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Prof. Yu Xiong CEng FAcSS is a Chair Professor of Business Analytics and a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. He is the founding director of the Surrey Centre for Innovation and Commercialization, where he has secured approximately £2 million to support a wide range of initiatives across the university ecosystem. He also founded the Surrey Academy for Blockchain and Metaverse Applications, through which he has obtained an additional £2 million in funding to advance the university’s education, training, and research in blockchain business applications. Professor Xiong has previously held several senior administrative roles, including University Associate Vice-President for External Engagement, University Associate Dean (International), Director of Enterprise Engagement, and Director of Knowledge Exchange, among others.

Before joining Surrey, he held positions at the University of York as an EPSRC Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast as a Lecturer and Director of the China Management Research Institute, the University of East Anglia as an Associate Professor and Associate Director of External Engagement for Norwich Business School, and at Northumbria University as a Professor and Director of Enterprise Engagement, Faculty Lead for Knowledge Exchange, and Head of the Supply Chain Management Group. He was the Chair of the Advisory Board of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Metaverse and Web 3.0, and a Board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain.

Professor Xiong's research focuses on sustainable and technological issues within global supply chains, and he has published in world leading journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Nature Communications, International Journal of Operations and Production Management(IJOPM), International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Economics, the Journal of the Operational Research Society etc., among others. He has served as a guest editor for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Technovation, IEEE Transaction Part E etc.. According to Elsevier, from 2014-2023, he ranks third in the UK for his research outputs in Closed-Loop Supply Chain and Remanufacturing, and he is the number 1 cited researcher in the UK in the same category. One of his publications in Nature Communications has achieved an Altmetrics score of almost 1,960, placing it among the one of the forty most significant scientific achievements in 2021 and including it in the Timeline of Computing for that year. 

Selected National & International Media Commentary (BBC, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sky News, The Independent etc.)

• New Scientist (16 May 2025): When it comes to crime, you can’t algorithm your way to safety
• Daily Express(22 Sept 2025):   It might not be Tom Cruise and Minority Report but AI can fight crime 
• Newsweek (3 July 2025): Culture War at Harvard Spells Disaster for America’s AI Future
• European Business Review: Yu Xiong and the Future Foundations of Digital Trust - The European Business Review
• The Independent (4 Jan 2026): Britain has made a huge miscalculation – the era of the AI unemployables is here
• Evening Standard: (16 Feb 2026): How the fan economy is making everyone a winner
• BBC: (May 2021) Green Ideas: AHRC top 26 researches selected for COP 26    
• Sky News:  TV interview comments about China

Professor Xiong's research has received funding from prominent organizations, including the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), Research England, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, the British Academy, the British Council, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, the Satellite Applications Catapult, and many more private and public organizations. He was a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership(CISL, 2016-2023) , Senior Fellow of the University of Oxford Technology  and Management Centre for Development(TCMD, 2023-Present), Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the University of York, as well as a visiting professor at Durham University Business School.

In terms of innovation commercialization, Professor Xiong has extensive experience working as a director and chair of companies. While in Newcastle, he facilitated an £8 million investment to establish TusPark Newcastle, which has created a significant impact on ecosystem innovation in the North of England. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Satellite Application Catapult, appointed by the CEO, and recently became the managing director/co-founder of OxValue.ai(Winner of Falling Wall Scientific Breaking Through Awards, 2022, and  Oxford University Vice Chancellor Award(Highly Commended) 2025), a joint venture between Professor Xiong and the University of Oxford, focusing on early-stage technology valuation. Professor Xiong has contributed to the growth of more than 40 companies in the UK, he is also the core team member of Fotor, one of the leading Generative AI platforms in the world, that has 650 million users.  In 2023, he co-founded Keath.ai, and became Chair of the board, this company won runner up award the the Times Higher Education Digital University Awards, as well as becoming the second prize of the influential Pie News Awards innovation of the year 2024.  Recently,  Professor Yu Xiong has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientest of Datasection Inc., a publicly listed company based in Tokyo(T.3905). Datasection specializes in AI infrastructure and has a market capitalization of $340 million(as of 25th Nov 2025). The company is a influential player in the AI industry, recently signing a significant agreement with Solaria to build a data center in Spain. This collaboration highlights Datasection's commitment to expanding its global presence and advancing AI-driven technologies in data infrastructure.

