歐家樂醫生於2004年畢業於葡萄牙里斯本大學，2010年獲得牙科碩士學位，並於上海交通大學醫學院附屬第九人民醫院取得口腔正畸文憑。
自2006年起在澳門工作，並於2011年成立齒康牙科中心。
曾獲選為澳門口腔醫學會會長(2019-2020)，現任澳門口腔醫學會名譽會長。
由2007年至今擔任FDI世界牙科聯合會國家聯絡官，並被提名擔任第十五屆國際牙醫學院理事會成員，於2017年被提名為澳門亞太區牙科大會主席。
受邀在世界各地演講，並被提名為Align Faculty、3M Orthodontics、ICD演講者和APDF/APRO演講者。
區偉時先生由2018年6月起擔任大西洋銀行行政總裁一職，自1984年起任職葡萄牙大西洋銀行核數師，期後曾出任葡萄牙商業銀行總經理。來澳前，區先生於葡萄牙人民銀行擔任主席並同時兼任其屬下數間金融機構之董事會成員職務。擁有豐富的銀行管理經驗及金融專業背景。
區偉時先生同時亦出任: 澳門銀行公會會副主席; 澳門金融管理局諮詢委員會成員; 澳門金融界籌備慶祝活動常設委員會副主任委員; 澳門生產力暨科技轉移中心理事會成員; 澳門歐洲商會副總裁; 葡中工商會澳門分會理事長; 澳門管理專業協會監事會副主席; 澳門公司治理協會會員; 澳門大學教員顧問委員會成員及招商投資促進局之澳門會議大使。
蘇育洲教授現任澳門科技大學講座教授，曾任科大副校長及商學院及金融科技創新學院院長. 澳門大學: 工商管理學院院長及講座教授，亦是亞太學經濟與管理研究所所長。
蘇教授獲得香港浸會大學管理學學士學位， 美國西伊利諾大學工商管理財務學碩士學位，美國俄亥俄州立大學國際財務及國際商務哲學博士學位。美國南伊利諾大學艾德華茲維爾分校(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) 財務學正教授及系主任。曾受聘為美國德克薩斯A&M國際大學(Texas A&M International University) 管理學院院長和財務學傑出教授。
他擔任訪問學者或顧問等工作於芝加哥聯邦儲備銀行，費城証券交易所，聖路易士聯邦儲備銀行及華盛頓特區的小企業管理局（SBA）等等。 他也是美國AACSB 及香港HKCAAVQ 之認証團隊的成員. 蘇院長還獲邀到國際貨幣基金組織亞太部擔任訪問學者。同年，蘇院長獲頒“教育領袖獎”（Education Leadership Award），成為澳門首位獲此獎項的人士。
譚錦榮先生是葡萄牙里斯本技術大學電機學工程博士，現為澳門大學教授及英國特許工程師。長期從事無線通訊領域的研究，為射頻識別技術和微波傳感器國際專家。譚博士任英國工程技術學會會士及美國電氣和電子工程師協會射頻識別技術議會副主席，並獲IEEE選為國際科普大使及擔任葡萄牙國際科普顧問；曾獲IEEE MGA成就獎， AIM Ted William成就獎，三次獲得澳門科學技術獎。現擔任AIM Asia 董事和澳門科學館董事。
鄧初夏博士，美籍華人科學家，1995年6月-2014年11月任美國國立衛生研究院終身研究員； 2014年12月-2026年6月任澳門大學健康科學學院講座教授、院長, 癌症中心主任，中國教育部精准腫瘤學前沿科學中心首席科學家； 現任深圳理工大學合成生物學學院長聘教研講席教授。 在癌症發生發展、耐藥和轉移的分子機制方面做了長期深入的研究。所在研究團隊已發表論文500多篇，論文總引9,0000餘次，H指數159。
2000年獲得“NIH－亞太地區華人優秀成就獎”，2002年獲“中國自然科學基金委海外傑出青年基金”，2005年獲“NIDDK “You Make A Difference’成就獎”，2011年獲NIDDK所長獎, 並當選美國科學促進會會士（Fellow，AAAS)。2024年澳門自然科學二等獎， 2025年第八屆乳腺癌研究傑出成就獎。
2006起年任 International Journal of Biological Science 創刋主編（2025年影響因數：11.7）。鄧教授於愛思唯爾2022年10月發佈“全球頂尖科學家排名”列大中華地區生命科學領域第八位元,全球頂尖科學家終身成就榜生命科學領域大中華地區第四位; ; 2023年-2025年列大中華地區生物化學領域第1-2位, 醫學領域第5-7位。
黃醫生畢業於廣州暨南大學口腔醫學系，從事牙科醫生廿餘年，專業上認證資格主要包括國際牙醫延續教育學院 (ICCDE) 院士、國際牙醫師學院 (ICD) 院士、英國皇家外科醫學院院士(RCS England)、中國國家口腔科專科主治醫生資格、亞洲植牙醫學會 (APAID) 專科醫師資格等。
在牙科專業相關社會事務上，自2015年起出任澳門口腔醫學會會長期間，重點推動國際交流事務，歷年來重點活動包括2016年創辦「第一屆澳門國際口腔研討會(MIDC)」並在會議期間促成中國及葡國牙醫學會簽署合作協定、2017年首辦「亞太牙科聯盟年會(APDC)」、2018年聯合亞太區及中國合辦「國際牙醫師學院(ICD)區域年會」和「一帶一路國家牙科高峰論壇」、2024年首辦「第一屆澳門國際數字化口腔高峰論壇(MIDDF)」。
牙科專業以外，亦擔任不少社會職務，主要包括澳門特區立法會議員、行政長官選舉委員會委員、澳門醫務界聯合總會副會長兼青年委員會主任等。
黃竹君博士為澳門旅遊大學校長，澳門特別行政區政府旅遊發展委員會、人才發展委員會和教育委員會成員。澳門旅遊大學為澳門公立高等院校，提供旅遊及服務業範疇的本碩博學位教育以及相關專業培訓課程。大學建立了龐大的環球網路及良好的本地業界關係，課程質素備受國際讚譽。黃校長曾參與多項由澳門特區政府及聯合國亞太經濟及社會事務委員會(UNESCAP)、聯合國教科文組織(UNESCO)、世界旅遊組織(UNWTO)等國際組織發起的旅遊發展研究和培訓項目。
須成忠，IEEE Fellow，現任澳門大學計算機科學系講座教授，信息學院院長、人工智能與腦科學研究院院長，以及工學院代院長。國家特聘專家、國家自然科學基金委員會2010年「海外傑出青年基金」獲得者，以及2026年光華工程科技獎獲得者。
主要研究方向包括並行與分佈式系統、雲計算和大數據、智能交通與智慧城市，以及無人駕駛技術。擔任國家科技部智慧城市重點研發專項首席科學家，並負責廣東省雲數據中心重點專項及澳門特別行政區科技發展基金（FDCT）無人駕駛重點研發項目。
迄今已在相關領域出版學術專著2部，並於國際知名學術期刊及會議發表學術論文600餘篇，多次榮獲HPCA、HPDC、SoCC、Cluster 及 ICPP 等計算機領域著名國際會議的最佳論文獎或提名獎。此外，擁有200餘項 PCT 及國家發明專利。
麥沛然，講座教授、葡萄牙科學院院士(外籍)、澳門大學模擬與混合信號集成電路全國重點實驗室主任、國際電氣與電子工程師協會會士 (IEEE Fellow)、英國工程技術學會會士 (IET Fellow)和英國皇家化學會會士 (RSC Fellow)。
麥教授主要從事集成電路和跨領域系統研究，在模擬和射頻電路、數位微流控、微型核磁共振和成像等領域具有廣泛影響力。麥教授2022年獲騰訊科學探索獎及2023年獲ISSCC 70週年傑出貢獻獎，在世界一流大學和晶片公司作專題講學100餘次，在頂級期刊和會議上發表論文500餘篇，獲授權發明專利30餘項。
徐教授長期從事幹細胞研究和治療應用，發表論文近100篇，被引用近1萬次，並獲得10多項中外專利。他發明的幹細胞藥物T-MSC作為研究性新藥獲美國食藥監局批准進入多發性硬化症的臨床試驗，並獲中國藥監局申請受理。徐教授近期作為首席科學家分別獲得澳門和國家科研重點研發項目資助，推進T-MSC治療多種難治疾病的臨床轉化。獲以色列、美国、葡萄牙及澳門多項创新创业大獎。他還主持或共同主持多項地區和國家科技會議。網站：https://fhs.um.edu.mo/en/staff/ren-he-xu/
唐繼宗教授先後取得清華大學經濟學學士、中山大學企業管理學碩士及中國社會科學院研究生院經濟學博士學位，並曾赴聯合國世界貿易組織與美國哈佛商學院進修。
在澳門特區政府經財和政策研究部門任職期間，曾參與特區政府有關CEPA、APEC和WTO等對外經貿合作事務，以及特區產業發展、區域合作、經濟與民生等領域的公共政策研究與擬訂等工作。也曾先後在中國台灣和香港特區的上市公司，以及澳門的旅遊集團和民航運輸基建營運機構任管理職務。
現任澳門管理學院院長、澳門特區行政會委員、人才發展委員會和都市更新委員會委員、世界中餐聯合會飲食文化專家工作委員會委員、香港中文大學亞太航空政策研究中心成員。
現任葡中中小企業商會會長、葡萄牙國際文化教育基金會董事會主席、葡華僑聯戰略委員會主席、葡萄牙中國和平統一促進會戰略委員會主席、葡萄牙政府移民諮詢委員會委員。曾任葡萄牙華人工商聯合總會、葡中合作發展協會、葡萄牙東方合作與發展協會領導人 、浙江省政協特邀委員、天津市政協特邀委員、北京及其他多省市僑聯和對外友好協會海外理事等社會職務。葡萄牙種族歧視委員會委員。
在協會工作的數十年中，成功地：
-推動廣州市與科英布拉市簽署合作協議。
-推動葡萄牙塔梅加和索薩地區6個市政府與中國珠海市6個區建立友好合作關係。
-協調了廣東省副省長和代表團多次訪問葡萄牙。
-多次組織代表團訪問廣州、珠海等城市。
李銘源教授於1999年在香港中文大學獲得博士學位，現擔任鄺美雲生物醫學與中醫藥創新教授、香港理工大學食品科學及營養學系生物醫學講座教授，同时擔任香港理工大學—華大全球海洋資源基因組與合成生物學聯合研究中心主任及香港理工大學無錫科技創新研究院副院長，兼任澳門大學中華醫藥研究院客席講座教授。
李教授為英國劍橋大學克萊爾學堂終身會員，已發表論文400餘篇，被引用17,000餘次，H指數67，獲授權國內外發明專利20餘項，亦曾獲國內外多項技術獎包括澳門特別行政區科學技術獎，瑞士日內瓦國際發明展相關獎項等多項榮譽。李教授入選史丹福大學「全球前2%頂尖科學家」榜單。研究主要聚焦天然產物新藥發現、神經退行性疾病與腦健康保護機制等。
此外，李教授還擔任香港特別行政區政府中醫中藥發展委員會轄下中醫藥發展藍圖小組委員會委員、香港特別行政區政府創新科技署ISO/IEC 17025認可評審技術專家及評審員、澳門特別行政區政府藥物監督管理局中成藥專家顧問委員會委員、世界衞生組織傳統醫藥合作中心（澳門）委員、中醫藥規範研究學會理事會候任會長、澳門藥理學會會長、澳門科學技術協進會副理事長，以及「一帶一路」及葡語系國家天然藥物創新聯盟（澳門）理事長等職務。
李建慶，現為澳門科技大學計算機科學與工程學院助理院長，教授。曾任澳門電機及電子工程師學會（IEEE Macau）會長、理事長等職務。1998 年畢業于北京郵電大學並獲博士學位。2000 年至2002年，在韓國情報通信大學做訪問教授，2002年至2004年在新加坡南洋理工大學從事研發工作。2004 年8 月至今在澳門科技大學工作。2016 和2018 年先後兩次榮獲澳門特別行政區科學技術獎勵技術發明三等獎，2022 年榮獲澳門特別行政區科學技術獎勵自然科學三等獎。
余亮豪現任澳門大學信息科學及計算學院助理院長、副教授，以及人工智能與腦科學研究院數據科學研究中心主任，並兼任超級智能計算中心統籌。他的研究聚焦數據管理與機器學習，涵蓋空間與時空數據庫、大規模數據視覺化、圖表示學習、強化學習及向量檢索等前沿方向。余教授已在相關領域發表大量高水平學術論文，研究成果廣泛刊載於數據管理、數據挖掘及人工智能領域的國際頂級會議與期刊，並獲得學術界的廣泛關注。
近年來，余教授主持及參與了多項重要科研項目，帶領團隊研發一系列面向大規模空間與時空數據的視覺化及分析技術。相關成果已在多個國際頂級會議發表，並以開源程式庫及地理資訊系統插件等形式推動技術落地。其中，EARTH時空網絡分析技術獲得2026年ACM SIGKDD研究賽道榮譽提名；他亦於2024年獲澳門科學技術獎技術發明獎二等獎，充分展現其在數據科學研究、技術創新及成果轉化方面的貢獻。
在澳門大學工作期間，余教授積極參與國際學術服務及會議組織，曾擔任IEEE BigData 2025、APWeb-WAIM 2021等會議的程序委員會共同主席，以及IJCAI 2019與IJCAI 2023本地展覽主席，並參與組織十多個國際會議及工作坊。這些工作促進了澳門與國際學術界的交流合作，並進一步提升了澳門在數據科學及人工智能領域的國際影響力。
余成斌教授，IEEE Fellow，澳門大學和葡萄牙里斯本大學-IST雙博士學位。現任矽力傑集團首席戰略官及澳門董事總經理，同時亦是澳門技術產業技術研究院創院理事長。
余教授是國際上跨學術界和產業界著名的專家學者及企業家，他是推動和帶領澳門微電子技術同時在學術科研和產業研發由零起步至今達國際一流水準的帶頭人及其發展的中堅力量。他亦是澳門大學集成電路國家重點實驗室、Chipidea澳門微電子（後並購於Synopsys）等高科技企業的聯合創始人。
余教授曾發表220多篇論文，5部專著，美國授權專利十多項。先後榮獲國慶70週年紀念章、國家科技進步獎、何梁何利科技獎、粵港澳大灣區傑出青年企業家最佳科技創新獎、澳門特區工商功績勛章等多項榮譽及獎勵。他曾任國家教育部科技委，現任博鰲亞洲論壇粵港澳大灣區建設委員會澳門委員、澳門特區科技委、人才發展委及經濟發展委委員、橫琴深合區諮詢委員、中國半導體行業協會IC設計分會副理事長及粵港澳大灣區半導體產業聯盟聯席理事長、橫琴深合區半導體行業協會會長、澳門微電子協會創會理事長等多個行業協會的重要職務。
余教授曾領導主辦/承辦/協辦具國際影響力的專業國際會議和論壇並擔任委員會主席/領導等，如A-SSCC、ASP-DAC、APCCAS等IEEE會議。
朱依諄是歐洲科學與藝術院院士、國家傑出青年科學基金獲得者、教育部長江學者特聘教授、國家重大研究計畫（973）首席科學家、國家重大新藥創制大平台首席科學家、國家藥典委員會委員、國務院僑辦創新委員會委員、上海市白玉蘭榮譽獎獲得者；同時擔任國家衛健委《中國臨床用藥》（第一版）主編、《藥理學》國家規劃教材（第七、第八版）和英文版（第一版）主編，亦是國家精品課程《藥理學》與國家一流課程《藥理學》慕課主講人。
