Xin Li received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in 2005, and the M.S. and B.S. degrees in Electronics Engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China in 2001 and 1998, respectively. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, Durham, NC, is leading the Institute of Applied Physical Sciences and Engineering (iAPSE), and is the Director of the Data Science Research Center (DSRC) at Duke Kunshan University (DKU), Kunshan, Jiangsu, China. He developed and is now managing the Master program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at DKU. His research interests include integrated circuit, signal processing and data analytics. Dr. Li has invented numerous novel algorithms, tools and methodologies for data analytics, and they have been adopted and commercialized to produce products that have wide impacts on everyone on this planet, including smart phone, search engine, self-driving vehicle and virtual reality devices.

Liang Yu is passionate about business education, leadership development and entrepreneurship. He has over 18 years of experience in corporate education sector, and his responsibility includes strategic planning and execution, educational startup, product development, program design, marketing & complex sales and operational excellence.

Liang currently works in Duke Kunshan University overseeing its executive education business. He partners with the leading companies to grow their leadership and organizational capability and enjoys the process of designing transformational learning journey for leaders from around the world. Prior to Duke Kunshan, Liang has worked for Deloitte Consulting in organizational change practice and Duke Corporate Education in in senior executive development.

Liang is passionate about developing future leaders in the digital age in a responsible and sustainable manner. His current research focuses on digital culture and leadership transformation for the traditional companies.

Liang Yu translated Giving Voice to Values, a masterpiece for value-driven leadership that was written by Prof. Mary Gentile, into Chinese. Liang loves reading about philosophy, ethics, politics, entrepreneurship, higher education, cross culture leadership and linguistics. He holds an MBA degree from Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he served as a COLE Leadership Fellow during 2012-2013. He lives in Kunshan China with his family.