Keynote Speakers

Prof. Tony Quek, IEEE Fellow
Singapore University of Technology and Design

Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is a Professor with the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He also serves as the Head of ISTD Pillar and the Deputy Director of SUTD-ZJU IDEA. His current research topics include wireless communications and networking, security, big data processing, network intelligence, and IoT.
Dr. Quek has been actively involved in organizing and chairing sessions, and has served as a TPC member in numerous international conferences. He is currently an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee. He was an Executive Editorial Committee Member of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and an Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He is a co-author of the book “Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Allocation” published by Cambridge University Press in 2013 and the book “Cloud Radio Access Networks: Principles, Technologies, and Applications” by Cambridge University Press in 2016. He received the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the IEEE Globecom 2010 Best Paper Award, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2017 CTTC Early Achievement Award, 2017 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award, and 2017 Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Li Bo (Tentative Speaker), IEEE Fellow
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

LI Bo is a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he has been affiliated with since 1996. He holds the Cheung Kong Chair Professor (長江講座教授) in Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Prior to that, he was with IBM Networking System Division, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1993-1996). He was an adjunct researcher at Microsoft Research Asia-MSRA (1999-2005), where he spent his sabbatical leave (2003-2004). He was a visiting scientist at Microsoft Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in the summers of 2007 and 2008. He was a technical advisor for ChinaCache Corp. (NASDAQ CCIH) (2007-2008). He is an adjunct professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (華中科技大學), Wuhan, China (2003 – present). He was an adjunct or a visiting professor in Beijing University of Post and Telecom, Southern China University of Agriculture, National Tsinghua University and National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
His recent research interests include: large-scale content distribution in the Internet, Peer-to-Peer media streaming, the Internet topology, cloud computing, green computing and communications. He made original contributions on the proxy placement for content distribution networks (CDNs), in which his IEEE INFOCOM (1999) paper "On the Optimal Placement of Web Proxies in the Internet" was the first work addressing this problem. He made pioneering contributions in large-scale Peer-to-Peer live video streaming; specifically, the system, Coolstreaming (2004-2005) (Google entries over 2,000,000) was credited as the first large-scale Peer-to-Peer live video streaming system in the world. This work appeared in IEEE INFOCOM (2005) has not only been highly cited, but also spearheaded a momentum in peer-to-peer streaming, with no fewer than a dozen successful companies such as PPLive, PPStream, UUSee and YahooBB (Japan) adopting the same mesh-based pull streaming technique to deliver live media content to millions of users. He also led a team developing a real-world peer-assisted online hosting system, FS2You (2007-2008) (Google.cn entries over 4,000,000 in 2009) that has attracted millions of downloads worldwide.
He is a Fellow of IEEE for "contribution to content distributions via the Internet". He received the Young Investigator Award (港澳傑青) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2005. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Communications Society (2006-2007). He was a co-recipient for three Best Paper Awards from IEEE, and the Best System Track Paper in ACM Multimedia (2009).
He was the founding Editor-in-Chief for International Journal on Vehicular Technology (2006-2008). He has been on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2001-2005), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (2005-present), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2002-2007), IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials (2007-present), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) - Wireless Communications Series (1999-2001), ACM Journal of Wireless Networks (WINET) (1999-present), ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review (MC2R) (1997-1999), Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (2002-2005), SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networking Magazine (ONM) (1999-2001), KICS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN) (1998-2002). He served as a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine Special Issue on Active, Programmable, and Mobile Code Networking (April 2000), ACM Performance Evaluation Review Special Issue on Mobile Computing (December 2000), SPIE/Kluwer Optical Networks Magazine Special Issue in Wavelength Routed Networks: Architecture, Protocols and Experiments (January/February 2002), IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Protocols for Next Generation Optical WDM Networks (October 2000), IEEE JAC Special Issue on Recent Advances in Service Overlay Networks (January 2004), IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Quality of Service Delivery in Variable Topology Networks (September 2004), ACM/Kluwer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Special Issue on Energy Constraints and Lifetime Performance in Wireless Sensor Networks (December 2005), ACM/Springer MONET Special Issue on Advances in Wireless Mesh Networks (Jan/Feb. 2008), and IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue on Future Internet: New Applications and Emerging Services (July 2010). He was a Co-TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM (2004).

