Prof. Gordon Huang
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Regina, Canada

Dr. Gordon Huang is University Distinguished Professor and ex-Canada Research Chair Tier 1 at the University of Regina (UofR), Canada. He is also UofR's Executive Director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainable Communities. He is the Fellow of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Engineering Institute of Canada, the President of International Society for Environmental Information Sciences, and the Editor-in-Chief for J. of Environmental Informatics (SCI JCR Q1). He published over 1,000 journal papers with an h-index of 90 in Science Citation Index under Web of Science (Google Scholar h-index over 100), and trained over 100 graduate students. His pioneering work in operational environmental risk management has been recognized as a significant innovation, and has influenced government and business approaches for tackling environmental challenges and formulating related policies.

Prof. Yongping Li
Beijing Normal University, China

Yongping Li is a Changjiang Scholar Professor at Beijing Normal University, China. She receives her MSc and PhD Degrees from the University of Regina, Canada. Her research interests involve in energy and environmental systems analysis, environmental pollution control, and decision making under uncertainty. Dr. Li has led or involved in over 60 energy- and environment-related research projects supported by industrial, governmental and international organizations. She has produced more than 400 peer-refereed international journal papers (with a SCI-based H-index of 50). She has been continuously selected as a highly cited scholar in the field of “Environmental Science” (by Elsevier) since 2013. She supervised over 70 Master/PhD students. Dr. Li was received a number of awards such as Distinguished Young Scientist Award, New Century Excellent Talents in University, the National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar, the National Award for Youth in Science and Technology, and the National Award for Youth Female Scientist.




Prof. Ed McBean
University of Guelph, Canada
Ed McBean is a Former Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Water Supply Security and now University of Guelph Research Leadership Chair Professor, Water Security. In that context, he relies upon statistical interpretation of data, fate and transport of chemicals and pathogens in the environment, and risk assessment/ management, to determine how features of water supply risk may arise. Hence, there are dimensions of a number of features including climate change and fate and transport modeling as applied to water resources phenomena. In addition to the above, Ed also has extensive experience in waste management, and greenhouse gas emissions as contributory to global climate change.