2025 Keynote Speakers
Prof. Guilu Long, Tsinghua University, China
龙桂鲁教授，清华大学
Fellow of IOP, APS
IOP会士、APS会士
Biography: Guilu
Long, chair professor at Tsinghua University & Vice-President, Beijing
Academy of Quantum Information Sciences. He received his BS from Shandong
University in 1982 and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University in 1987. He has been
working in Tsinghua since 1987. Between 1989-1993, he worked as a research
fellow in the University of Sussex working in Prof. J. P. Elliott’s group.
During June-July 2002, he visited Prof. Anton Zeilinger’s group.
Notably among his various achievements, he proposed the quantum secure
direct communication (QSDC), which transmits secure information directly
using quantum states, developing reliable transmission of information
through noisy channel into reliable and secure transmission of information
through a channel with both noise and eavesdropping; the linear combination
unitaries (LCU) quantum computing paradigm; the WISE (Wavefunction Is the
System Entity) interpretation of quantum mechanics; and developed a quantum
exact search algorithm and quantum algorithms for cryptography analysis and
so on. He was former AAPPS President and C13 vice-chair of IUPAP. He has
been invited to give talks on quantum information in various venues of IEEE
such as VTC, GLOBECOM and ICC. He is fellow of America Physical Society &
Institute of Physics of UK.
Prof.
Liang Xiao, Xiamen University, China
肖亮教授，厦门大学
Fellow of IEEE
IEEE会士
Biography: Liang
Xiao is IEEE Fellow and a Professor in the Department of Informatics and
Communication Engineering, Xiamen University.She has served in several
editorial roles, including an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensics & Security, IEEE Transactions on Communication, IEEE
Transactions on Wireless Communication and IEEE Transactions on Dependable
and Secure Computing, and Guest Editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in
Signal Processing. Her research interests include wireless security, privacy
protection, and wireless communications. She published three books and three
book chapters. She won 2024 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper
Award, as well as the best paper award for 2017 IEEE ICC, 2018 IEEE ICCS and
2016 IEEE INFOCOM Bigsecurity WS. She was 2022-2023 IEEE ComSoc
Distinguished Lecturer.
Prof.
Huawei Li, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
李华伟研究员，中国科学院计算技术研究所
Fellow of CCF
中国计算机学会会士
Biography: Huawei
Li is a Professor in the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese
Academy of Sciences (CAS), and the Vice Director of the State Key Lab of
Processors. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from ICT, CAS, in
2001. Her current research interests include electronic design automation,
testing and fault tolerance of VLSI/SOC circuits, and automatic design of
domain-specific processors. She has published over 300 technical papers in
these areas. She was a recipient of the 2012 National Technology Invention
Award of China, a recipient of the Best Paper Awards of 2023 and 2003 IEEE
Asian Test Symposium (ATS), 2021 IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2019
IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), and 2018 IEEE
International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia).
Prof. Li serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Design & Test, IEEE
Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (TVLSI), and Journal of
Computer Science & Technology (JCST). She served as the Steering Committee
Chair for IEEE ATS from 2020 to 2022. She is currently the Chair of the
China Computer Federation (CCF) Technical Committee on Integrated Circuit
Design, and she served as the Chair of the CCF Technical Committee on Fault
Tolerant Computing from 2016 to 2019. She is Fellow of CCF.
Prof. Runsheng Wang, Peking University, China
王润声教授，北京大学
Biography: Runsheng
Wang received the B.S. and Ph.D. (highest honors) degrees from Peking
University, Beijing, China, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. From November
2008 to August 2009, he was a Visiting Scholar with Purdue University, West
Lafayette, IN, USA. He joined Peking University in 2010, where he is
currently a Full Professor at the School of Integrated Circuits. He also
serves as the Associate Dean of the School of EECS. He has
authored/coauthored 1 book, 4 book chapters, and over 200 scientific papers,
including more than 50 papers published in IEDM, ISSCC and the VLSI
Symposium. He has been granted over 20 US patents and over 40 Chinese
patents. His current research interests include nanoscale CMOS devices,
characterization and reliability, design-technology co-optimization (DTCO)
and EDA, emerging technologies and circuits for new-paradigm computing. Dr.
