Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow

Dusit Niyato is currently a President's Chair Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received B.E. from King Mongkuk’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL), Thailand in 1999 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2008. Dusit's research interests are in the areas of distributed collaborative machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), edge intelligent generative AI and AI-generated content (AIGC), mobile and distributed computing, and wireless networks. Dusit won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award, and the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Survey Paper Award, IEEE Asia-Pacific Board (APB) Outstanding Paper Award. Currently, Dusit is serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor of 34.4 for 2023), an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, associate editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), IEEE Data Descriptions, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Computing Surveys. He was also a guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. He is the Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society for 2024-2026. He was named the 2017-2023 highly cited researcher in computer science. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.

Prof. Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway

IEEE Fellow, Member of Academia Europaea, Member of Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Academy, Member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences, "Highly Cited Researcher"

Yan Zhang is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests include next-generation wireless networks leading to 6G, green and secure cyber-physical systems. Dr. Zhang is an Editor for several IEEE transactions/magazine. Since 2018, Prof. Zhang has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (i.e., Web of Science). He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET, elected member of Academia Europaea (MAE), elected member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters (DKNVS), and elected member of Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences (NTVA).

Prof. Zhaolong Ning, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

IEEE Senior Member

Dr. Ning received the MS and PhD degrees from Northeastern University, China. From 2013 to 2014, he was a research assist at the Kyushu University, Japan. From 2014 to 2020, he was an assistant and associate professor at the Dalian University of Technology, China. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Hong Kong Scholar at The University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is a full professor with the Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He has published more than 150 scientific papers in international journals and conferences, such as TMC, JSAC, Mobicom, and so on. Two journal papers win the best paper award of IEEE TVT and IEEE Systems Journals, and 6 conference papers win the best paper award. His research interests include Internet of things, vehicular edge computing, and artificial intelligence. He is a Highly Cited Researcher (Clarivate) and a Chinese Highly Cited Researcher (Elsevier) since 2020. He is the associate editor or lead guest editor of 8 journals. He is an IET Fellow, an EAI Fellow, and a Senior Member of IEEE.