Invited Speakers

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Invited Speaker I

Prof. Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak, University of Missuouri Kansas City, USA

Prof. Dr. Muazzam Ali Khan Khattak is currently serving as Director Science & Technology as well as Director ICESCO Chair Data Analytics and Edge Computing at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Beside that he is also adjunct Professor at School of Computing and Engineering, University of Missouri, KC, USA. Earlier Dr. Khattak served as Associate Dean of Computing Department at NUST School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS) 2017-2020, Post graduate Head, Department of Computer Engineering, NUST CEME 2013-2016. Despite his involvement in multiple professional and administrative activities he has copiously contributed to prestigious scientific journals, seminars/conferences both at national/international levels, and has 200 research papers with more than 430+ Impact factor and book chapters to his credit having 4350+ citations. He also organized many international Conferences such as C-CODE-2017, HONET-ICT 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and C- CODE 2019. He is also editor, co editor and reviewer in many International journals of IEEE, Elsvier and Springer.

 

Invited Speaker II

Asst. Prof. Howard H. Yang, Zhejiang University, China

Howard H. Yang received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore, in 2017. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SUTD from 2017 to 2020 and a Visiting Postdoc Researcher at Princeton University from 2018 to 2019. Currently, he is an assistant professor with the ZJU-UIUC Institute, Zhejiang University, China. He is also an adjunct assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL, USA

Dr. Yang serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2023, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2022, and the IEEE WCSP 10-Year Anniversary Excellent Paper Award in 2019. He was recognized as the “6G Rising Star” Young Scholar by the Global 6G Conference in 2024.