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, 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.