In the sustainability domain, Professor Xiong has dedicated much of his time to developing real-world projects. He was a company director for the ADAPT Group, running a £50 million Low Carbon Innovation Fund. He has also worked on various projects with UNESCO related to the Sustainable Development Goals, was a board director of 99P Recycling Limited, and served as a trustee for the charity Magna Carta World Peace and Sustainability Foundation. In 2018, he was appointed as Director and Chair of the London Fashion Fund, which is fully funded by the Mayor's Office of London to support sustainable fashion startups. His research was highlighted by the BBC as one of the 26 UK projects celebrating COP26 in 2021. His another research, collaborating with Therme Group, was asked to announce at COP 28. 

In the blockchain sphere, Professor Xiong was the Chair of the advisory board of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Metaverse and Web 3.0, and co-founder to Endless Protocol(endless.link). According to Altmetrics, his research about blockchain, which was published in National Communication , is currently ranked as the world's number one for impact(AltMetric 1983) among academic publications featuring the keyword "blockchain."  He has been Principal Investigator to the influential research about tourism tokenomic model, funded by the largest tourism resort company in the world, Therme Group.  

Prof. Xiong's accomplishments extend beyond his professional achievements; in 2012, he was honored to be a London Olympic Torchbearer. In 2015, he received the distinguished May 4th Medal, also also received the 2021 Global Ghandi Award in House of Lords of the UK Parliament. 

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Prof. Yu Xiong CEng FAcSS is a Chair Professor of Business Analytics and a Fellow of the prestigious Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom. He is the founding director of the Surrey Centre for Innovation and Commercialization, where he has secured approximately £2 million to support a wide range of initiatives across the university ecosystem. He also founded the Surrey Academy for Blockchain and Metaverse Applications, through which he has obtained an additional £2 million in funding to advance the university’s education, training, and research in blockchain business applications. Professor Xiong has previously held several senior administrative roles, including University Associate Vice-President for External Engagement, University Associate Dean (International), Director of Enterprise Engagement, and Director of Knowledge Exchange, among others.

Before joining Surrey, he held positions at the University of York as an EPSRC Research Fellow, Queen's University Belfast as a Lecturer and Director of the China Management Research Institute, the University of East Anglia as an Associate Professor and Associate Director of External Engagement for Norwich Business School, and at Northumbria University as a Professor and Director of Enterprise Engagement, Faculty Lead for Knowledge Exchange, and Head of the Supply Chain Management Group. He was the Chair of the Advisory Board of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Metaverse and Web 3.0, and a Board member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain.

Professor Xiong's research focuses on sustainable and technological issues within global supply chains, and he has published in world leading journals such as the Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Nature Communications, International Journal of Operations and Production Management(IJOPM), International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Production Economics, the Journal of the Operational Research Society etc., among others. He has served as a guest editor for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Technovation, IEEE Transaction Part E etc.. According to Elsevier, from 2014-2023, he ranks third in the UK for his research outputs in Closed-Loop Supply Chain and Remanufacturing, and he is the number 1 cited researcher in the UK in the same category. One of his publications in Nature Communications has achieved an Altmetrics score of almost 1,960, placing it among the one of the forty most significant scientific achievements in 2021 and including it in the Timeline of Computing for that year. 

Selected National & International Media Commentary (BBC, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sky News, The Independent etc.)

• New Scientist (16 May 2025): When it comes to crime, you can’t algorithm your way to safety
• Daily Express(22 Sept 2025):   It might not be Tom Cruise and Minority Report but AI can fight crime 
• Newsweek (3 July 2025): Culture War at Harvard Spells Disaster for America’s AI Future
• European Business Review: Yu Xiong and the Future Foundations of Digital Trust - The European Business Review
• The Independent (4 Jan 2026): Britain has made a huge miscalculation – the era of the AI unemployables is here
• Evening Standard: (16 Feb 2026): How the fan economy is making everyone a winner
• BBC: (May 2021) Green Ideas: AHRC top 26 researches selected for COP 26    
• Sky News:  TV interview comments about China

Professor Xiong's research has received funding from prominent organizations, including the EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council), Research England, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy, the British Academy, the British Council, the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult, the Satellite Applications Catapult, and many more private and public organizations. He was a Fellow of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership(CISL, 2016-2023) , Senior Fellow of the University of Oxford Technology  and Management Centre for Development(TCMD, 2023-Present), Visiting Professor in Computer Science at the University of York, as well as a visiting professor at Durham University Business School.

