Prof. Kun Yang

Member of Academia Europaea, IEEE Fellow

Nanjing University, China

He received his Doctor of Engineering degree from the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London (UCL), and his master' s and bachelor' s degrees from Jilin University. Currently, he is a National Distinguished Professor at the School of Intelligent Software and Engineering, Nanjing University, Dean of the Institute for NINE, and a dual-appointed doctoral supervisor in both Computer Science and Communication Engineering disciplines.

He has led multiple scientific research projects, including 4 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 1 key research and development project of the Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as the Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Innovation Top Talents Program, Jiangsu Province Basic Research Key Project, Suzhou Innovation Team Project, and projects from top enterprises. He has also directed nearly 20 projects funded by the European Union, the UK’s National Research Councils (e.g., EPSRC), and industrial partners, including serving as the Principal Scientist for the EU FP7 project EVANS. His primary research interests include wireless networks and mobile communications, communication, sensing and computation integrated technologies, and intrinsic intelligence in communication networks. He has published over 500 papers in international core journals and major conferences, obtained more than 50 authorized international and Chinese patents, and his Google Scholar citations exceed 15,000. He is a founding member and one of six Executive Committee Members of IEEE InterCloud, a Judge for the WMC GLOMO Award (a renowned “Barcelona Award”), and an Associate Editor for multiple IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE WCM, TNSE, TVT, TNB) and the IET Smart Cities journal. He served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2020-2021) and acted as a reviewer for multiple national fund projects and talent programs (including China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Education, and National Natural Science Foundation of China). He has received a provincial-level First Prize in Science and Technology and multiple Best Paper Awards at IEEE major conferences. In 2024, he was awarded the IET Achievement Medal and the IEEE CommSoft Technical Committee’s Technical Achievement Award.

Prof. Guangjie Han

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow

Hohai University, China

Guangjie Han is a professor, currently serving as the Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering at Hohai University. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET/IEE Fellow, and AAIA Fellow. His main research interests include smart oceans, industrial IoT, artificial intelligence, networks, and security. In recent years, he has published more than 300 high-level SCI journal papers, including over 160 papers in the IEEE/ACM Trans. series, in international journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, and IEEE TCC. His publications have been cited over 25000 times on Google Scholar, with an H-index of 83. He has authored three monographs and translated one book. He has led more than 30 provincial and ministerial-level research projects, including national key R&D programs and national natural science foundation key projects. He has been granted 130 national invention patents and 6 PCT international authorized patents. He has received numerous awards, including the second prize of the China Business Federation Science and Technology Award, the third prize of the Jiangsu Provincial Science and Technology Award, the second prize of the Liaoning Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Systems Journal in 2020. For seven consecutive years (2019-2025), he has been listed as one of the top 2% of scientists globally, as well as for the Chinese Highly Cited Researchers list for six consecutive years (2020-2025). Currently, he serves as an associate editor for more than ten international journals, including IEEE TII, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TVT and IEEE Systems.