Prof. Zhi Quan

Shenzhen University

Bio: Dr. Quan is a Professor at Shenzhen University. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), with the highest honor. He previously worked at Qualcomm and Apple as a Senior System Engineer and RF System Architect, respectively. His research interests include communication networks, signal processing, RF instrumentation, and machine learning. He has led the design of two generations of Wi-Fi standards and the R&D tasks of three generations of iPhones. His invention of a high-precision RF power calibration technique has been adopted by Apple in large-scale manufacturing. He also developed a series of wireless signaling test instruments, now adopted by leading industry enterprises.

Prof. Haixia Zhang

Shandong University

Professor Zhang Haixia, national leading talent, now is a special professor of Shandong University and director of Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Wireless Communication Technology. She has long been committed to research in the field of wireless communication and network, and has made a series of original breakthroughs in large-scale antenna technology, optimal management of wireless resources, and the theory of data-assisted intelligent communication network, etc., and has led a team to explore the application of 5G key technologies in industrial Internet of Things, intelligent manufacturing She has also led her team to explore the application of 5G key technologies in industrial IoT, smart manufacturing and other fields, and has made significant contributions to the development of wireless communication technology and 5G-enabled vertical industries.2022 In July, Professor Zhang Haixia was awarded the 17th China Young Women Scientist Award.

Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyato

Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Dusit Niyato is currently a President's Chair Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received B.E. from King Mongkuk’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand in 1999 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2008. Dusit's research interests are in the areas of distributed collaborative machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), edge intelligent generative AI and AI-generated content (AIGC), mobile and distributed computing, and wireless networks. Dusit won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award, and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Survey Paper Award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Board (APB) Outstanding Paper Award. Currently, Dusit is serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor of 34.4 for 2023), an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, associate editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), IEEE Data Descriptions, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Computing Surveys. He was also a guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. He is the Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society for 2024-2026. He was named the 2017-2023 highly cited researcher in computer science. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.

Prof. Zhengyuan Xu

University of Science and Technology of China

Prof. Zhengyuan Xu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. From 1991 to 1996, he was with Tsinghua Unisplendour Group Corporation as a system engineer and department manager. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, USA, in 1999. Afterwards, he became an assistant professor, tenured associate professor and full professor successively at University of California at Riverside and later a full professor at Tsinghua University before he joined University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, where he is now a chair professor. He is the founding director of the multi-campus Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light, University of California, and founding director of Wireless-Optical Communications Key Laboratory of Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a distinguished expert, chief scientist of the National Key Basic Research Program of China, and National Key Research and Development Program of China. His research focuses on Petahertz communications, optical wireless communications, mobile networking, artificial intelligence, wireless big data, sensing, ranging and localization. He has published over 400 international journal and conference papers, co-authored 3 books, and has been authorized more than 30 invention patents. He has been on the Elsevier annual list of Most Cited Chinese Researchers since 2014 and received more than 13000 Google Scholar citations. He has served as an Associate Editor for different IEEE/OPTICA journals and a founding chair of the First IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in 2010.

Prof. Zhaocheng Wang

Tsinghua University

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Prof. Zhaocheng Wang is currently a Full Professor with Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. He was previously the Director of Broadband Communication Key Laboratory, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology from 2012 to 2019, and is currently the Director of Broadband Wireless Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate Analytics), a World’s Top 2% Scientist (Stanford University), a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the AAIA, a Fellow of AIIA and a Fellow of the IET. Prof. Wang’s research interests include wireless communications and AI-empowered wireless communications. He is internationally well-known for a large number of high-quality original granted patents and publications in high-impact journals. He holds 66 granted U.S. patents/European patents (23 of them as the first inventor). Several granted patents have been regarded as standard essential patent (SEP) by a plurality of international standards (e.g. 4G/5G wireless systems, WiFi, DVB-T2, etc.). Prof. Wang has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers, 17 of which have been selected as Clarivate Analytics ESI highly cited papers, 9 of which received Best Paper Awards, including 2020 IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize (Best Paper Award of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications), 2018 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2016 IET Premium Award (Best Paper Award of Electronics Letters), 2016 IEEE Scott Helt Memorial Award (Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting), and several Best Paper Awards from renowned international conferences. He has garnered in excess of 23000 Google citations and his H-index is 71.