| Prof. Lin WangXiamen University, China Lin Wang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electronics engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2001. From 1984 to 1986, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Mathematics Department, Chongqing Normal University. From 1989 to 2002, he was a Teaching Assistant, a Lecturer, and then an Associate Professor in applied mathematics and communication engineering with Chongqing University of Post and Telecommunication, Chongqing, China. From 1995 to 1996, he spent one year with the Mathematics Department, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia. In 2003, he spent three months as a Visiting Researcher with the Center for Chaos and Complexity Networks, City University of Hong Kong. In 2013, he was a Senior Visiting Researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of California at Davis, CA, USA. He was a Distinguished Professor with Xiamen University, China, from 2012 to 2017, where he has been a Full Professor with the School of Informatics, since 2003. He has authored more than 250 journal and conference papers (including 95 IEEE journal articles, four best paper awards). He holds 21 patents in physical layer in digital communications. He has hold some international conferences as general chairs and TPC Chairs in his career. Meanwhile he has also delivered some Plenary/Keynote Speeches in the international conferences recent several years. Google Citation is 4913, and H Index is 34. His current research interests include source coding/channel coding, joint source and channel coding/decoding, chaos modulation and their applications to wired/wireless communication, power line communication (PLC), and underwater acoustic communications (UAC). |
| Prof. Liang YangHunan University, China Liang Yang, Professor, Leading Talent of the Hunan Furong Science and Technology Innovation Program, and Doctoral Supervisor, was born in 1977. He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2006. He has conducted postdoctoral research at City University of Hong Kong and Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). His primary research areas include wireless communications, optical wireless communications, the Internet of Vehicles, and edge computing. He has published over 130 papers in IEEE journals, including 9 highly cited papers and 2 hot papers. His H-index is 42 according to Google Scholar and ResearchGate. He has been listed in Stanford University's top 2% global scientists for five consecutive years and was recognized as an Elsevier "Highly Cited Researcher in China" in both 2023 and 2024. He has led five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and one project supported by the National Key R&D Program, and served as project leader for a key joint project of the NSFC Regional Innovation Development Fund. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple international journals and is the Deputy Director of the Hunan Electronics Society. |
