Prof. Pingyi Fan, IET Fellow, Tsinghua University, China

Biography: 

Dr. Pingyi Fan is a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. He also visited many universities and research institutes in the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has obtained many research grants, including the national 973 Project, 863 Project, the mobile special project and the key R&D program, national natural funds, and international cooperation projects. He has published more than 190 SCI papers (more than 130 IEEE journals), and 4 academic books. He also applied for more than 30 national invention patents and 5 international patents. He won seven best paper awards from international conferences, including IEEE ICC2020 and Globecom 2014, and received the best paper award from IEEE TAOS Technical Committee in 2020, the excellent editor award of IEEE TWC (2009), etc. He has served as the editorial board member of several Journals, including IEEE and MDPI. He is currently the editorial board member of the Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, the deputy director of China Information Theory Society, the co-chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4, and the chairman of the Network and Communication Technology Committee of IEEE ChinaSIP. His current research interests are in 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, intelligent network and system detection, etc.

Prof. Weigang Hou, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Biography: 

Weigang Hou was born in China in 1984. He received the Master of Engineering degree in communication and information system from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree from the same university in Oct. 2013. In 2011, he won Chinese Academic newcomer award. In 2012, he was an associate researcher with the computer science from City University of Hong Kong. From 2013 to 2018, he was an associate professor with the school of computer science and engineering in Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. From 2019, he was the full professor, Ph. D supervisor and co-tutor of Postdoctoral/workstation in Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He is also the member of IEEE ComSoc and OSA, review editor on the Editorial Board of Optical Communications and Networks (specialty section of Frontiers in Communications and Networks), and Young academic editor of international journal DCN. In 2019, he won the award of top-notch young talent in Chongqing Talent Program. In 2022, he won the National Funding of Excellent Youth Project. His interests are in the area of optical network on chip with new materials. His research programs span the interest areas above. Until now, he has served as the session chair, program vice-chair and program chair of IEEE international conferences such as Globecom, and the reviewer for a number of IEEE journals, including IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking (JOCN), and IEEE Communication Magazine (ComMag), etc. He has held over 120 publications, and they span IEEE Magazine, Trans, Journals and some famous conferences, including IEEE ComMag, IEEE Netw, IEEE JLT, IEEE JOCN, OFC, Globecom and ICC, etc. He also has been an Invited Speaker at about 20 IEEE conferences. Since 2013, he has won a number of international scientific honors and awards, including the candidate of the best researcher award at the world top scientist awards, the best paper during 2018 from IEEE Systems Journal, the best paper award of IEEE conferences CITS and Qshine, the post-deadline paper of IEEE conference ICOCN, the outstanding reviewer of 3 international journals, and 8 highly-cited paper, etc.

Prof. Bin Liao, Shenzhen University, China

Biography: 

Liao Bin, Professor, graduate supervisor, doctoral supervisor, Deputy Director of Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electronic Information Engineering and Master's degree in Information and Information Processing from Xidian University in 2006 and 2009 respectively, and his Doctor's degree from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Hong Kong in 2013. Mainly engaged in array signal processing, radar signal processing, wireless communication, synaesthesia integration and other research. He was selected as one of the top 2% of global top scientists, one of the "Lifetime Science Influence List", winner of the "Sino-Europe Talent Project" of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the European Commission, Young Top Talent in Science and Technology Innovation of the "Guangdong Special Support Program", "Liyuan Youqing", an outstanding young teacher of Shenzhen University, and a Class B of Shenzhen Overseas High-level Talents (Peacock Program), Nanshan District "pilot talent" category B winner. He won the second Prize of Natural Science of the Ministry of Education, the Best paper Award of the 21st (Beijing) and 22nd (London) IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, the Outstanding Graduate of Shaanxi Province, the Outstanding Graduate of Xidian University, the special prize of outstanding Master's degree thesis, and the CASC first-class Scholarship of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. He has presided over more than 10 longitudinal research projects, including 4 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation. He has published more than 150 papers in authoritative international journals and conferences. He is currently a Senior member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) Technical Committee, and serves on IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems. Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing (Springer), Associate Editor of IET Signal Processing and other journals.