Professor Rustam Shadiev is a Professor at the College of Education, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China). He received his Ph.D. in Network Learning Technology from National Central University, in 2012. He has served as Guest Editor for several international journal special issues, including The Use of Digital Technology for Sustainable Teaching and Learning, and is a Section Board Member of the MDPI journal Education Sciences. His research focuses on artificial intelligence in education, advanced learning technologies, cross-cultural education, language learning, mobile-assisted learning, and open and distance education. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading international journals and conference proceedings. Professor Shadiev is a Research Fellow of INTI International University (Malaysia), a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He was recognized among the Most Cited Chinese Researchers in Education by Elsevier, Scopus, and ShanghaiRanking for six consecutive years (2020–2025). He has also been listed among the world's top 2% of scientists in Stanford University's global rankings.