MAE, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Nanjing University, China

Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in Nanjing University (Suzhou Campus) and an affiliated professor with University of Essex. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, mobile computing and AI for wireless. He has published 500+ papers and filed 50 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE WCM, TNSE, TVT, TNB). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He has been a Judge of GSMA GLOMO Award at World Mobile Congress – Barcelona since 2019. He is the Chair of IEEE Smart Grid Communication TC (2024-now). He was a recipient of the 2024 IET Achievement Medal and the 2024 IEEE CommSoft TC Achievement Award. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IET.

Talk title: AI-enabled Self-driving Communication Networks

Abstract:Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) has proven to be a powerful enabler that has gained success in many vertical fields. There is clear evidence of determined effort in the communication and network community to explore the AI power to deliver 6G mobile network’s promises of being faster, greener and smarter. This talk starts with a brief introduction of 6G mobile communication systems, and then it looks into how new AI technologies come into play in 6G from different perspectives. It covers new trends in 6G communication research such as data-driven end-to-end communication system design, semantic communications, digital twin networks (DTN). One major objective of these research is to achieve self-driving communication networks where lengthy standardization of such as communication waveforms or protocol design can be somehow reduced or even eliminated, thus enabling 6G to self-drive to versatile requirements from vertical industries.

IEEE Fellow, IEEE SMC-Associate Vice Presidents & Secretary - Cybernetics

University of Calabria (Unical), Italy

Giancarlo Fortino (IEEE Fellow 2022) is Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the Dept of Informatics, Modeling, Electronics, and Systems of the University of Calabria (Unical), Italy. He received a PhD in Computer Engineering from Unical in 2000. He is also distinguished professor at Wuhan University of Technology and Huazhong Agricultural University (China), high-end expert at HUST (China), senior research fellow at the Italian ICAR-CNR Institute, CAS PIFI visiting scientist at SIAT – Shenzhen, high-end expert of the Henan province, and Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Sensors Council (2021-23). At Unical, he is the Rector’s delegate to Int’l relations, the chair of the PhD School in ICT, the director of the Postgraduate Master course in INTER-IoT, and the director of the SPEME lab as well as co-chair of Joint labs on IoT established between Unical and WUT, SMU and HZAU Chinese universities, respectively. Fortino is currently the scientific responsible of the Digital Health group of the Italian CINI National Laboratory at Unical. He is Highly Cited Researcher 2020-2022 in Computer Science by Clarivate. Currently he has 20 highly cited papers in WoS, and h-index=73 with 19000+ citations in Google Scholar. His research interests include wearable computing systems, e-Health, Internet of Things, and agent-based computing. He is author of 600+ papers in int’l journals, conferences and books. He is (founding) series editor of IEEE Press Book Series on Human-Machine Systems and EiC of Springer Internet of Things series and AE of premier int’l journals such as IEEE TASE (senior editor), IEEE TAFFC-CS, IEEE THMS, IEEE T-AI, IEEE IoTJ, IEEE SJ, IEEE JBHI, IEEE SMCM, IEEE OJEMB, IEEE OJCS, Information Fusion, EAAI, etc. He chaired many int’l workshops and conferences (120+), was involved in a huge number of int’l conferences/workshops (500+) as IPC member, is/was guest-editor of many special issues (75+). He is cofounder and CEO of SenSysCal S.r.l., a Unical spinoff focused on innovative IoT systems, and recently cofounder and vice-CEO of the spin-off Bigtech S.r.l, focused on big data, AI and IoT technologies. Fortino is currently a member of the IEEE SMCS BoG and of the IEEE Press BoG, and former chair of the IEEE SMCS Italian Chapter. The list of Prof. Fortino’s publications can be found in the following bibliometrics databases.

Prof. Tie Qiu

Northeastern University, China

Dr. Tie Qiu is currently a Full Professor at School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. He was a visiting professor at department of electrical and computer engineering of Iowa State University in U.S. (2014-2015). He serves as an associate editor of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN),  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, area editor of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), associate editor of Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences (Springer), a guest editor of Future Generation Computer Systems. He serves as General Chair, Program Chair, Workshop Chair, Publicity Chair, Publication Chair or TPC Member of a number of international conferences. He has authored/co-authored 10 books, over 200 scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings, such as IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications, INFOCOM, GLOBECOM etc. There are 20 papers listed as ESI highly cited papers. He has contributed to the development of 6 copyrighted software systems and invented 40 patents. He is a distinguished member of China Computer Federation (CCF) and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Beijing Institute of Technology, China

Yuxin Xu, Professor and PhD Supervisor, is a recipient of the National Young Top-tier Talent award. He currently serves as the Deputy Director of the High-Energy Materials Safety Review and Certification Center at Beijing Institute of Technology. His primary research areas include digital software for efficient damage assessment, intelligent damage-initiation and warhead systems, as well as theories and technologies for intelligent damage planning. He has led or participated in over 50 projects, including special programs, pre-research, and model development. He holds 18 authorized invention patents (2 of which have been commercialized) and has been granted 16 software copyrights. He has published over 60 academic papers, with 9 indexed in SCI and over 40 in EI. He has authored or compiled 5 books and textbooks. His accolades include one first-class and one third-class ministerial-level awards. His major academic affiliations include serving as Deputy Director of the Key Laboratory of High Energy Density Materials of the Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of the Youth Work Committee of the 9th Council of the China Ordnance Society, and member of the Systems Engineering Committee, Damage Assessment Technology Committee, and Test and Evaluation Technology Committee of the China Ordnance Society. He also holds the position of Secretary-General of the Explosion and Safety Committee of the China Ordnance Society.