現任澳門科技大學講座教授、副校長，藥學院創院院長，澳門科大醫院執業醫師（澳科大第一附屬醫院心內科主任醫師），澳門中華醫學會榮譽會長、海峽兩岸醫藥交流會副理事長。
朱依諄先後畢業於上海交通大學醫學院六年制臨床醫學（學士）、德國海德堡大學內科（醫學博士），先後任教於新加坡國立大學醫學院、復旦大學藥學院（全球招聘院長）二十餘年。迄今發表科學論文480餘篇，論文被引超過2萬餘次（h-index 79，i10 index 336），入選全球頂尖前10萬名科學家排名、史丹福大學全球前2%頂尖科學家榜單（World’s Top 2% Scientists）及Scholar GPS全球前0.5%排名；累計到位科研經費2.8億元，實現專利轉化2.51億元。
其長期從事炎症、免疫及抗衰老領域研究，研發的2個first-in-class新藥分別在中、美進入臨床I期與II期研究。目前擔任《iMeta Med》與《American Journal of Regenerative Medicine》（Am J Regenerative Med）主編、《MedComm》與《iMeta》副主編，以及《STTT》與《Engineering》編委。
余俊教授，金融計量經濟學家，現為澳門大學工商管理學院院長、澳大發展基金會金融學及經濟學講座教授。他在國際權威期刊Journal of Econometrics擔任副主編。此外，余俊教授是國際金融計量學會的創會會士，同時也是《The Journal of Econometrics》的Fellow。
余教授在加拿大西安大略大學獲得經濟學博士學位，他先後在Review of Financial Studies，Journal of Econometrics，Management Science，International Economic Review等國際學術頂級期刊發表了100多篇文章。他與美國、澳大利亞學者聯手開發的檢查金融市場熱度的工具，成為了歐美、亞洲多個國家及地區檢測金融危機、資產泡沫，制定經濟政策的依據。
張可可，講座教授，澳門科技大學協理副校長、澳門空間技術與應用研究院院長，“澳科一號”衛星首席科學家、“澳科一號”衛星科學與應用系統總設計師。張可可講座教授的主要研究領域是地球、行星、空間科學與應用、地磁理論與應用。張可可是中國科學院首屆海外評審專家、Fellow of American Geophysical Union, USA（美國）、Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society, UK（英國），2000 年獲得中國國家自然科學基金委傑出青年基金（B 類），2013年獲得英國皇家天文學會成就獎，2020年獲得澳門特區政府科學技術一等獎，2024年入選全球前0.5%頂尖學者榜單。2025年獲《國際地磁與空間物理協會》（International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy）最高科學獎《沈括獎》（Shenkuo Award），以表彰他在地球與行星發電機、地球與行星內核波動理論與澳門科學衛星任務中開展的工作與所取得的成就；此次為亞洲科學家首次獲得該獎項。2026年，國際空間研究委員會（COSPAR）授予他J. J. Jaw獎，以表彰他三十餘年來在行星與空間科學多個領域作出的傑出原創性貢獻。張可可教授主持或參加過多項由英國、美國、中國、香港、澳門等科學基金委資助的重大研究項目，在國際一流期刊上發表了近200篇科學論文，其中包含《科學》、《自然》、《美國科學院院報》、國際著名特邀評論《流體力學年評》、《地球與行星科學年評》、《物理學進展報告》等。
葉桂平，教授，經濟學博士，現爲澳門社科理論界公共服務平台——澳門學者同盟會長、澳門城市大學校董會顧問、澳門社會經濟發展研究中心主任，曾為澳門城市大學副校長、研究生院院長、葡語國家研究院院長，曾任澳門特區政府政策研究室研究員、武漢大學政治與公共管理學院博士後、澳門貿易投資促進局研究暨資料處高級技術員等。
現主要從事澳門經濟、區域發展研究，近年來主持開展多項國家級與省部級重大課題，帶領團隊發布《大灣區背景下金融科技、政府扶持與澳門金融市場發展研究報告》《粵澳深度合作區研究報告》《澳門特別行政區治理體系與治理能力現代化研究報告》等多份科研報告，此外還曾在《人民論壇》《西亞非洲》《世界政治與經濟》《當代港澳研究》等CSSCI刊物上發表多篇論文。
澳門大學講座教授，澳門大學中華醫藥研究院創院院長、第一個中醫藥國家重點實驗室創始主任、國家藥典委員會顧問。
先後任成都中醫藥大學副校長兼藥學院院長。中國中醫科學院副院長兼中藥研究所所長、首批首席研究員。香港科技大學中藥研究學科主任。
首個國家973中醫藥項目首席科學家，主持國家攻關項目、國家自然重點、國家重點專項等20餘項。發表SCI論文600余篇，他引34450次，h-Index 97，發明專利23項，主編學術專著10餘部，全球高被引科學家、連續7年獲評2%ESI全球頂級科學家。指導畢業博士100余位（15名2%ESI全球頂級科學家）。
國務院特殊津貼專家、澳門教育功績勳章、澳門專業功績勳章。國家科技進步二等獎、澳門科技特別獎、省部級科技一等獎5項、日內瓦國際發明金獎。國際中醫藥學會理事長、SCI中華醫藥學報主編。
芝加哥大學經濟學學士，明尼蘇達大學經濟學博士，香港特區太平紳士、銅紫荊星章。澳門科技大學特聘講座教授、發展經濟學研究所所長，香港科技大學榮譽大學院士、經濟系兼任教授、榮休教授、清華大學中國與世界經濟研究中心客座研究員、嶺南大學中國經濟研究部榮譽總監。曾任香港科技大學經濟系教授、系主任、商學院副院長、經濟發展研究中心主任、大學教務委員會委員、大學顧問委員會委員、香港科技大學退休教授協會會長、北京大學中國經濟研究中心訪問教授、大連工學院工業科技管理全國培訓中心美方教學團成員，1991年獲美國紐約州立大學經濟系終身教職 。
現任香港特區特首政策組專家組成員（2023-）、公務員敍用委員會成員（2021-）、團結香港基金研究委員會委員（2016-）、香港藝術中心監督團成員（2020-）。歷任就業專責小組(1997-2003) 、長遠房屋策略委員會(1998-2002)、人口政策督導委員會(2012-2014)、長遠財政計劃工作小組(2013-2015)、土地供應專責小組(2017-2019)、扶貧委員會(2014-2019)及其它多個諮詢架構或法定團體成員，香港藝術中心監督團成員（2020-2026），香港電台與香港有線電視評論員，台灣陸委會諮詢委員(2003-2005)。經濟日報、晴報、中環一筆專欄作家，灼見名家評論人，曾任頭條日報、信報、大公報、亞洲週刊等香港報刊專欄作家。曾接受來自15個國家地區媒體的訪問。
霍文遜教授于1982年畢業于香港大學醫學院，是一名治療食道癌的微創手術家。現任澳門科技大學醫學院院長、科大醫院院長、澳門醫學專科學院專業委員會成員、澳門中葡國際醫學論壇主席、北京大學人民醫院客座教授、北京大學腫瘤醫學院客座教授、澳門霍英東基金會信託委員，同時是香港專科醫療集團之一的尚至醫療集團創辦人兼主席。
欧家乐医生于2004年毕业于葡萄牙里斯本大学，2010年获得牙科硕士学位，并于上海交通大学医学院附属第九人民医院取得口腔正畸文凭。
自2006年起在澳门工作，并于2011年成立齿康牙科中心。
曾获选为澳门口腔医学会会长(2019-2020)，现任澳门口腔医学会名誉会长。
由2007年至今担任FDI世界牙科联合会国家联络官，并被提名担任第十五届国际牙医学院理事会成员，于2017年被提名为澳门亚太区牙科大会主席。
受邀在世界各地演讲，并被提名为Align Faculty、3M Orthodontics、ICD演讲者和APDF/APRO演讲者。
区伟时先生由2018年6月起担任大西洋银行行政总裁一职，自1984年起任职葡萄牙大西洋银行核数师，期后曾出任葡萄牙商业银行总经理。来澳前，区先生于葡萄牙人民银行担任主席并同时兼任其属下数间金融机构之董事会成员职务。拥有丰富的银行管理经验及金融专业背景。
区伟时先生同时亦出任：澳门银行公会会副主席；澳门金融管理局咨询委员会成员；澳门金融界筹备庆祝活动常设委员会副主任委员；澳门生产力暨科技转移中心理事会成员；澳门欧洲商会副总裁；葡中工商会澳门分会理事长；澳门管理专业协会监事会副主席；澳门公司治理协会会员；澳门大学教员顾问委员会成员及招商投资促进局之澳门会议大使。
苏育洲教授现任澳门科技大学讲座教授，曾任科大副校长及商学院及金融科技创新学院院长. 澳门大学: 工商管理学院院长及讲座教授，亦是亚太学经济与管理研究所所长。
苏教授获得香港浸会大学管理学学士学位， 美国西伊利诺大学工商管理财务学硕士学位，美国俄亥俄州立大学国际财务及国际商务哲学博士学位。美国南伊利诺大学艾德华兹维尔分校(Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville) 财务学正教授及系主任。曾受聘为美国德克萨斯A&M国际大学(Texas A&M International University) 管理学院院长和财务学杰出教授。
他担任访问学者或顾问等工作于芝加哥联邦储备银行，费城证券交易所，圣路易士联邦储备银行及华盛顿特区的小企业管理局（SBA）等等。 他也是美国AACSB 及香港HKCAAVQ 之认证团队的成员. 苏院长还获邀到国际货币基金组织亚太部担任访问学者。同年，苏院长获颁“教育领袖奖”（Education Leadership Award），成为澳门首位获此奖项的人士。
谭锦荣先生是葡萄牙里斯本技术大学电机学工程博士，现为澳门大学教授及英国特许工程师。长期从事无线通讯领域的研究，为射频识别技术和微波传感器国际专家。谭博士任英国工程技术学会会士及美国电气和电子工程师协会射频识别技术议会副主席，并获IEEE选为国际科普大使及担任葡萄牙国际科普顾问；曾获IEEE MGA成就奖， AIM Ted William成就奖，三次获得澳门科学技术奖。现担任AIM Asia 董事和澳门科学馆董事。
邓初夏博士，美籍华人科学家，1995年6月-2014年11月任美国国立卫生研究院终身研究员；2014年12月-2026年6月任澳门大学健康科学学院讲座教授、院长，癌症中心主任，中国教育部精准肿瘤学前沿科学中心首席科学家；现任深圳理工大学合成生物学学院长聘教研讲席教授。在癌症发生发展、耐药和转移的分子机制方面做了长期深入的研究。所在研究团队已发表论文500多篇，论文总引9,0000余次，H指数159。
2000年获得&ldquo；NIH－亚太地区华人优秀成就奖&rdquo；，2002年获&ldquo；中国自然科学基金委海外杰出青年基金&rdquo；，2005年获&ldquo；NIDDK “You Make A Difference’成就奖&rdquo；，2011年获NIDDK所长奖，并当选美国科学促进会会士（Fellow，AAAS）。2024年澳门自然科学二等奖，2025年第八届乳腺癌研究杰出成就奖。
2006起年任International Journal of Biological Science创刋主编（2025年影响因子：11.7）。邓教授于爱思唯尔2022年10月发布“全球顶尖科学家排名”列大中华地区生命科学领域第八位元，全球顶尖科学家终身成就榜生命科学领域大中华地区第四位；；2023年-2025年列大中华地区生物化学领域第1-2位，医学领域第5-7位。
黄医生毕业于广州暨南大学口腔医学系，从事牙科医生廿余年，专业上认证资格主要包括国际牙医延续教育学院（ICCDE）院士、国际牙医师学院（ICD）院士、英国皇家外科医学院院士（RCS England）、中国国家口腔科专科主治医生资格、亚洲植牙医学会（APAID）专科医师资格等。
在牙科专业相关社会事务上，自2015年起出任澳门口腔医学会会长期间，重点推动国际交流事务，历年来重点活动包括2016年创办「第一届澳门国际口腔研讨会（MIDC）」并在会议期间促成中国及葡国牙医学会签署合作协定、2017年首办「亚太牙科联盟年会（APDC）」、2018年联合亚太区及中国合办「国际牙医师学院（ICD）区域年会」和「一带一路国家牙科高峰论坛」、2024年首办「第一届澳门国际数字化口腔高峰论坛（MIDDF）」。
牙科专业以外，亦担任不少社会职务，主要包括澳门特区立法会议员、行政长官选举委员会委员、澳门医务界联合总会副会长兼青年委员会主任等。
黄竹君博士为澳门旅游大学校长，澳门特别行政区政府旅游发展委员会、人才发展委员会和教育委员会成员。澳门旅游大学为澳门公立高等院校，提供旅游及服务业范畴的本硕博学位教育以及相关专业培训课程。大学建立了庞大的环球网路及良好的本地业界关系，课程质素备受国际赞誉。黄校长曾参与多项由澳门特区政府及联合国亚太经济及社会事务委员会(UNESCAP)、联合国教科文组织(UNESCO)、世界旅游组织(UNWTO)等国际组织发起的旅游发展研究和培训项目。
须成忠，IEEE Fellow，现任澳门大学计算机科学系讲座教授，信息学院院长、人工智能与脑科学研究院院长，以及工学院代院长。国家特聘专家、国家自然科学基金委员会2010年「海外杰出青年基金」获得者，以及2026年光华工程科技奖获得者。
主要研究方向包括并行与分布式系统、云计算和大数据、智能交通与智慧城市，以及无人驾驶技术。担任国家科技部智慧城市重点研发专项首席科学家，并负责广东省云数据中心重点专项及澳门特别行政区科技发展基金（FDCT）无人驾驶重点研发项目。
迄今已在相关领域出版学术专著2部，并于国际知名学术期刊及会议发表学术论文600余篇，多次荣获HPCA、HPDC、SoCC、Cluster及ICPP等计算机领域著名国际会议的最佳论文奖或提名奖。此外，拥有200余项PCT及国家发明专利。
麦沛然，讲座教授、葡萄牙科学院院士（外籍）、澳门大学模拟与混合信号集成电路全国重点实验室主任、国际电气与电子工程师协会会士（IEEE Fellow）、英国工程技术学会会士（IET Fellow）和英国皇家化学会会士（RSC Fellow）。
