Hamlet Isakhanli is the founder of Khazar University, chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, co-founder of Dunya School, publisher, translator and editor. He is a scientist and public figure,
doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor, poet, writer and publicist, and an author of articles, books, textbooks and monographs on mathematics, humanities, and social sciences.

Prof. Hu had more than 20 years of research experience in corpus-based translation studies, published 100 papers in journals indexed in CSSCI, SSCI, A & HCI, and 9 academic monographs in publishers such as Springer and China’s Higher Education Press. He is also investigators of over 13 projects on national level. In 2017 and 2020, I was admitted into the list of the most influential scholars in the research of philosophy and Social Sciences in China and the distinguished professor of the national major talent plan.

Dr. Muhammad Afzaal joined the Institute of Corpus Studies and Applications at Shanghai International Studies University, China, as an Associate Professor after earning his PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He also brings extensive research experience as a fellow at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, and nine years of teaching experience at Foundation University Islamabad, Pakistan. Dr. Afzaal is the author of two notable books: Corpora and Discourses of the Belt and Road Initiative (2023, Springer Nature) and Language, Corpora, and Technology in Applied Linguistics. He has also significantly contributed to the field of corpus linguistics through the development of LexiConc, a corpus tool designed for generating concordances and lexical bundles, which has become a valuable resource for researchers. Dr. Afzaal has published extensively in SSCI, Scopus, and ESCI-indexed international journals.

Göran Eriksson is an internationally recognized scholar working in the field of discourse studies, specializing in multimodality and social semiotics. His current research is linked to the sociology of health and is concerned with multimodal representations of healthy food and healthy eating in different settings. Ongoing studies look at marketing and is especially interested in how science and scientific expertise is communicated. In another area of interest, he explores different kinds of mobile self-tracking apps, and how such apps form peoples’ notions of health and what constitutes a healthy lifestyle. He publishes extensively in international peer-review and SCCI-index journals. His latest book is Food Marketing and Selling Healthy Lifestyles with Science, (co-authored with Lauren A O’Hagan). Since, 2021 he is one of the associate editors of the SCCI-indexed journal Discourse, Context & Society.

Lei Lei is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University. His research focuses on corpus- and NLP-based lexical and syntactic analyses of Modern and Classical Chinese and English. He is also interested in second language writing and digital humanities. He has authored five books, including a title with Cambridge University Press, and over 50 articles in international journals such as Applied Linguistics, Journal of Second Language Writing, Language Teaching, System, and Corpus Linguistics and Linguistics Theory. Dr. Lei has also published extensively in home journals in China, and led two China National Social Science Fund projects. He serves as an editorial board member for Journal of English for Academic Purposes and as an associate editor for Corpus-based Studies Across Humanities (De Gruyter).