Speakers

Prof. Wenjie Feng

South China University of Technology, China

Biography: 

Wenjie Feng (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Shangqiu, Henan, China, in 1985. He received the B.Sc. degree from the First Aeronautic College of the Airforce, Xinyang, China, in 2008, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), Nanjing, China, in 2010 and 2013, respectively.

From July 2017 to September 2017, he was a Research Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong. From October 2010 to March 2011, he was an Exchange Student with the Institute of High Frequency Engineering, Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany. He is currently a Professor with South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He has authored or coauthored over 100 IEEE journal articles (including 70 IEEE TRANSACTIONS papers) and 80 conference papers. His research interests include wideband circuits and technologies, microwave and millimeter-wave circuits and components, circuits interconnection, and packaging.

Dr. Feng was a recipient of the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars in 2018, the Young Scientist Award of ACES-China 2018, and a reviewer for over 20 internationally refereed journals and conferences. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, IET Electronics Letters and International Journal of Electronics.

Assoc. Prof. Feng Ke

South China University of Technology, China

Biography: He is an associate professor at South China University of Technology. He has long been engaged in teaching and researching in mobile communications and broadband wireless networks. He used to teach several specialized courses such as broadband wireless communication networks, digital communication principles, mobile communication, digital integrated circuit principles and design and microcomputer principles and applications. In recent years, he has presided over or participated in more than 30 national, provincial and ministerial research projects and horizontal projects, and has established in-depth industry-academia-research cooperation relationships with Huawei Technologies, Jie Sai Science and Technology Company Limited, Jingxin Communication Technology Company Limited and other domestic large-scale enterprises, and has transformed the relevant research results into value of more than 100 million dollars. He has published more than 50 papers in high level academic journals and conferences at home and abroad, including a dozen papers in authoritative journals of IEEE, more than a dozen invention patents, 2 software copyrights, and 2 provincial and ministerial level appraisals. He once won the university teaching excellence award, won the 2010 National Communication Theory and Signal Processing Academic Annual Conference, as well as the 2019 IEEE Computer and Communication and many other domestic and international academic conferences show paper award. He has served as the chair of many authoritative international academic conferences, and is a member of TPC. He is currently a member of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, Electronics and Information Technology Journal, and other international/national authoritative journals in this field. Currently, he is a reviewer of papers in international/national authoritative journals in his field. He used to work for Guangzhou Municipal Science and Technology and Information Technology Bureau for a long period of time, and completed the guidelines of Guangzhou Science and Technology Program and the 11th Five-Year Plan for the development of electronic information industry.

Assoc. Prof. Mohamed Ariff Ameedeen

Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia

Biography: An academician of 18 years, Prof. Mohamed rose through the ranks from Tutor to Associate Professor, performing his academic duties of teaching, research, curriculum design, consultancy as well as management. As a Head of Program, he was responsible to run three Masters (Coursework) programmes and obtain MQA approval for all three of them. As a senate member for more than 4 years, he am well versed with academic procedures and issues. He was also a Director of a Centre of Excellence that focused on research and consultancy for 5 years, creating a niche research direction and blueprint. Prof. Mohamed had won 16 Research Medals in Local and International Exhibitions, obtained 33 Research Grants locally and international amounting more than RM4 million.

Prof. Liang Yang

Hunan University, China

Biography: Prof. Yang Liang's main research field is wireless communication and optical wireless communication. He has published more than 100 papers in SCI journal category in famous academic journals at home and abroad, including more than 80 papers in IEEE journal category, such as IEEE-JSAC, IEEE-TCOM, IEEE-TVT, IEEE-TWC, IEEE-TIFS and other international core journals, and his H-index in Google and Research Gate's H-index is 33, and he has been selected as one of the top 2% top scientists in the world by Stanford for 2 consecutive years. He has presided over 5 National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) projects and 1 National Key Research and Development Program (NKRDP) project. He has served as editorial board member of several international journals (e.g., IEEE-TCOM, IEEE-WCL, IEEE-COMML, Science in China: Information Science, Journal of Communications, etc.). He won the 2007 Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Recipient of Guangdong Province, 2019 Natural Science Prize of Hunan Province 2^nd Prize Recipient (ranked 1st), 2021 Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, and 2020 Best Editorial Board Member of IEEE_Wireless_Communications_Letters.