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My name is Fuhua Lin. Oscar is my popular name.
I am a Professor and the department Chair of School of Computing and Information Systems, Faculty of Science and Technology of Athabasca University (AU), Canada. I originally came from Guangzhou City, Mainland China and obtained my PhD in Virtual Reality from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong in 1998.I joined AU in October of 2000. Prior to working in Athabasca University, I was an assistant research officer of Institute for Information Technology of National Research Council (NRC) of Canada in Ottawa. During 1998-1999, I did post-doc research at University of Calgary, Canada.
My current main research interests are in
- Reasoning and Learning Capabilities of Intelligent agents and Multiagent Systems;
- Multi-criteria and multi-parties distribued decision-making using AI (in particular, the Multi-Agent Systems approach)
- 3D immersive virtual worlds and intelligent educational environments.
I am a member of AAAI, ACM, AIED, and IEEE. I serve as a co-Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Distance Education Technologies (IJDET). I am also on the editorial boards of many international journals. I served as invited reviewers for many international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Educational Technologies.
You can contact me via email: oscarl@athabascau.ca or fuhua.o.lin@gmail.com, or call me at 1-866-539-8664. Thanks.