Keynote Speaker I

Prof. Zuqing Zhu, University of Science and Technology of China, China (IEEE Fellow)

Zuqing Zhu received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Davis, in 2007. From 2007 to 2011, he worked in the Service Provider Technology Group of Cisco Systems, San Jose, California, as a Senior Engineer. In January 2011, he joined the University of Science and Technology of China, where he currently is a Full Professor and Associate Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology. He has published 360+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, which have received 10,000+ Google Scholar citations with an h-index of 56. He is the Area Editor of Optical Communications and Networking of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and is also an editorial board member of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Optics Express, Optical Switching and Networking, and others. He is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and the Chair of the Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC) in the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). He has received the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2013, GLOBECOM 2013, ICNC 2014, ICC 2015, and ONDM 2018, and has been a Distinguished Lecturer of ComSoc (2018-2021). He is a Senior Member of Optica (formally OSA) and a Fellow of IEEE.

 

 

Keynote Speaker II

Prof. Jinde Cao, Southeast University, China (IEEE Fellow)

Jinde Cao is an Endowed Chair Professor, Dean of Sanjiang Academy and Head of Science Department at Southeast University (SEU). He is also the Director of National Center for Applied Mathematics at SEU-Jiangsu of China and Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory of Networked Collective Intelligence of China. He is also Honorable Professor of Institute of Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling, Almaty, Kazakhstan. He was a recipient of the National Innovation Award of China, Jiangsu Province May 1 Labor Medal, IETI Annual Scientific Award, Obada Prize and the Highly Cited Researcher Award in Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics by Clarivate Analytics. He is elected as a fellow of IEEE, a member of Russian Academy of Sciences, a member of the Academia Europaea, a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, a fellow of African Academy of Sciences, and a fellow of Pakistan Academy of Sciences.

 

 

Keynote Speaker III

Prof. Liang Zhou, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (IEEE Fellow)

Liang ZHOU, is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, as well as the vice president. His main research direction is multimedia communication and networks. In recent years, he has published numerous academic papers in IEEE/ACM Trans. and other prestigious journals, and has presided over key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society, the Director of the Communication Theory and Signal Processing Committee of the China Communications Society, and is invited to be an editorial board member of academic journals such as IEEE Wireless Communications and China Communications. He has received academic honors including the Cheung Kong Scholars Program Professorship from the Ministry of Education (2020), the National "Outstanding Young Scientist Fund" (2013), and the National "Overseas High-Level Young Talent" (2012).

 

 

Keynote Speaker IV

Prof. Yong Zeng, Southeast University, China (IEEE Fellow)

Yong Zeng is a Full Professor with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China, and also with the Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. He received the Bachelor of Engineering (First-Class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney, Australia. Dr. Zeng was listed as Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics for three consecutive years (2019-2021). He is the recipient of the Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), the 2020 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the 2018 IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the 2020 and 2017 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Awards, the 2021 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, and 2021 China Communications Best Paper Award. He serves as an Associated Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, a Leading Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications on Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond'' and China Communications on Network-Connected UAV Communications''. He is the Symposium Chair for IEEE Globecom 2021 Track on Aerial Communications, the workshop co-chair for ICC 2018-2022 workshop on UAV communications, and the tutorial speaker for the Globecom 2018/2019 and ICC 2019 tutorials on UAV communications.