Prof. Guanglin Zhang

School of Information Science and Technology,Donghua University, China

Guanglin Zhang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics from Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China, in 2003, the M.S. degree in operational research and cybernetics from Shanghai University, Shanghai, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, in 2012. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is currently a Professor and the Vice Dean with the College of Information Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai. His research interests include online algorithms, capacity scaling of wireless networks, vehicular networks, smart microgrids, and mobile edge computing. He has been the Local Arrangement Co-Chair of ACM TURC 2017 and 2019 and the Vice Technical Program Committees Co-Chair of ACM TURC 2018 and 2021. He is an Editor on the Editorial Board of IEEE/CIC CHINA COMMUNICATIONS.

Prof. Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci

Tsinghua University, China

Dr. Cannistraci is a theoretical engineer and computational innovator. He is a Professor in the Tsinghua Laboratory of Brain and Intelligence (THBI) and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Tsinghua University. He directs the Center for Complex Network Intelligence (CCNI) in THBI, which seeks to create pioneering algorithms at the interface between information science, physics of complex systems, complex networks and machine intelligence, with a particular focus in brain/life-inspired computing for big data analysis. These computational methods are often applied to precision biomedicine, neuroscience, social and economic science. 

Prof. Yang Yang, IEEE Fellow

Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

Adjunct Professor, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China

Dr. Yang Yang is currently a Professor with the Internet of Things (IoT) Thrust, Information Hub, and the Acting Dean of College of Education Sciences, at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China. He is also an adjunct professor with the Department of Broadband Communication at Peng Cheng Laboratory, the Chief Scientist of IoT at Terminus Group, and a Senior Consultant at Shenzhen Smart City Technology Development Group, China. Before joining HKUST (Guangzhou), he has held faculty positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Brunel University, U.K., University College London (UCL), U.K., CAS-SIMIT, and ShanghaiTech University, China. 

Yang's research interests include IoT technologies and applications, multi-tier computing networks, 5G/6G mobile communications, intelligent and customized services, and advanced wireless testbeds. He has published more than 300 papers and filed more than 120 technical patents in these research areas. Yang received his BEng and MEng degrees from Southeast University, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively; and the PhD degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2002. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. 

Prof. Shugong Xu, IEEE Fellow

Shanghai University, China

Shugong Xu is an IEEE Fellow, a distinguished professor at Shanghai University, and head of the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Communication and Data Science (SICS). He owns over 40 issued US/WO/CN patents and published more than 140 peer-reviewed research papers during his over 20 years career in research (over 15 years in industrial research labs). 

He was awarded "National Innovation Leadership Talent" from China government in 2013 and selected as IEEE Fellow in 2015. Moreover, prof. Xu won the 2017 Award for Advances in Communication from IEEE Communication Society. His research interests include V2X, wireless communication systems, and machine learning, etc.

Prof. Meixia Tao, IEEE Fellow

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Meixia Tao is a Professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. She received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2003. Her current research interests include wireless edge learning, coded caching, reconfigurable intelligence surfaces, and semantic communications.

She receives the 2019 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters, the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) 2015 Best Paper Award, and the International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) 2012 and 2022 Best Paper Awards. She also receives the 2009 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher award.

Dr. Tao is an Associate Editor of the \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Information Theory} and an Editor-at-Large of the \textsc{IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society}. She served as a member of the Executive Editorial Committee of the \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications} during 2015-2019. She was also on the Editorial Board of several other journals as Editor or Guest Editor, including the \textsc{IEEE Transactions on Communications} and \textsc{IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications}. She also served as the TPC Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2023.