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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Zhimin Chen |
| Zhimin Chen serves as a Master's supervisor at Shanghai Dianji University. She has completed one National Natural Science Foundation of China project, two pre-research grants from the Equipment Development Department of the Central Military Commission, and one open project from the National Key Laboratory of Millimeter Waves. Her ongoing research includes one Shanghai Natural Science Foundation general project and one Shanghai Municipal Education Commission “AI-Empowered Research Program” special project, alongside multiple enterprise-commissioned studies. As first/corresponding author, she has published over 50 SCI/EI-indexed papers in domestic and international journals, filed 11 national invention patents (5 granted), and co-authored one monograph (Science Press, second author). Her primary research focuses include array signal processing, millimeter-wave technology, jamming and anti-jamming, and integrated circuit chip testing (jointly supervised by Zhejiang University). |
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Biography 
Prof. Jie Chen |
| Dr. Jie Chen
is a professor, and Vice Dean of Center of Intelligent Acoustics and
Immersive Communications (CIAIC) at Northwestern Polytechnical
University, and an expert of "thousand youth talents plan" of China. He worked at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US and Observatory of Cote d'azur, France respectively during 2013-2015. He received Ph.D. degree of University of Technology of Troyes (UTT), France in 2013 (work performed at University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis). He received Engineering degree and Master's degree of UTT and Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China respectively in 2009. He received B.S. of XJTU in 2006. |
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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Yin Feng |
| Feng Yin received his B.Sc. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany. From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoc researcher with Ericsson Research, Linkoping, Sweden. Since 2016, he has been with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen and is currently an associate professor at the School of Science and Engineering. His research interests include statistical signal processing, Bayesian learning and optimization, and sensory data fusion. He has published more than 40 top-tier journal papers, 50 conferences, and 20 patents/standards. He was a recipient of the Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-Financed Students Abroad in 2013 and the Marie Curie Young Fellowship from the European Union in 2014. He was the finalist for the IEEE CAMSAP best paper award in 2013 and received the best paper award of ICSINC conference in 2022. He has served as Associate Editor for the Elsevier Signal Processing Journal and currently serving as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He is an IEEE senior member and a core member of the IEEE Machine Learning and Signal Processing (MLSP) technical committee and the IEEE SPS scholarship committee. |
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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Cai Wen |
| Dr. Cai Wen
earned his Bachelor’s degree from Xidian University in 2009 and a Ph.D.
in Signal and Information Processing from its National Key Laboratory of
Radar Signal Processing in 2014. He was a postdoctoral researcher at
McMaster University, Canada, from 2019 to 2023. Since Nov. 2016, he has
been with the School of Information Science and Technology at Northwest
University, where he became an associate professor in 2020, and he is a
Doctoral Supervisor. He has led over ten national and provincial projects, including grants from the National Natural Science Foundation, and contributed to major research initiatives. Dr. Cai has published over 80 papers, including five ESI highly cited and three IEEE spotlight papers, authored three monographs, and holds over 10 patents. He serves as TPC member and session chair for several international conferences, editorial board member for multiple journals, and Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal. His honors include the “Postdoctoral International Exchange Program” and Northwest University’s “Young Academic Talent Support Program.” His research interest includes integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), radar and communication signal processing, nonconvex optimization and AI-empowered signal processing. |
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Biography 
Asst. Prof. Yanqing Xu |
| Yanqing Xu
received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information system from
the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing
Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He was a senior engineer
with Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., from July 2019 to July 2020. From
September 2020 to August 2022, he was a PostDoc researcher with The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where he is currently working
as a research assistant professor. He is also with the Shenzhen Research
Institute of Big Data. Dr. Xu’s current research interest lies in
machine learning and signal processing algorithm designs and their
applications for wireless communication systems. Dr. Xu served as a
special session co-organizer and chair in IEEE SPAWC 2024, and a session
chair for IEEE ICCT 2025. He was a recipient of the Shenzhen Overseas
High-Caliber Personnel, and the Top 3% Paper Recognition of the IEEE
ICASSP 2023. Several of his research outcomes have been successfully
deployed in Huawei’s base stations, for which he has received the Huawei
Technical Cooperation Achievement Transformation Award (1st Prize) in
2024, the Huawei Wireless Product Line Outstanding Technical Cooperation
Project Award in 2024, and the Huawei Technical Cooperation Achievement
Transformation Award (2nd Prize) in 2022. He is currently serving as the
Deputy Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
over Networks and an Associated Editor of EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking. |
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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Chao Fang |
| Chao Fang
received his B.S degree in Information Engineering from Wuhan
University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree
with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology in
Information and Communication Engineering from Beijing University of
Posts and Te4lecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2015. He joined the
Beijing University of Technology in 2016 and now is an associate
professor. From August 2013 to August 2014, he had been funded by China
Scholarship Council to visit Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, as
a joint doctorate. Moreover, he is the visiting scholars of University
of Technology Sydney, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organization, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kyoto University,
Muroran Institute of Technology, and Queen Mary University of London. Dr. Fang is the senior member of IEEE, and the vice chair of technical affairs committee in IEEE ComSoc Asia/Pacific Region (2022-2023). Moreover, he served as the Technical Program Committee Chair of SPCNC 2024, the Session Chairs of ICC 2015, ICCC 2023, and WCNC 2024, Workshop Chairs of ICFEICT (2022-2024) and ICNCIC (2023-2024), and Poster Co-Chair of HotICN 2018. He won the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICFEICT 2022 and 2024, ICCSN 2024, and NCIC 2024. His current research interests include intelligent analysis and control, and intelligent cloud-edge-terminal cooperation computing. |
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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Afizan Bin Azman |
| Afizan Azman
is an Associate Professor and a Director for Impact Lab
Digital Innovation & Smart Society at Taylor’s University, Selangor He
was a former Deputy Vice Chancelor (DVC) at University College of Islam
Melaka (KUIM), Malaysia now known as Universiti Melaka (UniMel).
Previously he was a President/Chief of Executive at Melaka International
College of Science and Technology (MiCoST), Melaka and a former Deputy
Dean at Multimedia University, Malaysia. Afizan Azman has completed his
PhD in Computer Science from Loughborough University, United Kingdom and
his Masters of IT from University College of London (UCL), United
Kingdom. Afizan Azman interest are in several areas in IT and Computer
Sience like Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Artificial Intelligence
(AI), Data Analytics and Machine Learning, Vehicle System and Technology
and Internet of Things. In research, Afizan Azman has actively doing
research in the field of AI, Data Analytics and Vehicle Technology. He
was awarded with two research grants from Telekom Malaysia (TM) for two
project: Connected Car Services - Automatic Facial Expression
Recognition for Driver Satisfaction Detection and for Vehicle Data
Analytics (RM 701,911.00) and Fatigue Attentive System for Driver (FATs)
(RM 322,827.54) as a project leader. He was also a project member to
many more research projects under FRGS, Multimedia University,
Universiti Melaka, and Kementerian Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan
(KPKT). Afizan Azman also was a Ketua Editor Jurnal Tuah at Universiti
Melaka. In terms of recognition, Afizan Azman is an Honorary Member of
the National Economic Digital Movement Association (NEDMA), Member of
Malaysian Board of Technologies (MBOT), Certified Volunteer for Mercy
Malaysia, Rakan Strategik dan Sukarelawan Yayasan Food Bank Malaysia
(YFBM), Grant Recommendation and Project Monitoring Assessor for
Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDEC). He is also an