麦教授主要从事集成电路和跨领域系统研究，在模拟和射频电路、数位微流控、微型核磁共振和成像等领域具有广泛影响力。麦教授2022年获腾讯科学探索奖及2023年获ISSCC 70周年杰出贡献奖，在世界一流大学和芯片公司作专题讲学100余次，在顶级期刊和会议上发表论文500余篇，获授权发明专利30余项。
徐教授长期从事干细胞研究和治疗应用，发表论文近100篇，被引用近1万次，并获得10多项中外专利。他发明的干细胞药物T-MSC作为研究性新药获美国食药监局批准进入多发性硬化症的临床试验，并获中国药监局申请受理。徐教授近期作为首席科学家分别获得澳门和国家科研重点研发项目资助，推进T-MSC治疗多种难治疾病的临床转化。获以色列、美国、葡萄牙及澳门多项创新创业大奖。他还主持或共同主持多项地区和国家科技会议。网站：https://fhs.um.edu.mo/en/staff/ren-he-xu/
唐继宗教授先后取得清华大学经济学学士、中山大学企业管理学硕士及中国社会科学院研究生院经济学博士学位，并曾赴联合国世界贸易组织与美国哈佛商学院进修。
在澳门特区政府经财和政策研究部门任职期间，曾参与特区政府有关CEPA、APEC和WTO等对外经贸合作事务，以及特区产业发展、区域合作、经济与民生等领域的公共政策研究与拟订等工作。也曾先后在中国台湾和香港特区的上市公司，以及澳门的旅游集团和民航运输基建营运机构任管理职务。
现任澳门管理学院院长、澳门特区行政会委员、人才发展委员会和都市更新委员会委员、世界中餐联合会饮食文化专家工作委员会委员、香港中文大学亚太航空政策研究中心成员。
现任葡中中小企业商会会长、葡萄牙国际文化教育基金会董事会主席、葡华侨联战略委员会主席、葡萄牙中国和平统一促进会战略委员会主席、葡萄牙政府移民咨询委员会委员。曾任葡萄牙华人工商联合总会、葡中合作发展协会、葡萄牙东方合作与发展协会领导人、浙江省政协特邀委员、天津市政协特邀委员、北京及其他多省市侨联和对外友好协会海外理事等社会职务。葡萄牙种族歧视委员会委员。
在协会工作的数十年中，成功地：
-推动广州市与科英布拉市签署合作协议。
-推动葡萄牙塔梅加和索萨地区6个市政府与中国珠海市6个区建立友好合作关系。
-协调了广东省副省长和代表团多次访问葡萄牙。
-多次组织代表团访问广州、珠海等城市。
李铭源教授于1999年在香港中文大学获得博士学位，现担任邝美云生物医学与中医药创新教授、香港理工大学食品科学及营养学系生物医学讲座教授，同时担任香港理工大学—华大全球海洋资源基因组与合成生物学联合研究中心主任及香港理工大学无锡科技创新研究院副院长，兼任澳门大学中华医药研究院客席讲座教授。
李教授为英国剑桥大学克莱尔学堂终身会员，已发表论文400余篇，被引用17,000余次，H指数67，获授权国内外发明专利20余项，亦曾获国内外多项技术奖包括澳门特别行政区科学技术奖，瑞士日内瓦国际发明展相关奖项等多项荣誉。李教授入选斯坦福大学「全球前2%顶尖科学家」榜单。研究主要聚焦天然产物新药发现、神经退行性疾病与脑健康保护机制等。
此外，李教授还担任香港特别行政区政府中医中药发展委员会辖下中医药发展蓝图小组委员会委员、香港特别行政区政府创新科技署ISO/IEC 17025认可评审技术专家及评审员、澳门特别行政区政府药物监督管理局中成药专家顾问委员会委员、世界卫生组织传统医药合作中心（澳门）委员、中医药规范研究学会理事会候任会长、澳门药理学会会长、澳门科学技术协进会副理事长，以及「一带一路」及葡语系国家天然药物创新联盟（澳门）理事长等职务。
李建庆，现为澳门科技大学计算机科学与工程学院助理院长，教授。曾任澳门电机及电子工程师学会（IEEE Macau）会长、理事长等职务。1998 年毕业于北京邮电大学并获博士学位。2000 年至2002年，在韩国情报通信大学做访问教授，2002年至2004年在新加坡南洋理工大学从事研发工作。2004 年8 月至今在澳门科技大学工作。2016 和2018 年先后两次荣获澳门特别行政区科学技术奖励技术发明三等奖，2022 年荣获澳门特别行政区科学技术奖励自然科学三等奖。
余亮豪现任澳门大学信息科学及计算学院助理院长、副教授，以及人工智能与脑科学研究院数据科学研究中心主任，并兼任超级智能计算中心统筹。他的研究聚焦数据管理与机器学习，涵盖空间与时空数据库、大规模数据可视化、图表示学习、强化学习及向量检索等前沿方向。余教授已在相关领域发表大量高水平学术论文，研究成果广泛刊载于数据管理、数据挖掘及人工智能领域的国际顶级会议与期刊，并获得学术界的广泛关注。
近年来，余教授主持及参与了多项重要科研项目，带领团队研发一系列面向大规模空间与时空数据的可视化及分析技术。相关成果已在多个国际顶级会议发表，并以开源程序库及地理信息系统插件等形式推动技术落地。其中，EARTH时空网络分析技术获得2026年ACM SIGKDD研究赛道荣誉提名；他亦于2024年获澳门科学技术奖技术发明奖二等奖，充分展现其在数据科学研究、技术创新及成果转化方面的贡献。
在澳门大学工作期间，余教授积极参与国际学术服务及会议组织，曾担任IEEE BigData 2025、APWeb-WAIM 2021等会议的程序委员会共同主席，以及IJCAI 2019与IJCAI 2023本地展览主席，并参与组织十多个国际会议及工作坊。这些工作促进了澳门与国际学术界的交流合作，并进一步提升了澳门在数据科学及人工智能领域的国际影响力。
余成斌教授，IEEE Fellow，澳门大学和葡萄牙里斯本大学-IST双博士学位。现任矽力杰集团首席战略官及澳门董事总经理，同时亦是澳门技术产业技术研究院创院理事长。
余教授是国际上跨学术界和产业界著名的专家学者及企业家，他是推动和带领澳门微电子技术同时在学术科研和产业研发由零起步至今达国际一流水准的带头人及其发展的中坚力量。他亦是澳门大学集成电路国家重点实验室、Chipidea澳门微电子（后并购于Synopsys）等高科技企业的联合创始人。
余教授曾发表220多篇论文，5部专著，美国授权专利十多项。先后荣获国庆70周年纪念章、国家科技进步奖、何梁何利科技奖、粤港澳大湾区杰出青年企业家最佳科技创新奖、澳门特区工商功绩勋章等多项荣誉及奖励。他曾任国家教育部科技委，现任博鳌亚洲论坛粤港澳大湾区建设委员会澳门委员、澳门特区科技委、人才发展委及经济发展委委员、横琴深合区谘询委员、中国半导体行业协会IC设计分会副理事长及粤港澳大湾区半导体产业联盟联席理事长、横琴深合区半导体行业协会会长、澳门微电子协会创会理事长等多个行业协会的重要职务。
余教授曾领导主办/承办/协办具国际影响力的专业国际会议和论坛并担任委员会主席/领导等，如A-SSCC、ASP-DAC、APCCAS等IEEE会议。
朱依谆是欧洲科学与艺术院院士、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者、教育部长江学者特聘教授、国家重大研究计划（973）首席科学家、国家重大新药创制大平台首席科学家、国家药典委员会委员、国务院侨办创新委员会委员、上海市白玉兰荣誉奖获得者；同时担任国家卫健委《中国临床用药》（第一版）主编、《药理学》国家规划教材（第七、第八版）和英文版（第一版）主编，亦是国家精品课程《药理学》与国家一流课程《药理学》慕课主讲人。
现任澳门科技大学讲座教授、副校长，药学院创院院长，澳门科大医院执业医师（澳科大第一附属医院心内科主任医师），澳门中华医学会荣誉会长、海峡两岸医药交流会副理事长。
朱依谆先后毕业于上海交通大学医学院六年制临床医学（学士）、德国海德堡大学内科（医学博士），先后任教于新加坡国立大学医学院、复旦大学药学院（全球招聘院长）二十余年。迄今发表科学论文480余篇，论文被引超过2万余次（h-index 79，i10 index 336），入选全球顶尖前10万名科学家排名、斯坦福大学全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单（World’s Top 2% Scientists）及Scholar GPS全球前0.5%排名；累计到位科研经费2.8亿元，实现专利转化2.51亿元。
其长期从事炎症、免疫及抗衰老领域研究，研发的2个first-in-class新药分别在中、美进入临床I期与II期研究。目前担任《iMeta Med》与《American Journal of Regenerative Medicine》（Am J Regenerative Med）主编、《MedComm》与《iMeta》副主编，以及《STTT》与《Engineering》编委。
余俊教授，金融计量经济学家，现为澳门大学工商管理学院院长、澳大发展基金会金融学及经济学讲座教授。他在国际权威期刊Journal of Econometrics担任副主编。此外，余俊教授是国际金融计量学会的创会会士，同时也是《The Journal of Econometrics》的Fellow。
余教授在加拿大西安大略大学获得经济学博士学位，他先后在Review of Financial Studies，Journal of Econometrics，Management Science，International Economic Review等国际学术顶级期刊发表了100多篇文章。他与美国、澳大利亚学者联手开发的检查金融市场热度的工具，成为了欧美、亚洲多个国家及地区检测金融危机、资产泡沫，制定经济政策的依据。
张可可，讲座教授，澳门科技大学协理副校长、澳门空间技术与应用研究院院长，“澳科一号”卫星首席科学家、“澳科一号”卫星科学与应用系统总设计师。张可可讲座教授的主要研究领域是地球、行星、空间科学与应用、地磁理论与应用。张可可是中国科学院首届海外评审专家、Fellow of American Geophysical Union，USA（美国）、Fellow of Royal Astronomical Society, UK（英国），2000年获得中国国家自然科学基金委杰出青年基金（B类），2013年获得英国皇家天文学会成就奖，2020年获得澳门特区政府科学技术一等奖，2024年入选全球前0.5%顶尖学者榜单。2025年获《国际地磁与空间物理协会》（International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy）最高科学奖《沈括奖》（Shenkuo Award），以表彰他在地球与行星发电机、地球与行星内核波动理论与澳门科学卫星任务中开展的工作与所取得的成就；此次为亚洲科学家首次获得该奖项。2026年，国际空间研究委员会（COSPAR）授予他J. J. Jaw奖，以表彰他三十余年来在行星与空间科学多个领域作出的杰出原创性贡献。张可可教授主持或参加过多项由英国、美国、中国、香港、澳门等科学基金委资助的重大研究项目，在国际一流期刊上发表了近200篇科学论文，其中包含《科学》、《自然》、《美国科学院院报》、国际著名特邀评论《流体力学年评》、《地球与行星科学年评》、《物理学进展报告》等。
叶桂平，教授，经济学博士，现为澳门社科理论界公共服务平台——澳门学者同盟会长、澳门城市大学校董会顾问、澳门社会经济发展研究中心主任，曾为澳门城市大学副校长、研究生院院长、葡语国家研究院院长，曾任澳门特区政府政策研究室研究员、武汉大学政治与公共管理学院博士后、澳门贸易投资促进局研究暨数据处高级技术员等。
现主要从事澳门经济、区域发展研究，近年来主持开展多项国家级与省部级重大课题，带领团队发布《大湾区背景下金融科技、政府扶持与澳门金融市场发展研究报告》《粤澳深度合作区研究报告》《澳门特别行政区治理体系与治理能力现代化研究报告》等多份科研报告，此外还曾在《人民论坛》《西亚非洲》《世界政治与经济》《当代港澳研究》等CSSCI刊物上发表多篇论文。
澳门大学讲座教授，澳门大学中华医药研究院创院院长、第一个中医药国家重点实验室创始主任、国家药典委员会顾问。
先后任成都中医药大学副校长兼药学院院长。中国中医科学院副院长兼中药研究所所长、首批首席研究员。香港科技大学中药研究学科主任。
首个国家973中医药项目首席科学家，主持国家攻关项目、国家自然重点、国家重点专项等20余项。发表SCI论文600余篇，他引34450次，h-Index 97，发明专利23项，主编学术专著10余部，全球高被引科学家、连续7年获评2%ESI全球顶级科学家。指导毕业博士100余位（15名2%ESI全球顶级科学家）。
国务院特殊津贴专家、澳门教育功绩勋章、澳门专业功绩勋章。国家科技进步二等奖、澳门科技特别奖、省部级科技一等奖5项、日内瓦国际发明金奖。国际中医药学会理事长、SCI中华医药学报主编。
现任香港特区特首政策组专家组成员（2023-）、公务员叙用委员会成员（2021-）、团结香港基金研究委员会委员（2016-）、香港艺术中心监督团成员（2020-）。历任就业专责小组（1997-2003）、长远房屋策略委员会（1998-2002）、人口政策督导委员会（2012-2014）、长远财政计划工作小组（2013-2015）、土地供应专责小组（2017-2019）、扶贫委员会（2014-2019）及其它多个咨询构架或法定团体成员，香港艺术中心监督团成员（2020-2026），香港电台与香港有线电视评论员，台湾陆委会咨询委员（2003-2005）。经济日报、晴报、中环一笔专栏作家，灼见名家评论人，曾任头条日报、信报、大公报、亚洲周刊等香港报刊专栏作家。曾接受来自15个国家地区媒体的访问。
霍文逊教授于1982年毕业于香港大学医学院，是一名治疗食道癌的微创手术家。现任澳门科技大学医学院院长、科大医院院长、澳门医学专科学院专业委员会成员、澳门中葡国际医学论坛主席、北京大学人民医院客座教授、北京大学肿瘤医学院客座教授、澳门霍英东基金会信托委员，同时是香港专科医疗集团之一的尚至医疗集团创办人兼主席。
Dr Carlos Augusto graduated from the University of Lisbon, Portugal in Year 2004 and obtained master degree of Dentistry in Year of 2010 and Diploma of Orthodontics in Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine.
