Speakers of CNIOT 2025

Prof. Yonghui Li
ARC Future Fellow, IEEE Fellow
The University of Sydney, Australia

Biography: Yonghui Li received his PhD degree in November 2002. Since 2003, he has been with the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, the University of Sydney, Australia. Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of theAustralian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008 andARC Future Fellowship in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to cooperative communications technologies. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications, with a particular focus on IoT, machine to machine communicaitons, MIMO, millimeter wave communications, channel coding techniques, game theory, machine learning and signal processing. Li holds a number of patents granted and pending in these fields.
Professor Li is an editor for IEEE transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE Communications Magazine. He received the best paper awards from IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, IEEE PIMRC 2017, and IEEE Wireless Days Conferences (WD) 2014. He has published one book, more than 160 papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 100 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 8000 times, with an h-index of 42. Six of his papers have been included as ISI high cited papers by ESI Web of Science, defined as top 1% of papers in the field. Several of his papers have been the top most 10 most cited papers in the respective journals since the year it was published.
Li has attracted more than $6 million in competitive research funding over the past 10 years, including 10 ARC grants. He has participated in $500 Millions Australia national demonstration project “Smart Grid Smart City” and designed last mile access networks. He is the founder and director of IoT undergraduate major at the University of Sydney.

 

Prof. Zheng Yan
Huashan Distinguished Professor
FIEEE, FIET, FAAIA, FAIIA
Xidian University, China

Biography: Dr. Zheng Yan is currently a Huashan distinguished professor at the Xidian University, China. She is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, and AIIA.She received the B. Eng in electrical engineering and M. Eng in computer science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University in 1994 and 1997. She received a second M. Eng in information security from National University of Singapore in 2000. She earned the Licentiate of Science and the Doctor of Science in Technology in electrical engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in 2005 and 2007. She joined the Nokia Research Center, Helsinki in 2000, working as a senior researcher until 2011. She worked as a visiting professor and a Finnish Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for over seven years.

Her research interests are in cyber trust, security, privacy, and data analytics. She has led 30+ projects, sponsored by EU, Academy of Finland, NSFC, MOST, telecom industry, etc. At the helm of a research team with 60+ members, she has supervised 160+ post-doctoral researchers and graduates. She has authored 400+ publications, with 270+ first and corresponding authorships, featured prominently in top-tier venues. Thirteen of them are top 0.1% or 1% highly-cited ESI papers. She is the sole author of two books on trust management, utilized in teaching for a decade. 150 patents (including 82 independent  international inventions) invented by her have been adopted by industry, a few of them have been incorporated into international standards and widely used in practice with billions of users. She has delivered 30+ invited keynote speeches and talks at international conferences and world-leading companies. Her Google Scholar citation is over 16,000 with an H-index of 65,

Zheng served and is serving as an EiC/area/associate/guest editor for 60+ reputable journals, e.g., executive EiC of Information Sciences, associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, area editor of Information Fusion. She is a steering committee member of several conferences, a general/program chair for 40+ international conferences. She is a founding steering committee co-chair of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, which becomes a leading venue in the field.

Dr. Yan is recognized as a Stanford World Top 2% Scientist since 2019 and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher since 2020. She has earned many accolades, including Distinguished Inventor of Nokia for significant technology contributions, N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE TEMS Distinguished Leadership Award, ELEC Impact Award for patent contributions to Finnish society, the Best Journal Paper Award issued by IEEE ComSoc and several other Best Paper awards, 18 times other IEEE Distinguished/Outstanding Leadership/Service awards, three EU awards, Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor Award of Chinese Society of Electronic Education, Shaanxi Nature Science Prize, etc. Her students have been rewarded more than 50 national or international awards. Her excellence has been covered by the media on numerous occasions.

