Prof. Yan Yang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Yan Yang (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1990, the M.S. degree in signal processing from Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in signal processing from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2004. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. He is currently a Full Professor with the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. His research interests include millimeter-wave communications, massive MIMO, channel estimation and reconstruction, satellite communications, and array signal processing. He received the Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Computing, Communications and IoT Applications (ComComAp) and the China Railway Society Science and Technology Award (First Prize in 2007 and 2014; Second Prize in 2010 and 2025). He has contributed to Working Party 5A (WP 5A) of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) and served as Chair of its Sub-Working Group 5A2-1 (Railways) from 2021 to 2024.

 

Assoc. Prof. Huayi Zhou, Southeast University, China

Biography: Huayi Zhou received the B.E. degree from the School of Information Science and Technology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2015, and Ph.D. degree from the School of Information Science and Technology, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2020. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Purple Mountain Laboratories from 2021 to 2022. He was a postdoctoral researcher with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, and was a wireless communication researcher with Southeast University and Purple Mountain Laboratories from 2022 to 2024. He is now an associate professor of National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University and Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China. His current research interests include AI-assisted communication and channel decoding chip design.

 

Associate Researcher Jiao Zhang, Purple Mountain Laboratories / Southeast University, China

Dr. Jiao Zhang is an Associate Researcher at Purple Mountain Laboratories and a Ph.D. supervisor at Southeast University, China. His research focuses on ultra-broadband photonic terahertz communications and fiber–wireless converged access for 6G networks. He has led more than ten national and provincial research projects, published over 200 SCI/EI papers, including 40+ at premier optical communication conferences (OFC/ECOC), and authored one monograph. A repeatedly selected Stanford World's Top 2% Scientist, he has been recognized with the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of Shanghai, the Top 10 Science and Technology Advances in Information and Communications by the China Institute of Communications and a Gold Medal at the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. He also serves as a committee member of the Jiangsu Youth Federation and actively contributes to youth talent development and international academic exchange.

 

Assoc. Prof. Chao Fang, Beijing University of Technology, China

Biography: Chao Fang received his B.S degree in Information Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2009, and the Ph.D. degree with the State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology in Information and Communication Engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Te4lecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2015. He joined the Beijing University of Technology in 2016 and now is an associate professor. From August 2013 to August 2014, he had been funded by China Scholarship Council to visit Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, as a joint doctorate. Moreover, he is the visiting scholars of University of Technology Sydney, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Kyoto University, Muroran Institute of Technology, and Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Fang is the senior member of IEEE, and the vice chair of technical affairs committee in IEEE ComSoc Asia/Pacific Region (2022-2023). Moreover, he served as the Technical Program Committee Chair of SPCNC 2024, the Session Chairs of ICC 2015, ICCC 2023, and WCNC 2024, Workshop Chairs of ICFEICT (2022-2024) and ICNCIC (2023-2024), and Poster Co-Chair of HotICN 2018. He won the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICFEICT 2022 and 2024, ICCSN 2024, NCIC 2024, and ICCC 2025. His current research interests include intelligent analysis and control, and intelligent cloud-edge-terminal cooperation computing.

 

Assoc. Prof. Xuran Li, Shandong Normal University, China

Biography: Xuran Li is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Communication and Electronic Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, China. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Macau University of Science and Technology in 2015 and 2018, respectively. He is an expert of Shandong Software Industry Association and a member of the Aerospace Information Committee as well as the Communication and Microwave Committee of Shandong Institute of Electronics. He serves on the Youth Editorial Board of China Communications, Journal on Communications, Journal of Communications and Information Networks (JCIN) and Advanced Information and Communications (AIC), and works as a Guest Editor for the journal Network. As the PI for one National Natural Science Foundation project, one Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation project and one sub-project of the Shandong Provincial Key Research and Development Program, he has participated in multiple national and provincial research projects. He has co-authored over 40 SCI/EI papers in top journals including IEEE JSAC, IEEE TCOM and flagship conferences such as IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM, received several Best Paper Awards, and delivered invited talks at IEEE ICTC 2026, IEEE WOCC 2025 and IEEE CCAI 2025. His research interests cover wireless communication networks, wireless network security and integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). He acts as a regular reviewer for IEEE TIFS, IEEE TVT, IEEE IoT J, Digital Communications and Networks, etc. He has served as Session Chair for AIPIP 2026, AICtech 2026, CCAI 2026, NCIC 2025, CCAI 2025, NCIC 2024, and TPC Member for IEEE ISPA 2025, IEEE WCSP 2024, IEEE ISPA 2024, IEEE VTC-Spring 2024, IEEE VTC-Fall 2023.

 

Assoc. Prof. Jiaxin Cai, Xiamen University of Technology, China

Biography: Jiaxin Cai is currently an associate professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xiamen University of Technology. He received a PhD degree in Information and Computing Science from Sun Yat-sen University in 2014, a Master's degree and a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Southern Medical University in 2011 and 2008, respectively. He has published over 80 papers as the first author or corresponding author in academic publications such as JACC CardioOncology, IEEE TAP, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TCSVT, IEEE JBHI, and Measurement, including three papers in journals with impact factors above ten, four ESI hot papers, and six ESI highly cited papers. He has been awarded the Second Prize for Excellent Paper by Fujian Provincial Society for Mathematical Biology of China in 2025, and the Excellent Paper for Issue in Acta Optica Sinica (GUANG XUE XUE BAO) in 2015. He is an Associate Editor of Journal of Clinical Ultrasound, an Editorial Board Member of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, and an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports. He also serves as a Young Editorial Board Member for several journals, including Journal on Communications (TONG XIN XUE BAO), Health Care Science, and Radiologic Practice (FANG SHE XUE SHI JIAN).