 | Prof. Dusit NiyatoNanyang Technological University, Singapore Dusit Niyato is currently the Chancellor's Chair Professor of the School of Computing and Data Science (CCDS) at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from King Mongkuk's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) in Thailand in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2008. Dusit's research interests focus on distributed collaborative machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT), edge intelligent generative artificial intelligence and AI-generated content (AIGC), mobile and distributed computing, and wireless networks. Dusit has received the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award, the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Best Survey Paper Award, and the IEEE Asia-Pacific Board (APB) Outstanding Paper Award. Currently, Dusit serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2023 Impact Factor: 34.4), Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 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 is also a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. He is a non-affiliated member of the IEEE Communications Society Council for 2024-2026. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science from 2017-2023. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IET. |
 | Prof. Bin XiaoHong Kong Polytechnic University, China Bin Xiaois a full professor in the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received the B.Sc and M.Sc degrees in the Electronics Engineering from Fudan University, China, and Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas, USA in 2003. After his Ph.D. graduation, he joined the Hong Kong Polytechnic University as an assistant professor. Currently, he is the associate editor of IEEE TCC and IEEE TNSE, IEEE ComSoc distinguished lecturer, the chair of IEEE ComSoc Communications and Information Security Technical Committee (CISTC Chair), a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of AAIA. He has been the associate editor for Elsevier JPDC from 2016 to 2021 and IEEE IoTJ from 2020 to 2023. Many graduates from his group got faculty positions in the top universities in both the mainland and HK. |
| Prof. Mianxiong DongMuroran Institute of Technology, Japan Mianxiong Dong was born in Shanghai, China. He received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is the Vice President and the youngest ever Professor of Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. He has published over 420 academic papers, of which more than half are published in top journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TPDS, as well as top conferences including IEEE INFOCOM. A total of 7 papers have been selected as ESI Hot Papers (top 0.1%), and 33 papers have been selected as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%). He has received best paper awards from ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, DASC 2015, VTC 2016-Fall, FCST 2017, ICCC 2018, AICON 2019, CPSCom 2019, ICPADS 2019, MSN 2020 and MetaCom 2023. Dr. Dong serves as an Editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Networking Letters, Cyber-Physical Systems (Taylor & Francis), Journal of Information and Intelligence, as well as a associate editor for IEEE Access. He has been serving as the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Satellite and Space Communications (SSC) Technical Committee, Co-Chair of IEEE Communications Society Asia/Pacific Region Technical Affairs Committee (TAC), Student Activities Committee Chair of IEEE Sapporo Section. He serves as the Principal Investigator of more than ten research projects, including Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI and KDDI Foundation, Program Officer (PO) of JST Support for Pioneering Research Initiated by the Next Generation (SPRING). He is the recipient of The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2017, Funai Research Award 2018, NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology, The Young Scientists’Award from MEXT in 2021, SUEMATSU-Yasuharu Award from IEICE in 2021, IEEE TCSC Middle Career Award in 2021. He is currently the Member of Board of Governors and Chair of Student Fellowship Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Treasurer of IEEE ComSoc Japan Joint Sections Chapter. He is Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021, 2022 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science) and Foreign Fellow of EAJ. |
 | Prof. Zheng YanXidian University, China Zheng Yan is a leading professor and doctoral supervisor at Xidian University, a "Huashan Scholar" program, a foreign academician of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an AIIA Fellow, a top 2% global scientist (2019-present), an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher (2020-present), and a top 0.05% global scholar in ScholarGPS (2024 list for the past 5 years). He has long been committed to research in trust management, blockchain, information and network security, privacy protection, and data analysis. He innovatively proposed a trust management mechanism that adapts to dynamic changes in trust and protects privacy, and invented a series of security and privacy protection technologies governed by trust, which are widely used in next-generation wireless communication networks, ubiquitous social networks, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and embedded software. In the past 10 years, he has been working on and completed more than 30 projects, including key R&D projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, key and general projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and international collaborations. He has published over 460 papers in major domestic and international journals and conferences, of which more than 280 are indexed by SCI; he has led the invention of over 220 international and domestic patents, and many of his patented technologies have been adopted by international standards. |
