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Keynote Speaker: Zhigeng Pan

Prof. Zhigeng Pan, Ph.D., Chief Scientist of National Key Research And Development Program, Vice President of China Academy of Graphics, Vice President of China Virtual Reality and Visualization Innovation Technology Strategy Alliance, Director of Digital Media And Human-Computer Interaction Research Center in Hangzhou Normal University, Director of Guangdong Virtual Reality Industry Research Institute.

In research of virtual reality, human-computer interaction, graphics and digital entertainment, he undertook and completed 2 key projects of the national natural science foundation, 2 National science and technology support program, 1 “863” high-tech project etc., published more than 80 papers in international journal PAMI/TVCG/CGF/IEEE CG&A/CAD and international conference ACM Multimedia/IEEE VR, and has high international reputation and academic influence. One paper published on TVCG in 2012 has become 1% of the most cited papers in the world; One  paper published in C&G in 2006 has become the top 50 papers (ranked seventh) of all computer papers published by ScienceDirect since 2005 by Chinese authors.

Due to Prof. Pan’s outstanding contribution in virtual reality and computer graphics, he got Second Prize of China University Science And Technology Progress Award (Natural Science Category) in 2001, Second Prize of National Science And Technology Progress Award (ranked third) in 2008, First Prize of Shanghai Science And Technology Progress Award in 2011, Second Prize of Zhejiang Science And Technology Progress (Natural Science) in 2015, Zhejiang Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Fund Project and Ministry of Education Outstanding Young Teachers Teaching and Research Award Program (New Century Talent Program) in 2000, and 2002-2005/2013-2016 served as Zhejiang special professor for the second time (Qianjiang Scholars) 

Main research area: virtual reality, human-computer interaction, digital museum, smart tourism, digital entertainment and games, etc.
Topic：Research Progress of VR/AR and Its Application in Publishing