Digital Twins: Basics and Applications

Zhihan Lv is IEEE Senior Member, British Computer Society Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Full Member of Sigma Xi, Career-long Scientific Influence Rankings of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher. He has contributed 300 papers including more than 70 papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions. He is Editor-in-Chief of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems(KeAi), an Associate Editor of 22 journals including ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation System, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Technology Policy and Ethics Newsletter, Early Career Advisory Board member of IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He is General Chair, Co-Chair or TPC of 50 conferences including ACM MM 2021-2022, ACM IUI 2015-2022. He has reviewed 400 papers. He has received more than 20 awards from China, Europe, IEEE. He has supervised the students to get more than 20 awards. He has given 80 invited talks for universities and companies in Europe and China. He has given 20 keynote talks for International conferences.

Elena Fersman is a Docent and an Adjunct Professor in Cyber-Physical Systems specialized in Automation at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Uppsala University, a Master of Science in Economics and Management from St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and did a postdoc at the University Paris-Saclay. She has a 16+ years of experience applying AI and other software technologies in sectors such as telecom, production systems and intelligent transport systems. Elena is a Global Head of AI Research at Ericsson. She is a Member of the Board of Directors of RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and a Member of nomination committee of the Polhem Prize. Elena has Co-authored over 50 patent families.