ICCCAS Invited Speakers
Prof. Donald Lie (IEEE Fellow)
Texas Tech University, USA
Biography: Donald Y. C. Lie (S’86–M’87–SM’00-F'17) received his B.S.E.E. degree from the National Taiwan University in 1987, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering (minor in applied physics) from Caltech, Pasadena, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. He has held technical and managerial positions at companies such as Rockwell International, Silicon-Wave (now Qualcomm), IBM, Microtune Inc., SYS Technologies, and Dynamic Research Corporation (DRC). He is currently the Keh-Shew Lu Regents Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, and also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC), supervising M.D./Ph.D students. He is instrumental in bringing in multi-million dollars research funding and also designed real-world commercial communication products sold internationally. He was a Visiting Lecturer to the ECE Department, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) during 2002-2007 where he taught upper-division and graduate-level classes and affiliated with UCSD’s Center of Wireless Communications (CWC) and co-supervised Ph.D. students. Dr. Lie is currently serving on the Executive/Steering/Advisory Committees of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) RFIC Symp., SiRF, MWSCAS, TSWMCS (Texas Wireless Symp.), and VLSI-DAT since 2000. He is also serving as the TPC Chair for IEEE RFIC Symp. 21 and also as a TPC subcommittee chair/member for IEEE ISCAS, BIOCAS, RWS, PAWR, SiRF, etc. Dr. Lie was the General Chair of IEEE VLSI-DAT 2015-2017, an OCM (organizing committee member) of the Global Summit on Clinical Research & Biomarkers Conf., 2017, General Chair of IEEE BCTM 2014, SiRF 2014, the TPC Chair/co-Chair for IEEE VLSI-DAT 2011-13, IEEE BCTM 2011-13, and IEEE SiRF’11, etc. Dr. Lie has been awarded with the US NAVY SPAWAR SSC San Diego “Center Team Achievement Award”, Spring 2007, won 3 DRC Silver Awards of Excellence, 2005-2007; received IBM "FIRST" chairman patent award, 2001-2002 and Rockwell International’s “FIRST” engineering awards, 1996-1998. He and his students have won 20 Best Graduate Student Paper Awards and Best Paper Awards in international conferences for 1994, 1995, 2006, 2008 (twice), 2010 (thrice), 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 (twice), 2020 and also 2021 (twice). Professor Lie's students have also received the prestigious 1st Place of Texas Tech University Most Outstanding Master Thesis Award held biennually in the Category of Math, Science, and Engineering for 2016 and 2020, respectively. Dr. Lie has long served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (MWCL) 2010-2017; as the Editorial Board Member for Biosensors since Nov. 2016 and Special Issue Editor, Biosensors in 2017, 2018 and 2021; Guest Editor, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2017; Guest Editor of IEEE Transaction on Microwave Theory and Techniques, 2017, Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Open Journal of Applied Biosensor since 2012; Special Topic Editor for IEEE MWCL in June 2012; Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (JSSC), 2009, etc. Dr. Lie has consulted for several IC design companies and an international research institute, and also served on several patents and trade secrets litigation cases with some largest business litigation firms in the US. Dr. Lie has co-founded the NoiseFigure Research Inc. with his former PhD student Dr. Jerry Lopez since 2009 at Lubbock, Texas, focusing on state-of-the-art RF-SoC technologies and the company has won numerous awards and direct contracts. Dr. Lie has authored/coauthored over 240 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters and holds seven U.S. patents. Dr. Lie’s group has won 5 DARPA subcontracts and 1 DARPA prime contract/grant at TTU and published three most downloaded TOP 100 papers in the IEEE Xplore among millions of publications in Sept. 2012, June 2012, and Sept. 2009 (ranked #80, #88, and #21 for these 3 months, respectively). Dr. Lie has been awarded with the AFRL Summer Faculty Fellowship Program (SFFP) at Dayton, Ohio, 2018, and also appointed as a Chair Professor, College of Electrical Engineering, National Chiao-Tung University (NCTU), Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, since 2018. Dr. Lie has been an author of the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) 5G Hardware Roadmap as a member of the Technical Working Group (TWG). He is a Fellow of IEEE, a Senior Chapter Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and a member of ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology). His research interests are: (1) power-efficient 5G/6G mm-Wave/RF/Analog integrated circuits (ICs) and system-on-a-chip (SoC) design; and (2) interdisciplinary/clinical research on medical electronics, biosensors and oncology.
