Prof. Kun Yang

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, MAE (foreign)

Nanjing University, China

Professor Kun Yang is a National Distinguished Professor at Nanjing University, a recipient of the National Overseas High-Level Talent Program, and a doctoral supervisor. He earned his Ph.D. in Engineering from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), UK, and holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the Department of Computer Science at Jilin University. His primary research interests include wireless networks and communications, the integration of communication, computing, and sensing, and AI-enabled networks and communications. He has published over 400 papers in international core journals and major conferences and holds more than 30 patents across multiple countries. He has led over 10 projects funded by the European Union and UK national science foundations, spearheaded three key projects under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and received numerous awards, including provincial and ministerial-level first prizes in science and technology.

Professor Yang is a founding member and one of the six executive committee members of IEEE InterCloud, a judging expert for the GSMA GLOMO Awards (widely known as the "Oscars of the Mobile Industry") at the World Mobile Congress (WMC), and an associate editor for multiple IEEE journals (e.g., ComMag, TNSE, TVT, WCL) as well as the IET Smart Cities journal. He is also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. Professor Kun Yang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE), an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, a BCS Fellow, and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Prof. Jun Wang

IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, MAE (foreign)

City University of Hong Kong, China

Jun Wang is a Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science and School of Data Science at City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this position, he held various academic positions at Dalian University of Technology, Case Western Reserve University, the University of North Dakota, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also held various part-time visiting positions at the US Air Force Armstrong Laboratory, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and an M.S. degree in systems engineering from Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China. He received his Ph.D. degree in systems engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. His current research interests include neural networks and their applications. He published more than 300 journal papers, 15 book chapters, 11 edited books, and numerous conference papers in these areas. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics (2014-2019). He also served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics and its predecessor (2003-2013), IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1999-2009), and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics – Part C (2002–2005), as a member of the editorial advisory board of International Journal of Neural Systems (2006-2013), and a member of the editorial board of Neural Networks (2012-2014) as a guest editor of special issues of European Journal of Operational Research (1996), International Journal of Neural Systems (2007), Neurocomputing (2008, 2014, 2016), and International Journal of Fuzzy Systems (2010, 2011). He was an organizer of several international conferences such as the General Chair of the 13th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (2006) and the 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, and a Program Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (2012). He has been an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2012, 2014-2016). In addition, he served as President of the Asia Pacific Neural Network Assembly (APNNA) in 2006 and many organizations such as the IEEE Fellow Committee (2011-2012); IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Awards Committee (2008, 2012, 2014), IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Board of Governors (2013-2019), He is an IEEE Life Fellow, IAPR Fellow, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of Natural Science Awards from Shanghai Municipal Government (2009) and Ministry of Education of China (2011), APNNA Outstanding Achievement Award in 2011, Neural Networks Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2014), and Norbert Wiener Award from the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society (2019), among other disctions.