Xie (PhD, 1996, University of Science and Technology of China) is now a Principal Investigator of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale and a full professor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China. She was appointed as the Cheung Kong Scholar Professor of inorganic chemistry in 2000 and elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2013. She is also a recipient of many awards, including the National Prize for Natural Sciences of China (2001 and 2012), China Young Scientist Award (2002), China Young Female Scientist Award (2006) and IUPAC Distinguished Women in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering Award (2013), TWAS Prize in Chemistry (2014) and L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science (2015).

Yong Shi is Chair Professor of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, He has been Charles W. and Margre H. Durham Distinguished Professor of University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA. He is the Elected Fellow of TWAS（2015), the Counselor of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (2016), the Elected Member of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS, 2017), the Elected Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA, 2022), the Elected Fellow of the International Academy of Information Technology and Quantitative Management (IAITQM, 2022), and the Elected Fellow of the Web Intelligence Academy (WIA, 2023). He has received a number of honors and awards, including the Georg Cantor Award by International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (2009), the Fudan Prize of Distinguished Contribution in Management (2009), Science Fellow by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia (2012), Doctor Honoris Causa of Agora University, Romania (2014), the WIC Outstanding Research Contribution Award, Chile (2018), the Cheng Siwei Global Prize, China (2021) and Richard Price Award, Oxford, UK (2023).

Chou obtained his PhD at UC Santa Barbara in 1971 and was a postdoc. at Toronto Univ. in 1972. He is chair prof. and dir. of the Research Center for Biodiversity, China Medical U. He was: Dir., Inst. of Botany, Academia Sinica, and dir., Life Sci. Research Promotion Center for NSC, 1989-1996; vice-pres. and Natl. chair prof., Natl. Sun Yat-Sen U., 1999-2002; pres. and chair prof., Natl. Pingtung U. of Sci. and Tech., 2002-2006; and vice-pres., IUBS, 1997-2000, PSA, 2011-2015; Vice-Pres. and EC member, SCOPE. His honors: Academic Award in Agriculture, MOE; Distinguished Research Award, NSC; Highest Award of International Academic Cooperation, Russian Academy of Science, 1999; and Life Time Achievements Award 2009, by Inter. Allelopathy Foundation. Life Time Contri. to Biol. Sci. Award, and Life Time Achiev. Award of Bot. Soc. of Taiwan. He is an Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1994.