
| Prof. Liu Xiangrong Xiamen University
Professor in the Department of Computer Science, School of Information Science, Xiamen University, and PhD supervisor. He graduated in 2000 from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, with a Bachelor of Engineering degree; in 2007, he obtained his PhD in Engineering from the Department of Control Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. From 2007 to 2009, he conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Computer Science, School of Information, Peking University. In 2009, he joined the Department of Computer Science, School of Information Science, Xiamen University. Between 2014 and 2015, he was a visiting scholar at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His main research interests include computational intelligence, computational theory, data mining, bioinformatics, and mobile and microsensor technologies. In recent years, he has published over 40 papers indexed by SCI, including in journals such as Bioinformatics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Advanced Optical Materials, IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, and Information Sciences. He has served multiple times as a reviewer for journals including IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience, NeuroComputing, and Science China, and has been invited to serve as a program committee member for international conferences such as BICTA and ACMC. He has led multiple national and corporate research projects, including key national research programs, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and sub-projects of the 13th Five-Year National Marine Economy Innovation and Development Demonstration Zone Project. He has received first-class Provincial Natural Science Awards, second-class Provincial Science and Technology Progress Awards, and second-class Natural Science Awards from the Ministry of Education. He has also been honored as an Outstanding Science and Technology Leader of Suzhou City and as a Key Talent of Xiamen City.
Speech Title: AI for Science or AI for Computation?
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| 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.
Speech Title: Toward 6G: Next-Generation Network Architectures and Enabling Technologies
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| 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.
Speech Title: Road to 6G: evolving the Architecture of networks |
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Prof. Suleman Mazhar Harbin Engineering University, China Suleman Mazhar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the postdoctoral degree in information and communication engineering from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, in 2015, and the Ph.D degree in information and communication engineering from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2010.,He loves teaching machine learning and data science and spends leisure time in software consultancy, field work, protecting endangered species in the rivers and endangered beings on the roads. He is currently a Professor with the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China.
Speech Title: Transfer Learning and Deep Learning Architectures for end-to-end Underwater OFDM Communication
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