Keynote Speakers

 


Prof. Yonghui Li (ARC Future Fellow, IEEE Fellow)
University of Sydney, Australia

Yonghui Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008, ARC Future Fellowship in 2012 and ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship in 2025. He is an IEEE Fellow and Clarivate highly cited researcher. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications. Professor Li was an editor for IEEE transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE Communications Magazine. He received the best paper awards from several conferences. He has published one book, more than 300 papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 200 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 25000 times.

 

 

Prof. Jianbin Qiu (IEEE Fellow)
Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Jianbin Qiu received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He also received the Ph.D. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, in 2009.
He is currently a Full Professor at the School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Institute for Automatic Control and Complex Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany. His current research interests include intelligent and hybrid control systems, signal processing, and robotics.
Prof. Qiu is a Fellow of IEEE and serves as the chair of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Harbin Chapter, China. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.

 

 

Prof. Kaoru Ota (AAIA Fellow, Fellow of EAJ)
Tohoku University, Japan

Kaoru Ota received her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Aizu, Japan, in 2006 and 2012, respectively, and her M.S. degree from Oklahoma State University, USA, in 2008. She is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan, and a Professor at the Center for Computer Science (CCS), Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan, where she served as the founding director. She has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2019, 2021, and 2022, a Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ) in 2022, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA) in 2025.

 

 

Prof. Mian-Xiong Dong (AAIA Fellow, Foreign Fellow of EAJ)
Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan

Mianxiong Dong received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is the Vice President and Professor of Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. He was a JSPS Research Fellow with School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan and was a visiting scholar with BBCR group at the University of Waterloo, Canada supported by JSPS Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program from April 2010 to August 2011. Dr. Dong was selected as a Foreigner Research Fellow (a total of 3 recipients all over Japan) by NEC C&C Foundation in 2011. He is the recipient of The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2017, Funai Research Award 2018, NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology, The Young Scientists’ Award from MEXT in 2021, SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award from IEICE in 2021, IEEE TCSC Middle Career Award in 2021. He is Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science) and Foreign Fellow of EAJ.