He have been working in Macau since 2006 and is one of the founders of We Care Dental Center since 2011.
He was elected as the President of Macau Dental Association (2019-2020) and currently he is the honorary President of Macau Dental Association.
He is serving as the FDI World Dental Federation National Liaison Officer since 2007 until now and was nominated as a Council member of International College of Dentist Section XV and was also nominated as the President of Asia Pacific Dental Congress Macau in 2017.
Dr. Carlos was also invited to be speaker in different countries around the World and he was nominated as a speaker of Align Faculty, 3M Orthodontics, ICD Speaker and APDF/APRO speaker.
Carlos Cid Álvares was President of Banco Popular Portugal and Director of several subsidiaries of Popular in Portugal until November 2017.
In his professional training he had, since 1984, a long experience in the banking sector, having been General Manager of Banco Comercial Português and started his duties in banking as an auditor at Banco Português do Atlântico. At present is Vice Executive Chairman and CEO of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, S.A. in Macau.
He also is Deputy Vice-Chairman of the Macau Association of Banks; Member of the Advisory Board of the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM); Vice-President of The Macau Financial Community Standing Committee for Celebration Preparations; Member of the General Council of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center; Vice President of Macau European Chamber of Commerce (MECC); President of the Board of Directors Portugal – China Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Macau Delegation); Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Macau Management Association; Member of Macau Corporate Governance Institute; Member of the Faculty Advisory Board (FBA) of UMAC & Macao Conference Ambassador of Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) of the Macao SAR.
Professor Jacky Yuk-chow So is currently Chair Professor of Finance at the Macau University of Science and Technology. He was Senior Advisor to the President and director of the Macao Institute of Fin Tech Innovation, and former Vice President and Dean. Prof. So was Dean and BNU Chair Professor of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau and Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management.
Professor So was the dean, and BBVA-Compass Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, of the A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business at Texas A&M International University. He is also the executive director of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance. He was a professor of finance at the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE) and served as chairman for almost ten years. Dr. So received his Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University.
He was a visiting scholar and/or consultant of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, Office of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Washington D.C., etc. He was site visiting team members of the AACSB and the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), visiting scholar in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) and received the Education Leadership Award from the Asia’s Best B-School Awards 2014 held in Singapore. Professor So is the first from Macao to receive this award.
Mr. Kam Weng TAM holds doctoral degree of Engenharia Electrotécnia e de Computadores no Instituto Superior Técnico de Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and now serving as a Professor of University of Macau as well as a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom. He has conducted extensive research in the field of wireless communications and has gained international recognition in areas such as radio frequency identification technology and microwave sensors. Dr. Tam serves as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Vice Chairman of the Radio Frequency Identification Technology Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is elected as an IEEE STEM Ambassador and International Advisory Committee of the Portuguese Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology Culture (Ciência Viva). He has received IEEE MGA Achievement Award and AIM Ted William Achievement Award, 3 awards from the Macau Science and Technology Awards. Dr. Tam is a board member of the AIM Asia and Macao Science Center.
Dr. Chuxia Deng is a Chinese-American scientist. He served as a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from June 1995 to November 2014. He held positions as Chair Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the Cancer Centre at the University of Macau, as well as Chief Scientist of the Frontier Science Center for Precision Oncology under the Ministry of Education of China from December 2014 to June 2026. He currently serves as a Tenured Chair Professor at the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Technology. He has conducted extensive, in-depth research into the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer initiation, progression, drug resistance, and metastasis. His research team has published over 500 papers, accumulating more than 90,000 citations and an H-index of 159.
He won the "NIH-Asia-Pacific Chinese Outstanding Achievement Award" in 2000, and the "China Natural Science Foundation of China Overseas Outstanding Youth Fund" in 2002, and the NIDDK “You Make A Difference” Achievement Award in 2005. In 2011, he won the “NIDDK Director's Award” in 2011, and also was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, AAAS). He received the Macau Natural Science Award (Second Class) in 2024 and the 8th Award for Outstanding Achievement in Breast Cancer Research in 2025.
