 Prof. Cunhua Pan🎓︎ Southeast University, China He received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Research Associate at the University of Kent, U.K. He held the position of Senior Research Associate at Queen Mary University of London, U.K., from 2016 to 2019. From 2019 to 2021, he was a lecturer at the same university. In 2021, he became a full professor at Southeast University. His research interests mainly include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), intelligent reflection surfaces (IRS), ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC), machine learning, UAV, the Internet of Things, and mobile edge computing. He has published over 120 IEEE journal papers. He is currently an Editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE ACCESS. He serves as the guest editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on the special issue on xURLLC in 6G: Next Generation Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications. He also serves as a leading guest editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing for Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Aided 6G Networks, leading guest editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine on the special issue on Backscatter and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Wireless Communications in 6G, a leading guest editor of the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology on the special issue of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Empowered Wireless Communications in 6G and Beyond, and a leading guest editor of the IEEE ACCESS Special Issue on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Aided Communications for 6G and Beyond. |
 Prof. Chongwen Huang🎓︎ Zhejiang University, China Chongwen Huang obtained his B.Sc. degree in 2010 from Nankai University, Binhai College, and the M.Sc degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC, Chengdu) in 2013. He joined the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IECAS, Beijing) as a research engineer from Jul. 2013. Since Sep. 2015, he started his Ph.D. journey in Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD, Singapore) and CentraleSupélec University (Paris, France), under the supervision of Prof. Chau YUEN and Prof. Mérouane DEBBAH. From Oct. 2019 to Sep. 2020, he is a postdoc researcher in his mother University SUTD. Since Sep. 2020, he joined Zhejiang University as a tenure-track assistant professor. His main research interests are focused on Holographic MIMO Surface/Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface, B5G/6G Wireless Communication, mmWave/THz Communications, Deep Learning technologies for Wireless communications, etc. He was a recipient of Singapore Government Ph.D. scholarship, and received PHC Merlion Ph.D. Grant 2016-2019 for studying in CentraleSupélec, France. In addition, he also received more than 10 outstanding scholarships coming from China and industries, which involves the "Tang Lixin" Overseas Scholarship, National Postgraduate Scholarship, National Scholarship for Outstanding Self-funded Students, etc. |
Prof. Tao Lei🎓︎ Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, China Lei Tao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Fuzhou University, a distinguished member of CCF, and a senior member of IEEE/CSIG. He serves as an associate editor and editorial board member for seven journals including Neurocomputing, Journal of Intelligent Systems, and Wireless Engineering, and is an executive director of the Shaanxi Electronics Society and the Shaanxi Image and Graphics Society. He has served as the general chairman, technical committee chairman, publicity chairman, award committee chairman, and sub-committee chairman at more than 20 international conferences. His main research interests include computer vision and machine learning. He has published over 100 papers in authoritative journals and conferences both domestically and internationally, such as Nature Communications, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, and IJCAI. Among them, 15 papers are ESI highly cited papers, with over 9,000 citations on Google Scholar. He has been selected into the annual and lifetime scientific impact list of the top 2% of world-class scientists by Stanford Global. He has presided over projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including youth, general, and international cooperation projects. He has won the second prize of Shaanxi Provincial Natural Science Award, the first prize of Excellent Achievements in Scientific Research of Colleges and Universities in Gansu Province, and the Best Paper Award of IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences as the first author. He has guided graduate students to win the champion and runner-up in international competitions in the field of artificial intelligence, and has won the first prize in the national finals of the 18th and 21st China Graduate Electronic Design Contest. His research achievements have been featured in the mainstream American media, Academic Times. |
