Prof. Evgeny Khorov
Institute for Information Transmission Problems (Kharkevich Institute) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

Biography: Evgeny Khorov received his BS and MS degrees with honors from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 2008 and 2010, respectively, the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from Institute for Information Transmission Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IITP RAS) in 2012, and the D.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from MIPT in 2022. In 2015 he studied Wireless Internet of Things as a Visiting Research Fellow in King's College London. Currently, Evgeny Khorov is the Head of Wireless Networks Lab established within a Megagrant Project at IITP RAS. Also, he has led the Intelligent Telecommunication Systems Lab at MIPT and the Telecommunication Systems Lab at Higher School of Economics (HSE). Evgeny Khorov has developed numerous mathematical models of networking protocols and designed several algorithms and protocols described in over 200 papers, some of which received Best Demo Award from ACM Mobihoc (2022), Best Paper Awards from IEEE ISWCS (2012), Elsevier Computer Communications (2018), and IEEE PIMRC (2019). Evgeny Khorov has also received the Moscow Government Prize for Young Scientists (2013), Russian Government Prize in Science and Technology for Young Scientists (2016), and Scopus Award Russia (2018).

Evgeny has led many national and international projects sponsored by academia foundations (RSF, RFBR, Ministry of Science and Higher Education) and industry. For breakthrough results of the joint industrial projects, he was awarded as the Best Cooperation Project Leader many times. Evgeny Khorov is also a voting member and contributor of IEEE 802.11 that develops and standardizes Wi-Fi. He designed several improvements included in the 802.11ax standard, aka Wi-Fi 6. He also initiated activities in 802.11 towards the support of real-time applications, which is currently a target for 802.11be, aka Wi-Fi 7.

Evgeny Khorov serves as the Editor-in-Chief of “Problems of Information Transmissions” since 2024. Also, he is a recipient of the Ad Hoc Networks Editor ot the Year 2020 Award. Evgeny gives keynotes & tutorials and participates in panels at large conferences (incl. IEEE BlackSeaCom 2024 and 2017, EnT 2023, DCCN 2023, IEEE Standards Summit 2022, IEEE PIMRC 2019 and 2017, IEEE Globecom 2017, IEEE ICC 2016, ISWCS 2014, NEW2AN 2018 and 2021). He is a TPC Chair of the IEEE Globecom 2018 Workshop on Cloudified Architectures for 5G and beyond Systems, IEEE BlackSeaCom 2019, Executive Chair of WiFlex 2013. He serves as an expert of Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Telecommunication Scientific Counsil of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a member of Expert Council of the Russian Science Foundation, and Vice-Chair of IEEE Russia.

 

Prof. Liang Wu
Southeast University, China

Biography: Liang Wu (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.S. (2007), M.S. (2010) and Ph.D. (2013) degrees all from School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. From Sept. 2011 to Mar. 2013, he was with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Oregon State University as a visiting Ph.D. student. In Sept. 2013, he joined the National Mobile Communications
Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing China. Since Apr. 2024, he has been a full professor in Southeast University. His research interests include multiple-antenna techniques, interference coordination, optical wireless communication systems, and wireless localization systems.

Prof. Pascal Lorenz
University of Haute-Alsace, France

Biography: Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995 he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and at Alcatel-Alsthom. He is a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents and 200 international publications in referred journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since (2015-2020), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, IEEE Internet of Things Journal since 2024, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2020-2024), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2026), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems and LNCS. He is associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA-Elsevier). He is a senior member of the IEEE, IARIA fellow and member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and gave tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014 and 2026-2027.

Prof. Yanli Xu
Shanghai Maritime University, China

Biography: Yanli Xu, a professor and associate Dean at the School of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University. She graduated from Southeast University in 2012 with a Information and Communication Engineering Ph. D. degree. Her current research interests focused on integrated space-air-ground-sea communication technology and edge computing. These technologies provide high reliability and low delay information transmission for Marine development, environment monitoring, shipping and marine security. Dr. Xu has published over 40 top-quality academic papers, and she has served as guest editor or TPC chair for well-known journals and conferences in the field. She has also been honored as Special Expert for Talent Work in Liaoning Province and the Pearl Plan of Shanghai Pudong New Area.