Since 2006, he has served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the “International Journal of Biological Sciences” (2025 Impact Factor: 11.7). In the “World's Top Scientists" rankings released by Elsevier in October 2022, Professor Deng ranked 8th in the field of Life Sciences within the Greater China region and 4th in the lifetime achievement list for Life Sciences in the same region; from 2023 to 2025, he ranked 1st–2nd in Biochemistry and 5th–7th in Medicine within the Greater China region.
Dr. Wong graduated from the Department of Stomatology of Jinan University in Guangzhou and has been practicing dentistry for more than 20 years. His professional certification qualifications mainly include FELLOW of International College of Continuing Dental Education (ICCDE), FELLOW of International College of Dentists (ICD), FELLOW of Royal College of Surgeons(RCS, England) and Qualification of National Dental Specialist in China, Fellowship of Asian Pacific Academy of Implant Dentistry (APAID) , etc.
In terms of social affairs related to the dental profession, he has focused on promoting international exchange affairs since 2015 as the president of the Macau Dental Association.
Key activities over the years include the establishment of the "1st Macau International Dental Conference (MIDC)" in 2016 and the During the meeting, the Chinese and Portuguese Dental Societies signed a cooperation agreement, the first "Asia-Pacific Dental Confederation Annual Conference (APDC)" was held in 2017, and the "International College of Dentists (ICD) Regional Annual Conference" was co-organized with the Asia-Pacific region and China in 2018 and during the "Belt and Road National Dental Summit Forum".
In addition to the dental profession, he also holds many social positions, including being the member of the Legisiative Assembly of the Macau SAR, and a vice-president of the Macau Medical and Health Federation, etc.
Prof. WONG Seng Fat, Alfred is Interim Master of Cheng Yu Tung College and Associate Professor of Electromechanical Engineering of University of Macau, Fellow of Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC), and Chartered Fellow of Charted Association of Building Engineers (CABE). His research interests are included Smart City, Human Factors Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied RFID Technology in Industrial Solutions, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Innovative Product Design, and Knowledge Engineering Management. He is enthusiastic in society works. Therefore, he is the president in different societies or engineering associations such as Council President of Macau International Industrial Technology Development Association, Executive Director of Smart City Alliance Association of Macau (SCAAM), President of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Macao Chapter, Former Council President of The Macau Institution of Engineers (MIE), Expert of Shenzhen Association of Ergonomics Application (SAEA), Invited Committee Member of The 10th Committee of Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology, Secretary-general of The 4th Information Technology Committee of Guangdong of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Cooperation Promotion Association, and Committee Member of The 1st Autopilot Working Committee of China Highway and Transportation Society. Moreover, he is the Science and Technology Committee Member, Macau SAR.
Fanny Vong is Rector of the Macao University of Tourism (UTM). She sits on Macao SAR Government’s Tourism Development Committee, Talent Development Committee, and Education Committee. UTM is a public institution of higher education in Macao that offers degree, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and professional training in tourism and hospitality. UTM has won international acclaims for the quality of its programmes, established a vast international network and built good relationship with the local industry. Dr. Vong has participated in numerous tourism research and training projects initiated by the local government and intergovernmental organizations such as United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
Xu Cheng-Zhong, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor of Computer Science, Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences, and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Macau (UM). He is a National Distinguished Expert, and recipient of the NSFC Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar Award (2010) and the 2026 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.
His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing and big data, intelligent transportation and smart cities, and autonomous driving technologies. He has served as the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Project on Smart Cities under MOST, China, and is the principal investigator of the Guangdong Provincial Key Project on Cloud Data Centers and the FDCT Key R&D Project on Autonomous Driving in the Macau SAR.
He has published two academic monographs and more than 600 papers in leading international journals and conferences. He has received Best Paper Awards or Best Paper Nominations at prestigious international conferences in computer systems, including HPCA, HPDC, SoCC, Cluster, and ICPP. In addition, he holds more than 200 PCT and national invention patents in his research areas.
Zeng Li, Female, Ph.D.in Chinese Medicine, Professor, Dean of Faculty of Chinese Medicine, Macau University of Science and Technology. She concurrently serves as a second-level professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Director of Jiangsu Provincial Engineering Research Center of TCM External Medication Development and Application, Deputy director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Surgery Committee of the Chinese Association of Chinese Medicine, Deputy director of Committee of Appropriate Health Technology of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Member of the National Drug Registration Review Expert Advisory Committee, subject evaluation expert of the Ministry of Education, degree and graduate education thesis evaluation expert of the Ministry of Education, project evaluation expert of National Natural Science Foundation of China, director of the Jiangsu Provincial Ancient Books Protection and Utilization Committee, and member of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee for the Advancement of Democracy Deputy Chairman of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee and member of the Standing Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. With the main research directions of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and the diagnosis and treatment of postoperative adhesion, she has successively presided over projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Science and Technology Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation. She has obtained 10 invention patents and published more than 150 papers. He is the chief editor and Associate editor of more than 20 books. The first person to complete the project won the second prize of the China Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Award, the first prize of the National Commercial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of the Jiangsu Province Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Award.
Pui-In MAK, Chair Professor; Foreign Academician of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences; Director of the State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI of University of Macau; Fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), UK Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and UK Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Professor Mak is mainly engaged in integrated circuits and cross-field researches, and particularly in the fields of analog and radio-frequency circuits, digital microfluidics and micro-NMR/MRI. Professor Mak won the Tencent Explorer Prize in 2022 and the ISSCC 70th Anniversary Top Contributing Author Award in 2023.
He has given 100+ lectures at world-class universities and companies, published 500+ papers in top journals and conferences, and has 30+ patents.
Professor Xu has been engaged in stem cell research and therapeutic applications for decades. He has published nearly 100 papers with almost 10,000 citations, and obtained more than 10 Chinese and foreign patents. The stem cell drug T-MSC he invented was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as a new investigational drug for clinical trials on multiple sclerosis and is under review by the China National Medical Products Administration. As chief scientist Professor Xu has recently received funding from Macau and national key scientific research projects to promote the clinical application of T-MSC in the treatment of various deterious diseases. He won multiple innovation and entrepreneurship awards from Israel, the U.S., Portugal, and Macau. He has also chaired or co-chaired multiple regional and national research conferences. website: https://fhs.um.edu.mo/en/staff/ren-he-xu/
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Prof. Tong obtained a Bachelor in Economics from Tsing Hua University, a M.B.A. from Sun Yat-Sen University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also further studied at the United Nations World Trade Organization and Harvard Business School in the United States.
When he was working at the Macau SAR Government's economic and policy research fields, he was involved in economic and trade cooperation affairs, such as CEPA, APEC, and WTO, and in charge of research and formulation of public policies in economic and industrial development. He has also held management positions in listed companies in the Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan, China, respectively, as well as in tourism groups, and civil aviation transportation facilities and infrastructure operating company in Macau.
He is currently President of the Macau Institute of Management; a member of the Executive Council of the Macau Special Administrative Region, the Talent Development Committee and the Urban Renewal Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the Expert Working Committee on Culinary Culture of the World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry, and a member of the Aviation Policy and Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mr. Chow is currently serves as President of the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce of Small and Medium Enterprises, Chairman of the Board of the Portugal International Cultural and Educational Foundation, Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the League of Chinese in Portugal, Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the Association for the Promotion of Peace for One China in Portugal, and Member of the Portuguese High Commission for Migration.
Previously, he held leadership positions at the Association for Chinese Investment and Trade in Portugal, the Portugal-China Chamber of Cooperation and Development and the Portugal-Orient Institute for Cooperation and Development. He was also a guest member of the Political Consultative Committee of Zhejiang Province and the Political Consultative Committee of Tianjin City, director of the Liaison Council of Foreign Provinces and Cities and Overseas Friendly Associations in Beijing and other provinces and cities, among other positions. social. He is a member of the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination of Portugal.
Over the decades of work at the chamber, he managed to:
-Facilitate the signing of the cooperation agreement between Guangzhou and Coimbra.
-Promoted the establishment of friendly cooperative relations between six municipal governments in the Tâmega e Sousa region of Portugal and six districts of Zhuhai, China.
-Coordinate visits by vice-president of Guangdong province and his delegations to Portugal on several occasions.
-Organize delegation visits to Guangzhou, Zhuhai and other cities.
Professor Simon LEE Ming-yuen obtained his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999. He is currently Cally Kwong Mei Wan Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Innovation and Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He serves as Director of the PolyU–BGI Joint Research Centre for Genomics and Synthetic Biology in Global Ocean Resources and Deputy Director of the PolyU Wuxi Technology and Innovation Research Institute, He is also a Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau.
Professor Lee is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has published more than 400 papers, with over 17,000 citations and an H-index of 67, and has been granted more than 20 invention patents. He has been recognized among Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists.” Professor Lee has received numerous awards and honors, including the Macao Science and Technology Award , and Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses primarily on natural product-based drug discovery, neurodegenerative diseases, and mechanisms underlying brain health and neuroprotection.
In addition, Professor Lee serves as a member of the Subcommittee on the Development Blueprint for Chinese Medicine under the Chinese Medicine Development Committee; a Technical Expert and Assessor for ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation under the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR; a member of the Expert Advisory Committee on Proprietary Chinese Medicines of the Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau of the Government of the Macao SAR; He is also a member of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Macau); President-Elect of the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association (GP-TCM RA); President of the Macau Pharmacology Association; Vice President of the Macau Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology; and President of the Consortium of ‘Belt and Road’ and Portuguese-Speaking Countries for Natural Medicine Innovation (Macao)
Jianqing LI is currently an Assistant Director and a Professor of School of computer science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology. He was the former president and chairman of IEEE Macau. He received the Ph. D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1998. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Visiting Professor with the Information and Communications University, Daejeon, South Korea. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined the Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China, in 2004. He won Third Prize in Technology Invention of 2016 and 2018 Macao Science and Technology Awards, respectively. He won Third Prize in Natural Science of 2022 Macao Science and Technology Awards.
Professor Ryan Leong Hou U is currently the Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing at the University of Macau, as well as the Head of the Centre for Data Science of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences. He also serves as the Coordinator of the Super Intelligent Computing Center. His research focuses on data management and machine learning, covering cutting-edge areas including spatial and spatio-temporal databases, large-scale data visualization, graph representation learning, reinforcement learning, and vector retrieval. Professor U has published a substantial number of high-quality academic papers in these fields. His research findings have been widely published in leading international conferences and journals in data management, data mining, and artificial intelligence, attracting broad attention from the academic community.
In recent years, Professor U has led and participated in a number of major research projects, leading his team in the development of a series of visualization and analytical technologies for large-scale spatial and spatio-temporal data. The resulting research has been presented at numerous premier international conferences, and has been translated into practical applications through open-source software libraries and geographic information system (GIS) plugins. Among these achievements, the EARTH spatio-temporal network analysis technology received an Honorable Mention in the Research Track of ACM SIGKDD 2026. In addition, he was awarded the Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award at the Macau Science and Technology Awards in 2024, demonstrating his significant contributions to data science research, technological innovation, and the translation of research into real-world applications.
Since working at the University of Macau, Professor U has actively participated in international academic service and conference organization. He has served as Program Committee Co-Chair of conferences including IEEE BigData 2025 and APWeb-WAIM 2021, as well as Local Expo Chair of IJCAI 2019 and IJCAI 2023. He has also been involved in organizing more than ten international conferences and workshops. These efforts have promoted academic exchange and collaboration between Macau and the international research community, while further enhancing Macau's global influence in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
Prof. Seng Pan U， IEEE Fellow，received dual Ph.D. of the University of Macau and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of Silergy Corp. , and Managing Director of Silergy Semicondutor（Macau）Limited, the founding Council President of Macao Institute of Industrial Technology.
Prof. U is one of the pioneers and leaders with transformational impact and contributions on the development of the IC design in both academe and industry in Macau. He was co-founder and former Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog & Mixed-Signal VLSI at the University of Macau, co-founder & Former General Manager of Chipidea Macau Microelectronics (acquired by Synopsys), etc.
