Blockchain for Big Data: AI, IoT and Cloud Perspectives

Shaoliang Peng is the Executive Director and Professor of College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, the National Supercomputing Centre of Hunan University, Changsha, China and is an adjunct professor of State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, and National University of Defense Technology (NUDT, Changsha, China), and BGI, and Peng Cheng Lab. He was a visiting scholar at CS Department of City University of Hong Kong (CityU) from 2007 to 2008 and at BGI Hong Kong from 2013 to 2014. His research interests are high performance computing, bioinformatics, big data, AI, and blockchain. He has published dozens of academic papers on several internationally influential journals, including Science, Nature Communications, Cell AJHG, NAR, Genome Research, Bioinformatics, ACM / IEEE Transactions, BIBM and so on. He has served as editors of several international journals, including Executive Editors of International Journal of Biological Sciences (IJBS), Associate Editor of Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences International Journal (ISCLS), etc. He has also served as chairman and sponsor of the Hunan Provincial Bioinformatics Society, deputy director of biological information professional group in CCF, and Program Chairman of the 17th APBC Asia Pacific Regional Bioinformatics Conference Committee 2019, and BIBM 2016 Conference Invited Speaker.

彭少良是中國湖南大學計算機科學與電子工程學院、國家超級計算中心的執行主任和教授，同時也是國防科技大學化學/生物感測與化學計量學國家重點實驗室、BGI和彭城實驗室的兼職教授。他曾於2007年至2008年間擔任香港城市大學計算機科學系的訪問學者，並於2013年至2014年間在BGI香港擔任訪問學者。他的研究興趣包括高性能計算、生物信息學、大數據、人工智能和區塊鏈。他在多個國際知名期刊上發表了數十篇學術論文，包括《Science》、《Nature Communications》、《Cell AJHG》、《NAR》、《Genome Research》、《Bioinformatics》、《ACM / IEEE Transactions》、《BIBM》等。他曾擔任多個國際期刊的編輯，包括《International Journal of Biological Sciences (IJBS)》的執行編輯，《Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences International Journal (ISCLS)》的副編輯等。他還曾擔任湖南省生物信息學會主席和贊助人，中國計算機學會生物信息學專業組副主任，第17屆APBC亞太地區生物信息學會議2019的程序主席，以及BIBM 2016會議的特邀演講嘉賓。