Invited Speakers

Dr. Yanjie Song is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Information Technology and Co-director for ‘Immersive Learning and Metaverse in Education’ at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), artificial intelligence (AI) and metaverse in education, multimodal learning analytics, and innovative pedagogy designs. She has been successful in leading her team to develop award-winning apps such as the AR and VR-supported vocabulary learning app – ‘VocabGo’, and collaborative inquiry-based science learning app – ‘m-Orchestrate’. Her recent metaverse platform – ‘Learningverse’ won ‘Bronze medal’ at Geneva Inventions (2023) in Switzerland, and ‘Silver Medal’ at International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada (iCAN) (2023). She has received two external and many internal research grants, and published a number of SSCI journal articles and won a few best papers / best presentation awards in different international conferences. She was among the top 2% in the Stanford list of the world’s most-cited scientists in 2020 and 2022.