Keynote Speaker
Professor (Kit) Kai-Kit Wong
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
University College London,
UK
Biography: Kai-Kit Wong received the BEng, the MPhil, and the PhD degrees, all in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 1996, 1998, and 2001, respectively. His PhD thesis was on multiuser MIMO wireless communications, supervised by Professor Ross Murch (Primary Supervisor) and Professor Khaled Ben Letaief (Co-Supervisor). After graduation, he joined the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant Professor, working closely with Professor Tung-Sang Ng. From July 2003 to December 2003, he visited the Wireless Communications Research Department of Lucent Technologies, Bell-Labs, Holmdel, NJ, U.S., to study the optimization in broadcast MIMO channels, under the supervision of Dr. G. J. Foschini and Dr. R. Valenzuela. After that, he then joined the Smart Antennas Research Group of Stanford University as Visiting Assistant Professor conducting research on overloaded MIMO signal processing, under the supervision of Professor Arogyaswami Paulraj. From 2005 to August 2006, he was with the Department of Engineering, the University of Hull, U.K., as Communications Lecturer. Since August 2006, he has been with University College London, first at Adastral Park Campus and at present the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, where he is Professor of Wireless Communications.
Prof. Arumugam Nallanathan
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
Queen Mary University of London, UK
Biography: Arumugam
Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless
Communications and the founding head
of the Communication Systems
Research (CSR) group in the School
of Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science at Queen Mary
University of London since September
2017. He was with the Department of
Informatics at King’s College London
from December 2007 to August 2017,
where he was Professor of Wireless
Communications from April 2013 to
August 2017. He was an Assistant
Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
National University of Singapore
from August 2000 to December 2007.
His research interests include 6G
Wireless Networks, Internet of
Things (IoT) and Molecular
Communications. He published more
than 500 technical papers in
scientific journals and
international conferences. He is a
co-recipient of the Best Paper
Awards presented at the IEEE
International Conference on
Communications 2016 (ICC’2016), IEEE
Global Communications Conference
2017 (GLOBECOM’2017) and IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conference 2017
(VTC’2017). He is an Editor-at-Large
for IEEE Transactions on
Communications and a senior editor
for IEEE Wireless Communications
Letters. He was an Editor for IEEE
Transactions on Wireless
Communications (2006-2011), IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology
(2006-2017), IEEE Signal Processing
Letters and a Guest Editor for IEEE
Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications (JSAC). He served as
the Chair for the Signal Processing
and Computing for Communications
(SPCC-TC) of IEEE Communications
Society and Technical Program Chair
and member of Technical Program
Committees in numerous IEEE
conferences. He received the IEEE
Communications Society SPCE
outstanding service award 2012 and
IEEE Communications Society RCC
outstanding service award 2014. He
has been selected as a Web of
Science (ISI) Highly Cited
Researcher in 2016. He is an IEEE
Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
Prof. Chip-Hong Chang
IEEE Fellow
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography: Chip-Hong Chang received the B.Eng. degree (Hons.) from the National University of Singapore in 1989, and the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 1993 and 1998, respectively.,He held joint appointments with NTU as the Assistant Chair of Alumni from 2008 to 2014, the Deputy Director of the Center for High Performance Embedded Systems from 2000 to 2011, and the Program Director of the Center for Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2003 to 2009. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), NTU. He has coedited five books, published 13 book chapters, more than 100 international journal articles (more than 70 are IEEE) and more than 180 refereed international conference papers (mostly in IEEE), and delivered over 50 keynotes, tutorials, and invited seminars. His current research interests include hardware security, unconventional number systems, and low-power and fault-tolerant digital signal processing algorithms and architectures. He is an IET Fellow. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Transactions on Computer–Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2016 to 2019, IEEE Access from 2013 to 2019, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems— I: Regular Papers from 2010 to 2013, Integration, the VLSI Journal from 2013 to 2015, Journal of Hardware and System Security (Springer) from 2016 to 2020, and Microelectronics Journal from 2014 to 2020. He currently serves as a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems—I: Regular Papers and IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems. He guest edited around ten special issues and served in the organizing and technical program committee of more than 60 international conferences (mostly IEEE). He is a 2018–2019 Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.