Keynote Speakers
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Xinheng Wang |
Founding Head of Mechatronics and Robotics at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. As an IET Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and leader of Jiangsu's "Innovation and Entrepreneurship" team, his research spans intelligent/connected vehicles, airport robotics, smart manufacturing, edge computing, digital twins, acoustic sensing, healthcare, motion detection, and power system monitoring, including SLAM/navigation in robotics. With 230+ publications and dozens of patents (6 granted in the U.S./Japan/Korea, 18 in China), his work was rated "World Leading" in the UK's REF. He has led/contributed to 30+ projects funded by the EU, UK EPSRC, Innovate UK, NSFC, and industry, driving technological and industrial advancements. |
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Weijia Jia |
Professor Weijia Jia (Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Fellow) is currently the Director of Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networking, and Super Intelligent Computer Center, Beijing Normal University (BNU, Zhuhai); also a Chair Professor at BNBU(UIC), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. His contributions have been recoganized for the research of edge AI, optimal network routing and deployment; vertex cover; anycast and multicast protocols; sensors networking; knowledge relation extractions; NLP and intelligent edge computing. He has over 700 publications in the prestige international journals/conferences and research books and book chapters. He has received the best product awards from the International Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen) in 2011/2012 and the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 (list 2), and top 2% World Scientists in Stanford-list (2020-2024) and many provincial science and tech awards. |
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Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak |
Dariusz Jacek Jakóbczak graduated in mathematics (numerical methods and programming) from the University of Gdansk, Poland in 1990, and obtained his Ph.D. degree in computer science from the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Warsaw, Poland) in 2007. Since October 2007, he has served as an Assistant Professor at the Chair of Computer Science and Management, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology (Poland), where he has worked since March 1998. Previously, he held positions as a civilian programmer and a mathematics & computer science teacher in Koszalin. His research integrates mathematics and computer science, covering computer vision, artificial intelligence, shape representation, curve interpolation, contour reconstruction, geometric modeling, numerical methods, probabilistic methods, game theory, operational research and discrete mathematics. |
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Yang Liang |
Professor at Hunan University’s School of Communication Engineering, specializing in wireless and optical wireless communications. He has 160+ SCI papers (130+ IEEE journal ones), listed consecutively in Stanford’s Global Top 2% Scientists (Career & Single-year) for 5 years, and named Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2023-2024). He won 2020 Hunan Provincial Natural Science Award (2nd Prize, 1st) and was recognized as Outstanding Scientific & Technological Worker by Chinese Institute of Electronics. As PI, he led 5 NSFC projects & 1 National Key R&D Program key project, and participated in 1 NSFC joint fund project. He serves/served as editorial board member for journals like IEEE Trans. Commun., and is now Vice Chairman of Hunan Electronics Society. |
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Pascal Lorenz |
Professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, recognized as a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IARIA, and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. His research focuses on QoS, wireless networks, and high-speed networks. He has published 3 monographs, holds 3 patents, and authored 200 international papers. Lorenz has held editorial roles at IEEE Communications Magazine (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine (since 2015), and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (since 2017). He chaired IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020) and IEEE France Finance (2017-2022), and led the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee (2022-2023). Currently, he serves on the IEEE Region 8 Conference Coordination Committee and as an Associate Editor for several journals, including IJCS-Wiley, SCN-Wiley, and JNCA-Elsevier. |
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Nasir Saeed |
Associate Professor at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), focuses on cutting-edge research areas such as aerial networks, data visualization, localization in extreme environments, and visible light communication. He has published over 100 papers in high-impact journals, which have been cited more than 6,000 times, achieving an H-index of 39. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks, as well as a reviewer for several top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Networks Magazine, and Elsevier Physical Communications. |
