Guizhou Wang is a PhD student at the University of Stavanger, Norway, since October 2021. His working PhD thesis title is “Game Theoretic Modeling of Economic Systems Involving Digital Currencies.” He has published 25 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests are digital finance, economic systems, Bitcoin, blockchain and artificial intelligence, financial technology, business and investment, risk analysis and security, game theory, econometrics, bibliometrics, etc. He holds an MSc degree in economics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, September 2016–June 2019, focusing on mathematical finance, business models, and econometrics. He holds a BSc degree in financial engineering from the Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, September 2010–June 2014, focusing on financial derivatives, and mathematical modeling. His email is guizhou.wang@uis.no.
Prof. Gopalakrishnan Kumar is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Stavanger, Norway, working on various projects related to Lignocellulose/Biomass/Solid waste valorization via biorefinery aspects towards clean/green energy and various bioproducts/platform chemicals generation. He received his Master's degree in Biotechnology from VIT University in 2010 and obtained his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering and Science from Feng Chia University in 2013. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Autonomous University of Mexico between August 2013 and March 2014 and a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Insitute of Environmental Sciences (NIES), Japan, between August 2014 and July 2016. His major research area includes Micro/Macroalgae biorefinery technologies, wastewater treatment, Biofuels (H2, Ethanol, CH4) production from LCB/solid waste, and WW.