 

 

Prof. Hesheng Wang
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Biography: Hesheng Wang received the Ph.D. degree in Automation & Computer-Aided Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is a Professor of Department of Automation, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals and conferences. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Automation Science Engineering, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Assembly Automation and International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, a Technical Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Robotics from 2015 to 2019.  He was the general chair of IEEE RCAR2016 and IEEE ROBIO2022, and program chair of IEEE AIM2019 and IEEE ROBIO2014. He was a recipient of Shanghai Rising Star Award in 2014, The National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars in 2017, Shanghai Shuguang Scholar in 2019 and The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2022. He will be the General Chair of IEEE/RSJ IROS2025.

 

Prof. Jie YANG
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Biography: PhD in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg in Germany, Professor (Level 2, long-term employment system), doctoral supervisor, Director of the Institute of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Head of the National Key Discipline of "Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems". Has undertaken more than 30 national and provincial research projects (8 National Natural Science Foundation projects, 4 National 863 Program projects, 3 sub projects of 973 Program, 6 Sino French Sino Japanese Sino Korean New International Cooperation projects, 1 major project in Shanghai, and 5 key projects in Shanghai). Seven achievements have won provincial and ministerial level achievement awards, and more than 30 invention patents have been authorized. Selected for the Ministry of Education's "Cross Century Excellent Talent Training Program", Shanghai's "Dawn Excellent Scholar", and "Dawn Tracking Program". Served as the director of three specialized committees and editorial board member for six journals (including two SCI journals). He has published 5 monographs both domestically and internationally, and has published over 400 papers in academic journals and conferences, of which more than 200 have been indexed by SCI and cited over 1000 times. Two doctoral theses under my guidance were awarded as National Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, two as Shanghai Excellent Doctoral Dissertations, and one as Shanghai Excellent Master's Dissertation. Served as the chairman of the conference, organizing committee, and sub conference for over 10 international conferences. Has given over 10 invited presentations at internationally renowned universities or conferences.

 

Prof. Witold Pedrycz
IEEE Life Fellow
University of Alberta, Canada

Biography: Witold Pedrycz (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the M.Sc., Ph.D., and D.Sci. degrees from the Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland. He is currently a Professor and a Canada Research Chair (CRC) in computational intelligence with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is also with the Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland. He has published numerous articles in these areas. He is also the author of 15 research monographs. His research interests include computational intelligence, fuzzy modeling, knowledge discovery, data mining, and fuzzy control, including fuzzy controllers, pattern recognition, knowledge-based neural networks, granular and relational computing, and software engineering. He has been a member of numerous program committees of IEEE conferences in the area of fuzzy sets and neurocomputing. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences (Elsevier), WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (Wiley), and the International Journal of Granular Computing (Springer). He served as the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics—Part A and the President of IFSA. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.

 

Prof. Xiangjie Kong
Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Biography: Dr. Xiangjie Kong is currently a Full Professor and Acacemic Associate Dean in the College of Computer Science & Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology (ZJUT), China. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in School of Software, Dalian University of Technology (DUT), China, where he was the Head of the Department of Cyber Engineering. He is the Founding Director of City Science of Social Computing Lab (The CSSC Lab) (http://cssclab.cn/). He is/was on the Editorial Boards of 6 International journals. He has served as the General Chair or Program Chair of more than 10 conferences. Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored over 200 scientific papers in international journals and conferences including IEEE TKDE, IJCAI, ACL, IEEE TMC, ACM CSUR, ACM TKDD, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE NETW, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOJ, IEEE TSMC, IEEE TETC, IEEE TASE, IEEE TCSS, ACM TSON, ACM TSAS, WWWJ, etc.. 5 of his papers is selected as ESI- Hot Paper (Top 1‰), and 20 papers are ESI-Highly Cited Papers (Top 1%). His research has been reported by Nature Index and other medias. He has been invited as Reviewers for numerous prestigious journals including IEEE TKDE, IEEE TMC, IEEE TNNLS, IEEE TNSE, IEEE TII, IEEE IOTJ, IEEE COMMUN MAG, IEEE NETW, IEEE TITS, TCJ, JASIST, etc.. Dr. Kong has authored/co-authored three books (in Chinese). He has contributed to the development of 14 copyrighted software systems and 30 filed patents. He has an h-index of 51 and i10-index of 122, and a total of more than 8600 citations to his work according to Google Scholar. He is named in the 2019 - 2023 world’s top 2% of Scientists List published by Stanford University. He is named in the 2022-2024 Best Computer Science Scientists List published by Research.com. Dr. Kong received IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE CSCWD 2024 Best Paper Award, and The Natural Science Fund of Zhejiang Province for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has been invited as Keynote Speaker at more thant 10 international conferences, and delivered a number of Invited Talks at international conferences and many universities worldwide. His research interests include big data, network science, and computational social science. He is a Distinguished Member of CCF, a Senior Member of IEEE, a Full Member of Sigma Xi, and a Member of ACM.