Prof. U co-authored 220+ publications, 5 books and co-held 13 US patents . Prof. U received numerous awards, including National 70th anniversary Commemorative Medal, National S&T Progress Award, HLHL S&T Innovation Award, Best S&T Innovation Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of Guangdong-HK-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), Merit Medal of Industry and Commerce of Macau SAR, etc.
Prof. U was appointed as a member of the Science and Technology (S&T) Commission of the China Ministry of education, and currently as member of S&T Committee, Talents Development Committee and Economic Development Committee of Macau SAR, Advisory Committee of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone. He is Vice Council President of China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch (CSIA-ICCAD), Council Co-President of GBA Semiconductor Industry Alliance, Chairman of Hengqin Semiconductor Industry Association, Founding Council President of Macau Association of Microelectronics, and etc.
Prof. U was also the leadership member of organizing/advisory committee of many renowned professional international conferences and forums, e.g. A-SSCC, ASP-DAC, APCCAS and other IEEE conferences.
Dr. Yi Zhun Zhu is an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a licensed physician and Chair Professor of Pharmacology, director of the School of Pharmacy, and vice president of Macau University of Science and Technology. Dr. Zhu got his Bachelor of Medicine at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989 and M.D. /Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1995. He joined as a faculty member of the Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1998 after postdoc training at Kiel University and industrial experience at Hoechst Marion Roussel (nowSanofi).
Dr. Zhu has more than two decades teaching and research in world class universities (NUS and Fudan) and published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers with 14,968citations (H index 66, i10 index 227 as dated on May 26, 2022) and edited 6 books for his work (2 from World Scientific Publishing) for his work. He is/was editor-in-chief for Cardiovasc. Regenerative Med. and associate editor for J Alzheimer Diseases, Biosci. Reports academic editor for PLoS One and editorial board member of CNSNeuroscience & Therapeutics, Journal of Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism, Frontiers in Neurotrauma, etc.
Dr. Zhu has extensive experience in teaching management, and is also editor-in-chief of the national textbook of Pharmacology (7th and 8th edition [Chinese version] and 1 st edition [English version], People’s Medical Publishing House).
Dr. Zhu was awarded ‘Lee Kuan Yew’ Research fellowship from Singapore in 1998, ‘A National Distinguished Young Scientist from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2008, and Chief Scientist of the National Key Basic Research Program (973) and Chief-PI for the National Platform of Drug Discovery in 2009. Dr. Zhu received the National Award for Innovative Research Work of the Returnees in 2009 from the State Council and the Magnolia Golden Award from Shanghai Government in 2019. Dr. Zhu was awarded Cheung Kong Chair Professorship in 2012 by the Ministry of Education, China. In 2014, Dr. Zhu was awarded ‘The Health China’ top 10 figures of the year and the Natural Science Research Award (ranked first among the Second Class of 3, top award of the year) from Macau in 2018.
His research focuses on drug development, especially for the heart and brain. The original research of motherwort (transferred to the enterprise for 150 million RMB) received two clinical approvals for CFDA as a novel candidate drug and started clinical phase II trials. Phase I clinical trial, as first-in-class, will be started in the US as well with the final approval by the FDA.
Another candidate drug (ZYZ-802) innovated by Dr. Zhu was also recently tech-transferred for 101 million RMB. In September 2012, the US ‘Science’ magazine reported that Professor Zhu was one of the most successful Chinese returnees scientists (September 2, 2012, p. 1692). In 2017, the American Chemical Society's news journal ‘C&EN’ featured Professor Zhu's experience in drug development and praised him as one of the pioneers of life science research in China (April 3, 2017, 27-29). Based on his successes in drug discovery, Dr. Zhu was awarded two times the Macau Natural Science Award (2018 and 2020), the highest recognition for those scientists in Macau.
Prof. Jun YU, a financial econometrician, currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau and he is also appointed as the University of Macau Development Foundation Chair Professor of Finance and Economics. He serves as an Associate Editor for prestigious international journals such as the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Theory. Furthermore, Prof. Jun YU is a founding member of the International Society for Financial Econometrics and a Fellow of The Journal of Econometrics.
Professor Jun YU obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He has published over 100 articles in top international academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Management Science, and International Economic Review. Collaborating with scholars from the United States and Australia, he has developed a tool to measure exuberance in financial markets, which have been widely adopted across countries and regions in the US, Europe, and Asia, serving as a valuable resource for identifying financial crises and asset bubbles, as well as informing economic policies.
Professor Keke Zhang is a Chair Professor, Associate Vice President of Macau University of Science and Technology, and Director of the Macau Institute of Space Technology and Application. He serves as the Chief Scientist and Chief Designer of the Science and Application System for the "Macau Science Satellite-1". His main research areas include Earth and space sciences, as well as geomagnetic theory and its applications. Professor Zhang is a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (USA) and Royal Astronomical Society (UK). He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Fund Award in 2000, the Royal Astronomical Society Achievement Award in 2013, the First Prize of the Macau SAR Government Science and Technology Award in 2020, and was listed among the top 0.5% of global scientists in 2024. In 2025, he was awarded the Shen Kuo Award, the highest scientific honor from the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), in recognition of his contributions to geodynamo theory, core wave studies, and the Macau science satellite mission—marking the first time an Asian scientist has received this prestigious award. In 2026, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) awarded him the J. J. Jaw Award for his outstanding original contributions to multiple fields of planetary and space science over more than thirty years. Professor Zhang has led or participated in numerous major research projects funded by scientific agencies in the UK, USA, China, Hong Kong, and Macau. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers in top-tier international journals, including Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Reports on Progress in Physics.
Ip Kuai Peng, Professor, Ph.D. in Economics, currently serves as President of Union of Macau Scholars—a public service platform for the social sciences and theory community in Macau—Advisor to the Council of City University of Macao, and Director of the Research Center for Macau Social and Economic Development. He previously served as Vice President of the City University of Macao, Dean of the Graduate School, and Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries. Prof. Ip was a researcher of the Office of Policy Research of the Macao SAR Government, a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Politics and Public Administration of the Wuhan University, and a senior technician of the Research and Information Department of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute.
He is now mainly engaged in research on Macao's economy and regional development. In recent years, he has presided over the launch of a number of major national and provincial projects, and has led the team to publish a number of scientific research reports, such as the "Report on the Study of Fintech, Government Support and the Development of Macao's Financial Market in the Context of the Greater Bay Area," the "Report on the Study of the Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone," and the "Report on the Study of Modernization of the Governance System and the Governance Capability of the Macao SAR," as well as published several scientific research reports in People's Forum, West Asia and Africa, and the "Macao SAR Government Policy Office. In addition, he has published many papers in CSSCI journals such as People's Forum, West Asia Africa, World Politics and Economy, and Contemporary Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
Chair Professor at the University of Macau, Founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences at the University of Macau, Founding Director of the First National Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine, and Consultant of the National Pharmacopoeia Committee.
He successively served as Vice President of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Vice President of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, as well as one of the first Chief Researchers. He also served as Director of the Discipline of Chinese Medicine Research at the University of Hong Kong.
The first chief scientist of the National 973 Program in Traditional Chinese Medicine, he has led over 20 national key projects, including national key research initiatives and national key special programs. With more than 600 SCI papers published, 34,450 citations, and an h-index of 97, he holds 23 invention patents and has edited over 10 academic monographs. Recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher globally and a top 2% ESI scientist for seven consecutive years, he has supervised over 100 doctoral graduates (including 15 top 2% ESI scientists).
Expert of the State Council Special Allowance, Medal for Educational Merit of Macau, Medal for Professional Merit of Macau. Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, Macau Science and Technology Special Award, five First Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial-Level Science and Technology Awards, Gold Prize of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. President of the International Association of Chinese Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of SCI Journal of Chinese Medicine.
Francis T. Lui is Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Development Economics at the Macau University of Science & Technology. He is also Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, and University Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Honorary Director of the China Economic Research Program at Lingnan University. He was the Head of the Department of Economics, Associate Dean of the Business School and Director of the Center for Economic Development at HKUST. Studying under the supervision of several Economics Nobel Laureates, he received his undergrad and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago and University of Minnesota, respectively. He joined HKUST as a founding faculty in 1991.
Professor Lui's research interests include economic growth, social security, corruption, family economics, exchange rate systems, the Hong Kong economy and the Chinese economy. Author or editor of 14 books, he has published numerous articles in leading international journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. A well-known commentator, he has been a member of numerous government statutory or advisory bodies. He has been appointed as a Justice of the Peace and awarded a Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal by the Hong Kong Government for “his distinguished academic achievements in the fields of economics and finance, as well as his dedicated and meritorious public service.”
Professor Manson Fok graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1982. He is an expert in minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer.
He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Macau University of Science and Technology, Superintendent of University Hospital Macau, Professional Committee Member of the Macao Academy of Medicine, Chairman of the Sino-Luso International Medical Forum, Trustee of the Macau Henry Fok Foundation, Visiting Professor of Peking University People's Hospital and Beijing Cancer Hospital. And he is the Founder and Chairman of the Virtus Medical Group, which is one of specialist medical groups in Hong Kong.
Dr Carlos Augusto graduated from the University of Lisbon, Portugal in Year 2004 and obtained master degree of Dentistry in Year of 2010 and Diploma of Orthodontics in Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine.
He have been working in Macau since 2006 and is one of the founders of We Care Dental Center since 2011.
He was elected as the President of Macau Dental Association (2019-2020) and currently he is the honorary President of Macau Dental Association.
He is serving as the FDI World Dental Federation National Liaison Officer since 2007 until now and was nominated as a Council member of International College of Dentist Section XV and was also nominated as the President of Asia Pacific Dental Congress Macau in 2017.
Dr. Carlos was also invited to be speaker in different countries around the World and he was nominated as a speaker of Align Faculty, 3M Orthodontics, ICD Speaker and APDF/APRO speaker.
Carlos Cid Álvares was President of Banco Popular Portugal and Director of several subsidiaries of Popular in Portugal until November 2017.
In his professional training he had, since 1984, a long experience in the banking sector, having been General Manager of Banco Comercial Português and started his duties in banking as an auditor at Banco Português do Atlântico. At present is Vice Executive Chairman and CEO of Banco Nacional Ultramarino, S.A. in Macau.
He also is Deputy Vice-Chairman of the Macau Association of Banks; Member of the Advisory Board of the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM); Vice-President of The Macau Financial Community Standing Committee for Celebration Preparations; Member of the General Council of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center; Vice President of Macau European Chamber of Commerce (MECC); President of the Board of Directors Portugal – China Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Macau Delegation); Vice-Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Macau Management Association; Member of Macau Corporate Governance Institute; Member of the Faculty Advisory Board (FBA) of UMAC & Macao Conference Ambassador of Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) of the Macao SAR.
Professor Jacky Yuk-chow So is currently Chair Professor of Finance at the Macau University of Science and Technology. He was Senior Advisor to the President and director of the Macao Institute of Fin Tech Innovation, and former Vice President and Dean. Prof. So was Dean and BNU Chair Professor of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau and Co-Director of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Economics and Management.
Professor So was the dean, and BBVA-Compass Bank Distinguished Professor of International Finance, of the A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business at Texas A&M International University. He is also the executive director of the Academy of Entrepreneurial Finance. He was a professor of finance at the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (SIUE) and served as chairman for almost ten years. Dr. So received his Ph.D. degree from the Ohio State University.
He was a visiting scholar and/or consultant of the Federal Reserve Bank in Chicago, Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Federal Reserve Bank in St. Louis, Office of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Washington D.C., etc. He was site visiting team members of the AACSB and the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications (HKCAAVQ), visiting scholar in the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) and received the Education Leadership Award from the Asia’s Best B-School Awards 2014 held in Singapore. Professor So is the first from Macao to receive this award.
Mr. Kam Weng TAM holds doctoral degree of Engenharia Electrotécnia e de Computadores no Instituto Superior Técnico de Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and now serving as a Professor of University of Macau as well as a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom. He has conducted extensive research in the field of wireless communications and has gained international recognition in areas such as radio frequency identification technology and microwave sensors. Dr. Tam serves as a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and Vice Chairman of the Radio Frequency Identification Technology Council of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is elected as an IEEE STEM Ambassador and International Advisory Committee of the Portuguese Agency for the Promotion of Science and Technology Culture (Ciência Viva). He has received IEEE MGA Achievement Award and AIM Ted William Achievement Award, 3 awards from the Macau Science and Technology Awards. Dr. Tam is a board member of the AIM Asia and Macao Science Center.
