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.

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).

Abdel-Wahab Khalifa is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast. His research examines the sociopolitical dimensions of translation, including soft power, propaganda, diplomacy, and the social history of translation in Arabo-Islamic contexts. He has published in leading journals including The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, The Translator, Diplomatica and Perspectives, and contributed to major reference works including the Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation. His work includes Translation of Arabic Literature in the United Kingdom and Ireland, The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation, Translation and the Power of Agency, and the forthcoming Translating Modernity. He sits on the advisory boards of several journals and academic programmes, on the executive board of the Association for Translation Studies in Africa, and is a member of the IATIS Regional Workshop Committee. He is Editor-in-Chief of The Translator and co-editor of Encounters in Translation.

Daria Dayter is Associate Professor of English Linguistics at Tampere University, Finland. She holds a PhD from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, and a habilitation from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Her research interests include Global and digital English, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of *Pragmatics & Society* and has held editorial roles for *Target*, *Discourse Studies*, and *Internet Pragmatics*. She is Director of the PLURAL research centre at Tampere University and has served on university governance committees at the University of Basel. She is a member of several international scholarly associations, including the Association of Internet Researchers and the International Pragmatics Association.

Barbara Wing-Yee SIU is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She obtained her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2009. With over 15 years of teaching experience, she has developed and led courses in transportation engineering while actively pursuing education research in areas such as online and blended learning, internationalization, and communication enhancement. Dr. Siu is a Chartered Engineer and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and her contributions to teaching innovation have been recognized with multiple Faculty-level awards.