Prof. Zhisheng Niu
IEEE Fellow
Tsinghua University, China
Zhisheng Niu
graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, China,
in 1985, and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi
University of Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively.
During 1992-94, he worked for Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan,
and in 1994 joined with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. His
major research interests include queueing theory and traffic
engineering, wireless communications and mobile Internet, and
green communication and networks.
Dr. Niu has served IEICE as a council member in 2009-2010, and
IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) as Chair of Beijing Chapter
(2000-2008), Director of Asia-Pacific Board (2008-2009),
Director for Conference Publications (2010-2011), Chair of
Emerging Technologies Committee (2014-2015), Director for Online
Contents (2018-2019), and currently as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE
Trans. Green Commun. & Networks (2020-2022). He received the
Outstanding Young Researcher Award from Natural Science
Foundation of China in 2009, Best Paper Awards from ComSoc
Asia-Pacific Board in 2013 and from Journal of Communications
and Information Networks (JCIN) in 2019, Distinguished Technical
Achievement Recognition Award from IEEE Green Communications &
Computing Committee in 2018, and Harold Sobol Award from ComSoc
in 2019. He is distinguished lecturer for ComSoc (2012-2015) as
well as Vehicular Technologies Society (2014-2018). He is a
fellow of both IEEE and IEICE.
Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan
IEEE Fellow
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Arumugam Nallanathan is
Professor of Wireless Communications and Head of the
Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary
University of London since September 2017. He was with the
Department of Informatics at King's College London from December
2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless
Communications from April 2013 to August 2017 and a Visiting
Professor from September 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in
the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National
University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007.
His research interests include Artificial Intelligence for
Wireless Systems, 5G and beyond Wireless Networks, Internet of
Things (IoT) and Molecular Communications. He published nearly
500 technical papers (including more than 200 top IEEE journal
papers) in scientific journals and international conferences. He
is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE
International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC'2016), IEEE
Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM'2017) and IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference 2017 (VTC'2017). He is an Editor
for IEEE Transactions on Communications and a Senior Editor for
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He was an Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communications (2006-2011), IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology (2006-2017) and IEEE Signal
Processing Letters. He served as the Chair for the Signal
Processing and Communication Electronics Technical Committee of
IEEE Communications Society and Technical Program Chair and
member of Technical Program Committees in numerous IEEE
conferences. He received the IEEE Communications Society SPCE
outstanding service award 2012 and IEEE Communications Society
RCC outstanding service award 2014. He has been selected as a
Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016. He is an
IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Prof. Teng Joon Lim
IEEE Fellow
University of Sydney, Australia
Teng Joon (T.
J.) Lim (S’92-M’95-SM’02-F’17) obtained the B.Eng. degree in
Electrical Engineering with first-class honours from the
National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1992, and the Ph.D.
degree from the University of Cambridge in 1996. From September
1995 to November 2000, he was a researcher at the Centre for
Wireless Communications in Singapore, one of the predecessors of
the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R). From December 2000 to
May 2011, he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, then
Professor at the University of Toronto’s Edward S. Rogers Sr.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since June
2011, he has been a Professor at the Electrical & Computer
Engineering Department of NUS, where he served as a Deputy Head
from July 2014 to August 2015. From September 2015 through
December 2019, he served as Vice-Dean (Graduate Programs) in the
NUS Faculty of Engineering. Since January 2020, he has served as
the Associate Dean (Education) at the Faculty of Engineering in
the University of Sydney.
Professor Lim was an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications from September 2013 to September 2018,
and previously served as an Associate Editor for the same
journal. He has also served as an Associate Editor for IEEE
Wireless Communications Letters, Wiley Transactions on Emerging
Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), IEEE Signal Processing
Letters and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has
volunteered on the organizing committee of a number of IEEE
conferences, including serving as the TPC co-chair of IEEE
Globecom 2017. He chaired the Singapore chapter of the IEEE
Communications Society in 2017 and 2018, and is a Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for 2019-20.
His research interests span many topics within wireless
communications, including cyber-security in the Internet of
Things, heterogeneous networks, cooperative transmission,
energy-optimized communication networks, multi-carrier
modulation, MIMO, cooperative diversity, cognitive radio, and
stochastic geometry for wireless networks, and he has published
widely in these areas.
Prof. Xiaofang Zhou
IEEE Fellow
The University of Queensland, Australia
Professor
Xiaofang Zhou is a Professor of Computer Science at The
University of Queensland. His research focus is to find
effective and efficient solutions for managing, integrating and
analyzing very large amount of complex data for business,
scientific and personal applications. He has been working in the
area of spatial and multimedia databases, data quality, high
performance database systems, data mining, machine learning,
streaming data analytics and recommendation systems. He is a
Program Committee Chair for PVLDB 2020, SSTD 2017, CIKM 2016,
ICDE 2013, and a General Chair of MDM 2018 and ACM Multimedia
2015. He has been an Associate Editor of The VLDB Journal, IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE
Transactions on Cloud Computing, World Wide Web Journal,
Distributed and Parallel Databases, and IEEE Data Engineering
Bulletin. He was the Chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Data
Engineering (2015-2018), and a Fellow of IEEE.