Prof. Xu Chengzhong, IEEE Fellow
University of Macau

Dr. Chengzhong Xu, IEEE Fellow, is the Dean of Faculty of Science and Technology and the Interim Director of Institute of Collaborative Innovation, University of Macau, and a Chair Professor of Computer and Information Science. He was a professor of Wayne State University and the Director of Institute of Advanced Computing of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences before he joined UM in 2019. Dr. Xu is a Chief Scientist of Key Project on Smart City of MOST, China and the principal investigator of the Key Project on Autonomous Driving of FDCT, Macau SAR.
Dr. Xu’s main research interests lie in parallel and distributed computing and cloud computing, in particular, with an emphasis on resource management for system’s performance, reliability, availability, power efficiency, and security, and in big data and data-driven intelligence applications in smart city and self-driving vehicles. The systems of particular interest include distributed systems and the Internet, servers and cloud datacenters, scalable parallel computers, and wireless embedded devices and mobile edge systems. He published two research monographs and more than 500 peer-reviewed papers in journals and conference proceedings; his papers received over 19K citations with an H-index of 74. He was a Best Paper Nominee or Awardee of the 2021 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC’2021), 2013 IEEE High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA), the 2013 ACM High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), IEEE Cluster’2016, ICPP’2005, GPC’2018, UIC’2018, AIMS’2019, IEEE Edge’2020. He won a Test-of-Time Paper Award from the journal of Frontiers of Computer Science (Springer & HEP) in 2024. He has also been granted more than 200 patents or PCT patents and spun off a business “Shenzhen Baidou Applied Technology” with dedication to location-based services and technologies.
He serves or served on a number of journal editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Science China: Information Science and ZTE Communication. Dr. Xu has been the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) from 2015 to 2020. He obtained BSc and MSc degrees from Nanjing University in 1986 and 1989 respectively, and a PhD degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1993, all in Computer Science and Engineering.

Prof. Zhang Yingjun, IEEE Fellow, HKIE Fellow, IET Fellow
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Angela Yingjun Zhang is currently a Professor at Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree from Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and AI for communication and networking systems.
Prof. Zhang is now a Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, the Steering Committee Chair of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE SmartgridComm Conference. Previously, she served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and many years on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC special issues, IEEE IoT Journal special issues, and IEEE Communications Magazine special issues. Prof. Zhang has served on the Organizing Committees of many top conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, SmartgridComm, etc. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Smart Grid Communications.
Prof. Zhang is a co-recipient of 2021 and 2014 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards, 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. As the only winner from engineering science, Prof. Zhang won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institute of Science.

Prof. Li Hongwei, IEEE Fellow
University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China

Hongwei Li is currently the Associate Dean at School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in June 2008. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo from October 2011 to October 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Sherman Shen.
His research interests include network security and applied cryptography. Dr. Li has published more than 100 technical papers. He is the sole author of a book, Enabling Secure and Privacy Preserving Communications in Smart Grids (Springer, 2014). Dr. Li serves as the Associate Editors of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, the Guest Editors of IEEE Network, IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He also serves/served the Technical Symposium Co-chairs of ACM TUR-C.

Prof. Gao Feifei, IEEE Fellow
Tsinghua University

Feifei Gao received the B.Eng. degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China in 2002, the M.Sc. degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from National University of Singapore, Singapore in 2007. He was a Research Fellow with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore in 2008 and an Assistant Professor with the School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany from 2009 to 2010. In 2011, he joined the Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Prof. Gao's research areas include communication theory, signal processing for communications, array signal processing, and artificial intelligence for communications. He has authored/ coauthored more than 180 refereed IEEE journal papers and more than 150 IEEE conference proceeding papers that have been cited over 9700 times in Google Scholar. Prof. Gao has served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He has also served as the symposium co-chair for ICC’19, VTC’18, ICC’15, GLOBECOM’14, VTC’14, as well as Technical Committee Members for many other IEEE conferences.

Lecturer Yao Sun, IEEE Senior Member
University of Glasgow

Dr. Yao Sun is currently a Lecturer with the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Dr. Sun has extensive research experience and has published widely in wireless networking research. He has won the IEEE Communication Society of TAOS Best Paper Award in 2019 ICC, IEEE IoT Journal Best Paper Award 2022 and Best Paper Award in 22nd ICCT. He is the regular reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE ACCESS, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, etc. He is the TPC Chair for UCET 2021, and also TPC Member for numerous conferences, including VTC Spring 2022, WCNC 2020, CyberC 2019, ICCT 2019, ICICT 2020. He was the Guest Editor for serveral international journals including Digital Communications and Networks, Journal of Wireless Communications and Networks, etc.