Speakers

Prof.Wu Feng

Journalism and New Media school, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

Research Area: Chinese national leader's press conferences, Chinese political communication, quantitative research, Chinese newspaper marketing & management, culture industry, and new media

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Feng Wu (PhD, School of Journalism and Communication, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2009) is a full professor of Journalism and New Media school at Xi’an Jiaotong University in Xi’an, Shanxi, P. R. China. His research interests include: Chinese national leader’s press conferences, Chinese political communication, quantitative research, Chinese newspaper marketing & management, culture industry, and new media. He is a productive young researcher. In recent five years, he had published FOUR English articles in leading journals indexed in SSCI, and more than thirty Chinese articles in leading journals in journalism & communications field (indexed in CSSCI). He has finished more than 10 important projects (funded and principal investigator). By the end of 2016, his total fund is about one million (￥2 million, about $ 0.3 million), which is outstanding compared with his peers.

Assoc. Prof. Nadeem Akhtar

School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, China

Research Area: Journalism, intercultural and interpersonal communication, instructional communication, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor etc.

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Nadeem Akhtar (Ph.D. in Mass Communication, Wuhan University, China) is an associate professor at School of Urban Culture, South China Normal University, Nanhai Campus, Foshan. He also worked at India-Pakistan Research Center, focusing on the China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), in the School of International Education, South China University of Technology; PR China. He was an assistant professor in, and chair of, the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, Kohat University of Science and Technology, Pakistan, whose journalism curriculum he expanded significantly during his tenure there. He has published in top-notch SSCI journals, book chapters in Routledge and also presented number of research papers in national and international academic conferences. Akhtar’s research interests include journalism, intercultural and interpersonal communication, instructional communication, China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and China-Pakistan Economic Corridor etc.

Assoc. Prof. Sameer Kumar

Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya, Malaysia

Research Area:Social Networks (Social Networking, Social Media, Informetrics, Scientometrics), Asia-Europe Relations (Asia-Europe Studies, History of Southeast Asia, ASEM, ASEAN, Socio-Cultural Co-operation), Information and Management (Information Management, Project Management, Big Data, E-Commerce, Entrepreneurship, Business)

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Sameer Kumar holds a Ph.D. in Social Networking and is an Associate Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya. He also holds a PMP (Project Management Professional) certification from PMI, USA. Dr. Sameer has taught Master's-level courses in K-Economy, Social and Economic Dimensions of Digital Economy, History of Southeast Asia, and Research Methods at Asia-Europe Institute (AEI). He was the Program Coordinator for International Masters in Information Management from 2014 to 2016, and he is the Program Coordinator for International Masters in ASEAN Studies at present (2016 -). From 2014 to 2011, he was the founding Managing Editor of AEI Insights (the official AEI peer-reviewed journal). In 2015, he was a visiting scientist at Germany's Ilmenau University of Technology. He has numerous articles published in journals indexed by ISI-Web of Science (publishers include Springer, Emerald, Wiley, McMillan Palgrave, Elsevier and others). He regularly reviews for top ISI journals, such as JMIR, PlosOne, JASIST, Scientometrics, Journal of Informatics, and others, and he supervises both Master's and Doctoral candidates.

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