Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, IEEE Life Fellow
Tohoku University, Japan
Fumiyuki Adachi (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of NTT and started mobile communications research. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT DOCOMO, leading a research group on wideband/broadband wireless access for 3G and beyond. He contributed to developing the 3G air interface standard, known as W-CDMA. Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He is currently researching resilient wireless communication technology to realize beyond 5G/6G systems as a Specially Appointed Research Fellow/Professor Emeritus at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University. His research interests are in the areas of wireless signal processing and networking, including multi-access, equalization, antenna diversity, cooperative transmission, channel coding, and radio resource management.
Prof. Geoffrey Ye Li, Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
Imperial College London, UK
Dr. Geoffrey Ye Li (FREng) is a Chair Professor at Imperial College London, UK. Before joining Imperial in 2020, he was a Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, for 20 years and a Principal Technical Staff Member with AT&T Labs – Research (previous Bell Labs) in New Jersey, USA, for five years. He made fundamental contributions to orthogonal frequency division multiplexing for wireless communications, established a framework on resource cooperation in wireless networks, and introduced deep learning to communications. In these areas, he has published over 700 journal and conference papers in addition to over 40 granted patents. His publications have been cited over 72,000 times with an H-index of 125 according to Google Scholar. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science almost every year.
Dr. Geoffrey Ye Li was elected to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), IEEE Fellow, and IET Fellow for his contributions to signal processing for wireless communications. He won 2024 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award, 2019 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, and several awards from IEEE Signal Processing, Vehicular Technology, and Communications Societies.
Prof. Nei Kato, Fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan, IEEE Fellow
Tohoku University, Japan
Nei Kato is a full professor and the Dean with Graduate School of Information Sciences(GSIS) and was the Director(2015-2019) of Research Organization of Electrical Communication(ROEC) and the Strategic Adviser(2013) to the President, Tohoku University. He has been engaged in research on computer networking, wireless mobile communications, satellite communications, ad hoc & sensor & mesh networks, UAV networks, smart grid, AI, IoT, Big Data, and pattern recognition. He has published more than 500 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conferences(Google Scholar citation 28000, h-index 87). He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, the Fellow Committee Chair of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Chair of IEEE Communications Society Sendai Chapter, and the Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He served as the Vice-President (Membership & Global Activities) of IEEE Communications Society(2018-2021), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network Magazine (2015-2017), the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology(2017-2021), a Member-at-Large onthe Board of Governors, IEEE Communications Society(2014-2016), a Vice Chair of Fellow Committee of IEEE Computer Society(2016), and a member of IEEE Communications Society Award Committee (2015-2017). Nei Kato is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society and Vehicular Technology Society. He is a Fellow of The Engineering Academy of Japan, Fellow of IEEE, and Fellow of IEICE.
Prof. Abbas Jamalipour, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Australia, IEEE Fellow
The University of Sydney, Australia
Abbas Jamalipour is the Chair Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking at The University of Sydney and the Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan; and is a Fellow of the IEEE, IEICE, Engineers Australia, AIIA, and a Visiting Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He has authored nine technical books, eleven book chapters, over 650 technical papers, and five patents, all in the field of wireless communications. Dr. Jamalipour was the President (2020-21), Executive Vice-President (2018-19), and has been an elected voting member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society since 2014. Previously, he served as the Editor-in-Chief IEEE Wireless Communications, Vice President-Conferences, and a member of Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. He is on the editorial board of the IEEE Access, member of the Advisory Board of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and an editor for several other journals. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards such as the IEEE ComSoc Harold Sobol Award, the IEEE ComSoc Best Tutorial Paper Award, as well as over fifteen Best Paper Awards.
Prof. Ke Guan, Life Fellow RSA
Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Dr. Ke Guan is aFullProfessor at the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Rail Autonomous Operation and the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University.In 2024, he was elected aLife Fellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (Life FRSA).In 2016, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship. From February 2023 to July 2023, he was a Guest Professor at Technische Universitaet Wien, Austria. He is the major contributor of the clutter loss model in ITU-R P. 2108 and the THz channel model in IEEE 802.15.3d-2017. He has authored/coauthored two books and five book chapters, more than 200 journal and conference papers, and more than 20 patents. His current research interests include the digital twinning of electromagnetic environments in various complex scenarios based on ray-tracing and machine learning. His project TwinSWAN won the 2024 IET Excellence and Innovation Awards. His papers received 14 Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2019 and 2022. He is Beijing Jiaotong University's contact person for 3GPP and ETSI and a member of the IEEE VTS Propagation Committeeand theIEEE AP/S TC on Propagation and Scattering.