Wang was awarded the IEEE EDS Early Career Award by the IEEE Electron Device
Society (EDS), National Distinguished Young Scholars by National Natural
Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Natural Science Award (First Prize) by
the Ministry of Education (MOE) of China, and many other awards. He serves
on the Editorial Board of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRON DEVICES, SCIENCE
CHINA: Information Sciences, and Microelectronics Reliability. He has also
served on the Technical Program Committee of many IEEE conferences,
including IEDM, IRPS, EDTM, IPFA, ISEDA, etc.
Previous Speakers
Prof. Franco Maloberti
Division I Director of IEEE, Life Fellow of IEEE
Univeristy of Pavia, Italy
Biography: Franco
Maloberti received the Laurea degree in physics (summa cum laude) from the
University of Parma, Parma, Italy, in 1968, and the Dr. Honoris Causa Ph.D.
in electronics from the Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y
Electronica (Inaoe), Puebla, Mexico, in 1996.
He is Emeritus Professor, University of Pavia, Italy and Visiting Chair
Professor, University of Macau, China SAR. In 1993, he was a Visiting
Professor at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-PEL), Zurich,
Switzerland and in 2004 Visiting Professor at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
From 2000 to 2002 he was the TI/J.Kilby Analog Engineering Chair Professor
at the Texas A&M University and from 2002 to 2004 the Distinguished
Microelectronic Chair Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas.
His professional expertise is in the design, analysis, and characterization
of integrated circuits and analog digital applications, mainly in the areas
of switched-capacitor circuits, data converters, interfaces for
telecommunication, sensor systems, portable power management, and CAD for
analog and mixed A/D design. He has written about 600 published papers,
seven books and holds 36 patents.
He is Director of the Division I of IEEE. He was President of the IEEE CAS
Society, VP Region 8 of IEEE CAS (1995-1997), Associate Editor of
IEEE-TCAS-II, President of the IEEE Sensor Council (2002-2003), IEEE CAS BoG
member (2003-2005), VP Publications IEEE CAS (2007-2008). He was DL IEEE SSC
Society (2009-2010) and DL IEEE CAS Society (2006-2007; 2012-2013). He
received the 1999 IEEE CAS Society Meritorious Service Award, the 2000 CAS
Society Golden Jubilee Medal, and the IEEE Millenium Medal. He received the
1996 IEE Fleming Premium, the ESSCIRC 2007 Best Paper Award and the IEEJ
Workshop 2007 and 2010 Best Paper Award. He received the IEEE CAS Society
2013 Mac Van Valkenburg Award.
Prof. Massimo Alioto
Chair of the Distinguished Lecturer Program for the IEEE CAS Society, Fellow of IEEE
National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biography: Massimo
Alioto is a Professor at the ECE Department of the National University of
Singapore, where he leads the Green IC group, the Integrated Circuits and
Embedded Systems area, and the FD-fAbrICS center on intelligent & connected
systems. Previously, he held positions at the University of Siena, Intel
Labs – CRL (2013), University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (2011-2012),
University of California – Berkeley (2009-2011), EPFL - Lausanne.
He is (co)author of 350+ publications on journals and conference
proceedings, and four books with Springer (with two more coming this
quarter). His primary research interests include ultra-low power and
self-powered systems, green computing, circuits for machine intelligence,
hardware security, and emerging technologies.
He was the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems and
Deputy Editor in Chief of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics
in Circuits and Systems. He is currently the Chair of the Distinguished
Lecturer Program for the IEEE CAS Society, and was a Distinguished Lecturer
for the SSC and CAS Society. Previously, Prof. Alioto was the Chair of the
“VLSI Systems and Applications” Technical Committee of the IEEE Circuits and
Systems Society (2010-2012). He served as Guest Editor of numerous journal
special issues (JSSC, TCAS-I, JETCAS…), Technical Program Chair of several
IEEE conferences (ISCAS, SOCC, PRIME, ICECS), and TPC member (ISSCC, ASSCC).
His research group contribution has been recognized through various best
paper awards (e.g., ISSCC, ICECS), and in the ten technological highlights
of the TSMC 2020 annual report, among the others. Prof. Alioto is an IEEE
Fellow.
Prof. Chengxiang Wang, Southeast University, China
王承祥教授，东南大学
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, IEEE, IET and China Institute
of Communications
英国爱丁堡皇家学会院士、IEEE会士、IET会士、中国通信学会会士
Biography:
Cheng-Xiang Wang received the B.Sc. and M.Eng. degrees in communication and
information systems from Shandong University, China, in 1997 and 2000,
respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from Aalborg
University, Denmark, in 2004.
