Hongyu Liu is a Professor and the Associate Head at the Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong. Before taking up the current position, he worked as a Professor and the Associate Head at the Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University (2014--2020). Prior to that, he held faculty positions at University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA (2011--2014), University of Reading, UK (2010/11), and University of Washington, Seattle, USA (2007--2010). He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007). His research focuses on the analysis, computations and applications of inverse problems and imaging, wave propagation, partial differential equations, mathematical materials science, scattering theory and spectral theory. He has also been working on the interplay among inverse scattering techniques, bionic learning and artificial intelligence. He has published over peer-reviewed 150 research papers in leading journals, and in addition he has 16 research preprints under review to leading journals. He coauthored one research monograph by Societe Mathematique de France. Huaian Diao is a Professor at School of Mathematics, Jilin University, China, from October 2021. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong (2007). From September 2007 to June 2021, he worked as a lecture and then an associate professor at School of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeast Normal University, China. His research interests include inverse scattering problems, numerical algebra and spectral theory. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences including J. Math. Pures Appl., Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations, Comm. Partial Differential Equations, SIAM J. Math. Anal., SIAM J. Appl. Math., J. Differential Equations, Math. Comp., Inverse Problems, and NeurIPS 2019.