More info on Dr. Lie's research group can be found in https://rfsocttu.com/.
Prof.
Lin Wang (IEEE Senior Member)
Xiamen University, China
Biography: Lin Wang
(S’99-M’03-SM’09) received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from
the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China in 2001. He had
earned his MS in Applied Mathematics in Kunming University of Technology in
1989 and BS in Mathematics in Chongqing Normal University in 1984. From 1984
to 1986, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Mathematics Department,
Chongqing Normal University. From 1989 to 2002, he was a Teaching Assistant,
a Lecturer, and then an Associate Professor in applied mathematics and
communication engineering with the Chongqing University of Post and
Telecommunication, China. From 1995 to 1996, he spent one year with the
Mathematics Department, University of New England, Australia. In 2003, he
spent three months as a Visiting Researcher with the Center for Chaos and
Complexity, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong
Kong. In 2013, he was a Senior Visiting Researcher with the Department of
ECE, UC Davis. From 2003 to present, he was a Full Professor with the School
of Informatics, Xiamen University, China. He had been a Distinguished
Professor with Xiamen University since 2012 to 2017. He has authored over
230 journal and conference papers (77 IEEE journal papers). He holds 21
patents in physical layer in digital communications. His current research
interests include source coding/channel coding, joint source and channel
coding /decoding, chaos modulation, and their applications to wired/wireless
communication and underwater acoustic communications, PLC, etc. He has hold
several IEEE Conferences as General co-chairs and TPC co-chairs and also
been editors several SCI Journals. He is senior member of IEEE since 2009
and member of executive council of Chinese Institute of Electronics since
2019.
Prof. Yang Yue (IEEE Senior Member)
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
Biography: Yang Yue
received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from
Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern
California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information
and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue’s
current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical
communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over
200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference
proceedings with >9,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >50
issued or pending patents, >170 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial,
>20 plenary and >30 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Senior Member of the
Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate
Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other
scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for ten journal special
issues, Chair or Committee Member for >80 international conferences,
Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.
Prof. Haruo Kobayashi
Gunma University, Japan
Biography: Haruo
Kobayashi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in information physics from The
University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1980 and 1982, respectively, the M.S. degree
in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in
1989, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Waseda University,
Japan in 1995. After working at Yokogawa Electric Corporation, he is
currently a professor at the Division of Electronics and Informatics, Gunma
University. He is engaged in research and education on analog/mixed signal
IC design & test as well as signal processing algorithms there. He received
the 2002 Yokoyama Science and Technology Award.
Prof. Nives Mikelic Preradovic
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Biography: Nives
Mikelić Preradović is a full professor at the Department of Information and
Communication Sciences, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
University of Zagreb, Croatia. She obtained her MPhil in 2004 at Cambridge
University, United Kingdom. She obtained her Ph.D. in 2008 at the University
of Zagreb. In 2006 she spent a semester doing research and service-learning
at George Washington University, USA. She is the Head of the Chair for the
Knowledge Organization at the Department of Information and Communication
Sciences. Her research expertise includes service-learning, natural language
processing, instructional design, and computer-assisted learning. She was
the first to introduce service-learning (SL) in Croatia in 2006 and has
mentored and administrated over 90 SL projects with the local community. In
2013, she received a U.S. Department of State grant for the project
“Strengthening Self-employment Capabilities and Capacities through
International SL Projects.” In 2017 she received National award Ivan
Filipović for Service Learning in Higher Education. She has established the
graduate course “Service learning” elective for all students in University
of Zagreb and University of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has been
attended and passed by more than 600 students. She is the author of the
first university textbook on SL in Croatia, based on which, the essential
features of SL in Croatia were identified, and the method has been brought
among the priorities of the Operational Program "Effective Human Resources
2014-2020". She held more than 20 workshops and invited lectures on SL and
published 22 papers on SL in international journals and conference
proceedings. She was the external expert for SL implementation and
institutionalization in 10 ESF projects in Croatian call “Support for the
development of partnerships between civil society and HEI for the
implementation of SL programs”. Currently, she is the national coordinator
for two EU projects: SLIDE: Service-Learning as a pedagogy to promote
Inclusion, diversity and Digital Empowerment and e-SL4EU - e-Service
Learning for more digital and inclusive EU Higher Education systems.