 

Prof. Jingjing Cui
Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Jingjing Cui (SM’18) is a Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University. She previously worked as a Research Scientist at Quantinuum in London and held research positions at Southampton, Queen Mary University of London, and Lancaster. Her research interests include classical and quantum optimization, airtificial intelligence algorithms for wireless communications, and quantum information technology.

 

Assoc. Prof. Qiong Wu
Jiangnan University, China

Biography: Qiong Wu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2016. From 2018 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is currently an associate professor with the School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.

Dr. Wu is a Senior Member of IEEE and China Institute of Communications. He has published over 90 papers in high impact journals and conferences, and authorized over 30 patents. He was elected as one of the world's top 2% scientists in 2024 and 2022 by Stanford University. He has received the young scientist award for ICCCS'24 and ICITE’24. He won the high-impact paper of Chinese Journal of Electronics award. He has been awarded the National Academy of Artifical Intelligence (NAAI) Certified AI Senior Engineer, and was the excellent reviewer for Computer Networks in 2024. He has severed as the editorial board member, early career editorial board member, (lead) guest editor for over 10 Journals, as well as the TPC chair, Special Session Chair, workshop chair, TPC member and session chair for over 20 international Conferences. His current research interest focuses on vehicular networks, autonomous driving communication technology, and machine learning.

 

Assoc. Prof. Xiaojun Hei
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Biography: Xiaojun received the B.Eng degrees in Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P.R. China. He also obtained his MPhil. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Then, he received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Starting from October 2008 till now, he has joined the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China. He is now an associate professor in the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Between September 2005 and September 2007, he worked on P2P networking in the Department of Computer and Information Science, Polytechnic University. He is co-author (with Yong Liu and Keith W. Ross) of the best paper in multimedia communications for 2008 by the Multimedia Communications Technical Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been an internationally certified ISW facilitator since Jan. 2021. His current research interests include Artificial Intelligence Enabled Networking, Intelligent Healthcare, Robotic Applications, LLM Applications.

 

Assoc. Prof. Di Zhang
Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China

Biography: Di Zhang is currently an Associate Professor of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include wireless communications and networking, especially the short packet communications and its applications. He received the Second Prize of the Henan Provincial Natural Science Award in 2025, the Excellent Young Scholar Grant of the Henan Natural Science Foundation in 2024, the Second Prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award in 2024, the First Prize of Henan Science and Technology Progress Award in 2022, and the ITU Young Author Recognition in 2019.

 

Assoc. Researcher Shuai Ma
Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China

Biography: Shuai Ma received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2009 and 2016, respectively. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. From 2016 to 2019, he has been an associate Professor with the School of Information and Control Engineering, at the China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou, China. From 2019 to 2022, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with Telecom Paris, France. Since 2023, he has been an Associate Researcher at Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China. His research interests include semantic communications, visible light communications, and network information theory.

Assoc. Prof. Tianming Ma
Shanghai University of Engineering Science, China

Biography: Tianming (Tian-Ming) Ma received Ph.D. degree from Shanghai institute of Microsystem and Information Technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Shanghai, China in 2012. He was a post-doctoral researcher and obtained the first-class general financial grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China from 2012 to 2014. Now he is an associate professor in the School of Electronic & Electrical Engineering (SEEE), Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), Shanghai, China and serve as the leader of the intelligent wireless perception research team in SEEE. He has authored/co-authored over 60 journal/conference papers and held 10 Chinese authorized invention patents as the first inventor or as a mentor for graduate students, of which 3 have already achieved technology transfer. He is a member of IEEE ComSoc & IEEE SPS, a senior member of CIC, a senior member & life member of CIE, a life member of SCS, a council member of SHIE, and the main contact person of RISTA member units. He has served as an OC member/TPC member/Track Chair/Workshop Chair/Session Chair/Special Session Chair/Program Committee Chair/Publicity Chair/Financial Chair/Moderator/Invited Speaker of prominence academic conferences for more than 30 times and received Outstanding Organization Award. He has also served as an official reviewer for many domestic and international journals in the field of communications, such as IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, IEEE CNCOMM, IEEE CL, IEEE SPL, CJE, JC, JXD, JEIT, JSEE, JCIN, JCUPT, etc. His current interests include 6G waveform modulation technologies & multiple access technologies.

