Keynote Speakers
Prof. Caiming Qiu
IEEE FellowBiography: Robert Caiming Qiu (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from New York University (formerly Polytechnic University), Brooklyn, NY, USA. He joined the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, as a Full Professor, in 2020. Before joining HUST, he was an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Manufacturing Research, Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville, TN, USA, in 2003, where he became a Professor in 2008. He founded and served as the CEO and the President of Wiscom Technologies Inc., a company specializing in manufacturing and marketing WCDMA chipsets. In 2003, he was acquired by Intel. He was with GTE Laboratories Inc. (now Verizon), Waltham, MA, USA; and Bell Laboratories, Lucent, Whippany, NJ, USA. He has co-authored Cognitive Radio Communication and Networking: Principles and Practice (John Wiley, 2012) and Cognitive Networked Sensing: A Big Data Way (Springer, 2013) and authored Big Data and Smart Grid (John Wiley, 2015). He has authored over 100 journal articles/book chapters and 120 conference papers. He has served as a TPC Member for GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, and MILCOM. He was a Guest Book Editor of Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Wireless Communications (New York: Wiley, 2005) and three Special Issues on UWB, including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Furthermore, he has made 15 contributions to 3GPP and IEEE standards bodies. He has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and other international journals.
Prof. Yong Zeng
IEEE FellowBiography: Yong Zeng, IEEE Fellow, Young Chief Professor of Southeast University and Purple Mountain Laboratory, Nanjing, China. He received the Bachelor of Engineering (First-Class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2018 to 2019, he was a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Zeng was listed as Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 7 consecutive years (2019-2025), AI2000 Most Influential Scholars in the field of Internet of Things for 4 consecutive years (2021-2024), Stanford "Top 2% of Scientists in the World - Lifetime Influence". Prof. Zeng is the recipient of Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and won 10 international and domestic best paper awards including IEEE Marconi Award (2020 and 2024), Heinrich Hertz Award (2017 and 2020), etc. Prof. Zeng proposed the concept of channel knowledge map (CKM), and his works have been cited by more than 40,000 times. He serves on the editorial board of SCI journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Communications Letters, and leading guest editor of journals including IEEE ComMag, Wireless ComMag, China Communications, and Science China Information Sciences. Prof. Zeng was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicle communications and wireless power transfer”.
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