He was a Research Assistant with the Hamburg University of Technology,
Hamburg, Germany, from 2000 to 2001, a Visiting Researcher with Siemens AG
Mobile Phones, Munich, Germany, in 2004, and a Research Fellow with the
University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway, from 2001 to 2005. He was with Heriot-Watt
University, Edinburgh, U.K., from 2005 to 2018, where he was promoted to a
professor in 2011. He has been with Southeast University, Nanjing, China, as
a professor since 2018, and he is now the Executive Dean of the School of
Information Science and Engineering. He is also a professor with Pervasive
Communication Research Center, Purple Mountain Laboratories, Nanjing, China.
He has authored 4 books, 3 book chapters, and over 520 papers in refereed
journals and conference proceedings, including 27 highly cited papers. He
has also delivered 25 invited keynote speeches/talks and 16 tutorials in
international conferences. His current research interests include wireless
channel measurements and modeling, 6G wireless communication networks, and
electromagnetic information theory.
Dr. Wang is a Member of the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe), a
Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA), a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE), IEEE, IET and China Institute of
Communications (CIC), an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer
in 2019 and 2020, a Highly-Cited Researcher recognized by Clarivate
Analytics in 2017-2020. He is currently an Executive Editorial Committee
Member of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS. He has served as
an Editor for over ten international journals, including the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, from 2007 to 2009, the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, from 2011 to 2017, and the IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, from 2015 to 2017. He was a Guest Editor of
the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, Special Issue on
Vehicular Communications and Networks (Lead Guest Editor), Special Issue on
Spectrum and Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Communication Networks, and
Special Issue on Airborne Communication Networks. He was also a Guest Editor
for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIG DATA, Special Issue on Wireless Big Data,
and is a Guest Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS
AND NETWORKING, Special Issue on Intelligent Resource Management for 5G and
Beyond. He has served as a TPC Member, a TPC Chair, and a General Chair for
more than 30 international conferences. He received 16 Best Paper Awards
from IEEE GLOBECOM 2010, IEEE ICCT 2011, ITST 2012, IEEE VTC 2013 Spring,
IWCMC 2015, IWCMC 2016, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2016, WPMC 2016, WOCC 2019, IWCMC
2020, WCSP 2020, CSPS2021, WCSP 2021, IEEE/CIC ICCC 2022, and IEEE ICCT
2023.
Prof.
Wei Zhang, The University of New South Wales, Australia
张伟教授，新南威尔士大学
Fellow of IEEE, IET & Vice President, IEEE Communications Society
IEEE会士、IET会士、IEEE通信学会副主席
Biography: Wei
Zhang received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese
University of Hong Kong in 2005. He was Research Fellow at the Department of
Electronic and Computer Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology in 2006-2007. In May 2008, he joined the School of Electrical
Engineering and Telecommunications, The University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia, where he is currently a Professor. His current research
interests include space information networks, mmWave communications, and
massive MIMO.
Currently, he is Vice President of IEEE Communications Society. He is
Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Communications and Information Networks and
Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He served as
Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters from 2016 to 2019.
He also served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications
(2015-2018), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
(2015-2017), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Cognitive
Radio Series in 2012-2014 and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
(2010-2015). He was Chair of IEEE Wireless Communications Technical
Committee in 2019-2020 and Vice Director of IEEE Communications Society Asia
Pacific Board from 2016 to 2021. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the
IET.
Prof.
Mohamad Sawan, Westlake University, China
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, lEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering
加拿大皇家学会院士、IEEE会士、加拿大工程院院士
Biography: Mohamad
Sawan received the Ph.D. degree from University of Sherbrooke, Canada. He is
currently a Chair Professor in Westlake University, Hangzhou, China, and
Emeritus Professor in Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. He is founder and
director of the Centre of Excellence in Biomedical Research of Advanced
Integrated-on-chips Neurotechnologies (CenBRAIN Neurotech) in Westlake
University, Hangzhou, China. He founded the Polystim Neurotech Laboratory,
and the Eastern Canadian IEEE-Solid State Circuits Society Chapter. He is
cofounder of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society,
the International IEEE-NEWCAS and the International IEEE-BioCAS Conferences.
