Moayad Aloqaily (S-12, M-17, SM-21) received the Ph.D. degree in CE from the University of Ottawa, Canada, in 2016. He is the Managing Director of xAnalytics Inc., Canada, since 2019. He is currently with the Machine Learning Department, Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE. His current research interests include the applications of AI and ML, connected and autonomous vehicles, blockchain solutions, and sustainable energy and data management. He is an IEEE Senior Member, ACM Member and a Professional Engineer Ontario (P.Eng.).
Organizer Type: Track Chair
Dr. Paul C.-P. Chao received his Ph.D. degree from Michigan State University, USA, and then with Chrysler Corp in Auburn Hill, Detroit, USA before he joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. He is currently University Distinguished Professor of the electrical engineering department at NCTU. His research interests
focus on sensors, actuators and their interface circuitry. Dr. Chao has published more than 270 peer-reviewed papers (books, journal papers, conferences, reports) and 38 patents
Liang Zhou he is a professor in Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China.
His research interests are in the area of multimedia communications and networks. He currently serves as an editor for IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, etc. He also serves as Co-Chair and Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for a number of international conferences and workshops.
Philip W. T. Pong received a B.Eng. from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2002 with 1st class honours. Then he studied for a PhD in engineering at the University of Cambridge (2002-2005). He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Magnetic Materials Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for three years. His research interest currently focuses on the development and application of advanced sensing techniques based on electromagnetic sensors in smart grid and smart city. Philip Pong is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP), a Fellow of the Energy Institute (FEI), a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), a Fellow of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (FHKIE), a Fellow of the NANOSMAT Society (FNS), a chartered physicist (CPhys), a chartered engineer (CEng), a chartered energy engineer, a registered professional engineer (R.P.E. in Electrical, Electronics, Energy), and a Senior Member of IEEE (SMIEEE). He serves on the editorial boards for several IEEE and SCI journals.
Ruidong Li received the M.Sc. degree and Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Tsukuba in 2005 and 2008, respectively. Now he is an associate professor at Kanazawa University, Japan. Before joining this university, he was a senior researcher at the NICT, Japan. He serves as the vice chair of IEEE Internet Technical Committee (ITC), and are the founders and chairs of IEEE SIG on Big Data Intelligent Networking and IEEE SIG on Intelligent Internet Edge. He is the associate editor of IEEE IoT Journal, OJCS, DCN and also served as the guest editors for a set of prestigious magazines, transactions, and journals, such as IEEE communications magazine, IEEE network, and IEEE TNSE. He also served as chairs for several conferences and workshops, such as the general co-chairs for MobiWare 2022, IEEE MSN 2021, CPSCom 2021, TPC co-chairs for HotICN 2022, IWQoS 2021, IEEE MSN 2020, BRAINS 2020, and ICCSSE 2019. His research interests include future networks, networked sensing system, IoT, quantum network, and big data.
Dr. Raj Kothapalli is an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Penn State Cancer Institute, at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009 and received postdoc training in the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University in 2014. He served as an instructor in the Department of Radiology at Stanford University from 2014 to 2016, before joining Penn State in 2017. His BioPhotonics and Ultrasound Imaging lab at Penn State is focused on developing novel multimodal biodevices combining optical, ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging technologies. In 2014, Dr. Kothapalli received K99-R00 Pathway to Independence award from National Institutes of Health.
Reza Malekian is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Malmö University, Sweden and an Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he previously led the Advanced Sensor Networks research group and received the Vice-Chancellor and Principal’s Exceptional Young Researcher’s award.
He is a Chartered Engineer with the Engineering Council of UK, a senior member of the IEEE, and a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS). His research focuses on the Internet of Things, connectivity and sensor systems in intelligent transportation systems.
Prof. Malekian is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2016-2020), and IEEE Sensors Journal.
Yun-Wei Lin received Ph.D. degrees in computer science and information engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, in 2011, respectively. He has been an Associate Professor in the College of Artificial Intelligence, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan since 2021. His current research interests include mobile ad hoc network, wireless sensor network, vehicular ad hoc networks, IoT/M2M communications, and artificial intelligence.
