Towards an Intelligent Industry AI-Driven Transformation and Managerial Innovation

Jiewu Leng is Professor and Deputy Director of the of Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Integrated Manufacturing at Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. His current research interests include smart manufacturing system design and digital twins. He has published more than 130 SCI papers and was selected as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2025 and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher since 2021. 

Evgeny Kuzmin is an Academic Researcher in the Department of Regional Economic Policy and Economic Security at the Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. His research interests include risk and uncertainty, economic crises, sustainability, public-private partnerships, industrial policy, economic growth, and entrepreneurship. He has authored more than 150 scientific publications and has served as a peer review on various international journals. 

Thippa Reddy Gadekallu is Chief Engineer at Zhongda Group, Jiaxing City, China. Currently his areas of research include machine learning, internet of things, deep neural networks, blockchain and computer vision. He has more than 15 years’ experience in teaching and research and has more than 350 international/national publications in reputed journals and conferences. He was recently recognized among the top 2% scientists in the world by Elsevier in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. He is also recognized as a highly cited researcher, young scientist category, by Clarivate (web of Science) for the period 2017-2022 in the year 2023.  

Victoria Akberdina is Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics and Head of the Department of Regional Industrial Policy and Economic Security at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia. She conducts fundamental and applied research on problems concerning industrial policy formation, forecasting methodologies, and modeling the evolution of the economic and technological development of industrial complexes, as well as the structural dimensions of economic development.

Vikas Kumar is a Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is a distinguished academic and researcher with over 15 years of experience in the operations and supply chain management domain. Professor Kumar has significantly contributed to areas of sustainable supply chains, circular economy, operational excellence, and supply chain 4.0. He has published over 350 papers in top-tier international journals and international conferences. He was featured among the top 1% of the Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list and in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list in 2024. He is also featured in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list in 2024/2025 and in the Talent 100 Business & Economics 2026 ranking.