KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Keynote Title: Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communications: Living at the Interface of Electromagnetic and Communication Theories
Prof. Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore
RUI ZHANG (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. (First-Class Hons.) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the National University of Singapore, Singapore, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. From 2007 to 2009, he worked as a Researcher with the Institute for Infocomm Research, ASTAR, Singapore. In 2010, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, where he was appointed as a Provost’s Chair Professor in 2020. Since 2022, he has been with the School of Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, as a Principal’s Diligence Chair Professor. He has published over 300 journal papers and over 200 conference papers. He has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2015. His current research interests include UAV/satellite communications, wireless power transfer, intelligent reflecting surface, reconfigurable MIMO, radio mapping, and optimization methods. Dr. Zhang was the recipient of the Sixth IEEE Communications Society Asia–Pacific Region Best Young Researcher Award in 2011, the Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore in 2015, the Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2020, and the IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Recognition Award in 2020. He has received 14 IEEE Best Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2015 and 2020, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2016, the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award in 2017, 2020, and 2022, and the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2021. He has served for over 30 international conferences as the TPC co-chair or an organizing committee member. He has served as the Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Asia–Pacific Board Technical Affairs Committee from 2014 to 2015 and an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2012 to 2016, the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS: Green Communications and Networking Series from 2015 to 2016, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2013 to 2017, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING from 2016 to 2020, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS from 2017 to 2022, and a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS from 2018 to 2021. He was an Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee from 2012 to 2017 and SAM Technical Committee from 2013 to 2015. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society and IEEE Communications Society from 2019 to 2020. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.
Keynote Title: IRS/RIS Empowered Wireless Networks: Recent Advances and Future Trends?
Prof. Marco Di Renzo, Universit´e Paris-Saclay, France
Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) of Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. At Paris-Saclay University, he serves as the Coordinator of the Communications and Networks Research Area of the Laboratory of Excellence DigiCosme, as a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, and as a Member of the Evaluation Committee of the Graduate School in Computer Science. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he serves as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and AAIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he is a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York, USA, and was a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the 2023 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, and the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Heinrich Hertz Award. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters.
Keynote Title: Recent Advancement on RIS-aided Next Generation Wireless Communications
Prof. Shi Jin, Southeast University, China
Shi Jin received the B.S. degree in communications engineering from Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin, China, in 1996, the M.S. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China, in 2003, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communications engineering from the Southeast University, Nanjing, in 2007. From June 2007 to October 2009, he was a Research Fellow with the Adastral Park Research Campus, University College London, London, U.K. He is currently with the faculty of the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University. His research interests include space time wireless communications, random matrix theory, and information theory. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters, and IET Communications. Dr. Jin and his co-authors have been awarded the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in the field of communication theory and a 2010 Young Author Best Paper Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