Dr. Chuxia Deng is a Chinese-American scientist. He served as a tenured Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from June 1995 to November 2014. He held positions as Chair Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Director of the Cancer Centre at the University of Macau, as well as Chief Scientist of the Frontier Science Center for Precision Oncology under the Ministry of Education of China from December 2014 to June 2026. He currently serves as a Tenured Chair Professor at the Faculty of Synthetic Biology, Shenzhen University of Technology. He has conducted extensive, in-depth research into the molecular mechanisms underlying cancer initiation, progression, drug resistance, and metastasis. His research team has published over 500 papers, accumulating more than 90,000 citations and an H-index of 159.
He won the "NIH-Asia-Pacific Chinese Outstanding Achievement Award" in 2000, and the "China Natural Science Foundation of China Overseas Outstanding Youth Fund" in 2002, and the NIDDK “You Make A Difference” Achievement Award in 2005. In 2011, he won the “NIDDK Director's Award” in 2011, and also was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, AAAS). He received the Macau Natural Science Award (Second Class) in 2024 and the 8th Award for Outstanding Achievement in Breast Cancer Research in 2025.
Since 2006, he has served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the “International Journal of Biological Sciences” (2025 Impact Factor: 11.7). In the “World's Top Scientists" rankings released by Elsevier in October 2022, Professor Deng ranked 8th in the field of Life Sciences within the Greater China region and 4th in the lifetime achievement list for Life Sciences in the same region; from 2023 to 2025, he ranked 1st–2nd in Biochemistry and 5th–7th in Medicine within the Greater China region.
Dr. Wong graduated from the Department of Stomatology of Jinan University in Guangzhou and has been practicing dentistry for more than 20 years. His professional certification qualifications mainly include FELLOW of International College of Continuing Dental Education (ICCDE), FELLOW of International College of Dentists (ICD), FELLOW of Royal College of Surgeons(RCS, England) and Qualification of National Dental Specialist in China, Fellowship of Asian Pacific Academy of Implant Dentistry (APAID) , etc.
In terms of social affairs related to the dental profession, he has focused on promoting international exchange affairs since 2015 as the president of the Macau Dental Association.
Key activities over the years include the establishment of the "1st Macau International Dental Conference (MIDC)" in 2016 and the During the meeting, the Chinese and Portuguese Dental Societies signed a cooperation agreement, the first "Asia-Pacific Dental Confederation Annual Conference (APDC)" was held in 2017, and the "International College of Dentists (ICD) Regional Annual Conference" was co-organized with the Asia-Pacific region and China in 2018 and during the "Belt and Road National Dental Summit Forum".
In addition to the dental profession, he also holds many social positions, including being the member of the Legisiative Assembly of the Macau SAR, and a vice-president of the Macau Medical and Health Federation, etc.
Prof. WONG Seng Fat, Alfred is Interim Master of Cheng Yu Tung College and Associate Professor of Electromechanical Engineering of University of Macau, Fellow of Institute of Measurement and Control (InstMC), and Chartered Fellow of Charted Association of Building Engineers (CABE). His research interests are included Smart City, Human Factors Engineering, Medical Engineering, Applied RFID Technology in Industrial Solutions, Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Innovative Product Design, and Knowledge Engineering Management. He is enthusiastic in society works. Therefore, he is the president in different societies or engineering associations such as Council President of Macau International Industrial Technology Development Association, Executive Director of Smart City Alliance Association of Macau (SCAAM), President of American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) Macao Chapter, Former Council President of The Macau Institution of Engineers (MIE), Expert of Shenzhen Association of Ergonomics Application (SAEA), Invited Committee Member of The 10th Committee of Guangdong Provincial Association for Science and Technology, Secretary-general of The 4th Information Technology Committee of Guangdong of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Cooperation Promotion Association, and Committee Member of The 1st Autopilot Working Committee of China Highway and Transportation Society. Moreover, he is the Science and Technology Committee Member, Macau SAR.
Fanny Vong is Rector of the Macao University of Tourism (UTM). She sits on Macao SAR Government’s Tourism Development Committee, Talent Development Committee, and Education Committee. UTM is a public institution of higher education in Macao that offers degree, undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and professional training in tourism and hospitality. UTM has won international acclaims for the quality of its programmes, established a vast international network and built good relationship with the local industry. Dr. Vong has participated in numerous tourism research and training projects initiated by the local government and intergovernmental organizations such as United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO).
Xu Cheng-Zhong, IEEE Fellow, Chair Professor of Computer Science, Dean of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences, and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Macau (UM). He is a National Distinguished Expert, and recipient of the NSFC Overseas Distinguished Young Scholar Award (2010) and the 2026 Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award.
His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, cloud computing and big data, intelligent transportation and smart cities, and autonomous driving technologies. He has served as the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Project on Smart Cities under MOST, China, and is the principal investigator of the Guangdong Provincial Key Project on Cloud Data Centers and the FDCT Key R&D Project on Autonomous Driving in the Macau SAR.
He has published two academic monographs and more than 600 papers in leading international journals and conferences. He has received Best Paper Awards or Best Paper Nominations at prestigious international conferences in computer systems, including HPCA, HPDC, SoCC, Cluster, and ICPP. In addition, he holds more than 200 PCT and national invention patents in his research areas.
Professor Ryan Leong Hou U is currently the Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of the Faculty of Information Science and Computing at the University of Macau, as well as the Head of the Centre for Data Science of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences. He also serves as the Coordinator of the Super Intelligent Computing Center. His research focuses on data management and machine learning, covering cutting-edge areas including spatial and spatio-temporal databases, large-scale data visualization, graph representation learning, reinforcement learning, and vector retrieval. Professor U has published a substantial number of high-quality academic papers in these fields. His research findings have been widely published in leading international conferences and journals in data management, data mining, and artificial intelligence, attracting broad attention from the academic community.
In recent years, Professor U has led and participated in a number of major research projects, leading his team in the development of a series of visualization and analytical technologies for large-scale spatial and spatio-temporal data. The resulting research has been presented at numerous premier international conferences, and has been translated into practical applications through open-source software libraries and geographic information system (GIS) plugins. Among these achievements, the EARTH spatio-temporal network analysis technology received an Honorable Mention in the Research Track of ACM SIGKDD 2026. In addition, he was awarded the Second Prize of the Technological Invention Award at the Macau Science and Technology Awards in 2024, demonstrating his significant contributions to data science research, technological innovation, and the translation of research into real-world applications.
Since working at the University of Macau, Professor U has actively participated in international academic service and conference organization. He has served as Program Committee Co-Chair of conferences including IEEE BigData 2025 and APWeb-WAIM 2021, as well as Local Expo Chair of IJCAI 2019 and IJCAI 2023. He has also been involved in organizing more than ten international conferences and workshops. These efforts have promoted academic exchange and collaboration between Macau and the international research community, while further enhancing Macau's global influence in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
Pui-In MAK, Chair Professor; Foreign Academician of the Portuguese Academy of Sciences; Director of the State-Key Laboratory of Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI of University of Macau; Fellow of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), UK Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and UK Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
Professor Mak is mainly engaged in integrated circuits and cross-field researches, and particularly in the fields of analog and radio-frequency circuits, digital microfluidics and micro-NMR/MRI. Professor Mak won the Tencent Explorer Prize in 2022 and the ISSCC 70th Anniversary Top Contributing Author Award in 2023.
He has given 100+ lectures at world-class universities and companies, published 500+ papers in top journals and conferences, and has 30+ patents.
Professor Xu has been engaged in stem cell research and therapeutic applications for decades. He has published nearly 100 papers with almost 10,000 citations, and obtained more than 10 Chinese and foreign patents. The stem cell drug T-MSC he invented was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as a new investigational drug for clinical trials on multiple sclerosis and is under review by the China National Medical Products Administration. As chief scientist Professor Xu has recently received funding from Macau and national key scientific research projects to promote the clinical application of T-MSC in the treatment of various deterious diseases. He won multiple innovation and entrepreneurship awards from Israel, the U.S., Portugal, and Macau. He has also chaired or co-chaired multiple regional and national research conferences. website: https://fhs.um.edu.mo/en/staff/ren-he-xu/
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Prof. Tong obtained a Bachelor in Economics from Tsing Hua University, a M.B.A. from Sun Yat-Sen University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has also further studied at the United Nations World Trade Organization and Harvard Business School in the United States.
When he was working at the Macau SAR Government's economic and policy research fields, he was involved in economic and trade cooperation affairs, such as CEPA, APEC, and WTO, and in charge of research and formulation of public policies in economic and industrial development. He has also held management positions in listed companies in the Hong Kong SAR and Taiwan, China, respectively, as well as in tourism groups, and civil aviation transportation facilities and infrastructure operating company in Macau.
He is currently President of the Macau Institute of Management; a member of the Executive Council of the Macau Special Administrative Region, the Talent Development Committee and the Urban Renewal Committee. Additionally, he is a member of the Expert Working Committee on Culinary Culture of the World Federation of Chinese Catering Industry, and a member of the Aviation Policy and Research Center at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Mr. Chow is currently serves as President of the Portugal-China Chamber of Commerce of Small and Medium Enterprises, Chairman of the Board of the Portugal International Cultural and Educational Foundation, Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the League of Chinese in Portugal, Chairman of the Strategic Committee of the Association for the Promotion of Peace for One China in Portugal, and Member of the Portuguese High Commission for Migration.
Previously, he held leadership positions at the Association for Chinese Investment and Trade in Portugal, the Portugal-China Chamber of Cooperation and Development and the Portugal-Orient Institute for Cooperation and Development. He was also a guest member of the Political Consultative Committee of Zhejiang Province and the Political Consultative Committee of Tianjin City, director of the Liaison Council of Foreign Provinces and Cities and Overseas Friendly Associations in Beijing and other provinces and cities, among other positions. social. He is a member of the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination of Portugal.
Over the decades of work at the chamber, he managed to:
-Facilitate the signing of the cooperation agreement between Guangzhou and Coimbra.
-Promoted the establishment of friendly cooperative relations between six municipal governments in the Tâmega e Sousa region of Portugal and six districts of Zhuhai, China.
-Coordinate visits by vice-president of Guangdong province and his delegations to Portugal on several occasions.
-Organize delegation visits to Guangzhou, Zhuhai and other cities.
Professor Simon LEE Ming-yuen obtained his PhD from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1999. He is currently Cally Kwong Mei Wan Professor in Biomedical Sciences and Chinese Medicine Innovation and Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He serves as Director of the PolyU–BGI Joint Research Centre for Genomics and Synthetic Biology in Global Ocean Resources and Deputy Director of the PolyU Wuxi Technology and Innovation Research Institute, He is also a Visiting Chair Professor at the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau.
Professor Lee is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He has published more than 400 papers, with over 17,000 citations and an H-index of 67, and has been granted more than 20 invention patents. He has been recognized among Stanford University’s “World’s Top 2% Scientists.” Professor Lee has received numerous awards and honors, including the Macao Science and Technology Award , and Gold Medal at the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva, Switzerland. His research focuses primarily on natural product-based drug discovery, neurodegenerative diseases, and mechanisms underlying brain health and neuroprotection.
In addition, Professor Lee serves as a member of the Subcommittee on the Development Blueprint for Chinese Medicine under the Chinese Medicine Development Committee; a Technical Expert and Assessor for ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation under the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR; a member of the Expert Advisory Committee on Proprietary Chinese Medicines of the Pharmaceutical Administration Bureau of the Government of the Macao SAR; He is also a member of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine (Macau); President-Elect of the Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research Association (GP-TCM RA); President of the Macau Pharmacology Association; Vice President of the Macau Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology; and President of the Consortium of ‘Belt and Road’ and Portuguese-Speaking Countries for Natural Medicine Innovation (Macao)
Jianqing LI is currently an Assistant Director and a Professor of School of computer science and Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology. He was the former president and chairman of IEEE Macau. He received the Ph. D. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1998. From 2000 to 2002, he was a Visiting Professor with the Information and Communications University, Daejeon, South Korea. From 2002 to 2004, he was a Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined the Macau University of Science and Technology, Macau, China, in 2004. He won Third Prize in Technology Invention of 2016 and 2018 Macao Science and Technology Awards, respectively. He won Third Prize in Natural Science of 2022 Macao Science and Technology Awards.
