| Prof. Loi Lei LaiGuangdong University of Technology, China Loi Lei Lai (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (First-Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K., in 1980 and 1984, respectively, and the D.Sc. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from the City, University of London, London, U.K., in 2005. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor with the Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He was a Pao Yue Kong Chair Professor with Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, and the Professor and the Chair of Electrical Engineering with the City, University of London. His current research areas are in smart cities and smart grid. He was awarded an IEEE Third Millennium Medal, the IEEE Power and Energy Society (IEEE/PES) UKRI Power Chapter Outstanding Engineer Award in 2000, a Special Award from the City, University of London in 2005 and is its honorary graduate, the IEEE/PES Energy Development and Power Generation Committee Prize Paper in 2006 and 2009, the IEEE/SMCS Outstanding Contribution Award in 2013 and 2014, the Most Active Technical Committee Award in 2016, and his research team received a Best Paper Award in the IEEE International Smart Cities Conference in October 2020. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Smart Cities Newsletter, a member of the IEEE Smart Cities Steering Committee, and the Chair of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (IEEE/SMCS) Standards Committee. He was a member of the IEEE Smart Grid Steering Committee; the Director of the Research and Development Center, State Grid Energy Research Institute, China; a Vice President for Membership and Student Activities with IEEE/SMCS; a Fellow Committee Evaluator for the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society; and an IEEE PES Lifetime Achievement Award Assessment Committee Member. He is a Fellow of IET. |
| Prof. Youfu LiCity University of Hong Kong, China Prof. Li received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Harbin Institute of Technology China. He obtained the PhD degree from the Robotics Research Group, Dept of Engineering Science of the University of Oxford in 1993. From 1993 to 1995 he was a postdoctoral research staff in the Dept of Computer Science, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK. He joined City University of Hong Kong in 1995 and is currently a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests include robot sensing, robot vision, 3D vision, visual tracking, sensor guided manipulation, mechatronics and automation. In these areas, he has published over 180 papers in SCI listed international journals. Dr Li has received many awards in robot sensing and vision including IEEE Sensors Journal Best Paper Award by IEEE Sensors Council, Second Prize of Natural Science Research Award by the Ministry of Education, 1st Prize of Natural Science Research Award of Hubei Province, 1st Prize of Natural Science Research Award of Zhejiang Province, China. He was on Top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scientists by Stanford University, 2020. He has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Associate Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), Editor of the IEEE Robotics Automation Society's Conference Editorial Board (CEB) and Guest Editor of IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM). He is a fellow of IEEE. |
| Prof. Ruqiang YanXi’an Jiaotong University, China Ruqiang Yan (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in precision instrument and machinery from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 2007.,He was a Guest Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, USA, from 2006 to 2008, and a Professor with the School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, from 2009 to 2018. He joined the School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2018. His research interests include data analytics, artificial intelligence, and energy-efficient sensing and sensor networks for the condition monitoring and health diagnosis of large-scale, complex, and dynamical systems.,Dr. Yan is a fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers. His honors and awards include the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award in 2019, the Distinguished Service Award in 2022, and multiple best paper awards. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Instrument and Measurement since January 2022. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal and an Editorial Board Member of Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering. |
| Prof. Hongbo JiangHunan University, China Hongbo Jiang is currently a Distinguished Professor and Vice Dean of the College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering (CSEE), Hunan University. He is also the director for the trusted systems and networking key laboratory of Hunan Province, the director of Hunan international technical cooperation base of high performance computing and applications. Prior to Hunan University, he was a tenured professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science working with Prof. Shudong Jin, Case Western Reserve University. He ever interned at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, as well as AT&T Labs Research. He was a Hong Kong Scholar Research Fellow at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, working with Prof. John C. S. Lui. Hongbo has been serving in the editorial board of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, ACM/Springer Wireless Networks, Wiley Security and Communication Networks, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks. He has also been guest editors for IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Springer Mobile Networks and Applications. He is an elected Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Fellow of IET (The Institution of Engineering and Technology), Fellow of BCS (The British Computer Society), Fellow of AAIA (The Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association), Fellow of AIIA (The International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance), Senior Member of ACM, Senior Member of IEEE, Distinguished Member of CCF, and Full Member of IFIP TC6 WG6.2. Now his research focuses on computer networking, especially, wireless networks, and mobile computing. |
| Prof. Liang ZhouNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Liang Zhou is a professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has been honored with titles such as Distinguished Professor by the Ministry of Education (2020), National Excellent Young Scientist Fund (2013); His research primarily focuses on multimedia communications and intelligent communications. In recent years, he has published numerous academic papers in journals like IEEE JSAC/TCOM/TMM/TVT. Currently, he serves as the Chair of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, Director of the Professional Committee of the China Institute of Communications, and is an editorial board member for academic journals such as IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications, and IEEE Network. He is an IEEE Fellow/IET Fellow/BCS Fellow/AAIA Fellow. |
| Prof. Guanghui LiJiangnan University Guanghui Li is Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer at Jiangnan University. He is Director of the Intelligent Sensing and Non-Destructive Testing Technology Laboratory, a second-tier talent in Zhejiang Province’s “New Century 151 Talent Engineering” and a leading talent in social undertakings in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province. His primary research and teaching areas include the Internet of Things, edge computing, and intelligent non-destructive testing. He has chaired one project under the National 863 Program, six projects under the National Natural Science Foundation, one project on national defense science and technology innovation, and fifteen provincial and ministerial-level research projects. He has also participated in three research projects under the National Key Research and Development Program and National Major Scientific and Technological Special Projects. He has published over 100 papers in journals and conferences, including IEEE TMC, TKDE, TSC, TGRS, TNSM, Journal of Computer Science, and Computer Research and Development. He has also received the Second-Class Science and Technology Progress Award from Zhejiang Province and the Second-Class Science and Technology Award from Jiangsu Province. |
| Prof. Chao ShenXi'an Jiaotong University of China Chao Shen is a full Professor in the faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University of China. He currently serves as Associate Dean of School of Cyber Science and Engineering of Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received the B.S. degrees in automatic control and the Ph.D. degree in system engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China, in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He was a research scholar in Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University from 2011 to 2013. He is currently the Director of the Xi'an Jiaotong University Cyber-Physical System Security and Privacy Lab, where he works with brilliant students and colleagues to build smart algorithms that enable cyber-physical and intelligent systems to have security and privacy guarantee, as well as to discover how to make the world safer and better. He has published more than 70 research papers in international referred journals and conferences at the intersection of computer and network security, big data analysis, machine learning and automatic control. His current research interests mainly include Data-Driven Network and System Security, AI Security, Cyber-Physical System Security. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for a number of journals, including Journal of Franklin Institute, Frontiers of Computer Science, and Engineering. |
| Prof. Yejun HeShenzhen University, China Yejun He received the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China, in 2005. He was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada in 2012 and an Advanced Visiting Scholar (Visiting Professor) with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA from 2013 to 2015. He is Pengcheng Scholar Distinguished Professor, and a full professor with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, China, where Dr. He is the Director of Guangdong Engineering Research Center of Base Station Antennas and Propagation, and the Director of Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Antennas and Propagation, Shenzhen, China. He has authored or coauthored over 260 research papers and 7 books. He holds about twenty patents. His research interests include wireless mobile communication, antennas and radio frequency. He is serving as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing，IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters，IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, China Communications, International Journal of Communication Systems, as well as ZTE Communications. He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Network. He has been a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) since 2016, the Chair of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society-Shenzhen Chapter since 2018, and a Senior Member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2009. |
