Invited Speakers
Prof. Liqiang Zhao
Xidian University, China
Liqiang Zhao (Member, IEEE) received the
B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China, in 1992, and the M.Sc. degree in
communications and information systems and the Ph.D. degree in
information and communications engineering from Xidian
University, China, in 2000 and 2003, respectively.
From 1992 to 2005, he was a Research Engineer with the 20th
Research Institute, Chinese Electronics Technology Group
Corporation (CETC), China. From 2005 to 2007, he was an
Associate Professor with the State Key Laboratory of Integrated
Service Networks (ISN), Xidian University. He was appointed as a
Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Centre for Wireless Network
Design (CWiND), University of Bedfordshire, in June 2007, to
conduct research in the GAWIND project funded under EU FP6 HRM
Program. His activities focused on the area of automatic
wireless broadband access network planning and optimization.
Since June 2008, he has returned Xidian University, first as an
Associate Professor and later as a Professor. He has
hosted/participated many national research projects, such as the
National Natural Science Foundation, the 863 Program, and the
National Science Technology Major Projects, and several
international research projects, including the EU FP6, FP7 plans
for international cooperation exchange projects, and some
research projects from companies, such as Huawei. He has more
than 200 published in authorized academic periodicals both in
and abroad and in international science conferences, wherein 60
of which are retrieved in SCI, and more than 140 of them are EI
indexed, and more than 30 national invention patents. His
current research interests include mobile communication systems,
spread spectrum communications, broadband wireless
communications, the space-air-ground integrated network, and the
open-source network. In 2008, he was awarded by the Program for
New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of
Education, China.
Prof. Shengming Jiang
Shanghai Maritime University, China
Shengming Jiang is a professor with College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University. He received his bachelor’s degree in China, master and doctoral degrees in France in 1988, 1992 and 1995, respectively. He worked as research associate in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology between 1995 and 1997, as member of technical staff and senior member of technical staff in National University of Singapore between 1997 and 2003, as associate leading scientist in Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore between 2003 and 2004, as principal lecturer in University of Glamorgan in UK between 2007 and 2009, and as professor in South China University of Technology between 2004 and 2013. He started research on communication network technologies since 1992 with contributing several innovative proposals such as tbe Marine Internet and Best-Effort Networking System for large-scale heterogeneous dynamic wireless networks. From 2022 to 2024, he was listed by Stanford University's Mendeley Data for world’s top 2% scientists. A list of his publications is available at https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/15/4174.html and https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1954-7255.
Assoc. Prof. Tianming Ma
Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), China
Tianming (Tian-Ming) Ma received Ph.D. degree from Shanghai institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China in 2012. He was a post-doctoral researcher and obtained the first-class general financial grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 2012 to 2014. Now he is an associate professor in the School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (SEEE), Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), Shanghai, China and serve as the leader of the intelligent wireless perception research team in SEEE. He has authored/co-authored over 50 journal/conference papers and held 10 Chinese authorized invention patents as the first inventor or as a mentor for graduate students, of which 3 have already achieved technology transfer. He is a member of IEEE ComSoc & IEEE SPS, a senior member of CIC, a senior member & life member of CIE, a life member of SCS, and a council member of SHIE. He has served as an OC member/TPC member/Track Chair/Workshop Chair/Session Chair/Publication Chair/Invited Speaker of many international conferences and received Outstanding Organization Award. He has also served as an official reviewer for many domestic and international journals in the field of communication, such as IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, IEEE CNCOMM, IEEE CL, IEEE SPL, CJE, JC, JEIT, JSEE, JCIN, JCUPT, AAS, etc. His current interests include 6G multiple access technologies & waveform technologies.
Assoc. Prof. Jie Zeng
Beijing Institute of Technology,China
Jie Zeng received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua
University in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and received two
Ph.D. degrees from Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications in 2019 and the University of Technology
Sydney in 2021, respectively.
From July 2009 to May 2020, he was with the Research Institute
of Information Technology, Tsinghua University. From May 2020 to
April 2022, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department
of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University. Since May 2022,
he has been an associate professor with the School of Cyberspace
Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology.
His research interests include 5G/6G, satellite Internet, and
GPT empowered communications. He has published over 100 journal
and conference papers, and holds more than 40 Chinese and
international patents. He participated in drafting one national
standard and one communication industry standard in China.
He received Beijing’s science and technology award in 2015, the
best cooperation award of Samsung Electronics in 2016, and Dolby
Australia’s best scientific paper award in 2020.
Assoc. Prof. Sai Zhao
Guangzhou University,China
Prof. Zhao Sai, focuses her research on key technologies for
next-generation wireless communications and data-driven wireless
communications. Over the past five years, she has published more
than 30 high-quality academic papers in journals and conferences
such as IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Signal Processing
Letters, and IEEE Systems Journal, with over 20 papers indexed
by SCI.
She has led multiple projects, including the Youth Project of
the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Doctoral
Start-up Project of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation,
the Science and Technology Innovation Project of the Guangdong
Provincial Department of Education, and the Youth Science and
Technology Project of the Education Bureau. Additionally, she
has participated in several national and provincial research
projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of
China. Zhao Sai serves as a reviewer for numerous
internationally renowned journals and conferences, including
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Signal
Processing Letters, IEEE Systems Journal, and IEEE ICC.
Asst. Prof. Ziping Zhao,
ShanghaiTech University, China
Ziping Zhao received the B.Eng. degree in electronics and information engineering (with highest honor) from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2019. Since 2019, he has been an Assistant Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include optimization and statistics with applications in signal processing and machine learning. His work was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE ICASSP 2023, and was a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE SAM 2020, IEEE SPAWC 2021, and IEEE SAM 2024. He was the recipient of the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. He is a member EURASIP and APSIPA.
Asst.Prof. Qianli Wang
Southwest Jiaotong University,China
Qianli Wang (Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in
Electronics and Communication Engineering and the Ph.D. degree
in Signal and Information Processing from the University of
Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China, in
2016 and 2020, respectively. He is currently an Assistant
Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology,
Southwest Jiaotong University. His research interests include
estimation theory, compressed sensing, array signal processing,
radar sensor networks, and high mobility wireless
communications.