Prof.
Jihong Yu
Beijing Institute of Technology, China
Biography:
Jihong Yu received the B.E degree in communication engineering and M.E degree in
communication and information systems from Chongqing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, Chongqing, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively, and the
Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay, France,
in 2016. He was a postdoc fellow in the School of Computing Science, Simon
Fraser University, Canada. He is currently a professor in the School of
Information and Electronics at Beijing Institute of Technology. His research
interests include backscatter networking, Internet of things, and Space-air
communications. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Internet of
Things Journal and IET Wireless Sensor Systems, an Area Editor for the Elsevier
Computer Communications, and An Editor for Acta Electronica Sinica (电子学报). He
received the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Global Communications Conference
(GLOBECOM) 2020.
Prof. Qiongfeng Shi
Southeast University, China
Biography: Dr.
Qiongfeng Shi is currently a professor in the School of Electronic Science
and Engineering, Southeast University. He received his BEng degree from
University of Science and Technology of China, China, and PhD degree from
National University of Singapore, Singapore. After that, he worked as a
research fellow in the Center of Intelligent Sensors and MEMS, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, from
2018 to 2022. His main research interests include wearable electronics,
energy harvesting, MEMS, sensors, human-machine interfaces, and intelligent
systems. Dr. Shi has published more than 60 international journal papers and
more than 30 conference proceedings, and won the best paper award in PCFPE
2019. Besides, he has also served as guest editors for several international
journals and reviewers for more than 20 peer-reviewed journals.
Prof. Kanglian Zhao
Nanjing University, China
Biography: Kanglian
Zhao is an Associate Professor at School of Electronic Science and
Engineering, Nanjing University, China. Dr. Zhao received his BS in
Electronic Science and Technology (2003) and PhD in Circuits and Systems
(2014) both from Nanjing University. He had been with KU Leuven and IMEC,
Belgiumas an International Scholar during Aug. 2009- Aug. 2010.
Dr. Zhao’s current research interests include network architecture and
protocols for space networks, emulation of space networks, etc. He has
published more than 70 research papers in journals/conferences such as IEEE
TAES, IEEE TVT, IEEE AES-M, and IEEE Network. He has also served as TPC
chairs/members for many international or domestic conferences and as guest
editors or reviewers for leading journals. He is currently a member of
Subcommittee on Space Data and Information Transfer, National Technical
Committee on Space Technology and Operation, Standardization Administration
of China (SAC/TC425/SC3).
Assoc.
Prof. Jun Wu
Southeast University, China
Biography: Dr Jun
Wu received his MSc and PhD degree from Southeast University, China. From
2010 to 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar at University of California in Los
Angeles, USA. He worked at Singapore-MIT Alliance as a Research Fellow from
January 2013 to July 2013. Since 2014, he joined Southeast University and
served as Vice Dean, School of Electronic Science and Engineering.
Dr Wu’s main research interests involve stretchable sensors and flexible
hybrid electronic systems, aiming to provide potential solutions for body
area network. He mainly explores human-based applications including
human-machine interfaces, human behavior monitoring and analysis, health
monitoring, smart home, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based on
flexible sensors and electronic systems. Dr. Wu had published more than 30
high-quality papers in international journals and conference. Besides, she
served as reviewers for many international journals, such as, ACS Nano,
Applied Physics Letters, Small, Organic Electronics, Optics Letters, and
Scientific Reports etc.
Assoc. Prof. Zan Li
Jilin University, China
Biography: Dr. Zan
Li is currently employed at Jilin University as an associate professor. His
research focuses on mobile computing, wireless communication, and artificial
intelligent. Before he joined Jilin University, he worked at Alibaba Group
as a senior researcher and responsible for designing algorithms of
crowd-sourcing positioning, activity recognition and data mining of user
location data for one year. He spent 4 years at the University of Bern for
his Ph.D. research and successfully accomplished several industry and
research projects, which focused on indoor positioning system design. He has
published several high-quality publications and won the Fritz-Kutter award
(the best Ph.D. thesis in Swiss universities) in 2016. He got my Master
degree at Bremen University in Germany and Bachelor degree at Shandong
University in China.
