Prof. Jiangzhou Wang (王江舟 教授）
Southeast University, China  

- IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2022)
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (FREng) (2018)
- Fellow of IEEE (2017)
- 中国工程院外籍院士 (2023) 

Biosketch: Jiangzhou Wang (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor at Southeast University and an Adjunct Professor at Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. He has published more than 500 papers and five books. His research interest is in mobile communications. He was a recipient of the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize and the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2019), Shanghai, Executive Chair of the IEEE ICC2015, London, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE WCNC2013. Professor Wang is an International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), U.K., and Fellow of the IEEE. 

 

Prof. Xianbin Wang
Western University, Canada 

Fellow of IEEE, CAE and EIC  

Biosketch: Dr. Xianbin Wang is a Distinguished University Professor and a Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in Trusted Communications and Computing at Western University, Canada. His current research interests include 5G/6G technologies, Internet of Things, machine learning, communications security, and intelligent communications. He has over 700 highly cited journals and conference papers, in addition to over 30 granted and pending patents and several standard contributions.
Dr. Wang is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He has received many prestigious awards and recognitions, including the IEEE Canada R. A. Fessenden Award, Canada Research Chair, Engineering Research Excellence Award at Western University, Canadian Federal Government Public Service Award, Ontario Early Researcher Award, and 12 Best Paper Awards. He is currently a member of the Senate, Senate Committee on Academic Policy and Senate Committee on University Planning at Western. He has been involved in many flagship conferences, including GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, PIMRC, WCNC, CCECE, and ICNC, in different roles, such as General Chair, TPC Chair, Symposium Chair, Tutorial Instructor, Track Chair, Session Chair, and Keynote Speaker. He serves/has served as the Editor-in-Chief, Associate EiC, area editor, associate editor and guest editor for over ten journals. He was nominated as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer multiple times by different IEEE technical societies. He has served on the Fellow Committees of IEEE and IEEE Communications Society. He was the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee and the Central Area Chair of IEEE Canada.  

 

Prof. Nei Kato
Tohoku University, Japan  

日本工程院院士, Fellow of IEEE and IEICE  

Biosketch: Nei Kato is a full professor and with the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University. He has studied computer networking, wireless mobile communications, satellite communications, ad hoc & sensor & mesh networks, UAV networks, AI, IoT, and Big Data. He served as the Vice-President (Membership & Global Activities) of IEEE Communications Society(2018-2021), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology(2017-2021). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, a Fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan, IEEE, and IEICE  

 

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Prof. Zhengchuan Chen (陈正川 教授)
Chongqing University, China (重庆大学) 

Biosketch: Zhengchuan Chen (M’16) received the B.S. degree from Nankai University, China, in 2010 and the Ph.D. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 2015. He visited The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012 and visited University of Florida, USA, in 2013. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). He is currently a Professor with the School of Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China. His main research interests include 5G and beyond wireless communications, age of information, and network information theory.
Dr. Chen serves as the editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society，the editor of Digital Communications and Networks. He has also served several IEEE conferences, e.g., the IEEE Globecom, as a Technical Program Committee Member. He was selected as an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2015. He coreceived the Best Paper Award at the International Workshop on High Mobility Wireless Communications in 2013.  

Assoc. Prof. Changdong Yu (于长东 副教授)
Dalian Maritime University, China (大连海事大学) 

Biosketch: Changdong Yu (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Harbin Engineering University in 2018 and 2023, respectively. From 2023 to 2025, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Shipbuilding and Ocean Engineering, Dalian Maritime University. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Dalian Maritime University. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 research papers in leading international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Neurocomputing, Ocean Engineering, and Physics of Fluids, with over 20 papers as first or corresponding author, including two featured articles, one ESI top 1% highly cited paper, and one cover paper. He has led and participated in multiple national and provincial projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Liaoning Provincial Doctoral Research Start-up Fund, and serves as a reviewer for leading journals such as Ocean Engineering, Neural Networks, Experiments in Fluids, and Physics of Fluids. He was selected as a “Youth Science Star” of Dalian City in 2025. His current research interests include underwater flow computation and perception, visual perception and understanding, and decision-making and control for unmanned systems.  

Dr. Yumeng Zhang
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China  

Biosketch:Dr. Yumeng Zhang is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She received the B.S. degree in communication engineering from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China, in 2019. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. degree in communications and signal processing from the Imperial College London (ICL), London, UK, in 2020 and in 2024, where she received the ‘Ivon Tupper Prize for Excellence in Signal Processing, Broadcasting and Video Technology’ and the ICL departmental scholarship. She served as a TPC member for ICC 2026, and WCNC 2026. Her current research interests include AI for wireless, sensing, integrated sensing and communications, and channel estimation.