Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Junlong Chen

IEEE Life Fellow、IAPR Fellow/AAAS Fellow

South China University of Technology, China, China

Experience: Professor Junlong Chen (C. L. Philip Chen) is the Dean of the School of Computer Science and Engineering at South China University of Technology.He is a Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Russian Academy of Engineering. Professor Chen is an IEEE Life Fellow, an IAPR Fellow, and an AAAS Fellow.He has published over 1,200 papers in internationally renowned journals, including more than 800 articles in IEEE Transactions journals, and has received multiple Best Paper Awards. As of January 2025, his work has been cited over 66,000 times on Google Scholar with an H-index of 121, and over 55,000 times according to Web of Science, including 53 highly cited papers (top 1%) and 4 hot papers (top 0.1%). Professor Chen has received five Outstanding Contribution Awards from various IEEE societies, the prestigious IEEE Norbert Wiener Award in 2018, the IEEE Joseph G. Wohl Outstanding Career Award in 2021, and the Wu Wen Jun AI Prize for Outstanding Contribution in Artificial Intelligence in 2021. He has also been recognized as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for six consecutive years from 2018 to 2023.

Prof. Yan Zhang

IEEE Fellow、MAE、Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Academy Member, Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Experience: Yan Zhang is currently a Full Professor with University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. His research interests include next-generation wireless networks leading to 6G, green and secure cyber-physical systems. Dr. Zhang is an Editor for several IEEE transactions/magazine. Since 2018, Prof. Zhang has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (i.e., Web of Science). He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, elected member of Academia Europaea (MAE), elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), and elected member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA).

Prof. Shengli Xie

IEEE Fellow、Foreign member of the Russian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow

Guangdong University of Technology, China

Experience: Shengli Xie (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in mathematics from Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in control theory and applications from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 1997.,He is currently the Director of the Laboratory for Intelligent Information Processing (LIIP) and a Full Professor with the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou. He has authored or coauthored two monographs and more than 100 scientific articles published in journals and conference proceedings. His current research interests include automatic control and signal processing, especially blind signal processing and image processing.

Asst. Prof. Shengli Xie

Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Experience: In 2014, he obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China; in 2018, he received his PhD from the University of Hong Kong. From 2018 to 2021, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, joining Southern University of Science and Technology in 2021. His primary research interests encompass intelligent reflector-enabled transceivers, near-field communication, edge computing, and edge intelligence. Dr. You currently serves as Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and Editorial Board Member for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He has co-chaired multiple workshops at flagship international conferences including IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, and PIMRC. He has published over 70 academic papers in top-tier international journals and conferences in the field of communications, with two US patents granted. Five of his papers were selected as ESI Hot Papers, and twelve as ESI Highly Cited Papers. His work has garnered over 16,000 citations on Google Scholar. Recipient of the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Best Review Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2023 Second Prize of the Civil Aviation Science and Technology Award from the Air Transport Association of China. Selected for the 2023 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Young Scholar Award, the 2023 Elsevier China Highly Cited Researchers list, the 8th China Association for Science and Technology ‘Young Talent Support Programme’, the 2023 Stanford University Top 2% Global Scientists Lifetime Scientific Influence list, and the 2023 AI2000 Most Influential Scholars list.