Keynote Speakers
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Xinheng Wang |
Founding Head of Mechatronics and Robotics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. As an IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and leader of Jiangsu's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" team, his research spans intelligent/connected vehicles, airport robotics, smart manufacturing, edge computing, digital twins, acoustic sensing, healthcare, motion detection, and power system monitoring, including SLAM/navigation in robotics. With 230+ publications and dozens of patents (6 granted in the U.S./Japan/Korea, 18 in China), his work was rated "World Leading" in the UK's REF. He has led/contributed to 30+ projects funded by the EU, UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, NSFC, and industry, driving technological and industrial advancements. |
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Weijia Jia |
Professor Weijia Jia (Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Fellow) is currently the Director of Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networking, and Super Intelligent Computer Center, Beijing Normal University (BNU, Zhuhai); also a Chair Professor at BNBU(UIC), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. His contributions have been recoganized for the research of edge AI, optimal network routing and deployment; vertex cover; anycast and multicast protocols; sensors networking; knowledge relation extractions; NLP and intelligent edge computing. He has over 700 publications in the prestige international journals/conferences and research books and book chapters. He has received the best product awards from the International Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen) in 2011/2012 and the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 (list 2), and top 2% World Scientists in Stanford-list (2020-2024) and many provincial science and tech awards. |
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Yang Liang |
Professor at the School of Communication Engineering, Hunan University, specializes in wireless communications and optical wireless communications, with over 160 SCI-indexed papers published, including more than 130 IEEE journal articles. He has been consecutively listed in Stanford University's Global Top 2% Scientists (both Career-long and Single-year Impact lists) for five years and was named an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in 2023 and 2024. As principal investigator, he has led five NSFC projects (including four general programs and one youth program) and one key project under the National Key R&D Program of China, while also participating in one NSFC Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund key project. He serves or has served as an editorial board member for several prestigious international and domestic journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, Science China: Information Sciences, Journal of Communications, Chinese Journal on Internet of Things, and Acta Electronica Sinica. He was a committee member of the 8th and 9th Communication Theory & Signal Processing Committees under the China Institute of Communications. In 2020, he received the Second Prize of the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Award (ranked first) and was recognized as an Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker by the Chinese Institute of Electronics. He currently holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Hunan Electronics Society. |
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Pascal Lorenz |
Professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, recognized as a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IARIA, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research focuses on QoS, wireless networks, and high-speed networks. He has published 3 monographs, holds 3 patents, and authored 200 international papers. Lorenz has held editorial roles at IEEE Communications Magazine (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine (since 2015), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (since 2017). He chaired IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020) and IEEE France Finance (2017-2022), and led the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (2022-2023). Currently, he serves on the IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Committee and as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IJCS-Wiley, SCN-Wiley, and JNCA-Elsevier. |
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Nasir Saeed |
Associate Professor at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), focuses on cutting-edge research areas such as aerial networks, data visualization, localization in extreme environments, and visible light communication. He has published over 100 papers in high-impact journals, which have been cited more than 6,000 times, achieving an H-index of 39. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks, as well as a reviewer for several top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Networks Magazine, and Elsevier Physical Communications. |
