Keynote Speakers

 



Prof. Rui Zhang
Fellow of IEEE and the Academy of Engineering Singapore
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China & National University of Singapore, Singapore

Dr. Rui Zhang received the B.Eng. (first-class Hons.) and M.Eng. degrees from National University of Singapore and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, all in electrical engineering. He is now the Principal’s Diligence Chair Professor in School of Science and Engineering and Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. He is also a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His current research interests include wireless power transfer, UAV/satellite communications, intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) and reconfigurable MIMO systems. He has published over 500 papers, which have been cited more than 90,000 times with the h-index over 135 (Google Scholar). He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters / Clarivate Analytics since 2015. He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region Best Young Researcher Award in 2011, the Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore in 2015, the Recognition Award of WTC, SPCC and TCCN Technical Committees of the IEEE Communications Society in 2020, 2021 and 2023, respectively. He received 15 IEEE Best Journal Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (twice), the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (thrice), the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, etc. He has served as an Editor for several IEEE journals, including TWC, TCOM, JSAC, TSP, etc., and as TPC co-chair or organizing committee member for over 30 international conferences. He served as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the Academy of Engineering Singapore.




Prof. Xiaoqing Wen
Fellow of IEEE
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Xiaoqing Wen received a B.E. degree from Tsinghua University, China, in 1986, a M.E. degree from Hiroshima University, Japan, in 1990, and a Ph.D. degree from Osaka University, Japan, in 1993. He was an Assistant Professor with Akita University, Japan, frrom 1993 to 1997, and a Visiting Researcher with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, from Oct. 1995 to Mar. 1996. He joined SynTest Technologies Inc., USA, in 1998, and served as its Vice President and Chief Technology Officer until 2003. He joined Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2003, where he is currently a Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Networks. He founded Dependable Integarted Systems Research Center at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2013 and served as its Director until 2015. He is a Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Technical Activity Committee on Power-Aware Testing under Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) of IEEE Computer Society. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration Systems (TVLSI) and Journal of Electronic Testing: Theory and Applications (JETTA). He co-authored and co-edited two popular books, VLSI Test Principles and Architectures: Design for Testability (2006) and Power-Aware Testing and Test Strategies for Low Power Devices (2009). His research interests include design, test, and diagnosis of VLSI circuits. He holds 43 U.S. Patents and 14 Japan Patents. He received the 2008 Society Best Paper Award from the Infromation Systmes Society (ISS) of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). He is a Fellow of IEEE for his pionerring work in low capture power test generation, a Senior Member of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), and a Senior Member of IEICE.