| Prof. Liang Yang Hunan University, China His main research areas are wireless communications and optical wireless communications. He has published over 120 IEEE journal papers, including 8 highly cited papers and 2 hot papers. His H-index is 41 according to Google Scholar and ResearchGate. He has been listed among Stanford’s global top 2% elite scientists for five consecutive years and was selected as an Elsevier "Highly Cited Researcher in China" in 2023 and 2024. He has led five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and one key project under the National Key R&D Program, and served as the principal investigator for a key project of the NSFC Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund. He serves as an editorial board member for multiple international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications (IEEE-TCOM), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (IEEE-TCCN), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IEEE-WCL), IEEE Communications Magazine (IEEE-COMML), Science China Information Sciences, and Journal of Communications. He received the Guangdong Province Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2007, the Second Prize of the Hunan Province Natural Science Award in 2019 (ranked first), the Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2021, and the Best Editor Award from IEEE WCL in 2020. He currently serves as the Deputy Director-General of the Hunan Province Electronics Society. |
| Prof. Yongmin LIU Central South Forestry University of Science and Technology, China Professor Liu Yongmin's research areas include artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), 5G/6G communications, information security, and edge computing. He has hosted six projects at or above the provincial level, including general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation, Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, and Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Plan projects. He has participated in three national-level research projects, including those from the National Natural Science Foundation, as well as over ten provincial-level projects, such as key projects under the Hunan Provincial Natural Science Foundation and the Hunan Provincial Science and Technology Plan. In recent years, he has published more than 30 academic papers, with over 20 indexed by SCI and EI, authored two books, and filed five invention patents. |
