Keynote Speakers
Prof. Yang Xiao, University of Alabama, USA
IEEE FELLOW
Dr. Xiao is a Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. He directed 20+ doctoral dissertations; supervised 20+ M.S. theses/projects; published 300+ SCI-indexed journal papers and over 300+ conference papers with 31K+ citations and h-index=88 by Google Scholar; His research had been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Army Research, Fleet & Industrial Supply Center San Diego (FISCSD), the University of Alabama’s Research Grants Committee, etc. He was a Voting Member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004, involved in the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standardization work. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, AIIA, and ACIS. He served as a Guest Editor 40+ times for journals, including the IEEE TCYB in 2025, the IEEE JSAC in 2022-2023, IEEE TNSE in 2021, IEEE TGCN in 2021, IEEE Network in 2007 and 2024, IEEE Wireless Communications in 2006 and 2021, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine in 2021 and 2024, and MONET in 2008. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor for 20+ journals, including IEEE TNSE since 2022, IEEE TYB since 2020, IEEE TMSC: SYSTEMS from 2014 to 2015, IEEE TVT from 2007 to 2009, and IEEE COMST from 2007 to 2014. He serves/served as a TPC for 300+ conferences. He received the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award in 2022 and 2023.
Prof. Xiaohu Tang Southwest Jiaotong University
IEEE FELLOW
Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Southwest Jiaotong University. Selected for the National High-level Talents Program. In 2003, he received the National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award. In recent years, he has been awarded the Second Prize of the Ministry of Education’s Natural Science Award and has led multiple national and provincial-level research projects, including National Natural Science Foundation Key Projects and major projects of the Ministry of Education. He has published over 100 SCI-indexed papers in important international journals, including more than 50 papers in the flagship journal of the information theory field, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
He has made fundamental and systematic contributions in the field of coding theory: he pioneered the new field of low/zero correlation zone (LCZ/ZCZ) sequence design, and is one of the originators of the LCZ/ZCZ sequence concept, establishing a comprehensive theoretical framework. The theory named after him has become the internationally recognized standard for evaluating the performance of such sequences. Low/zero correlation zone sequences have now been incorporated into the global LTE standard.