孟小峰，1964生，博士，中国人民大学信息学院教授，博士生导师。现为中国计算机学会常务理事、中国计算机学会数据库专委会秘书长，《Journal of Computer Science and Technology》、《Frontiers of Computer Science in China》、《软件学报》、《计算机研究与发展》等编委。主持或参加过二十多项国家科技攻关项目、国家自然科学基金以及国家863项目、973项目，先后获电子部科技进步特等奖（1996），北京市科技进步二等奖（1998,2001），中国计算机学会“王选奖”一等奖（2009），北京市科学技术奖二等奖（2011）等奖励，入选“中创软件人才奖”(2002)，“教育部新世纪优秀人才支持计划”(2004)，“第三届北京市高校名师奖”(2005)。研制开发的主要软件系统有国产数据库系统COBASE、嵌入式移动数据库系统“小金灵”、中文自然语言查询系统NChiql、并行数据库系统PBASE/1和Native XML数据库系统OrientX、学术空间系统ScholarSpace、云数据库系统TaijiDB等。近5年在国内外杂志IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE)、Geoinformatic、中国科学等及国际会议VLDB、SIGMOD、ICDE、EDBT 等发表论文120多篇，出版学术专著《Moving Objects Management: Models, Techniques, and Applications》(Springer)、《XML数据管理：概念与技术》、《移动数据管理：概念与技术》（中国计算机学会学术著作丛书）等。获国家发明专利授权8项。并多次担任本领域重要国际学术会议的各类主席，举办多个学术会议如FlashDB、CloudDB、MDM、XLDB Asia、NDBC、WAIM等。近期主要研究领域为互联络与移动数据管理，包括Web数据集成、XML数据库系统、云数据管理、移动对象管理、面向新型存储器的数据库系统、隐私保护、社会计算等。

Chaowei Phil Yang
    Chaowei Phil Yang is Professor of Geographic Information Science at George Mason University (GMU). His research focuses on utilizing spatiotemporal principles to optimize computing infrastructure to support science discoveries and engineering development. He has been funded as PI by multiple resources such as NSF and NASA with over $5M expenditures. He also participated/participates in several large projects total over $20M. He published over 100 papers, edited/authored 5 books and 10 special issues for international journals. His publications have been among the most cited and read papers of the International Journal of Digital Earth (IJDE) and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (CEUS). His spatial computing definition paper published with the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is captured by Nobel Intent Blog.
    He has advised over 30 graduate and visiting scholars, over 10 of whom serve as tenure-line professors at top GIScience programs within the United States and China including Arizona State, Wisconsin-Madison, Wuhan University and Chinese Academy of Sciences. He developed a number of GIS courses and programs including the Advanced GeoInformation Science Program (offered since 2006 with over 140 trainees from most provinces of China) and Executive Advanced GeoInformation Management program (offered since 2012 as the highest level of geoinformation training ever hosted by a US institution for China). He shared with Dr. Michael Goodchild the first Excellence in GIS Education Award in 2012 given by the international association of Chinese Professionals in Geographic Information Science (CPGIS) due to his leadership contribution in GIScience education.
    He also served in many public positions, such as the President of the CPGIS (2004-2005), the co-founding chair (2009-2010) of AAG Cyberinfrastructure Specialty Group (CISG), and the chair of UCGIS research committee (2012-). He received multiple national and international awards including the presidential environment protection stewardship award in 2009 from President Obama. He was invited to serve as the chief architect for NASA Goddard Cloud Computing and Climate@Home initiatives (2010-2012). He founded the Center for Intelligent Spatial Computing (CISC) at GMU, and the US NSF spatiotemporal innovation center by leading a group of international leaders from UC-Santa Barbara, Harvard, and GMU. The spatiotemporal innovation center is projected to receive over $2M/year research funding from NSF, other agencies and industry. He is now focusing on operating the center with an objective to build the national and international spatiotemporal infrastructure to advance a) human intelligence through spatiotemporal thinking, b) computer software and tools through spatiotemporal computing, and c) human capability of responding to deep scientific questions and grand engineering challenges through spatiotemporal applications.