 

Prof. Zhiquan Liu
Jinan University, China

Biography: As of August 2024, a total of IEEE JSAC IEEE TIFS、IEEE TDSC、IEEE TMC、IEEE TKDE、IEEE TPAMI、IEEE TITS、IEEE IOTJ、IEEE TVT、IEEE TII、IEEE TCSVT、IEEE TCC、IEEE Network、Science China Information Sciences、Information Fusion、Information Sciences、IEEE ICWS、IEEE WCNC、ACISP、 Published over 80 SCI/EI papers in authoritative domestic and international journals/conferences, including over 40 papers in CCF A/Chinese Academy of Sciences/TOP journals, 4 best papers in international conferences, 2 most popular papers in international journals (selected for consecutive months), 1 ESI hot topic paper, and 2 ESI highly cited papers; Publishing Web Java、C/C++、Python、 5 books on programming practices such as big data; More than 100 national invention patents/foreign invention patents/PCT patents have been applied for/authorized (of which 5 have been converted); Register more than 10 computer software copyrights; Led/participated in the development of 6 industry standards and 8 group standards; Submit 4 reports on China's national defense science and technology; Undertake vertical projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation (General, Youth), the Ministry of Education's Industry University Cooperation Collaborative Education Project, the Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (General, Free), the Guangzhou Natural Science Foundation, the Jinan University Research and Cultivation Project, the Jinan University Military Industry Cultivation Project, the Jinan University Teaching Quality and Teaching Reform Engineering Project, the Jinan University Talent Introduction Research Supporting Fund, the Guangxi Trusted Software Key Laboratory Open Project, and the Network Space Security and Key Laboratory Sub Project; Awarded the Gold Award at the Geneva International Invention Exhibition, the First Prize of the Innovation Award at the China Association for Inventions and Entrepreneurship, the Innovation Achievement Award for Industry University Research Cooperation, the Science and Technology Award of the Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society, the Science and Technology Award of the Guangdong Computer Society, the Innovation Figure Award for the Internet of Vehicles Industry, the Wu Yu Technology Innovation and Education Award, the Excellent Coach in the "National Strong Country Cup" Technical Skills Competition, the Excellent Guidance Teacher in the "Provincial Strong Country Cup" Technical Skills Competition, the Excellent Reviewer for Computer Networks, the Excellent Reviewer for Physical Communication, and the Excellent Reviewer Expert for the Journal of Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology; Guide students to publish papers in CCF A journals and journals of the first district of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and win awards such as Best Paper Award at international conferences, National Innovation Project, Central Cyberspace Administration of China Innovation Project, First Prize (Champion) in the Undergraduate Group of the National Finals of the "Strong Country Cup" Technical Skills Competition, First Prize (Champion) in the Undergraduate Group of the Provincial Competition of the "Strong Country Cup" Technical Skills Competition, First Prize (Champion) in the Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurship Competition, First Prize in the Wu Yu Academic Science and Technology Innovation Competition, Outstanding Thesis at the university level, Outstanding Undergraduate Student at the university level, Outstanding Graduate Student at the university level, Outstanding Graduate Student at the university level, National Scholarship, etc.