Prof. Dapeng Wu, IEEE Fellow, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Biography:
Dapeng Oliver Wu (S'98--M'04--SM'06--F'13) received a B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1990, an M.E. degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003.
He is Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Network Science, and Chair Professor of Data Engineering at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. Previously, he was on the faculty of University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA and was the director of NSF Center for Big Learning, USA. His research interests are in the areas of networking, communications, signal processing, computer vision, machine learning, smart grid, and information and network security. He received University of Florida Term Professorship Award in 2017, University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award in 2009, AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2009, ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2008, NSF CAREER award in 2007, the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) Transactions Best Paper Award for Year 2001, and the Best Paper Awards in IEEE GLOBECOM 2011 and International Conference on Quality of Service in Heterogeneous Wired/Wireless Networks (QShine) 2006.
He has served as Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Editor-at-Large for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, founding Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advances in Multimedia, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is also a guest-editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Special Issue on Cross-layer Optimized Wireless Multimedia Communications and Special Issue on Airborne Communication Networks. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012, and TPC chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2008), Signal Processing for Communications Symposium, and as a member of executive committee and/or technical program committee of over 100 conferences. He was elected as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2016. He has served as Chair for the Award Committee, and Chair of Mobile and wireless multimedia Interest Group (MobIG), Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications, IEEE Communications Society. He was an elected member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee, IEEE Signal Processing Society from Jan. 1, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow.
Prof. Pingyi Fan, Tsinghua University, China
Biography:
Dr. Pingyi Fan is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from the same department in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he conducted research visits at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. Additionally, he has visited numerous universities and research institutes across Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Dr. Fan has successfully secured various research grants such as national 973 Project, 863 Project, mobile special project, key R&D program, national natural funds, and international cooperation projects. His extensive publication record includes over 190 SCI papers (more than 130 IEEE journals) and four academic books. Furthermore, he holds more than 30 national invention patents along with five international patents. He has been honored with seven best paper awards at international conferences, including IEEE ICC2020 and Globecom 2014. Additionally, he received the prestigious best paper award from the IEEE TAOS Technical Committee in 2020, as well as the esteemed excellent editor award from IEEE TWC in 2009. Furthermore, he has served on the editorial boards of various journals such as IEEE and MDPI. Currently, he holds positions as an editorial board member for Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, deputy director of China Information Theory Society, co-chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4, and chairman of Network and Communication Technology Committee at IEEE ChinaSIP. His current research interests encompass diverse areas including 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, intelligent network systems detection.
Prof. Jun Liu, IEEE Senior Member, Ulster University, UK
Biography:
Dr Jun Liu is currently a Reader in Computer Science, Director of Artificial Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) at School of Computing. Before he joined Ulster University, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Manchester, UK (Feb. 2002 - Dec. 2004), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Belgian Nuclear Research Centre (SCK*CEN) (Mar. 2000 -Feb. 2002). He received the BSc. and MSc. degrees in Applied Mathematics, and PhD. degree in Information Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China, in 1993, 1996, and 1999, respectively.
He has been working in the field of Artificial Intelligence for many years. His current research is focused on two themes: 1) knowledge-centralized data analytics under uncertainty for sensing decision making, with applications in management, engineering, and industry field etc. (e.g., safety and risk analysis; policy decision making; security/disaster management; and heath care and smart home); 2) logic and automated reasoning methods for intelligent systems. In particular: resolution-based automated reasoning methods, algorithm and tools with applications (including software verification and automated theorem proving); lattice-valued logics with focus on handling incomparability, inconsistency and imprecision. He has over 230 publications in these areas.
He has been a grant holder of several national and international research projects. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy Systems, Knowledge-Based Systems, and Human-Centric Computing and Information Sciences; an Area Editor of International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, is also an Editor of Information Fusion Journal, Journal of Universal Computer Science, and International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science.
He is the current Chair of the IEEE System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Ireland Chapter (SMC28), a Senior member of the IEEE including IEEE SMC and IEEE CI, and the Member of IEEE CIS Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC). He serves as chairs or co-chairs and program committees of a number of international conferences and workshops.
He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.