Prof. Mingbo Niu
Chang’an University, China

Mingbo Niu (Member, IEEE), Professor and PhD advisor, is the Director of the Shaanxi International Innovation Research Centre for Transportation-Energy-Information Fusion and Sustainability, and Heading the IVR Low Carbon Research Institute, Chang’an University, Shaanxi, China. He is a Licensed Professional Engineer in British Columbia. He has coauthored more than 100 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Elsevier, and Optical Society of America (OSA) papers and supervised numerous projects. His research interests include the internet of vehicles (IoV), vehicle-to-road (V2R) infrastructure, cooperative microgrids, massive multiple input multiple outputs (M-MIMO), image signal processing, low-carbon smart cities, transportation-energy fusion, and renewable power theory. Prof. Niu is a specialized committee member of the Internet of Things (IoT) Committee at the China Institute of Communications (CIC). Prof. Niu contributes to the National Key R&D Projects on Renewable HWY Transportation Energy Systems. He served as the General Chair of the 3rd and 4th International Conference on Intelligent Traffic Systems and Smart City, and an Academic Editor for InTech Publishing, EU. He received numerous awards, including a Chinese Government Award (CGA), two University of British Columbia University Graduate Fellowships (UGFs), and a Huawei Tech Ltd., Special Fellowship. He has ever worked with the State Key Laboratory on Underwater Information and Signal Processing, China.

Prof. Fan Liu
Southeast University, China

Fan Liu is currently a Professor with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor with the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, from 2020 to 2024. He received the Ph.D. and the BEng. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2018 and 2013, respectively. He has previously held academic positions in the University College London (UCL), London, UK, as a Visiting Researcher from 2016 to 2018, and a Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2018 to 2020. Prof. Liu's research interests lie in the general area of signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He is the founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), Vice Chair and founding member of the IEEE SPS ISAC Technical Working Group (ISAC-TWG), an elected member of the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM-TC), an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He was a TPC Co-Chair of the inaugural edition of the IEEE ISAC Conference 2026 and the 2nd-4th IEEE Joint Communication and Sensing (JC&S) Symposium, a Symposium Co-Chair for the IEEE ICC 2026, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2025, IEEE WCNC 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2023. He is a member of the IMT-2030 (6G) ISAC Task Group. He was listed among the 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He was a recipient of numerous Best Paper Awards, including the 2025 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, 2024 IEEE Signal Processing Society Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, 2024 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2023 IEEE Communications Society Stephan O. Rice Prize, and 2021 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award.

Assoc. Prof. Limeng Dong
Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Limeng Dong, Associate Professor at the School of Electronics and Information Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University. He Obtained bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the School of Electronics and Information Technology at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2012, 2015, and 2019, respectively. From 2015 to 2017, he was an visiting doctoral student at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Ottawa in Canada. From 2019 to 2021, working as a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Information and Communication Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University.  In 2024 and 2025, he was continuously selected for the list of "World’s Top 2%  Scientists", which was jointly released by Stanford University and Elsevier in the United States. His main research directions are multi-antenna wireless physical layer security, cognitive radio communication technology, cell-free massive MIMO network technology, and reconfigurable intelligent surface assisted wireless communication theory.

Assoc. Prof. Bingpeng Zhou
Sun Yat-sen University, China

Bingpeng Zhou is a male Ph.D. in Engineering and currently an Associate Professor at the School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University. He has been selected for the Guangdong Province “Pearl River Talent Program” Young Top Talent, and is recognized as a Shenzhen Overseas High-Level Talent. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the China Computer Federation (CCF).
Dr. Zhou received his Ph.D. in Communication and Information Systems from Southwest Jiaotong University in December 2016. In 2015, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at the 5G Innovation Centre of University of Surrey, United Kingdom. From 2016 to 2019, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He then continued his postdoctoral research at Aalto University, Finland, from 2019 to 2020. Over the past five years, Dr. Zhou has served as the Principal Investigator for several research projects, including the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation General Program, the Basic Scientific Research Innovation Fund of the State Administration for Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense, and the Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation. He has also participated in multiple major research initiatives such as the National Key R&D Program of China, projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National 973 Program (National Basic Research Program of China), the China–UK Collaborative Research Program, projects supported by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, and several industry-sponsored research projects. Dr. Zhou has published more than 50 academic papers in IEEE Transactions journals and leading international conferences, and has applied for or been granted several invention patents.

Asst. Prof. Shuai Wang
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Shuai Wang received the PhD degree from the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China, in 2021. He is currently an assistant professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Before that, he was a postdoctoral research fellow with the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. His current primary research interests include optimization algorithms for signal processing, machine learning and communication systems, distributed optimization and federated learning (FL), data security and privacy protection in distributed systems, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), etc. He has published more than 30 academic papers and serves as the Youth Editorial Board Member of two journals, and the session chair of ICCT 2025.