Zhifeng HaoDr. Hao is a professor and doctoral supervisor of College of Science, Shantou University. He is currently the Vice Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shantou University. He received the B.S. degree in mathematics from Sun Yat-sen Univesity, Guangzhou, China, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 1995. He began to work in July 1995 and was promoted to professor in May 2000. He served as Dean of the School of Science of SCUT from March 2002, Deputy Director of the Management Committee of SCUT South Campus from May 2003, Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee of SCUT South Campus from January 2008, Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Guangdong University of Technology from November 2008, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Foshan University of Science and Technology from November 2015. He was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Shantou University in May 2021. At present, he is also the vice chairman of the College Mathematics Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, the vice director of the Big Data and Artificial Intelligence Committee of the Chinese Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the member of the Organizing Committee of the National College Student Mathematical Contest in Modeling, and the chairman of the Guangdong Supercomputer Application Industry Alliance. His main research interests include algebra and its applications, data science theory, artificial intelligence, mathematical modeling, etc. He has presided over more than 40 national, provincial and ministerial projects such as the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation-Guangdong Joint Fund Project. In recent years, he has published more than 80 papers in important domestic and international journals, such as TNNLS, TKDE, PR, Bioinformatics, and Science China. He has been awarded the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award (2005, 2009, 2018), the Guangdong Science and Technology Awards (first prize for 2016, second prize for 2014), the second prize of the Natural Science Award of Guangdong Province (2005), the second prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education (2002), and the first prize of the Teaching Achievement Award of Guangdong Province (2001, 2005, 2009, 2014, 2018), the 10th Guangdong Youth May Fourth Medal, the 9th Guangdong Dingying Science and Technology Award, the China Patent Excellence Award (2019), "Leader of the 2020 Smart City Pioneer List", the New Century Excellent Talents Support Plan, and "Guangdong Excellent Teacher" of Guangdong Province. Read More Read Less