-in-Chief of Beijing Review, a leading Chinese publication on international affairs; News Director at Hexun.com; and as a judge for the State Council's "Seven-One Project." Abroad, he has worked as a lecturer at the Missouri School of Journalism and as a Visiting Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His research focuses on journalism theory and practice, international communication and national image, and narrative strategies.

Zhiyong Xiong

South China University of Technology, China

ZhiyongXiong, Ph.D., Professor, is currently the Assistant Dean of the School of Design at South China University of Technology. He has held various positions, including a special expert appointed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China, a special expert appointed by the China Machinery Industry Federation, a special expert appointed by the China Light Industry Federation, a review expert for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a specialist in the national postgraduate education evaluation and monitoring expert database, a director of the China Mechanical Engineering Society Industrial Design Branch, a member of the Design Ergonomics Branch of the China Ergonomics Society, an honorary vice president of the Guangzhou Industrial Design Association, the deputy director of the Guangdong Human-Machine Interaction Design Engineering Research Center, and a senior consultant expert for Autodesk. He has been selected for the "Thousand Talents Plan" and the "Jiangsu River Science and Technology New Star" talent program in Guangdong Province, and personally received the Red Dot Concept Design Award, the European Product Design Award, among others. He served as the chief expert for the prototype production project of the 44th World Skills Competition in China and guided the contestants to win the gold medal, and was warmly received and commended by the State Council leaders in Beijing's Zhongnanhai.

His research focuses on innovative design, industrial design, intelligent interaction design, etc. In recent years, he has been the principal investigator of more than 10 projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Ministry of Education, the Guangdong Provincial Education Department, the Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department, and the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Sciences Planning, and has obtained more than 20 patents and 7 software copyright authorizations. In the past five years, he has published over 20 papers indexed by three major databases (SSCI, SCI, and EI) in international and domestic authoritative journals such as Computers & Education and Frontiers in Psychology, including 2 ESI highly cited papers. He has edited two books, "Industrial Design Foundation" and "Fusion360 Digital Design Practical Tutorial", and co-authored three other books, including "China Innovation Design Roadmap" and "AutoCAD 2016 Chinese Version Advanced Application Tutorial".