Keynote Speaker I
Prof. Pingyi Fan, IET Fellow, Academician of the United States National Academy of Artificial Intelligence,
Tsinghua University, China
Biography:
Dr. Pingyi Fan is a professor and the director of open source data recognition innovation center, Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. He is member (Academician) of the united states national academy of artificial intelligence (NAAI) and Fellow of IET and IET Fellowship international Assessor. He received Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. He also visited many universities and research institutes in the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore. He has obtained many research grants, including national 973 Project, 863 Project, mobile special project and the key R&D program, national natural funds and international cooperation projects. He has published more than 600 papers （ORCID） including 171 IEEE journals and more than 10 ESI highly cited papers as well as 4 academic books. He also applied for more than 40 national invention patents, 7 international patents. He won 10 best paper awards of IEEE international conferences, including IEEE ICCCS2023 and 2024, ICC2020 and Globecom 2014, and received the best paper award of IEEE TAOS Technical Committee in 2020, the excellent editor award of IEEE TWC (2009), the most popular scholar award 2023 of AEIC, the second natural Prize of CIC (2023) and several international innovation exhibition medals, i.e. Gold Medal at the Russian Invention Exhibition-2024, Silver Medal at Geneva Invention Exhibition-2023, and Silver Medal at Paris Invention Exhibition-2023 etc. and served as the editorial board member of several Journals, including IEEE and MDPI. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), the editorial board member of Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences and IAES international journal of artificial intelligence, the deputy director of China Information Theory society, the Co-chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4, and the chairman of Network and Communication Technology Committee of IEEE ChinaSIP. His current research interests are in 6G wireless communication network and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, intelligent network and system detection, etc.
Keynote Speaker II
Prof. Maode Ma, IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, Qatar University, Qatar
Biography:
Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. Before joining Qatar University, he has been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for over 20 years. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 26 research projects funded by government, industry, military, and universities in various countries. He has supervised 25 research students to get their Ph. D degrees. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair, and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Prof. Ma has more than 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. He has edited a few technical books and produced over 28 book chapters. His publication has received over 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. He has delivered over 90 keynote speeches and 10 tutorials at various international conferences. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He has been serving as an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.
Keynote Speaker III
Prof. Hoa Le Minh, Northumbria University, UK
Biography:
Hoa Le Minh is currently a Professor in Optical Communications and the Deputy Head of Department of Mathematics, Physics, and Electrical Engineering, Northumbria University, UK. Previously he was a Research Fellow at University of Oxford, UK (2007-2010), a Research Assistant at Siemens AG, Munich, Germany (2002-2004), and a Lecturer in Telecommunications at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology, Vietnam (1999-2001). He is an expert in photonics, optical communications, visible light communications, smartphone technology, signal processing, and intelligent networks. He has published more than 200 articles, in journals, conferences, and book chapters, and received grants from EPSRC, Innovate UK, EU and industry.
Hoa was a former Chapter Chair of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) UK and Ireland Chapter. He is a member of EPSRC ICT grant prioritisation panels, and an associate editor for peer-review journals.
Keynote Speaker IV
Prof. Mouquan Shen, Nanjing Tech University, China
Biography:
Professor, the "Six Talent Peaks" of Jiangsu Province. Postdoctoral at Southeast University, visiting scholar at overseas universities such as the University of Hong Kong, Yeungnam University, South Korea, and the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the PI of more than 10 provincial-level projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, and the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation. In recent years, more than 100 papers with an H-index of 24 have been published in journals such as IEEE Transactions on · Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He has been appointed Editor-in-Cheif, Associate Editor, or Editorial Board Member of 12 international journals. He is also an active reviewer of over 80 domestic and international journals, including IEEE, TAC, and Automatica, as well as the corresponding reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and multiple provincial and municipal science and technology projects.