Also, he is Co-Founder, Associate Editor, member of the steering committee
and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and
Systems (TBioCAS) (2016-2019). He is associate editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME). He was Deputy Editor-in Chief
of the IEEE Transactions on circuits and systems II (TCAS-II), Editor and
Associate Editor of several other International Journals such as the
Springer Mixed-signal Letters. Dr. Sawan is member of the board, editor,
guest editor and associate editor of several other prestigious scientific
Journals. He is cofounder of several other IEEE International conferences
such as IEEE-ICECS and IEEE-ICM. He was General Chair of both the 2016 IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, and the 2020 IEEE
International Medicine, Biology and Engineering Conference (EMBC), and was
VP Publications of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2019-2022). He was
awarded the Canada Research Chair in Smart Medical Devices (2001-2015) and
was leading the Microsystems Strategic Alliance of Quebec (ReSMiQ), Canada
(1999-2018), receiving membership support from 11 Universities. His
scientific interests are the design and implementation of hybrid and
mixed-signal (analog, digital, RF, MEMS and optic) circuits and
Microsystems: integration, assembly and validations. These topics are mainly
oriented toward the biomedical fundamental and applied sciences. Dr. Sawan
published more than 1000 peer reviewed papers, two books, 13 book chapters,
and 12 patents and 27 other patents are pending, and has offered around 350
invited talks pertaining to the field of biomedical engineering. He received
several awards, among them Chinese Government Friendship Award, the Hangzhou
Outstanding Talent Award, the Zhejiang Westlake Friendship Award, the
Qianjiang Friendship Ambassador Award, the Shanghai International
Collaboration Award, the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal, and the
Medal of Merit from the President of Lebanon, the J.A. Bombardier and
Jacques-Rousseau ACFAS Awards for technology transfer and research
contributions, the Barbara Turnbull Award for medical research in Canada,
and the achievement Award from the American University of Science and
Technology. Dr. Sawan is Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Canadian Academy
of Engineering, Fellow of the Engineering Institutes of Canada, and
“Officer” of the National Order of Quebec.
Prof. Gui-Lu Long
Tsinghua University, China
Biography: Gui-Lu Long, chair professor at
Tsinghua University & Vice-President, Beijing Academy of Quantum Information
Sciences. He received his BS from Shandong University in 1982 and Ph.D. from
Tsinghua University in 1987. He has been working in Tsinghua since 1987.
Between 1989-1993, he worked as a research fellow in the University of
Sussex working in Prof. J. P. Elliott’s group. During June-July 2002, he
visited Prof. Anton Zeilinger’s group.
Notably among his various achievements, he proposed the quantum secure
direct communication (QSDC), which transmits secure information directly
using quantum states, developing reliable transmission of information
through noisy channel into reliable and secure transmission of information
through a channel with both noise and eavesdropping; the linear combination
unitaries (LCU) quantum computing paradigm; the WISE (Wavefunction Is the
System Entity) interpretation of quantum mechanics; and developed a quantum
exact search algorithm and quantum algorithms for cryptography analysis and
so on. He was former AAPPS President and C13 vice-chair of IUPAP. He has
been invited to give talks on quantum information in various venues of IEEE
such as VTC, GLOBECOM and ICC. He is fellow of America Physical Society &
Institute of Physics of UK.
Prof. Qiang Li
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Founding Chair
of IEEE Chengdu SSCS/CASS Joint Chapter
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China
Biography: Qiang Li
received the B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from the Huazhong University
of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China and the Ph.D. in Electronic
Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in
2001 and 2007, respectively. He has been working on analog/RF and
mixed-signal circuits in both academia and industry, holding positions of
Engineer, Project Leader & Technical Consultant in Singapore. He has been an
Associate Professor at the Aarhus University, Denmark during 2011-2014, and
the Vice Dean of the School of Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics,
UESTC during 2014-2018. He is currently a full Professor at the University
of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), heading the analog
group. His research interests include low-voltage and low-power analog/RF
circuits, data converters, and mixed-mode circuits for biomedical and sensor
interfaces.
He has founded and is currently heading the UESTC Institute of Integrated
Circuits and Systems. In January 2018, The Institute is accredited as an
international collaboration platform (111 Project) co-supported by the
Chinese Ministry of Education and SAFEA.
Prof. Li serves as the Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State
Circuits Society (SSCS), a member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE
Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC), a member of the Technical
Program Committee of European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), and
a member of the Technical Program Committee of IEEE Asian Solid-State
Circuits Conference (ASSCC). He was a member of the Student Research Preview
(SRP) committee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
and the TPC Chair of 2018 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and
Systems (APCCAS). He served/serves as a Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers (TCAS-I) and an Associate Editor of
IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems (OJCAS). He is the Founding Chair
of IEEE Chengdu SSCS/CASS Joint Chapter.