">Prof. Maode Ma

Qatar University, Doha

Biography: 

Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. Before joining Qatar University, he has been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for over 20 years. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 26 research projects funded by government, industry, military, and universities in various countries. He has supervised 25 research students to get their Ph. D degrees. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair, and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Prof. Ma has more than 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. He has edited a few technical books and produced over 28 book chapters. His publication has received over 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. He has delivered over 90 keynote speeches and 10 tutorials at various international conferences. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He has been serving as an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

Prof. AZLAN BIN MOHD ZAIN

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Biography: 

Azlan Mohd Zain (Member, IEEE) received the master’s degree in science (productivity and quality improvement) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, School of Computing, UTM. He is also the Director of the UTM Big Data Research Centre. As an academic staff, he has successfully supervised more than 25 postgraduate students and received more than 20 research grant funding to support research students. He has published more than 100 research papers. He has been invited as keynote speaker at over five international conferences, serves on numerous committees, and has served on editorial board for three international journals.

Prof.Dai Wanyang

Nanjing University, China

He has conducted a series of important and pioneering works in the fields of quantum computers, quantum cloud computing, stochastic (asymptotic) optimal control, (stochastic differential) game theory, and (forward-backward and reflected) stochastic (ordinary/partial) differential equations. His achievements have been widely cited, adopted, and further developed by renowned scientists including members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, INFORMS Lancaster Prize winners, and John von Neumann Prize winners. Many influential results have been published in top-tier, authoritative, and renowned international journals.

Chief Scientist of SuXia Control Technology; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the American Quantum Computing Blockchain Industrial Revolution Forum; Distinguished Expert at Jiangsu Fintech Research Center; President of Jiangsu Society of Probability and Statistics; Director of Jiangsu Big Data, Blockchain and Intelligent Information Special Committee; Vice Chairman of multiple national societies including Probability, Statistics, Operations Research and Management, as well as Industrial and Applied Mathematics; Member of the Mathematics Discipline Evaluation Committee of the National Natural Science Award Committee (Group Leader of the Stochastic Analysis Group); Expert reviewer for major and key projects (including Outstanding Youth) of the National Natural Science Foundation; Editorial board member of numerous international journals on mathematics and its applications; and has served multiple times as chair of international conferences.

 

Professor Mithun Mukherjee

Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China

IEEE Senior Member

Mithun Mukherjee is a university-appointed Professor with the School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. He was a specially assigned researcher and assistant professor with the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Petrochemical Equipment Fault Diagnosis, Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology, Maoming, China, from 2015 to 2020. His research interests center around the Internet of Things, mobile edge computing, Tactile Internet, and ultra-reliable low-latency communications. He has (co)authored more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed international transactions/journals and conferences. He has two highly cited ESI papers with Google Scholar citation 2500+, h index 18 and I10 index 34. He was listed in Stanford University's 2020 top 2% of scientists in the world (top 0.5% in CS/network). He has one granted Chinese patent. Dr. Mukherjee was a recipient of the 2016 EAI WICON, the 2017 IEEE SigTelCom, the 2018 IEEE Systems Journal, and the 2018 IEEE ANTS Best Paper Award. He has been a guest editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, and Sensors. He is a regular reviewer/lead guest editor for many prestigious journals and conferences, serves as the TPC member/chair for various conferences, and organized many special sections/workshops in prestigious international conferences. He completed his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, India, in 2015. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of CCF.

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