Adjunct Professor/External Examiner/Academic Advisor to several
universities such as Universiti Malaya (UM), Multimedia University
(MMU), Universiti Teknikal Melaka Malaysia (UTeM), Perdana University
Malaysia, Hindusthan College of Engineering and Technology Coimbatore
India, Anna University India and Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D
Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, India.Afizan Azman has
been involved and invited as a speaker, trainer and facilitator at many
events, exhibitions, traininsg and conferences. He was an invited
speaker at The 5th Annual Global Congress of Knowledge Economy 2018 in
Qingdao China. He had delivered training to Jabatan Pembangunan Wanita
Melaka (JPWM), Malaysian Communications & Multimedia Commission (MCMC),
Skim Latihan 1Malaysia (SL1M), Telekom Malaysia (TM), Proton Sdn. Bhd.,
Honda Sdn. Bhd., Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia, Unit Pembangunan
Ekonomi Negeri Melaka (UPEN), Pejabat Pembangunan KEMAS Negeri Melaka,
Jabatan Perdana Menteri and many more with variety areas of expertise
and number of modules such as Data Analytics, Machine Learning, AI,
Statistical Inference, Leadership, Self-Development, Communication and
Motivation, ICT, Digital Technologies, Digital Marketing, Google
Applications, Microsoft Azure for Fundamentals. He had also attended
several staff mobility programmes at Telkom University, Bandung,
Indonesia, Rajalakshmi Institute of Technology, Chennai, India, Vel Tech
Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology,
Chennai, India and with Erasmus Programme to University of Hradec
Králové, Czech Republic.He was appointed as a Think-Tank Member under
Portfolio Exco Pendidikan dan Teknologi Negeri Melaka. He was also a
consultant and key person to the establishment of University Melaka
(UniMel) and Sistem UPU Online Melaka under government state of Melaka.
To quote the French poet and playwright Alfred de Musset, “Il vaut mieux
faire que dire.” : Better doing than saying, Afizan Azman hopes that he
can gives an impact to all people and society. |
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Biography 
Assoc. Prof. Qing Li |
| Li Qing, Associate Professor, Master's Supervisor, Outstanding Communist
Party Member Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta, Canada, visiting scholar at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Institute of Automatic Control and Complex Systems), Jointly trained doctoral student at Donghua University and Georgia Institute of Technology In May 2021, he was introduced to Anhui Agricultural University as a high-level talent, mainly engaged in research on intelligent monitoring and control of mechanical equipment, mechanical vibration testing, signal processing, etc. He is a member of the Basic Technology Committee of the China Agricultural Machinery Society, a member of the Editorial Committee of the China Agricultural Machinery Society, a director of the Anhui Engineering Graphics Society, a returned overseas talent in Anhui Province, a high-level talent in Hefei (Municipal Leading Talent - Category D), a peer reviewer of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and an expert in the Anhui Province Intellectual Property Protection Training Teacher Database. He has presided over 10 projects, including those funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Universities, the National Key Laboratory Open Fund, the Basic Research Projects of Central Universities, the Anhui Key Laboratory Fund, and the High-level Talent Introduction Project. He has published 65 papers in journals such as MSSP, ESWA, IEEE TMECH, and TIM, including 55 SCI/EI papers (42 of which were first author or corresponding author), applied for 36 invention patents (21 of which were granted), and published two chapters in monographs. He serves as the Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (SCI journal), Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal ( SCI journal) , Editorial Board Member of Measurement Science Review (SCI journal ) , Guest Editor of Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (SCI journal ) , Guest Editor of Frontiers in Physics (SCI journal ), Guest Editor and Guest Editorial Board Member of Machines (SCI journal ), Guest Editor of Shock and Vibration (SCI journal ), Young Editorial Board Member of Chinese journals such as Journal of Southwest Petroleum University, Journal of Anhui Agricultural University, and Journal of Intelligent Agricultural Equipment (Chinese and English) ; Onsite Session Chair of IEEE ICSIP 2022/ ICSIP 2024 International Conference Section, member of the Program Committee of more than 30 international conferences, and member of IEEE TIE, TII, He is a reviewer for more than 60 SCI journals, including MSSP (reviewing over 100 SCI papers annually and receiving numerous Outstanding Reviewer Awards). He has been invited to speak at numerous international conferences and won the IEEE ICSIP 2022 Best Presentation Award. |