Prof. Meixia Tao

IEEE Fellow, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Meixia Tao is a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Her current research interests include wireless edge learning, coded caching, semantic communications, and multi-antenna technologies. She has published over 120 journal papers and 140 conference papers. She has received the First Prize in Natural Science from the Shanghai Municipality, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters, and a number of Best Paper awards at interference conferences such as IEEE/CIC ICCC 2015 and WCSP 2022. Dr. Tao is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory and the Vice-Chair of the Information Theory Society of the Chinese Institute of Electronics. She is a Fellow of IEEE and receives the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars.

Prof. Yang Yang

IEEE Fellow, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China

Bio: Professor Yang Yang is the Associate Vice-President for Teaching and Learning, the Academic Registrar, a professor with the Internet of Things Thrust, and the Director of the HKUST(GZ)-Terminus Joint Research Center for Digital World with Intelligent Things (DOIT) at HKUST(GZ), China. He is responsible for establishing and improving a digital academic registrar system as well as coordinating the teaching resources across the entire university.

Professor Yang was a member of the Academic Board at University College London (UCL) and a member of the Advisory Committee of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to joining HKUST(GZ), he had served ShanghaiTech University for more than 10 years, as the Vice Dean of School of Information Science and Technology, the Director of Office of Academic and Student Affairs, the Executive Dean of School of Creativity and Art, and the Founding Master of Kedao College. From June 2023 to August 2024, he was the Dean of College of Education Sciences at HKUST (GZ). He has accumulated rich experiences in different fields of higher education, such as student interview and recruitment processes, degree program developments, whole-person cultivation plans, interdisciplinary curriculum designs, technological and pedagogical innovations, performance evaluation methods, undergraduate mentoring and career services at the collegiate system.

Professor Yang’s research interests include AIoT technologies and applications, multi-tier computing networks, and 5G/6G mobile communications. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and was a member of the Chief Technical Committee of the National Science and Technology Major Project “New Generation Mobile Wireless Broadband Communication Networks” in China, a member of the Chief Technical Committee of the National 863 Hi-Tech R&D Program “5G System R&D Major Projects” in China, a Board Member of the OpenFog Consortium and the Director of Greater China Region, the Chair of the Steering Committee for Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC). From 2008 to 2010, he collaborated with Airbus and Rolls-Royce in the UK and applied IoT technologies to the aviation industry for the first time. From 2012 to 2016, he led a technical team to design and implement distinctive IoT technologies for the water monitoring system of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project in China, which is from Danjiangkou Water Reservoir to Beijing and Tianjin cities (1432 KM, the longest IoT system in the world). From 2020 to 2023, he is the Principal Investigator of the project “5G-enabled IoT Infrastructure Development for the Smart Cities in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area”, under the National Key Research and Development Program of China.

Prof. Guanglin Zhang

Donghua University, China

Bio: 张光林，男，1981年4月出生，信息科学与技术学院教授、博士生导师，教授委员会委员、学科评议组成员。东华大学人才工作办公室主任，学位评定委员会委员、教学委员会委员。2023年获上海市优秀学术带头人，2022年获上海市东方学者特聘教授，2020年获上海市曙光学者，2019年获上海市青年拔尖人才。

主要从事智能物联网、5G车联网、能源互联网、智能边缘计算、机器学习及其应用等方面科研工作，主持国家自然科学基金项目3项，上海市委组织部青年拔尖人才开发计划项目，上海市科委国际科技合作项目2项，上海市教委曙光计划项目，上海市教委科研创新项目，上海市教委选拔培养优秀青年教师基金项目，及中央高校交叉重点、励志计划、自由探索、青年教师项目等；主持国家电网上海电力科学研究院、国家电网上海电力公司、上海核工院等多项企业合作项目。

近年来在IEEE/ACM TON、TMC、JSAC、TCOM、TWC、TVT、TII、TCST、China Communications、ACM MOBICOM、TURC、IEEE GLOBECOM、ICC等国内外重要学术期刊和会议上发表论SCI/EI论文100余篇，授权国家发明专利38项。担任国际计算机学会（ACM）中国理事会上海分会秘书长，全国无线电干扰标准化技术委员会工业、科学和医疗射频设备分技术委员会（SAC/TC79/SC2）观察员，中国通信学会高级会员，中国计算机学会会员，中国系统仿真学会智能物联系统建模与仿真专业委员会委员。上海市计算机学会理事、青年工作委员会委员，上海市电子学会信号处理委员会副主任委员，上海市通信学会理事、智能通信网络专委会委员、新型数据中心专委会委员、IPv6技术演进专委会委员，上海市浦东新区计算机协会副会长、专家委员会主任。担任国家重点研发计划会评专家。ACM中国新星奖、优博奖评审专家。

担任SCI期刊Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering编委、China Communications编委、东华大学学报（英文版）编委； ACM ISCAI 2023、2024大会主席，IEEE ECCT 2024大会主席，ACM中国图灵大会TURC 2017-2021本地组委会或程序委员会副主席；ACM MOBIHOC 2020本地组委会主席，IEEE ICDCS 2019等国际学术会议程序委员会委员。获2022年上海市科学技术奖自然科学二等奖（排1）。

获2022年宝钢教育奖优秀教师奖，2022年教育部高校团队对口支援塔里木大学工作十周年先进个人，2023年工信部信通院第二届“光华杯”千兆光网应用创新大赛“智慧园区”专题赛一等奖，2023年东华大学优秀博士学位论文指导教师，2021年度东华大学“对标争先”党员先锋岗称号，2018年度东华大学“学生就业创业工作促进奖”，2021年上海交通大学“比翼双飞模范佳侣”称号。

主要从事信息通信及计算机类的教育教学工作，重视教育教学工作，广泛进行教学研究，形成特色教学理念。主持2022年度上海市一流课程《通信原理》、2017年度上海市重点课程建设《通信原理》。获2022年上海市教学成果二等奖2项（排1、排4），2021年中国纺织工业联合会纺织高等教育教学成果奖二等奖（排1），2021年上海市计算机学会教学成果二等奖（排1），2020年东华大学教学成果特等奖（排1），2017年东华大学教学成果奖一等奖（排2），2017年上海交通大学教学成果二等奖（排8）。获评2016、2017、2020年度东华大学“外国留学生心目中的好老师”。2021年TI杯全国大学生电子设计竞赛上海赛区优秀指导教师奖。担任教育部工程教育认证专家。