In terms of innovation commercialization, Professor Xiong has extensive experience working as a director and chair of companies. While in Newcastle, he facilitated an £8 million investment to establish TusPark Newcastle, which has created a significant impact on ecosystem innovation in the North of England. He is a Strategic Advisor to the Satellite Application Catapult, appointed by the CEO, and recently became the managing director/co-founder of OxValue.ai(Winner of Falling Wall Scientific Breaking Through Awards, 2022, and  Oxford University Vice Chancellor Award(Highly Commended) 2025), a joint venture between Professor Xiong and the University of Oxford, focusing on early-stage technology valuation. Professor Xiong has contributed to the growth of more than 40 companies in the UK, he is also the core team member of Fotor, one of the leading Generative AI platforms in the world, that has 650 million users.  In 2023, he co-founded Keath.ai, and became Chair of the board, this company won runner up award the the Times Higher Education Digital University Awards, as well as becoming the second prize of the influential Pie News Awards innovation of the year 2024.  Recently,  Professor Yu Xiong has been appointed as Senior Vice President and Chief Scientest of Datasection Inc., a publicly listed company based in Tokyo(T.3905). Datasection specializes in AI infrastructure and has a market capitalization of $340 million(as of 25th Nov 2025). The company is a influential player in the AI industry, recently signing a significant agreement with Solaria to build a data center in Spain. This collaboration highlights Datasection's commitment to expanding its global presence and advancing AI-driven technologies in data infrastructure.

In the sustainability domain, Professor Xiong has dedicated much of his time to developing real-world projects. He was a company director for the ADAPT Group, running a £50 million Low Carbon Innovation Fund. He has also worked on various projects with UNESCO related to the Sustainable Development Goals, was a board director of 99P Recycling Limited, and served as a trustee for the charity Magna Carta World Peace and Sustainability Foundation. In 2018, he was appointed as Director and Chair of the London Fashion Fund, which is fully funded by the Mayor's Office of London to support sustainable fashion startups. His research was highlighted by the BBC as one of the 26 UK projects celebrating COP26 in 2021. His another research, collaborating with Therme Group, was asked to announce at COP 28. 

In the blockchain sphere, Professor Xiong was the Chair of the advisory board of the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Metaverse and Web 3.0, and co-founder to Endless Protocol(endless.link). According to Altmetrics, his research about blockchain, which was published in National Communication , is currently ranked as the world's number one for impact(AltMetric 1983) among academic publications featuring the keyword "blockchain."  He has been Principal Investigator to the influential research about tourism tokenomic model, funded by the largest tourism resort company in the world, Therme Group.  

Prof. Xiong's accomplishments extend beyond his professional achievements; in 2012, he was honored to be a London Olympic Torchbearer. In 2015, he received the distinguished May 4th Medal, also also received the 2021 Global Ghandi Award in House of Lords of the UK Parliament. 

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I have been a Research Assistant in the Engineering Department of Cambridge University (1973--75), SERC Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (1975-77), Royal Society European Research Fellow, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommuninations, Paris (1977--78), IBM Research Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford (1978--80), Principal Research Associate, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1980--84) and Principal Scientific Officer, SERC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (1985).

I also worked as the SERC Coordinator for Pattern Analysis (1982), and was Rutherford Research Fellow in Oxford University, Dept. Engineering Science (1985).

I joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of Surrey University in 1986 as a Reader in Information Technology, and became Professor of Machine Intelligence in 1991 and gained the title Distinguished Professor in 2004.

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John Collomosse is a Professor of Computer Vision and AI at the University of Surrey where he is the founder and director of DECaDE, the UKRI Next Stage Centre for the Decentralized Digital Economy. He is a Fellow of the IET, Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is a Chartered Engineer and Senior Member of IEEE. John is a member of the UKRI Science and Technology Board (SETB) and for DCMS the technical working group on Copyright and AI and Creative Industries Council (CIC). From 2018-2024 he was on the UKRI/EPSRC advisory team for Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) and Digital Economy (DE) programmes.

John is concurrently a Senior Principal Scientist and distinguished inventor at Adobe Research, where he directs the research programme for Adobe’s Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) and is a core technical advisor to the initiative since co-founding the CAI in 2019. Now with 6000+ members, CAI leads a cross-industry standards group (C2PA; Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) which John helped to establish in 2021 and where he chairs the cross-industry task forces on watermarking, and distributed ledgers (Blockchain). 

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