Prof. Leong Hou U currently serves as the Director of the Center for Data Science and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Macau. His research areas are extensive, encompassing frontier directions in data engineering such as spatiotemporal databases, big data visualization, graph network processing and learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning, and crowdsourced computing. Professor Yu has achieved remarkable accomplishments in these fields, with over 50 publications in CCF-A class and SCI top-tier journals, exerting a profound influence on both academia and industry. In recent years, Prof. U has been a core member involved in several key research and development projects, including the national key research and development plan and the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund's key research project. In these projects, he proposed a leading technology for large-scale data visualization, which has been presented at multiple top data engineering conferences and has an open-source repository available for developers, showcasing his expertise in the field of data visualization and his advocacy for scientific research sharing and the spirit of open source.
In the University of Macau, Professor Yu has also been actively involved in the organization of local conferences, serving as a local organizer for over 10 international conferences and workshops, including the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-19 and IJCAI-23, held in 2019 and 2023 respectively. The successful hosting of these conferences has not only elevated Macau's status in the international academic community but also provided a platform for global researchers to exchange and collaborate.
Prof. Seng Pan U， IEEE Fellow，received dual Ph.D. of the University of Macau and Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal. He is the Chief Strategy Officer of Silergy Corp. , and Managing Director of Silergy Semicondutor（Macau）Limited, the founding Council President of Macao Institute of Industrial Technology.
Prof. U is one of the pioneers and leaders with transformational impact and contributions on the development of the IC design in both academe and industry in Macau. He was co-founder and former Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Analog & Mixed-Signal VLSI at the University of Macau, co-founder & Former General Manager of Chipidea Macau Microelectronics (acquired by Synopsys), etc.
Prof. U co-authored 220+ publications, 5 books and co-held 13 US patents . Prof. U received numerous awards, including National 70th anniversary Commemorative Medal, National S&T Progress Award, HLHL S&T Innovation Award, Best S&T Innovation Award for Outstanding Young Entrepreneur of Guangdong-HK-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), Merit Medal of Industry and Commerce of Macau SAR, etc.
Prof. U was appointed as a member of the Science and Technology (S&T) Commission of the China Ministry of education, and currently as member of S&T Committee, Talents Development Committee and Economic Development Committee of Macau SAR, Advisory Committee of Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone. He is Vice Council President of China Semiconductor Industry Association IC Design Branch (CSIA-ICCAD), Council Co-President of GBA Semiconductor Industry Alliance, Chairman of Hengqin Semiconductor Industry Association, Founding Council President of Macau Association of Microelectronics, and etc.
Prof. U was also the leadership member of organizing/advisory committee of many renowned professional international conferences and forums, e.g. A-SSCC, ASP-DAC, APCCAS and other IEEE conferences.
Dr. Yi Zhun Zhu is an Academician of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a licensed physician and Chair Professor of Pharmacology, director of the School of Pharmacy, and vice president of Macau University of Science and Technology. Dr. Zhu got his Bachelor of Medicine at Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1989 and M.D. /Ph.D. from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Heidelberg, Germany, in 1995. He joined as a faculty member of the Department of Pharmacology, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1998 after postdoc training at Kiel University and industrial experience at Hoechst Marion Roussel (nowSanofi).
Dr. Zhu has more than two decades teaching and research in world class universities (NUS and Fudan) and published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers with 14,968citations (H index 66, i10 index 227 as dated on May 26, 2022) and edited 6 books for his work (2 from World Scientific Publishing) for his work. He is/was editor-in-chief for Cardiovasc. Regenerative Med. and associate editor for J Alzheimer Diseases, Biosci. Reports academic editor for PLoS One and editorial board member of CNSNeuroscience & Therapeutics, Journal of Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism, Frontiers in Neurotrauma, etc.
Dr. Zhu has extensive experience in teaching management, and is also editor-in-chief of the national textbook of Pharmacology (7th and 8th edition [Chinese version] and 1 st edition [English version], People’s Medical Publishing House).
Dr. Zhu was awarded ‘Lee Kuan Yew’ Research fellowship from Singapore in 1998, ‘A National Distinguished Young Scientist from the Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2008, and Chief Scientist of the National Key Basic Research Program (973) and Chief-PI for the National Platform of Drug Discovery in 2009. Dr. Zhu received the National Award for Innovative Research Work of the Returnees in 2009 from the State Council and the Magnolia Golden Award from Shanghai Government in 2019. Dr. Zhu was awarded Cheung Kong Chair Professorship in 2012 by the Ministry of Education, China. In 2014, Dr. Zhu was awarded ‘The Health China’ top 10 figures of the year and the Natural Science Research Award (ranked first among the Second Class of 3, top award of the year) from Macau in 2018.
His research focuses on drug development, especially for the heart and brain. The original research of motherwort (transferred to the enterprise for 150 million RMB) received two clinical approvals for CFDA as a novel candidate drug and started clinical phase II trials. Phase I clinical trial, as first-in-class, will be started in the US as well with the final approval by the FDA.
Another candidate drug (ZYZ-802) innovated by Dr. Zhu was also recently tech-transferred for 101 million RMB. In September 2012, the US ‘Science’ magazine reported that Professor Zhu was one of the most successful Chinese returnees scientists (September 2, 2012, p. 1692). In 2017, the American Chemical Society's news journal ‘C&EN’ featured Professor Zhu's experience in drug development and praised him as one of the pioneers of life science research in China (April 3, 2017, 27-29). Based on his successes in drug discovery, Dr. Zhu was awarded two times the Macau Natural Science Award (2018 and 2020), the highest recognition for those scientists in Macau.
Prof. Jun YU, a financial econometrician, currently serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration at the University of Macau and he is also appointed as the University of Macau Development Foundation Chair Professor of Finance and Economics. He serves as an Associate Editor for prestigious international journals such as the Journal of Econometrics and Econometric Theory. Furthermore, Prof. Jun YU is a founding member of the International Society for Financial Econometrics and a Fellow of The Journal of Econometrics.
Professor Jun YU obtained his PhD degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. He has published over 100 articles in top international academic journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Management Science, and International Economic Review. Collaborating with scholars from the United States and Australia, he has developed a tool to measure exuberance in financial markets, which have been widely adopted across countries and regions in the US, Europe, and Asia, serving as a valuable resource for identifying financial crises and asset bubbles, as well as informing economic policies.
Professor Keke Zhang is a Chair Professor, Associate Vice President of Macau University of Science and Technology, and Director of the Macau Institute of Space Technology and Application. He serves as the Chief Scientist and Chief Designer of the Science and Application System for the "Macau Science Satellite-1". His main research areas include Earth and space sciences, as well as geomagnetic theory and its applications. Professor Zhang is a Fellow of American Geophysical Union (USA) and Royal Astronomical Society (UK). He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars Fund Award in 2000, the Royal Astronomical Society Achievement Award in 2013, the First Prize of the Macau SAR Government Science and Technology Award in 2020, and was listed among the top 0.5% of global scientists in 2024. In 2025, he was awarded the Shen Kuo Award, the highest scientific honor from the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA), in recognition of his contributions to geodynamo theory, core wave studies, and the Macau science satellite mission—marking the first time an Asian scientist has received this prestigious award. In 2026, the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) awarded him the J. J. Jaw Award for his outstanding original contributions to multiple fields of planetary and space science over more than thirty years. Professor Zhang has led or participated in numerous major research projects funded by scientific agencies in the UK, USA, China, Hong Kong, and Macau. He has published nearly 200 scientific papers in top-tier international journals, including Science, Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Reports on Progress in Physics.
Ip Kuai Peng, Professor, Ph.D. in Economics, currently serves as President of Union of Macau Scholars—a public service platform for the social sciences and theory community in Macau—Advisor to the Council of City University of Macao, and Director of the Research Center for Macau Social and Economic Development. He previously served as Vice President of the City University of Macao, Dean of the Graduate School, and Dean of the Institute for Research on Portuguese-Speaking Countries. Prof. Ip was a researcher of the Office of Policy Research of the Macao SAR Government, a post-doctoral fellow at the School of Politics and Public Administration of the Wuhan University, and a senior technician of the Research and Information Department of the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute.
He is now mainly engaged in research on Macao's economy and regional development. In recent years, he has presided over the launch of a number of major national and provincial projects, and has led the team to publish a number of scientific research reports, such as the "Report on the Study of Fintech, Government Support and the Development of Macao's Financial Market in the Context of the Greater Bay Area," the "Report on the Study of the Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone," and the "Report on the Study of Modernization of the Governance System and the Governance Capability of the Macao SAR," as well as published several scientific research reports in People's Forum, West Asia and Africa, and the "Macao SAR Government Policy Office. In addition, he has published many papers in CSSCI journals such as People's Forum, West Asia Africa, World Politics and Economy, and Contemporary Hong Kong and Macao Studies.
Chair Professor at the University of Macau, Founding Director of the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences at the University of Macau, Founding Director of the First National Key Laboratory of Chinese Medicine, and Consultant of the National Pharmacopoeia Committee.
He successively served as Vice President of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Dean of the School of Pharmacy, Vice President of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and Director of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica, as well as one of the first Chief Researchers. He also served as Director of the Discipline of Chinese Medicine Research at the University of Hong Kong.
The first chief scientist of the National 973 Program in Traditional Chinese Medicine, he has led over 20 national key projects, including national key research initiatives and national key special programs. With more than 600 SCI papers published, 34,450 citations, and an h-index of 97, he holds 23 invention patents and has edited over 10 academic monographs. Recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher globally and a top 2% ESI scientist for seven consecutive years, he has supervised over 100 doctoral graduates (including 15 top 2% ESI scientists).
Expert of the State Council Special Allowance, Medal for Educational Merit of Macau, Medal for Professional Merit of Macau. Second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award, Macau Science and Technology Special Award, five First Prizes of Provincial and Ministerial-Level Science and Technology Awards, Gold Prize of the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. President of the International Association of Chinese Medicine, Editor-in-Chief of SCI Journal of Chinese Medicine.
Francis T. Lui is Chair Professor and Director of the Institute of Development Economics at the Macau University of Science & Technology. He is also Professor Emeritus, Adjunct Professor, and University Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Honorary Director of the China Economic Research Program at Lingnan University. He was the Head of the Department of Economics, Associate Dean of the Business School and Director of the Center for Economic Development at HKUST. Studying under the supervision of several Economics Nobel Laureates, he received his undergrad and doctoral degrees from the University of Chicago and University of Minnesota, respectively. He joined HKUST as a founding faculty in 1991.
Professor Lui's research interests include economic growth, social security, corruption, family economics, exchange rate systems, the Hong Kong economy and the Chinese economy. Author or editor of 14 books, he has published numerous articles in leading international journals, such as Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control. A well-known commentator, he has been a member of numerous government statutory or advisory bodies. He has been appointed as a Justice of the Peace and awarded a Bronze Bauhinia Star Medal by the Hong Kong Government for “his distinguished academic achievements in the fields of economics and finance, as well as his dedicated and meritorious public service.”
Professor Manson Fok graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong in 1982. He is an expert in minimally invasive surgery for esophageal cancer.
He is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Macau University of Science and Technology, Superintendent of University Hospital Macau, Professional Committee Member of the Macao Academy of Medicine, Chairman of the Sino-Luso International Medical Forum, Trustee of the Macau Henry Fok Foundation, Visiting Professor of Peking University People's Hospital and Beijing Cancer Hospital. And he is the Founder and Chairman of the Virtus Medical Group, which is one of specialist medical groups in Hong Kong.
