Keynote Speaker I

Chair Prof. Chin-Chen Chang, Feng Chia University,Taiwan, China

(IEEE Fellow and CS Fellow, Chair Professor and IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow)

 

Professor Chin-Chen Chang has worked on many different topics in information security, cryptography, multimedia image processing, artificial intelligence and published several hundreds of papers in international conferences and journals and over 40 books. He was cited more than 50,000 times and has an h-factor of 102 according to Google Scholar. Several well-known concepts and algorithms were adopted in textbooks. He also worked with the National Science Council, Ministry of Technology, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Transportation, Ministry of Economic Affairs and other Government agencies on more than 100 projects and holds 37 patents. He served as Honorary Professor, Distinguished Professor, Guest Professor at over 60 academic institutions and received Distinguished Alumni Award's from his Alma Master's. He also served as Editor or Chair of several international journals and conferences and had given almost a thousand invited talks at institutions including Chinese Academy of Sciences, Academia Sinica, Tokyo University, Kyoto University, National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University, The University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University and Peking University. Professor Chang has mentored 7 postdoctoral, 69 PhD students and 208 master students. He is a leader in the field of information security of Taiwan. He founded the Chinese Cryptography and Information Security Association, accelerating information security the application and development and consulting on the government policy. He is also the recipient of several awards, including the Top Citation Award from Pattern Recognition Letters, Outstanding Scholar Award from Journal of Systems and Software, and Ten Outstanding Young Men Award of Taiwan. He was elected as a Fellow of IEEE in 1998, a Fellow of IET in 2000, a Fellow of CS in 2020, an AAIA Fellow in 2021, a Member of the Academy of Europe (AE) in 2022, a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA) in the same year.

 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Kun Yang, Nanjing University, China (IEEE Fellow)

Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus), China, leading the Institute of Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE) and also affiliated with University of Essex, UK. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, and edge computing. In particular he is interested in energy aspects of future communication systems and AI for wireless. He has managed research projects funded by UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020, and industries. He has published 500+ papers and filed 50 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE WCM, TNSE, TVT, TNB). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He has been a Judge of GSMA GLOMO Award at World Mobile Congress – Barcelona since 2019. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc (2020-2021) and a recipient of the IET Achievement Medal 2024. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Member of ACM.

 

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Maode Ma, Qatar University, Qatar

Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. Before joining Qatar University, he has been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for over 20 years. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 26 research projects funded by government, industry, military, and universities in various countries. He has supervised 25 research students to get their Ph. D degrees. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair, and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Prof. Ma has more than 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. He has edited a few technical books and produced over 28 book chapters. His publication has received over 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. He has delivered over 90 keynote speeches and 10 tutorials at various international conferences. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He has been serving as an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

 

 

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Jiajia Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Jiajia Liu is a full professor (Vice Dean) with the School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University. He is the director of Xi’an Unmanned System Security and Intelligent Communications ISTC (International Science and Technology Cooperation) Center since 2020. He was a full Professor at the School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University, from 2013 to 2018. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in many high quality publications, including prestigious IEEE journals and conferences. He received IEEE ComSoc Best YP (Young Professional) Award in Academia in 2020, IEEE VTS Early Career Award in 2019, IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2017, IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award in 2019, Niwa Yasujiro Outstanding Paper Award in 2012, the Best Paper Awards from many international conferences including IEEE flagship events, such as IEEE GLOBECOM in 2016 and 2019, IEEE WCNC in 2012 and 2014, IEEE WiMob in 2019, IEEE IC-NIDC in 2018, AICON in 2019. He was also a recipient of the Tohoku University President Award 2013. His research interests cover a wide range of areas including intelligent and connected vehicles, mobile/edge/cloud computing and storage, intelligent and connected vehicle security, wireless and mobile ad hoc networks, and space-air-ground integrated networks. He has been actively joining the society activities, like serving as associate editors for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (May 2018-present), IEEE Transactions on Communications (Sep. 2020-present), IEEE Transactions on Computers (Oct. 2015-Jun. 2017) and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Jan. 2016-Jan. 2021), editor for IEEE Network (July 2015-present), editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (January 2019-present), guest editors of top ranking international journals like IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), IEEE Network Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, etc., and serving as technical program committees of numerous international conferences like the general chair of HPSR 2022, the general co-chair of IWCMC 2023, and the leading symposium co-chair of AHSN symposium for GLOBECOM 2017, CRN symposium for ICC 2018, AHSN symposium for ICC 2019. He is the Chair of IEEE IOT-AHSN TC, and is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society.

 

 

Keynote Speaker V

Prof. Xiaojun Yuan, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

His research interests cover a broad range of signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications, including but not limited to multi-antenna and cooperative communications, sparse and structured signal recovery, Bayesian approximate inference, network coding, etc. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed research papers in the leading international journals and conferences in the related areas. He has served on a number of technical programs for international conferences. He is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017, and also an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2018. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, and also a co-recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) 2017.

 

 

Keynote Speaker VI

Prof. Qingchun Chen, Guangzhou University, China

Qingchun Chen is a full professor (Vice Dean) with the School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Guangzhou University. He is the director of the Research Center of Intelligent Communication Engineering, Huangpu Research and Graduate School, Guangzhou University. He was a full Professor with the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, from 2009 to 2018. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers, including prestigious IEEE transactions/journals and conferences. He was the recipient of the New Century Excellent Talent Program in University, Ministry of Education, China. Dr. Chen was the recipient of the Preferred Funding from the Fok Ying-Tung Education Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China, and the recipient of the Second Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education of China, the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference in 2016. His research interests include wireless communication, internet of things, sensing and intelligent formation processing. Prof. Chen had served as technical program committees of numerous international conferences like the general chair of ICCCS 2023, ICCCS2024, ICCET2025.