Chuantao YIN is a full professor and PhD supervisor at Beihang University, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, smart education, and educational digitalization.

    Born in 1982 in Gaotang, Shandong Province, he entered the School of Computer and Communication Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University in 1999. In 2001, he was sent by the university to study at École Centrale Paris in France. In 2003, he earned a Generalist Engineer degree from École Centrale Paris and a Bachelor degree in Communication Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University. He obtained a Master degree in Communication and Information Systems from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2006. In January 2010, he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from École Centrale de Lyon in France.

    He formerly served as the Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of Ecole Centrale de Pékin (Sino-French Engineer School at Beihang University). Over the years, he has been actively engaged in Sino-French cooperative education and the cultivation of engineers, for which he received one Second Prize of Beijing Municipal Teaching Achievement Award and one First Prize of Beihang University Teaching Achievement Award. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as “Fundamentals of Computing,” “Software Engineering and Modeling,” “Data Analytics in Python” and “Introduction to General Engineering.”

    In research, Professor Yin focuses on educational information science and technology, particularly in the fields of artificial intelligence, smart education, and educational digitalization. He has led two projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and participated in several national and international research programs, including the National High-Tech “863” Program, international scientific collaboration projects, and the National Key R&D Program. To date, he has published over 50 high-level academic papers, with more than 20 indexed by SCI.