Invited Speakers

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Invited Speaker I

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.

 

Invited Speaker II

Prof. Ming Jiang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Ming Jiang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees in electronic engineering from the South China University of Technology (SCUT), China, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Southampton, U.K. He has substantial international and industrial experience with Fortune 500 telecom companies. From 2006 to 2013, he had held key research/development or executive positions at Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI), U.K., Nortel Networks' research and development center, China, and the telecom equipment maker New Postcom, China, where he actively participated in numerous collaborative projects across the EU, North America and Asia, contributing to algorithm and system research and standardization, as well as radio access and core network product designs. Since June 2013, he has been a Full Professor and a Ph.D. Supervisor with Sun Yat-sen University, China, where he focuses on both fundamental research and technology transfer, and leads a number of national, provincial and industrial research projects. He has coauthored six books, 100+ articles, 120+ patents and 400+ 3GPP/IEEE standardization contributions. He received several Chinese local council awards in 2011 and 2022, including Innovative Leading Talents, Outstanding Experts, and Top Overseas Scholars. He is currently the Deputy Director of the State-Province Joint IoT Engineering Laboratory and the Director of Guangdong Province IoT Engineering Laboratory. He is also a Senior Member of the IEEE.

 

Invited Speaker III

Dr. Chenglong Shao, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Chenglong Shao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Networks at Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, a position he has held since 2023. He received his B.S. in Information and Communications Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China, in 2010, and his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Korea University, South Korea, in 2019. He previously served as a Research Professor at Korea University in 2019, a JSPS International Research Fellow at Kyushu University from 2021 to 2023, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Riverside, in 2024. His research interests span wireless networking, IoT-enabled mobile computing, wireless security, and networked embedded systems. He has authored over 30 first-author papers in leading international journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His work has been recognized with more than 10 international awards, such as the CANDAR 2022 Best Paper Award, the 25th Samsung Humantech Paper Award – Bronze Prize in 2019, and the 1st Place Transactions Award of 2018 Annual IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Chester W. Sall Memorial Awards in 2018. He serves as an editor for Computers, Materials & Continua (CMC) and the Journal of Information and Intelligence. He is an active member of the research community, contributing as a TPC member at over 20 international conferences and as a reviewer for more than 40 academic journals. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.