Speakers
| Prof. Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore & Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)IEEE Fellow, Fellow of Academy of Engineering SingaporeDr. Rui Zhang has published over 450 papers in the field of wireless communications, which have been cited more than 60,000 times, with the h-index over 120. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters / Clarivate Analytics since 2015. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region Best Young Researcher Award in 2011, the Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore in 2015, the Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2020, and the IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Recognition Award in 2021. He received 14 IEEE Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2015 and 2020, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award in 2017, 2020 and 2022, the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2021, etc. He is now an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He served as a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Communications Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Academy of Engineering, Singapore. His current research interests include UAV/satellite communication, wireless power transfer, intelligent reflecting surface and reconfigurable MIMO, optimization methods, etc. |
Prof. Kai-Kit Wong, University College LondonIEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Full Professor and Chair in Wireless CommunicationsProfessor Wong is Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of IET. He is the Subject Editor-in-Chief for IET Electronics Letters - Wireless Communications. He also served as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters from 2020-2023, Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters from 2012-2019, Editor for IEEE ComSoc/KICS Journal of Communications and Networks from 2010-2017, IET Communicationsfrom 2009-2016, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications from 2005-2011 and IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2009-2012. |
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| Prof. Fabian Bombardelli, University of California, DavisIEEE Fellow, IET FellowProf. 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. Her research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and AI for communication and networking systems. |
Prof. Jiangang Lu, Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of Guangdong Power Grid Dispatching Control Center, Strategic Technology Expert of China Southern Power GridMaster of Engineering, Professor-level senior engineer, and enterprise mentor for engineering doctors at Tianjin UniversityVice Chairman of the Active Distribution Network and Distributed Power Generation Specialized Committee of the China Electrotechnical Society, Member of the National Technical Committee for Standardization of Power Grid Operation and Control, Member of the Expert Working Committee on Power Information and Communication of the China Electricity Council, and Member of the Power System Automation Specialized Committee of the China Electrical Engineering Society, and Chairman of the Communication Specialized Committee of the Guangdong Electrical Engineering Society. He has presided over and participated in more than 10 national and provincial key research and development projects and key science and technology projects of China Southern Power Grid, such as "Key Technologies of Digital Grid", "Research and Demonstration Application of Key Technologies of Smart Grid Integrated with 5G", and "Research, System Development and Demonstration Verification of End-To-End Key Technologies of Smart Grid Integrated with 5G". In the past five years, he has won more than 30 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards. Among them, it won 2 first prizes of China Electric Power Science and Technology Award, 2 Grand prizes of China Electric Power Innovation Award, and 3 first prizes of China Southern Power Grid Science and Technology Progress Award. More than 30 authorized invention patents have been obtained, over 30 papers have been published, and more than 20 have been indexed by SCI/EI. Received the Excellent Science and Technology Worker Award of the China Electric Power Science and Technology Award in 2020. |
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