Committee
Conference General Chair
Prof. Jinsong Wu, IEEE Senior Member, University of Chile, Chile
Jinsong Wu is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile. He was the Founder (2011) and Founding Chair (2011–2017) of the IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC), IEEE Communications Society, which was established in 2011 as an official Technical Subcommittee (TSCGCC) and elevated to TCGCC in 2013. He is also the Co-Founder (2014) and Founding Vice-Chair (2015-present) of the IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD) of the IEEE Communications Society, which was established in January 2015 as an official Technical Subcommittee (TSCBD) and elevated to TCBD in December 2016. He is elected Vice-Chair, Technical Activities, IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI) under the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB). He is a Steering Committee Member and IEEE Communications Society Representative for the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative under the IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB), starting in 2016. He was the founder (in 2011) of the of the IEEE Green Communications and Computing LinkedIn Group (with over 1430 international members as of December 1, 2016). He was the founder and series editor of the IEEE Series on Green Communication and Computing Networks in the IEEE Communications Magazine. He was the Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was an editor of the IEEE J. Select. Areas on Communications (JSAC) Series on Green Communications and Networking and an editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Systems Journal. He was the leading general chair at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications. He was the Technical Program Committee Chair of the IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications in both 2012 and 2013. He has opened and established the Big Data Track with very general and wide topic coverage in the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, starting at IEEE Globecom 2016. He was the leading program chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (DataCom). He was the Track Co-Chair on Green Communications and Networks at the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference in Fall 2014 and 2017. He was the leading editor and co-author of the comprehensive book entitled "Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications," published by CRC Press in September 2012. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. He is currently an IEEE Senior Member.
Prof. Mouquan Shen,Nanjing Tech University, China
Professor, the "Six Talent Peaks" of Jiangsu Province. Postdoctoral at Southeast University, visiting scholar at overseas universities such as the University of Hong Kong, Yeungnam University, South Korea, and the University of Adelaide, Australia. He is the PI of more than 10 provincial-level projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the National Bureau of Foreign Experts Affairs, and the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Foundation. In recent years, more than 100 papers with an H-index of 24 have been published in journals such as IEEE Transactions on · Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. He has been appointed Editor-in-Cheif, Associate Editor, or Editorial Board Member of 12 international journals. He is also an active reviewer of over 80 domestic and international journals, including IEEE, TAC, and Automatica, as well as the corresponding reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and multiple provincial and municipal science and technology projects.
Publication Chair
Prof. Cheng Siong Chin, IEEE Senior Member, Newcastle University, Singapore
Professor Cheng Siong Chin is the Chair of Intelligent Systems Modeling and Simulation at Newcastle University. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Control Engineering at the Research Robotics Centre at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2008 and his M.Sc. (Distinction) in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering from the University of Manchester (formerly UMIST) in 2001. Professor Chin received a B.Eng. (Hons.) degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Before moving into academia, he worked in the consumer electronics industry for a few years. Professor Chin obtained six Economic Development Board (EDB) Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP) and two Singapore Maritime Institute (SMI) grants from the Singapore government in intelligent systems design, simulation, and predictive analytics as a PI and co-PI. He has obtained over 170 publications, 5 authored books, 2 Singapore patent applications, and 3 US patents. He has published at AI-related conferences like EANN/EAAAI, IJCNN, AIAI, and DCASE. He also received the DCASE2019 Judges' Award in the IEEE AASP Challenge on DCASE2019. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access Journal, Applied Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Transportation Electrification Community (TEC) eNewsletter, and an editorial board member of Electronics. He has served as general chair, keynote speaker, session chair, and technical committee member at numerous international conferences.
Prof. Xiangjie Kong, IEEE Senior Member, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Dr. Xiangjie Kong is currently a full professor in the College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Software at Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, where he was the Head of the Department of Cyber Engineering. He is the Founding Director of the City Science of Social Computing Lab (the CSSC Lab) (http://www.cssclab.cn). He is or was on the editorial boards of six international journals. He has served as the General Co-Chair, Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair, or Program Committee Member of over 30 conferences. Dr. Kong has authored or co-authored over 140 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, including IEEE TKDE, ACM TKDD, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE NETW, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOJ, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TASE, IEEE TCSS, WWWJ, etc. 5 of his papers are selected as ESI-Hot Papers (Top 1), and 16 papers are ESI-Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). His research has been reported by the Nature Index and other media. He has been invited as a reviewer for numerous prestigious journals, including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE NETW, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, etc. Dr. Kong has authored or co-authored three books in Chinese. He has contributed to the development of 14 copyrighted software systems and 20 filed patents. He has an h-index of 39 and an i10-index of 97, and a total of more than 5200 citations to his work, according to Google Scholar. He is named in the 2019 and 2020 world’s top 2% of scientists list published by Stanford University. Dr. Kong received the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award and the Natural Science Fund of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been invited as a keynote speaker at two international conferences and has delivered a number of invited talks at international conferences and many universities worldwide. His research interests include big data, network science, and computational social science. He is a Distinguished Member of CCF, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Full Member of Sigma Xi, and a Member of ACM.
