Speakers

Prof. Maode MA

Qatar University, Qatar

IEEE Senior Member, ACM Member

Brief Introduction: Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. Before joining Qatar University, he has been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for over 20 years. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 26 research projects funded by government, industry, military, and universities in various countries. He has supervised 25 research students to get their Ph. D degrees. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair, and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Prof. Ma has more than 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. He has edited a few technical books and produced over 28 book chapters. His publication has received over 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. He has delivered over 90 keynote speeches and 10 tutorials at various international conferences. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He has been serving as an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

Prof.Lin Wang

Xiamen University, China

IEEE Senior Member

Brief Introduction: Prof. Wang Lin, the former Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology of Xiamen University, Director of the National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center of Electronic Information, andadistinguished Professor of Information and Communication Engineering, was selected as the first New Century Outstanding Talents of the Ministry of Education in 2004, and won the Sa Bendong Chair Professor Award of Xiamen University in 2012 and He Yici Chair Professor Award of Xiamen University in 2016. From January to April 2003, he was a visiting research fellow in the Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, and from January to July 2013, he was a senior research scholar in the Department of Electronic and Computational Engineering, University of California, Davis. He receivedhisBachelor of Science degree in Basic Mathematics from Chongqing Normal University in 1984,his Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from Kunming University of Science and Technology in 1989, andhis Ph.D. in Engineering degree in Circuits and Systems from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2001. His current research interests include broadband and bandlimited digital communication system theory and application (6G, IoT, PLC, VLC, underwater acoustic communication, and body area network transmission systems), information theory, and coding (source/channel coding, joint source-channel coding, network coding). He has published 81 academic papers in IEEE Transactions andSCI journals, and 94 academic papers in EI conferences.He has won theIEEE ICCCAS 2005 Best Paper Award,theIEEE Transaction on Communications 2015 Outstanding Reviewer (top 2%),and his 16 national invention patents were authorized. He has chaired projects under the National 863Program, the National Natural Science FoundationProject. He has been theGeneral Assembly Chair and Program Committee co-Chair of several IEEE international conferences. He is a member of the Board of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Electronics and Information.

Prof. Haixin Sun

Xiamen University, China

IEEE Senior Member

Brief Introduction: Prof. HaixinSun is currently an expert of expert think tank of Shanghai Technology Exchange, an expert of project letter evaluation of National Natural Science Foundation, an expert of Fujian Military-Civilian Integration Science and Technology Committee, and a member of the Visual Sensing Professional Committee of Image and Graphics Society of China. 

Research interests: underwater acoustic communication, multi-target recognition, target detection, location and tracking, multi-beam imaging, etc.

Prof. Qingsheng Zeng

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

IEEE Senior Member

Biography: Prof. Zeng Qingsheng is an IEEE senior member, President of the Ottawa Branch Antenna and Radio Wave Propagation/Microwave Theory and Technology Joint Association, and Secretary of the Electromagnetic Compatibility Association. He has received several academic and technical service awards and was named the most Influential Researcher of the National Communications Research Centre of Canada in 2011. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was a visiting scholar at the High-Frequency Technology Institute of Ruhr University in Germany, a senior research engineer at the National Communications Research Center of Canada, a member of the Strategic Project Review panel of the National Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, a member of the Field Visit Committee of the Industrial Research Leader Project, and a reviewer of the Industrial Research Development Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is currently a professor at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, a visiting professor at Harbin Engineering University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and Beijing Jiaotong University. He is also a special expert on the Shanxi Hundred Talents Plan (short-term Innovative Talents Project of universities and Colleges). Adjunct professor and doctoral supervisor at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, University of Quebec (Capital Campus), National Academy of Sciences Center for Energy, Materials, and Communication (INRS-EMT), Canada, supervising many doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers, and visiting scholars.