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.