Prof. Liuguo Yin

Tsinghua University

Bio: Professor LiuGuo Yin is a national leading talent, currently is the head of the communication coding group of the airspace information network research team of the National Research Center for Information Science and Technology of Tsinghua University, the recipient of the National JieYing Fund and National Defence Zhuoying Fund, the chief scientist of the National Key R&D Program, and has been awarded the Second Prize of the National Technological Invention and the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, and other prizes. Aiming at the direction of national strategic demand for airspace information network, Prof Yin Liuguo has long been devoted to the research directions of airspace communication, information theory and coding, and wireless network architecture, and actively explored collaborative research in quantum information, artificial intelligence, network security and other multidisciplinary cross-cutting frontier areas.

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

ZhengYuan Xu received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1999, and worked as a department manager and engineer at Tsinghua UVision from 1991 to 1996. In 1999, he joined the University of California, Riverside, USA, where he served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor, and founded and served as the first Director of the University of California Ubiquitous Optical Communications (UC-Light) Research Centre. He was a professor at Tsinghua University and was selected as the person of the year in Science China (2011). Now he is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he has founded the Research Centre for Wireless Optical Communications and Networks, and is the Chief Scientist of the National Key Program for the Development of Basic Research (973 Program), and has been engaged in theoretical and experimental research on the following topics: 3D stereospace (air, space, earth, and sea), broad-spectrum (infrared, visible, and ultraviolet) wireless optical communications, imaging, and transmission. ), wireless optical communication, imaging, sensing, positioning and navigation, intelligent traffic and Internet of Things, broadband mobile communication, wireless positioning, wireless optoelectronic heterogeneous systems. He has published more than 170 academic papers, with more than 1000 SCI citations, and the highest single citation is more than 230. He has served as an associate editor and a member of the technical committees of IEEE and OSA journals for many years, and has been the chairman or a member of the technical committees of many international academic conferences, and a reviewer of national scientific research projects and talent programmes. In 2010, he initiated and hosted the first IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Optical Communications, and continued to serve as co-chair of the symposium in the following years, and hosted the Beijing International Conference on Wireless Optical Communications.

Prof. Zhaocheng Wang

Tsinghua University

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Prof. Wang’s research interests include wireless communications, visible light communications, digital broadcasting 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 54 U.S. patents (17 of them as the first inventor and 33 of them as the second inventor) and 9 granted European patents (6 of them as the first inventor). Several granted U.S. patents have been accepted by a plurality of international standards (including 5G, LTE/LTE-A, WiFi, IEEE802.11n, DVB-T2, IEEE802.15.3c, ECMA387, etc.). Besides that, he authored/co-authored five books, two of which have been selected by IEEE Series on Digital & Mobile Communication and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. Prof. Wang has published 300+ peer-reviewed papers, many of them are in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications. He has 18200+ Google citations and his H-index is 67.