MAE, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Nanjing University, China

Professor Kun Yang is a National Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, a recipient of China's National High-level Overseas Talent program, and a doctoral supervisor. He earned his Ph.D. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from University College London (UCL), UK, and received his bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Jilin University, China. His primary research interests include wireless networks and communications, the integration of communication, computing, and sensing, as well as AI-enabled networking and communications. He has authored or co-authored over 400 papers in leading international journals and major conferences and holds more than 30 patents across multiple countries. Professor Yang has led or participated in over 10 EU and UK national science foundation projects, served as principal investigator for three key projects funded by China's National Natural Science Foundation (NSFC), and has received numerous awards, including a provincial/ministerial First Prize in Science and Technology. He is a founding member and one of six Executive Committee members of the IEEE InterCloud initiative, a judge for the GSMA GLOMO Awards at Mobile World Congress (MWC), an associate editor for several IEEE journals (e.g., ComMag, TNSE, TVT, WCL), an associate editor-in-chief for IET Smart Cities, and a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Yang is a MEA of the Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS), and a Distinguished Scientist of the ACM.

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 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.