EDUCATION

PHD: TAIWAN CENTRAL UNIVERSITY, SEPT 2007 - JAN 2012

Specialization: Network learning technology

Dissertation title: A study of Speech to Text Recognition and its Effects on Learning Performance in Synchronous Cyber Classrooms 

BACHELOR AND MASTER DEGREES: SAMARKAND STATE UNIVERSITY, Sept 1991 - July 1996

Specialization: Education and techniques 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Aug 2019 – Aug 2022: Distinguished professor of Jiangsu province

School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University

Nov 2016 - Oct 2022: Professor

School of Education Science, Nanjing Normal University

Apr 2012 - Oct 2016: Postdoctoral research fellow 

Department of Engineering Science, TaiwanCheng Kung University

Dec 2005 - Aug 2007: Field Coordinator

Project # 00015506, United Nations Development Program

Oct 2003 - Nov 2005: Program Officer 

School Connectivity Program, the International Research and Exchange Board

Sept 1998 - Sept 2003: Engineer-programmer

Samarkand State Institute of Foreign Languages

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

- Top 10 in the list of “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” in the field of Education, 2020 and 2021;

- Reviewer Excellence Award, Educational Technology Research & Development, 2018-2020;

- The top reviewers for the CALL Journal, 2018-2021;

- Best Paper Award, International Workshop on Advanced E-Learning 2019;

- Excellent Paper Award, International Workshop on Advanced E-Learning 2018;

- International outstanding award, The 5th NEU National and International Conference, 2018;

- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member, 2017;

- Outstanding Paper Award, International Conference on Educational Technologies 2014;

- IEEE Technical Committee on Learning Technology Young Researcher Award in Advanced Learning Technologies 2013;

- Student Research Achievement Award for the period of 2011-2012 by the College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Taiwan Central University;

- Student Research Achievement Award for the period of 2010-2011 by Taiwan Central University. 

SERVICE

- British Computer Society (BCS), The Chartered Institute for IT, Fellow, 2020-present;

- The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member, 2017-present;

- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Member, 2020-present;

- Graduate Faculty Scholar in the College of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida, USA, 2021-present;

- Editorial Board, Journal of Educational Technology & Society (ET&S), 2020-present;

- Editorial Board, Education Sciences, 2021-present;

- Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, 2019-present;

- Article Editor, SAGE Open, 2020-present;

- Guest Editor for the special issues in Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 2017 and 2020;

- Review board of Educational Research Review, 2019-present;

- Review board of Australasian Journal of Educational technology, 2019-present;

- Review board of Educational Technology & Society, 2015-present;

- Review board of Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2015-present;

- Review board of Interacting with Computers, 2013-present;

- Review board of Computers & Education, 2013-present;

- Review board of Educational Technology Research and Development, 2013-present;

- Review board of British Journal of Educational Technology, 2012-present;

- Consultative committee of Graduate Institute of Network Learning Technology, Taiwan Central University for IEET (the Institute of Engineering Education Taiwan) accreditation, 2012-2013;

- Program Chair: ICITL 2018; AEL 2016-2020; ICALT 2015-18.

- Program Committee: AEL 2015-2020; ICALT 2014-20; ICCE 2013-2021; TALE 2013-2016, GCCCE 2020-2021.

VISITING SCHOLAR

September, 2022-May, 2023: Visiting Foreign Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Information technologies, L.N. Gumiloyv Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan

November, 2021: Visiting Foreign Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of Foreign Languages, L.N. Gumiloyv Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan

August, 2019- present: Visiting Distinguished Professor, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Taiwan Asia University; 

Jan-Feb 2019: Visiting foreign professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Tashkent State Pedagogical University, Uzbekistan;

June-July 2010: E-Learning research at Athabasca University, Canada;

Feb-June, 2003: Research on Distance learning at the University of Joensuu, Finland;

May, 2003: Research on Distance learning at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

March, 2002: Research on ICT at London Metropolitan University, UK;

Apr, 2000 and Feb-May, 2001: Research on ICT at the University of Oulu, Finland.