Prof. Lisheng Fan: Guangzhou University, China
Lisheng Fan received the bachelor and master degrees from Fudan University and Tsinghua University, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, both from the Department of Electronic Engineering. He received the Ph.D degree from the Department of Communications and Integrated Systems of Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2008. He is now a Professor with GuangZhou University. His research interests span in the areas of wireless cooperative communications, physical-layer secure communications, interference modeling, and system performance evaluation. Lisheng Fan has published many papers in international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, as well as papers in conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom, and IEEE WCNC. He has served as a leading guest editor of Physical Communication, a guest editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and served as the chair of Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium for Chinacom. He has also served as a member of Technical Program Committees for IEEE conferences such as Globecom, ICC, WCNC, and VTC.
Prof. Shengli Zhang: Shenzhen University, China
Shengli Zhang received the B.Eng. degree in electronic engineering and the M.Eng. degree in communi-cation and information engineering from the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China, in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, in 2008. After that, he joined the Department of Communication Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, where he is currently a Full Professor. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Associate Professor with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He has served as a Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan: Queen Mary University of London, UK
Arumugam Nallanathan (S'97-M'00-SM'05-F'17) is Professor of Wireless Communications and Head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London since September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King’s College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications from April 2013 to August 2017 and a Visiting Professor from September 2017. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007. His research interests include 5G Wireless Networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and Molecular Communications. He published nearly 500 technical papers in scientific journals and international conferences. He is a co-recipient of the Best Paper Awards presented at the IEEE International Conference on Communications 2016 (ICC'2016) , IEEE Global Communications Conference 2017 (GLOBECOM'2017) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2018 (VTC'2018). He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has been selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in 2016.
Prof. Rose Qingyang Hu: Utah State University, USA, rose.hu@usu.edu
Rose Qingyang Hu is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining Utah State University, she held various industry and academia positions, actively participated in industry 4G standards/technology development and system level simulations. She was an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Mississippi State University during 2002-2004. During 1998-2002 and during 2004-2010, she held several management and Senior research positions in telecommunication industry. Her current research interests include next generation (5G) wireless network, Internet of Things, cyber physical systems, design and optimization, simulation, modeling and performance evaluation. She has published about 230 journal and conference papers and holds over 30 patents in these areas. She is a Fellow of IEEE.