Technical Program Committee Chair
Prof. Javid Taheri, IEEE Senior Member,Queen's University Belfast, UK
Javid Taheri is a full professor at the Department of Computer Science, Karlstad University, Sweden. He received his PhD in Mobile Computing from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2007 and his Bachelor and Masters of Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Iran) in 1998 and 2000, respectively.He is the recipient of many awards, including being selected as one of the top 200 young researchers in the world by the Heidelberg Forum in 2013, the recipient of several best paper awards since 2007, and the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Middle Career Researcher award from TSCS in Scalable Computing in 2019. He holds several cloud/networking-related industrial certifications from VMware, Cisco, Microsoft, and IBM. His research interests include cloud computing, edge/fog computing, network function virtualization, software-defined networking, and AI-based optimization techniques.He is the editor of a book entitled 'Big Data and Software Defined Networks', and is currently co-editing another book entitled 'Edge Computing: Models, Technologies, and Applications'. He has co-authored >180 scientific articles and papers, has served as an editor for >15 journals, and is a member of the organizing team for >30 international conferences.
Assoc. Prof. Nuri Yilmazer, IEEE Senior Member, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA
Dr. Nuri Yilmazer received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey, in 1996, and the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and Syracuse University in 2000 and 2006, respectively. He worked as a postdoctoral research associate in the Computational Electromagnetics Laboratory at Syracuse University from 2006 to 2007. He is currently working as an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, Kingsville, TX. His current research interests include adaptive array processing, signal processing, and smart antennas.
Organizing Committee Chair
Prof. Xinwei Yao, IEEE Senior Member, Zhejiang University Of Technology, China
Dr. Xin-Wei Yao is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology (School of Software Engineering), the Vice Dean of the Institute for Frontiers and Interdisciplinary Sciences, and the director of the Smart Crowd Sensing and Collaboration (SCC) at Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), Hangzhou, China. He received a B.E. degree in mechanical engineering from ZJUT in 2008. From March 2012 to February 2013, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Computer Science at Loughborough University, UK. He received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Technology from ZJUT in December 2013. From August 2015 to August 2016, he was a visiting professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.
His research interests are in artificial intelligence of things (AIoT), smart crowd sensing and collaboration, wireless nano-bio-communication networks, generalized artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and so on. In these areas, he has co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, including three books in English and two books in Chinese, and more than 20 authorized national invention patents in China. He is serving as the leading PI on multiple grants from the Chinese government, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Department, and the corresponding industry (leading enterprises). He received the Wu Wen Jun AI Excellent Young Scientist Award (the first youth to receive the award in Zhejiang Province) in 2018, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2022, and is the recipient of several other awards from the government, CAAI, CNCA, and ZJUT.
Organizing Committee members
Prof. Lixin Xu, Zhejiang University Of Technology, China
Prof. Qiang Li, Zhejiang University Of Technology, China
Prof. Di Cao, Zhejiang University Of Technology, China
Prof. Jiaxin Du, Zhejiang University Of Technology, China
Prof. Xaingjie Kong, Zhejiang University of Technology, China
Prof. Qingyang Song, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
A. Prof. Liangtian Wan, Dalian University of Technology, China
A. Prof. Yuanni Liu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
A. Prof. Xuanrui Xiong, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr. Raj Mani Shukla, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Dr. Mir Sajjad Hussain Talpur, Associate Professor,Information Technology Centre, SAU, Sindh, Pakistan
Technical Programme Committee
Prof. Amr Tolba, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Yejun Liu, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
A. Prof. Lu Sun, Daliann Maritime University, China
A. Prof. Pengxing Guo, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
A. Prof. Xu Zhang, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Dr. Sharyar Wani, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) , Malaysia
Dr. Yousef Abubaker El-Ebiary, University Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA), Malaysia
Dr. Azim Zaliha Abd Aziz, Faculty of Informatics & Computing, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
Dr. Hamid R. Ghaeini, CISPA - Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany