Keynote Speakers
Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic (IEEE Life Fellow)
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Short bio:
Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of
Pristina, Yugoslavia, in 1974, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical
engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree
in electrical engineering from University of California at Los
Angeles, in 1986.
She is currently a Professor in the School of Engineering Science at
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. From
1995 to 1997, she was a National Science Foundation (NSF) Visiting
Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Department, University of California, Berkeley. She was a Research
Scientist at Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ, from 1990
to 1997, and a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1988 to 1990. Her research
interests include communication networks, computer-aided circuit
analysis and design, and nonlinear circuits and dynamical systems.
Dr. Trajkovic served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director
(2019–2020) and IEEE Division X Delegate-Elect/Director-Elect
(2018). She served as Senior Past President (2018–2019), Junior Past
President (2016–2017), President (2014–2015), President-Elect
(2013), Vice President Publications (2012–2013, 2010–2011), Vice
President Long-Range Planning and Finance (2008–2009), and a Member
at Large of the Board of Governors (2004–2006) of the IEEE Systems,
Man, and Cybernetics Society. She served as 2007 President of the
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and a member of its Board of
Governors (2004–2005, 2001–2003). She served as Chair of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society joint Chapter of the Vancouver/Victoria
Sections (2001–2021). She was Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee
on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (1998). She was General Co-Chair
of SMC 2020 and General Co-Chair of SMC 2020, SMC 2019, and SMC 2018
Workshops on BMI Systems, SMC 2016, and HPSR 2014, Special Sessions
Co-Chair of SMC 2017, Technical Program Chair of SMC 2017 and SMC
2016 Workshops on BMI Systems, Technical Program Co-Chair of ISCAS
2005, and Technical Program Chair and Vice General Co-Chair of ISCAS
2004. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on
Human-Machine Systems (2021–2023) and served as an Associate Editor
of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (Part I)
(2004–2005, 1993–1995), the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems (Part II) (2018, 2002–2003, 1999–2001), and the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Magazine (2001–2003). She is a Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society
(2020–2021) and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2020–2021,
2010–2011, 2002–2003). She is a Professional Member of IEEE-HKN and
a Life Fellow of the IEEE.
Prof. Robert Minasian (IEEE Fellow & OSA Fellow)
The University of Sydney, Australia
Short bio:
Professor Minasian is a Chair Professor with the School of
Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Sydney,
Australia. He is also the Director of the Fibre-optics and Photonics
Laboratory. His research has made key contributions to microwave
photonic signal processing. He is recognized as an author of one of
the top 1% most highly cited papers in his field worldwide.
Professor Minasian has contributed over 380 research publications,
including Invited Papers in the IEEE Transactions and Journals. He
has 70 Plenary, Keynote and Invited Talks at international
conferences. He has served on numerous technical and steering
committees of international conferences. Professor Minasian was the
recipient of the ATERB Medal for Outstanding Investigator in
Telecommunications, awarded by the Australian Telecommunications and
Electronics Research Board. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a
Fellow of the Optical Society of America.
Prof. Zhu Han (AAAS Fellow, IEEE fellow, John and Rebecca Moores Professor )
University of Houston, USA
Speech Title :
Distributionally Robust Optimization and Machine Learning for
Communication Networks (Read
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Short bio: Zhu Han received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, in 1997, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2000 to 2002, he was an R&D Engineer of JDSU, Germantown, Maryland. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the University of Maryland. From 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor in Boise State University, Idaho. Currently, he is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department as well as Computer Science Department at University of Houston, Texas. His research interests include security, wireless resource allocation and management, wireless communication and networking, game theory, and wireless multimedia. Dr. Han is an NSF CAREER award recipient 2010. Dr. Han has several IEEE conference best paper awards, and winner of 2011 IEEE Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2015 EURASIP Best Paper Award for the Journal on Advances in Signal Processing and 2016 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the field of Communication Systems (Best Paper Award for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications). Dr. Han has been IEEE fellow since 2014, AAAS fellow since 2020 and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer from 2015 to 2018. Dr. Han is winner of 2021 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, and has been 1% highly cited researcher according to Web of Science since 2017.