Feng Hou

Hou’s credentials within blockchain include his reelection as the founding chair of the blockchain Education Architecture Special Interest Group (EASIG) under the Linux Foundation; he currently serves as the Vertical Chair of Education at Blockchain Chamber of Commerce. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Pistis.io Inc, which is a blockchain platform service. Hou is an award-winning CIO and a nationally sought-after speaker who did the keynote addresses at the Blockchain in Education conference in Washington, D.C., and Interface St. Louis in 2019, presented and led a blockchain workshop at the Alliance 2022 conference, and spoke at Blockchain in Oil & Gas in 2021. He was also invited by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a Blockchain in Education workshop speaker and co-leader to present at the conference and is the co-author of Adaptive Lifelong Learning for an Inclusive Knowledge Economy.

In addition to his leadership role, Hou teaches graduate-level courses at Maryville University and is also leading the development of an undergraduate course on blockchain.

Hou received a BA in English and American Literature from Central China Huashi University in Wuhan. He earned his MS in Business & Instructional Technology from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. Hou also attended Harvard Institute for Educational Management (IEM-2017) for senior higher education executives.