Prof. Aylin Yener - Fellow of IEEE

The Ohio State University, USA

Aylin Yener holds the Roy and Lois Chope Chair in Engineering at The Ohio State University since January 2020, and is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, with joint appointments in Computer Science and Engineering and in Integrated Systems Engineering. Her current focus areas relate to various pillars of next generation connectivity of computing, communicating and sensing entities (known as 6G) including smart environments, artificial intelligence and security/privacy. 

Yener is a fellow of the IEEE. She received the IEEE Communication Society Communication Theory Technical Achievement Award in 2020, the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2019, the IEEE Women in Communications Outstanding Achievement Award in 2018, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in 2014, and the IEEE ICC best paper award in 2010. In 2017, she was a Clariviate Analytics highly cited researcher. She has been a Distinguished Lecturer for three professional societies: IEEE Communication Society (2018-2019), IEEE Information Theory Society (2019-2021) and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2017-2021). She has delivered over fifty technical keynotes and invited lectures to in the last ten years. In 2022, she was elected to The Science Academy, Turkey.

Prof. Guan Gui - Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Guan Gui (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 2012.,From 2009 to 2014, he joined Tohoku University as a Research Assistant and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. From 2014 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with Akita Prefectural University, Akita, Japan. Since 2015, he has been a Professor with the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China. He has published more than 200 IEEE journals/conference papers. His recent research interests include intelligence sensing and recognition, intelligent signal processing, and physical layer security.,Dr. Gui contributions to intelligent signal analysis and wireless resource optimization have earned him the title of fellow of the IEEE, IET, and AAIA. He was a recipient of several Best Paper Awards, such as ICC 2017, ICC 2014, and VTC 2014-Spring. He received the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award in 2021, top 2% scientists of the world by Stanford University from 2021 to 2023, the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Cross-Field from 2021 to 2023, the Highly Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier from 2020 to 2023, a member and Global Activities Contributions Award in 2018, the Top Editor Award of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2019, the Outstanding Journal Service Award of KSII Transactions on Internet and Information System in 2020, the Exemplary Reviewer Award of IEEE Communications Letters in 2017, the 2012 Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowships for Foreign Researchers, and the 2018 Japan Society for Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Fellowships for Overseas Researchers. He was also selected as the Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professor in 2016, the Jiangsu High-Level Innovation and Entrepreneurial Talent in 2016, and the Jiangsu Six Top Talent in 2018. Since 2022, he has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is serving or served on the editorial boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Physical Communication, Wireless Networks, IEEE Access, Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers, Security and Communication Networks, IEICE Communications Express, and KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, and Journal on Communications. In addition, he served as the IEEE VTS Ad Hoc Committee Member in AI Wireless; the Executive Chair of IEEE ICCT 2023; the Workshop Chair of LANTINCOM2023; the TPC Chair of PRAI 2022, ICGIP 2022, PHM 2021, and WiMob 2020; the Executive Chair of VTC 2021-Fall; the Vice Chair of WCNC 2021; the Symposium Chair of WCSP 2021; the General Co-Chair of Mobimedia 2020; the Track Chairs of EuCNC 2021 and 2022, and VTC 2020 Spring; the Award Chair of PIMRC 2019; and a TPC Member of many IEEE international conferences, such as GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, PIRMC, VTC, and SPAWC.

Prof. Yonghui Li - Fellow of IEEE

The University of Sydney, Australia

Yonghui Li received his PhD degree in November 2002. Since 2003, he has been with the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, the University of Sydney, Australia. Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of theAustralian Research Council (ARC)Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008 and ARC Future Fellowship in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to cooperative communications technologies.

Prof. Nor Badrul Anuar

University of Malaya, Malaysia

Nor Badrul Anuar began his academic journey at Universiti Malaya, earning his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He obtained his PhD at the Centre for Information Security & Network Research, University of Plymouth, UK 2012. After joining Universiti Malaya as a tutor in 2001, he was promoted to lecturer in 2003, senior lecturer in 2008, and associate professor in 2017. In 2022, he was promoted to full professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. In addition, he is also serving as a visiting professor at the Institute of Informatics and Computing in Energy (IICE), Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia.

His research interests are intrusion detection systems, high-speed networks, and management information systems. Specifically, he focuses on intrusion detection systems, intrusion response systems, security events and management, digital forensic and network security, switching, routing, IPv6, and multicast. His current research explores network traffic classification and its applications and the role of federated learning in enhancing network security. He has published extensively on computer security and applications, with his work being featured in academic journals both domestically and internationally. As of January 2023, his 152 published papers have attracted 7,670 citations and obtained an H-index of 41, making him a highly cited scholar. He is recognised as an expert in several subject categories, including computer science, engineering, science & technology - other topics, telecommunications, and information science & library science, by Web of Science. In 2022, Stanford University recognised him as one of the world's top 2% scientists. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of two journals, including the Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), which has an impact factor of 7.574.