 

Assoc. Prof. You You
Purple Mountain Laboratories, China

Biography: You You received the B.S. degree in Information Science and Engineering from Southeast University in 2012, and the M.S.E. degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the University of Leeds and Nanjing University of Science & Technology, in 2015 and 2016, respectively, and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Leeds in 2021. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. His research interest is focused on algorithms and implementations for signal processing and communication systems. He has published more than 20 articles indexed in SCI and EI. He has applied for and received authorization for over 20 invention patents. He has served as Symposium Chair of ICSPS 2025, a Local Arrangement Chair for ICTC 2023, a Tutorial Speaker for IEEE APCCAS 2022, and a Session chair for ICCT 2022.

 

Assoc. Prof. Xiaoxu Zhang
Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Xiaoxu Zhang (associate professor, IEEE Senior Member) received her PhD degree in communication and information systems from University of Electric Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2019. From August 2017 to August 2018, she was with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, as a visiting scholar. She joined the Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU) in 2019. Her main research areas are wireless communications, sparse signal processing, high mobility communications, Bayesian inference for data analysis, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. She is currently a reviewer for international journals and conference papers such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference.

 

Assoc. Prof. Shanxiang Lyu
Jinan University, China
Invited Speaker from Special Session 6

Biography: Shanxiang Lyu received his Ph.D. from Imperial College London in 2018. He is currently an Associate Professor at Jinan University, where he leads the Laboratory of Quantum and Post-Quantum Cryptography. He is a recipient of the Guangdong Provincial Excellent Young Talents Program and the 2021 CIE Information Theory Society Yong-Star Award. Dr. Lyu has served on the organizing and technical program committees of major international conferences such as IEEE ITW, Inscrypt, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE VTC. He was the organizer of LatticeCC: Workshop on Lattice Coding and Crypto at Asiacrypt 2025. His research interests include lattice-based cryptography, secure communication systems, and the intersection of PQC and quantum technologies.

 

Lecturer Li Yan
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Biography: Li Yan, Lecturer. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, during which she was jointly Ph.D at the University of Alberta in Canada. After obtaining her doctorate, she worked for seven years at Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., focusing on millimeter-wave-related algorithms and hardware design. She completed the fault tolerance theory and tape-out of an independently designed chip end-to-end, which was published in the journal JSSC for circuit design. In early 2024, she joined the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China as a lecturer, primarily engaged in teaching and research related to millimeter-wave sensing and communication integration, as well as low-power high-reliability hardware architecture. She has participated in or led multiple enterprise projects on sensing and communication integration, including those by China Mobile and Datang, as well as national key projects. Under her guidance, students won the second prize in the National Graduate Electronic Design Competition Final in 2024. She has published over 20 academic papers and applied for/invented more than 6 patents.

 

Asst. Prof. Haibo Wang
Southeast University, China

Biography: Haibo Wang received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Information and Communication Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China. He is currently an assistant professor at Southeast University. His research focuses on optical reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ORIS) and optical wireless communication systems, with particular emphasis on ORIS-assisted system modeling, optical field manipulation, and performance analysis. He has published 26 papers in leading IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

 

Dr. Qianli Wang
Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Qianli Wang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electronic and information engineering, M.S. degree in electronics and communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information and communications engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, in 2013, 2016 and 2020, respectively. Now he is an associate professor in the School of Information Science and Technology, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interests include estimation and detection theory, compressed sensing, radar signal processing, array signal processing, integrated sensing and communication. He has authored/co-authored over 30 journal and conference papers. He has served as TPC member of IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE ICC. He has also served as reviewer for many top journals, such as IEEE TSP, IEEE TWC, IEEE TGRS, IEEE TCOM, IEEE TVT, etc.

 

Dr. Xixi Zhang
Hohai University, China
Invited Speaker from Special Session 7

Biography: Xixi Zhang (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), Nanjing, China, in June 2025. She currently works at Hohai University, China. Her research interests include deep learning, neural architecture search, and its applications in signal recognition, cyber security, and Internet of Things.