Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
Nanyang Technological University

Dusit Niyato (M'09-SM'15-F'17) is a professor in the College of Computing and Data Science, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received B.Eng. from King Mongkuts Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of mobile generative AI, edge intelligence, quantum computing and networking, and incentive mechanism design.

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. Kaibin Huang, IEEE Fellow
The University of Hong Kong

Kaibin Huang graduated with B.Eng (with First Class Honors) and M.Eng. from National University of Singapore and received a Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin, all in electronic engineering. At UT Austin, he was co-supervised by Prof. Jeff Andrews and Prof. Robert Heath Jr.

Driven by the world leading telecommunication industry in S. Korea, Kaibin began his academic career as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of EEE Yonsei Unviersity in the country in 2009. At Yonsei, he received the Outstanding Teaching Award in 2011. He relocated to Hong Kong in 2012, first in the Department of Applied Mathematics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic Unviersity (2012-2013) and then in the Department of EEE at The University of Hong Kong (2014-date). At HKU, he is now a tenured (full) Professor and Associate Department Head.

Kaibin has published 90+ IEEE journal papers and an inventor of 14 USA patents. His work is well cited, making him a Highly Cited Researcher by the Clarivate Analytics in 2019-2021. He has received from the IEEE Communication Society several paper awards including 2021 Best Survey Paper, 2019 Best Tutorial Paper, 2019 Asia?Pacific Outstanding Paper, 2015 Asia?Pacific Best Paper Award, and the best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 and IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018. In 2021, he was elevated to Fellow of IEEE ``for contributions to wirelessly powered communications and multi-antenna communications''. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. In Hong Kong, he has also received accolades for his research excellence. In particular, he was awarded a Research Fellowship (2021 class) by Hong Kong Research Grants Council, a prestigious funding scheme with 10 awardees per year as selected over all academic disciplines.

He has been active in organising flagship conferences in the area of telecommunication. For instance, he served as the Lead Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2017 and the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, and the TPC Co-chair for IEEE PIMRC 2017 and IEEE CTW 2023 and 2013.

Kaibin has served on the editorial boards of major journals in the area of wireless communications. Presently, he is an Executive Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Associate Editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), and an Area Editor and a member of Steering Committee for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. Previously, he served on the Editorial Board for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He has guest edited popular special issues of IEEE JSAC, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and IEEE Communications Magazine.

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.

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.