Assoc. Prof. Fu Shu
Chongqing University, China
Biography: Shu Fu
received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information system from the
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in
2016, with a focus on cooperative multipoint (CoMP) wireless network, QoS
routing in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) network, and cross-network
energy efficiency. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of
Microelectronics and Communication Engineering, Chongqing University,
Chongqing, China. His research interests include the next generation of
wireless networks, integrated networks, and network virtualization.
Assoc. Prof. Jie Huang
Southeast University, China
Biography: Dr. Jie
Huang received the B.E. degree in Information Engineering from Xidian
University, China, in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree in Information and
Communication Engineering from Shandong University, China, in 2018.
From Oct. 2018 to Oct. 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the
National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University,
China, supported by the National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative
Talents. From Jan. 2019 to Feb. 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Research
Associate in Durham University, U.K. Since Mar. 2019, he is a part-time
researcher in Purple Mountain Laboratories, China. Now he is an Associate
Professor in the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, School
of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, China.
He has authored and co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals and
conference proceedings. He received the Best Paper Awards from WPMC 2016,
WCSP 2020, and WCSP 2021. He has served as a TPC Member for IEEE/CIC ICCC
2017, 2018, and 2021, and delivered 2 tutorials in IEEE/CIC 2021 and IEEE
PIMRC 2021. His research interests include millimeter wave, massive MIMO,
reconfigurable intelligent surface channel measurements and modeling,
wireless big data, and 6G wireless communications.
Assoc. Prof. Mei Li
Chongqing University, China
Biography: Mei Li
received the Ph.D. degree in radio physics from the University of Electronic
Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, in 2016. From 2014 to 2016, she
was with the Applied Electromagnetics Research Group, University of
California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, as a Visiting Graduate. She is
currently an Associate Professor in the School of Microelectronics and
Communication Engineering, Chongqing University, China. She was the
recipient of the Young Scientist Award Scheme of the 2019 International
Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Symposium in China,
held in Nanjing, China. She has published over 60 journal publications and
conference proceedings. Her research interests include metasurface-based
electromagnetic devices, antennas and arrays.
Assoc. Prof. Yaqiong Liu
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Biography: Yaqiong
Liu is a member of IEEE and a senior member of the Communication Institute
of China. She is currently an associate professor with School of Information
and Communication Engineering at Beijing University of Posts and
Telecommunications, China. She received her Ph.D.'s degree in Computer
Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in
May 2016. She received her double Bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and
Technology, and in Financial Management, from Tianjin University in China in
July 2009. Her research interests include edge computing, Internet of
Things, artificial intelligence applications and location-based services.
Dr. Qi Cao
University of Glasgow, UK
Biography: Dr Qi
Cao is an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing Science,
University of Glasgow, Singapore campus. He obtained his PhD degree from
Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2007. He obtained his
Bachelor of Engineering degree from HuaZhong University of Science &
Technology (HUST), Wuhan China in 2000. His research interests include
signal processing, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), image
processing, data analytics, and computational intelligence. He has been with
several organizations for many years research experiences, and as the first
inventor of 2 granted US patents.
Assoc. Prof. Rohaya Binti Latip
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia
Biography: Assoc.
Prof. Dr. Rohaya Latip is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Computer
Science and Information Technology, University Putra Malaysia. She holds a
Ph. D in Distributed Database and Msc. in Distributed System from University
Putra Malaysia. She graduated her Bachelor of Computer Science from
University Technology Malaysia, Malaysia in 1999.
She is currently the head of Department of Communication Technology and
Network. She served as an Associate Professor at Najran university, Kingdom
of Arab Saudi (2012-2013). She is the Head of HPC section in University
Putra Malaysia (2011-2012) and consulted the Campus Grid project and also
the Wireless for hostel in Campus UPM project. She was also a Co-researcher
at Institute for Mathematic Research (INSPEM) from 2011 to 2019. She is the
editorial board of International Journal of Computer Networks and
Communications Security (IJCNCS), editorial board of International Journal
of Digital Contents and Applications (IJDCA) and editorial board for
International Journal of Computer Networks and Applications (IJCNA).
