Chair	Co-Chair
Assoc. Prof. Ling Liu Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University, China	Assoc. Prof. Zheng Wang Southeast University, China

Invited Speaker

Assoc. Prof. Shanxiang Lyu Jinan University, China

This special session focuses on Emerging Technologies for Secure and Intelligent Information Processing and Communications, aiming to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of security, intelligence, and next-generation communication systems. With the rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT), emerging paradigms such as artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography, distributed learning, and intelligent signal processing are reshaping how information is processed, transmitted, and protected. At the same time, new security and privacy challenges arise in complex and heterogeneous communication environments.

The session will cover recent theoretical advances, algorithmic developments, and practical implementations that enable secure, reliable, and intelligent information processing and communications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: intelligent and learning-based communication systems, secure signal processing, privacy-preserving machine learning, post-quantum and lightweight cryptography, physical-layer security, secure distributed and federated learning, information-theoretic security, and applications in emerging scenarios such as 6G networks, Internet of Things, and cyber–physical systems.

By providing a multidisciplinary forum, this special session aims to foster cross-fertilization between security, information theory, signal processing, and artificial intelligence, and to highlight new research directions and challenges in secure and intelligent communication technologies.

Submission Link: https://www.zmeeting.org/submission/ictc2026 (Choose Special Session 6 to Submit)

Special Session Organizers Biography:

Dr. Ling Liu is an associate professor at the Guangzhou Institute of Technology, Xidian University. He earned his bachelor's degree from Nanjing University (2008), master's degree from Peking University (2011), and Ph.D. from Imperial College London (2015), all in electronic engineering. He previously worked at Huawei Central Research Institute, where he was engaged in research on 5G polar codes. In 2023, he joined Xidian University. He has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Provincial Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong, and the Tencent Rhino-Bird Research Program. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE WCSP 2021.

Dr. Zheng Wang is an Associate Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Southeast University, a Jiangsu Province “Double Innovation” (Shuangchuang) Scholar, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has been consecutively selected as a Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in the field of Information and Communication Engineering by Elsevier in 2023 and 2024. In recent years, Dr. Wang has led more than ten competitive research projects, including sub-projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Projects, General Programs, and Young Scientists Funds. He has published over 80 research papers in leading international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (TIT), IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), and IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM). His research achievements have been recognized with major awards, including the First Prize of Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award and the “Spark Award” from Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. He currently serves as a Young Editorial Board Member of the Chinese Journal of Electronics (CJE) and as a Co-Chair of international conferences such as IWCMC.