Speakers
Prof. Zilong Liu
University of Essex, Singapore
IEEE Senior Member
Dr Zilong Liu is an Associate Professor and the 6G Lab Director with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. He received his PhD (2014) from School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), advised by Prof Yong Liang Guan, Master Degree (2007) in the Department of Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University (China), advised by Prof Huazhong Yang (IEEE Fellow), and Bachelor Degree (2004) in the School of Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST, China). He was also a Visiting PhD student to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (hosted by Prof Wai Ho Mow) and the University of Melbourne (hosted by Prof Udaya Parampalli).
From Jan. 2018 to Nov. 2019, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), Home of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), University of Surrey, during which he studied the air-interface design of 5G communication networks. Prior to his career in UK, he spent nine and half years in NTU, first as a Research Associate (Jul. 2008 to Oct. 2014) and then a Research Fellow (Nov. 2014 to Dec. 2017). His PhD thesis “Perfect- and Quasi- Complementary Sequences”, focusing on fundamental limits, algebraic constructions, and applications of complementary sequences in wireless communications, has settled a few long-standing open problems in the field.
His research lies in the interplay of coding, signal processing, and communications, with a major objective of bridging theory and practice. Recently, he has developed an interest in advanced 6G V2X communication, sensing, and localization technologies for future connected autonomous vehicles as well as machine learning for enhanced communications and networking. His research is/was generously supported by EPSRC, The Royal Society, British Council, London Mathematical Society, EU-H2020, The Research Council of Norway, The Research Foundation of Singapore, NSFC, etc.
He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Access, and Advances in Mathematics of Communications. He was the Hosting General Co-Chair of the 12th Sequences and Their Applications (SETA’2024,https://seta-2024.github.io/) and the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (iwsda2022.github.io). He was named the 2024 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher in the Faculty of Science and Health, the University of Essex, in May 2024. He was a Consultant to the Japanese government on 6G assisted autonomous driving in January 2023. He was a Track Co-Chair on Networking andMAC in IEEE PIMRC’2023.
Prof. Sergei Gorlatch
Universitaet Muenster
Sergei Gorlatch is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Muenster (Germany) since 2003. Earlier he was Associate Professor at the Technical University of Berlin, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, and Humboldt Research Fellow at the Technical University of Munich, all in Germany. Prof. Gorlatch has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international books, journals and conferences. He was principal investigator in several international research and development projects in the field of software for parallel, distributed, Grid and Cloud systems, machine learning, and networking, funded by the European Community and by German national bodies.
Prof. Jiacun Wang
Monmouth University, USA
IEEE Senior Member
Jiacun Wang received the PhD in computer engineering from Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China, in 1991. He is currently a Professor and Graduate Program Director of the Computer Science and Software Engineering Department at Monmouth University, West Long Branch, New Jersey, USA. From 2001 to 2004, he was a member of scientific staff with Nortel Networks in Richardson, Texas. Prior to joining Nortel, he was a research associate of the School of Computer Science, Florida International University (FIU) at Miami. Prior to joining FIU, he was an associate professor at NJUST.
Dr. Wang's research interests include software engineering, discrete event systems, formal methods, machine learning, healthcare information systems, wireless networking, and real-time distributed systems. Most recently, he has been focusing his research on workflow modeling and analysis for emergency management systems. He published four books, including Formal Methods in Computer Science (CRC Press, 2019), Real-time Embedded Systems (Wiley, 2017), Finite State Based Models and Applications (CRC Press, 2012), and Timed Petri Nets: Theory and Application (Norwell, MA: Kluwer, 1998), and published more than 170 research papers in peer reviewed international journals and conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, and IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C, and has served as general chair, program chair, program co-chair, or special sessions chair for several international conferences. Dr. Wang has been a senior member of IEEE since 2000.