Speakers
Prof. Lei Zhang
Chongqing University, China
IEEE Senior Member
Lei Zhang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in circuits and systems from the College of Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2013.,He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, from 2013 to 2015. He is currently a Full Professor with Chongqing University and the Director of Chongqing Key Laboratory of Bio-Perception and Multimodal Intelligent Information Processing. He has authored more than 100 scientific papers in top journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IJCV, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML, AAAI, ACM MM, and IJCAI. His current research interests include deep learning, transfer learning, domain adaptation, and computer vision. He was a recipient of the 2019 ACM SIGAI Rising Star Award. He is on the Editorial Boards of several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement and Neural Networks (Elsevier)
Prof. Sos Agaian
City University of New York, USA
Sos S. Agaian, PhD in Mathematics, Dr, Engineering Science, and is a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY). Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Agaian was the Peter T. Flawn Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences UTHSCSA at San Antonio; Professor, UT System Cyber and Cloud Security Initiative, and Director of Multimedia and Mobile Signal Processing Laboratory. He has been a visiting faculty at the Tufts University, the Tampere Institute of Technology, and the Leading Scientist at the AWARE, Inc. at Bedford, MA.
Dr. Agaian received his M.S. in Mathematics and Mechanics (summa cum laude) from the Yerevan State University, Armenia; his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Physics from the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); and his Doctor of Engineering Sciences degree from the Institute of Control Systems, RAS.
Dr. Xinggang Yan
University of Kent, UK
Dr Xinggang Yan received his BSc degree from Shaanxi Normal University, in 1985, MSc degree from Qufu Normal University in 1991, and PhD degree in Control Engineering from Northeastern University, P. R. China in 1997. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in the University of Kent, United Kindom.
He worked as a Research Fellow/Research Associate in the University of Leicester, United Kingdom, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, the University of Hong Kong, China and Northwestern Polytechnical University, China.
He was awarded as outstanding Chief-Editor of the Journal of Electronics & Information Systems by Bilingual Publishing Co in 2022. He received the Best Application Paper Award of ASian Control Conference (ASCC) in Fukuoka, Japan in 2019.
He serves as the member of the Editorial Board of several engineering journals including IET Control Theory & Applications, Journal of the Franklin Institute, Complexity, Energies and Mathematics Problems in Engineering etc. and a member of TPC for a number of international conferences.
His research interests include sliding mode control, decentralised control, fault detection and isolation, and time delay system with applications. He has published three books, six invited book chapters and over 200 referred papers in these areas.
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.