Peiyan Yuan, PhD, Henan Normal University, China
Peiyan Yuan received the B.S., the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, China, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, and Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, respectively, all in computer science. He is a professor of Computer Science, Henan Normal University. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. His research interests include future networks and distributed systems, and he authored or coauthored more than sixty papers and two books in these fields. He won the first national scholarship for Ph. D students from Ministry of Education of the P. R. China in 2012, and he received two Best Paper Awards from IEEE CSE in 2014 and CCF NCSC in 2022, respectively. He is a senior member of IEEE and CCF, and a member of ACM.
Tarik Taleb, PhD, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Tarik Taleb received the B.E. degree (with distinction) in information engineering and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in information sciences from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. He was a Professor with the Center of Wireless Communications (CWC), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He is the founder of ICTFICIAL Oy, and the founder and the Director of the MOSA!C Lab, Espoo, Finland. From October 2014 to December 2021, he was an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. Prior to that, he was working as a Senior Researcher and a 3GPP Standards Expert with NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany. Before joining NEC and till March 2009, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, in a lab fully funded by KDDI. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Research Fellow with the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai. He has been directly engaged in the development and standardization of the Evolved Packet System as a member of the 3GPP System Architecture Working Group. His current research interests include AI-based network management, architectural enhancements to mobile core networks, network softwarization and slicing, mobile cloud networking, SDN/NFV, software-defined security, and mobile multimedia streaming.
Chenyang Wang, PhD, Shenzhen University, China
Chenyang Wang is currently a postal researcher in the College of Computer and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University, Guangdong, China, and he holds his PhD degree from the School of Computer Science and Technology, College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. He also worked as a visiting researcher at the Aalto University in Finland. His research interests include large models, edge intelligence, and deep learning. He received the Best Student Paper Award of the 24th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems by IEEE Computer Society in 2018. He also received the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2021. In 2022, he received the ``IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award".
Chuan Sun, PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chuan Sun received the B.S. degree from Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2017, his Ph.D. degree from the School of Big Data and Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China, in 2023. He is currently a research fellow at the College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore. His current research interests include federated learning, reinforcement learning, and mobile edge computing. He has published more than 20 journal/conference papers in IEEE JSAC, TSC, IEEE Network, ICPADS and so on.
Xiaoqiang Zhu, PhD, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
Xiaoqiang Zhu received the Ph.D. degree in software engineering from Tianjin University, China, in 2022, and the M.S. degree in computer science from Dalian University of Technology, China, in 2018. He served as a joint Ph.D. student at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, supported by the China Scholarship Council in 2021. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) with the School of Software Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China. He has published scientific papers in international journals, such as IEEE COMST, TMC, TNSE, etc., and his research interests include the Internet of Things, machine learning, and privacy protection.
Xiaoyan Zhao, PhD, Henan Normal University, China
Xiaoyan Zhao is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Henan Normal University since 2015. She received the Ph.D. degree in Communication and Information System at the National Digital Switching System Engineering and Technological Center in 2018 and the M.S. degree in Communication and Information System from Wuhan University, China, in 2006, and B.S. degree in Electronic Science and Technology from Zhengzhou University, China, in 2003. She also worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Ottawa in Canada. She has published scientific papers in international journals and conferences, such as IoT, IEEE TVT, ICDCS, etc., and her research interests are in the sub-areas of Internet of Things, edge computing, and edge semantic communication.
