Prof. Dr. Xiaosong Yang is currently a Professor, Deputy Head of Department, and Programme Leader of MSc AIM at the National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University. He has over 30 years of experience in research, education, and professional practice in computer animation, machine learning, data mining, digital health, virtual reality, and surgery simulation. He is passionate about promoting the technical innovation of AI in animation production and has successfully developed new techniques in the animation production pipeline. He has rich experience managing teams with both artists and technicians together and collaborates closely with companies, like Disney Research, and Double Negative. He is a member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) UK and the Computer Science Evaluation Group of the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). His research focuses on a number of topics relating to computer animation, data mining and machine learning, digital health, virtual reality, and augmented reality, medical visualization and simulation, and computer-aided design.