Keynote Speakers

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Prof. Guangjie Han ( IEEE Fellow )
Hohai University, China

Guangjie Han (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor with the Department of Internet of Things Engineering, Hohai University, Changzhou, China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Northeastern University, Shenyang, China, in 2004. In February 2008, he finished his work as a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Computer Science, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Korea. From October 2010 to October 2011, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with Osaka University, Suita, Japan. From January 2017 to February 2017, he was a Visiting Professor with City University of Hong Kong, China. From July 2017 to July 2020, he was a Distinguished Professor with Dalian University of Technology, China. His current research interests include Internet of Things, Industrial Internet, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Mobile Computing, Security and Privacy. Dr. Han has over 500 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, in addition to 160 granted and pending patents. Currently, his H-index is 59 and i10-index is 249 in Google Citation (Google Scholar). The total citation count of his papers raises above 12900+ times.

Dr. Han is a Fellow of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). He has served on the Editorial Boards of up to 10 international journals, including the IEEE Systems, IEEE/CCA JAS, IEEE Network, etc. He has guest-edited several special issues in IEEE Journals and Magazines, including the IEEE JSAC, IEEE Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Computer Networks, etc. Dr. Han has also served as chair of organizing and technical committees in many international conferences.He has been awarded 2020 IEEE Systems Journal Annual Best Paper Award and the 2017-2019 IEEE ACCESS Outstanding Associate Editor Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

 

Prof. Shui Yu
University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Shui Yu is Professor of the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, the Deputy Chair of the UTS Research Committee, and is a researcher of cybersecurity, privacy and the networking, communication aspects of Big Data, and applied mathematics for computer science.
In 2013, he initiated a new field, networking for big data, in the networking and communication domain. Shui was the leading editor of Networking for Big Data, published in 2015, which supplied an unprecedented look at cutting-edge research on the networking and communication aspects of Big Data.
Many of his research outputs have been adopted by industry, for example, the auto scale strategy of Amazon Cloud against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
As the corporate world has increasingly adopted new technologies to analyze and store vast amounts of data in a bid to generate valuable insights and unlock strategic value, Shui has concentrated on the privacy and security concerns associated with big data.
Among other issues, he has researched security issues associated with smart grids, which present opportunities to help solve the problems of carbon emissions and the energy crisis.
He has also investigated creating anonymous transactions on Blockchain to deal with threats to users’ privacy. His anonymous communication work for web browsing privacy has been cited by more than 200 US patents.
He has published two monographs and edited two books, and produced more than 600 technical papers, published in top journals such as IEEE TPDS, TC, TIFS, TMC, TKDE, TETC, ToN, and INFOCOM. His h-index is 80.
Shui serves his research communities in various roles, including serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, among others.
He has been a member of organizing committees for many international conferences, such as the publication chair for IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEE INFOCOM 2016 and 2017, TPC chair for IEEE Big Data Service 2015, and general chair for ACSW 2017.
He served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2018-2021). He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society (2022-2024), a voting member of IEEE ComSoc Educational Services board, and an elected member of Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, respectively. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

 

Prof. Ma Maode
Qatar University, Qatar

Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has over 490 international academic publications including about 250 journal papers and over 240 conference papers. His publication has received close to 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and the International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. Prof. Ma has been a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.