Haiwei Dong is a Principal Researcher at Huawei Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. He received his M.Sc. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008 and his Ph.D. from Kobe University in 2010. His research interests include artificial intelligence, multimedia computing and communications, digital twins, metaverse, and robotics. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM, and a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.