Prof. Zeng received the B.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics and M.Sc. degree in physics from Tsinghua University, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. She received the Ph.D. degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2009. From 2009 to 2010, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) and the Department of Combinatorics & Optimization, University of Waterloo. In 2010, she joined the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph, as an assistant professor, and promoted to Tenured Associate Professor in 2014 and Professor in 2018. In 2019, she joined the Department of Physics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as a Professor.

Prof. Zeng’s research strives to bring us closer to the goal of reliable transmission and processing of quantum information. From the theoretical point of view, she is seeking to construct a broad theory for building a large class of quantum error-correcting codes. From the practical point of view, her focus is on the design of quantum error-correcting codes with nice properties that are suitable for high rate quantum information transmission through practical physical channels, and reliable quantum computation with high noise tolerance and low resource requirement.

Rupert is the Managing Director of Page Executive in Mainland China, also responsible for the Michael Page business line in North and East China. He has 17 years’ experience in executive recruitment at PageGroup, initially setting up our London practices for Procurement & Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Operations. Since 2011, Rupert has been based in Beijing & Shanghai helping international businesses to grow in this strategically important market.

Colin Zee has over 40 years of experience working in IT in world class organisations, latterly for HSBC, Goldman Sachs and Standard Chartered Bank. Recently he has focussed on Artificial Intelligence, Cloud governance and migrations at scale, and Cyber security, successfully defining and executing global programmes.

He passionately believes that Artificial Intelligence will be more transformative than anything that has come before, and in much shorter order.

Culturally aware, he has lived in the UK, Middle East and SE Asia, and is based in Hong Kong.

In addition to his IT credentials, he recently completed the FT INED Masters Diploma, is an executive coach, and has a never ending quest to get fit.

Mr. Edward Chui is the Hong Kong Director at the Economist Intelligence Corporate Network.

Mr Chui has worked in the Greater China region for over 20 years. Before coming to The Economist Group, he was a consultant with Chesapeake Pacific Capital Management overseeing a range of thought leadership projects on the ultra-high net worth, family office, philanthropy, and next generation wealth succession. He was also Vice President at The Private Bank at JP Morgan in Hong Kong working with senior management in the expansion of the Asia Pacific business through special programs and wealth management publications for clients. Mr Chui also possesses extensive experience in the media and technology sectors having worked at Star TV, a subsidiary of News Corp, Alter Ego Networks in Silicon Valley and EF Education focusing on the China mobile business.

Mr Chui has a BA in Government from Wesleyan University and an MBA from the USC Marshall School of Business.