Weijie Yuan, PhD, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
Weijie Yuan received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, in 2019. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the Southern University of Science and Technology. Prior to that, he was a Research Associate with the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He has served as a Research Assistant with the University of Sydney, a Visiting Associate Fellow with the University of Wollongong, and a Visiting Fellow with the University of Southampton, from 2017 to 2019. In 2016, he was a Visiting Ph.D. Student with the Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. He serves as the Co-Chair of the IEEE/CIC ICCC Workshop on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) and the IEEE VTC 2021-Fall Workshop on ISAC toward 6G, the TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE ICC 2021 Workshop on OTFS, and the Co-organizer for SPAWC 2021 Special session on ISAC. His research interest includes statistical signal processing on graphical models and intelligent transportation systems. He is a founding member of the ISAC ETI and the founding Chair of the ComSoc Special Interest Group (SIG) on OTFS. His research interests include vehicular communications, ISAC, and OTFS.
Emanuele Viterbo, PhD, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Emanuele Viterbo received his degree (Laurea) in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and his Ph.D. in 1995 in Electrical Engineering, both from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy. From 1990 to 1992 he was with the European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands, as a patent examiner in the field of dynamic recording and error-control coding. Between 1995 and 1997 he held a post-doctoral position in the Dip. di Elettronica of the Politecnico di Torino. In 1997-98 he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Information Sciences Research Center of AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, USA. He became first Assistant Professor (1998) then Associate Professor (2005) in Dip. di Elettronica at Politecnico di Torino. In 2006 he became Full Professor in DEIS at University of Calabria, Italy. Since 2010 he has been Professor in the Electrical and Computer Systems Eng. Department and Associate Dean Graduate Research (2012-2020) of the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. Prof. Emanuele Viterbo is a 2011 Fellow of the IEEE, a 2010 ISI Highly Cited Researcher and Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society (2011-2018) and Conference Committee Chair (2016-2018). He served as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, European Transactions on Telecommunications and Journal of Communications and Networks, Guest Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue Managing Complexity in Multiuser MIMO Systems, and Editor of Foundations and Trends® in Communications and Information Theory. In 1993 he was visiting researcher in the Communications Department of DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 1994 and 1995 he was visiting the Ecole Nationale Suprieure des Telcommunications (E.N.S.T.), Paris. In 2003 he was visiting researcher at the Mathematics Department of EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. In 2004 he was visiting researcher at the Telecommunications Department of UNICAMP, Campinas, Brazil. In 2005, 2006 and 2009 he was visiting researcher at the ITR of UniSA, Adelaide, Australia. In 2007 he was visiting fellow at the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki, Finland. Dr. Emanuele Viterbo was awarded a NATO Advanced Fellowship in 1997 from the Italian National Research Council, the 2012-13 Australia-India Fellowship from the Australian Academy of Science, and the 2013 Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. His main research interests are in lattice codes for the Gaussian and fading channels, algebraic coding theory, algebraic space-time coding, digital terrestrial television broadcasting, and digital magnetic recording.
Yuanhao Cui, PhD, Big Data Academy, Zhongke, Zhengzhou, China
Yuanhao Cui received the B.Eng. (Hons.) from Henan University, and Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. From 2016 to 2018, he has visited Aalto University in Finland. From 2019, he is the CTO and co-founder of Huawenmingde Inc, and Baichen Inc, focusing on the implementation and commercial usage of joint radar and communication systems, where he has been invested more than $3 million dollars. He is the co-chair of IWCMC 2021 workshop, WCNC 2021 workshop on “Integrated Sensing (Radar) and Communications: From Spectrum Sharing to Joint Transmission”, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2021 Workshop on "Integrated Sensing, Computation, and Communication (ISCC) towards 6G", IEEE VTC-Fall 2021 Workshop on "Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) towards 6G", IEEE ICCT Workshop on OTFS Modulation for Integrated Sensing and Communications. He is now a consultant for Alibaba DAMO Academy on wireless communications, the chair-assistant of Science Communication Standing Committee of China Computer Federation (CCF), and the secretary of the IEEE ISAC Emerging Technology Intiative.
Mérouane Debbah, PhD, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United arab Emirates
Mérouane Debbah is a Professor with the Khalifa University of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, and the Founding Director of the KU 6G Research Center. He is a Frequent Keynote Speaker with international events in the field of telecommunication and AI. In the Communication field, he has been at the heart of the development of small cells (4G), Massive MIMO (5G), and Large Intelligent Surfaces (6G) technologies. In the AI field, he is known for his work on Large Language Models, distributed AI systems for networks and semantic communications. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information and communication sciences with a special focus on random matrix theory, and learning algorithms. He received the multiple prestigious distinctions, prizes, and best paper awards (more than 40 IEEE best paper awards) for his contributions to both fields and according to research.com is ranked as the best scientist in France in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He is a WWRF Fellow, a Eurasip Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an Institut Louis Bachelier Fellow, and Member émérite SEE.
Maria Sabrina Greco, PhD, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
Maria Sabrina Greco is a Full Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa. From May 2015 to June 2015 and from January 2018 to February 2018, she visited as an Invited Professor at Universitá Paris-Sud, Centrale Supélec, Paris, France. She has coauthored many book chapters and about 200 journal articles and conference papers. Her research interests include statistical signal processing, estimation and detection theory. Dr. Greco is a member of the IEEE AESS Board of Governors (BoG) and the IEEE SPS BoG from 2015 to 2017. She was a co-recipient of the 2001 and 2012 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s Barry Carlton Awards for Best Paper and the 2019 EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award and a recipient of the 2008 Fred Nathanson Young Engineer of the Year Award for contributions to signal processing, estimation, and detection theory, and the IEEE AESS Board of Governors Exceptional Service Award for Exemplary Service and Dedication and Professionalism, as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine (AES). She was the Chair for the IEEE AESS Radar Panel from 2015 to 2016. She was the general chair, the technical program chair, and an organizing committee member for many international conferences for more than ten years.
She was the Lead-Guest Editor for a few special issues. She is an Associate Editor of the IET Proceedings-Radar, Sonar and Navigation and the IET Signal Processing, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Springer Journal of Advances in Signal Processing. She was the SPS Distinguished Lecturer from 2014 to 2015, the AESS Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2020, and the AESS VP Publications from 2018 to 2020. She is currently the IEEE SPS Director-at-Large for Region 8.