Her research interests include Big Data, Cloud and Grid Computing, Network
Management, and Distributed Database. For her research work, she won Gold
medal at 4th annual International Invention Innovation Competition in
Canada, iCAN2018 by Toronto International Society of Innovation & Advanced
Skills (TISIAS), two medals at The World Inventor Award Festival (WIAF) 2014
organized by Korea Invention News. She was awarded Gold medal at Malaysia
Technology Expo (MTE2014) and Malaysian Innovation Expo (MiExpo2013). She
also won Silver medal at National Design, Research and Innovation Expo
(PRPI) 2010 and Bronze medal at National Design, Research and Innovation
Expo (PRPI) 2007 and 2006 respectively. She has published more than 60
papers in international and national journals, proceedings and posters.
Dr.
Randy Kuang
Co-Founder and Chief Scientist
Quantropi Inc., Ottawa, Canada
Biography: Randy
holds a doctorate in quantum physics. His breakthrough research and findings
have been published in prestigious journals around the world, and his
innovative united atom model in 1991 was even coined “Kuang’s semi-classical
formalism” by NASA in 2012. His professional career includes stops at Nortel
Networks as a senior researcher, inBay Technologies as Co-Founder and CTO,
and most recently, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Quantropi, a
quantum-secure communications company. Randy is a prolific inventor with 30+
U.S. patents under his belt in broad technology fields such as WiMAX,
optical networks, multi-factor identity authentication, quantum
cryptography, and post-quantum cryptography. Specifically, Randy invented
two-level authentication (2009) leading to today’s authentications with
smart phones, quantum permutation pad for quantum computational encryptions
(2018, 2019) paving the way for quantum secure communications over today’s
Internet and future’s quantum internet, quantum public key distribution with
randomized coherent states (2019) for wire speed key distributions and data
communications over today’s coherent optical networks, and quantum safe
multivariate polynomial public key (2020, 2022) for key exchange mechanism
and digital signature.
Dr. Alican Ozhelvaci
IBM
Biography: Alican
OZHELVACI received the B.S. degree in Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering in 2014 and the B.S. degree in Department of
Industrial Engineering in 2015, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. He
received his Ph.D. degree in the Division of Communication Engineering from
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore in 2021. He is currently working on towards 5G/6G
security research, and cloud formation in next generation mobile networks
and works as Cloud, Infrastructure and Network Engineer at IBM. Dr. Alican
is a Member of IEEE Communication Society and IEEE Computer Intelligence
Society and serving as a Secretary of IEEE Young Professionals, Singapore.
His research interests include 5G/6G network security and security protocol
design, cloud, infrastructure design, cloud native security.
Assoc. Prof. Md. Kafiul Islam
Independent University, Bangladesh
Biography: Dr. Md
Kafiul Islam has received his B.Sc. in EEE from Islamic University of
Technology (IUT), Gazipur, Bangladesh in 2008 and completed his PhD from
Dept. of ECE, NUS, Singapore in the area of Neural Signal Processing back in
2015. Currently, he is serving as an Associate Professor in the Dept. of
Electrical and Electronic Engineering of Independent University, Bangladesh.
His research interests include biomedical instrumentation and signal
processing, neural signal processing, brain-computer interface (BCI), etc.
He is actively involved as a TPC member of several international conferences
and he reviews Journal articles frequently. He is also involved as a member
of the Editorial Board of several journals. He is an Associate Editor of
IEEE Access and Guest Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. He
has served as TPC Chair of ICAEE 2019, TPC Secretary of ICAEE 2017,
Publication Chair of IEEE SPICSCON 2019, Track Co-Chair and Session Chair of
IEEE TENSYMP 2020, Track Co-Chair of ICAICT 2020. He is a Senior Member of
IEEE, IEEE EMBS and IEEE SPS Society. He is the Branch Counselor of IEEE IUB
Student Branch since 2020 and won the Best branch counsellor award from IEEE
BD Section in 2020. He is an active Professional Volunteer of IEEE
Bangladesh Section. He is a Publons Academy Mentor and winner of Publons Top
Reviewer in the Multidisciplinary area in 2017. He has published more than
45 (in total ) peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and book
chapters with Google Scholar Citations of 925+ and impact factor
contribution of around 30. Dr. Islam has won several best paper/presentation
awards in IEEE conferences such as ICCIT 2018 at UIU, Dhaka, ICDPR 2020 at
NTU, Singapore and ETCCE 2020 at UIU, Dhaka. His research has also been
recognized by IUB during Employee Recognition Awards in 2020 where he has
won Publication Excellence in all three categories: journal articles,
conference proceedings and book chapters.