Chapter Chairs

Dr. Xianbin Wang (S’98-M’99-SM’06-F’17) is a Professor and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair at Western University, Canada. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from National University of Singapore in 2001.

Prior to joining Western, he was with Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) as a Research Scientist/Senior Research Scientist between July 2002 and Dec. 2007. From Jan. 2001 to July 2002, he was a system designer at STMicroelectronics.  His current research interests include 5G and beyond, Internet-of-Things, communications security, machine learning and intelligent communications. Dr. Wang has over 400 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, in addition to 30 granted and pending patents and several standard contributions.

Dr. Wang is a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada, a Fellow of IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He has received many awards and recognitions, including Canada Research Chair, CRC President’s Excellence Award, Canadian Federal Government Public Service Award, Ontario Early Researcher Award and six IEEE Best Paper Awards. He currently serves as an Editor/Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was also an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications between 2007 and 2011, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters between 2011 and 2016. He was involved in many IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, PIMRC, WCNC and CWIT, in different roles such as symposium chair, tutorial instructor, track chair, session chair and TPC co-chair. Dr. Wang is currently serving as the Chair of ComSoc SPCE Technical Committee.

Dr Jianping Chen is a veteran ICT player with over 20 years of experiences in a wide range of area in electrical and computer engineering. He has been with various kinds of organizations including research institutes, higher education, industrial organizations, telco, startups and etc. In positions of CTO, Senior Manager, R&D Lead, and Senior Scientist, he has directed numerous R&D projects to success.

He is currently a Senior R&D Manager with Singapore Telecommunications Ltd and takes care of the R&D work addressing cyber security for Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT). He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as the chairman of BTS Singapore Chapter.   

Dr Chen received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National University of Singapore in 2003, a MEng degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering jointly awarded by Xiamen University and Tsinghua University in 1999, and a BEng degree in Control Theory from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1993, respectively.

Dr. Nagaraj Balakrishnan is working as a Professor, Dean-Student Affairs, Head-Karpagam Innovation Centre and Karpagam Skill Development Centre at Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India. A thorough professional with a rich mixture of over 10 years of Teaching experience and over 7 years of industry exposure, raring to excel in the field of education and ambitious to create a bright, multi-talented, strong younger generation. He received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Anna University, and Karpagam University in 2004 and 2012, respectively. In 2005, he joined a Lecturer in Kamaraj College of Engineering, India and he worked there for 12 years in various positions. His technical expertise and research interests include a control system, Automation, soft computing, and high-speed signal processing. He won the Best IEEE Student Branch Counselor Award from IEEE Madras Section, Won the Best Paper Award in KURAC-2010, Best Researcher Award-2012 Karunya University, Coimbatore, Best Teacher Award-2012 Karunya University,  Best Innovator Award –TNPL-2012, Organized More than 8 International conference, Organized more than 40 National level workshops, Received the Seminar Grant from DRDO and IEEE, Executive Committee Member of IEEE Young Professional Programme, Madras Section, Reviewer in 12 International Peer-reviewed Journals. Organized three world record events and among them one was awarded by LIMCA BOOK OF RECORDS. Published seven books on various engineering topics, which is referred by most of the Tamil Nadu engineering students. He is the author and a co-author of more than 50-refereed publications in journals and conferences. He filed about 12 patents, which is published in Indian, Patent Journal. He is a member of various professional bodies like IEEE, SEEE, MAENG, IACSIT, ISTE, and IETE. He was a guest editor for different reputed journals like Elsevier, Wiley, Inderscience etc., and he has been the Guest Editor for few special issues in Hindawi, Elsevier, Inderscience, Springer,etc.,

Sung-Ik Park (A’07-M’08-SM’13) received the BSEE from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2000, the MSEE from POSTECH, Pohang, Korea in 2002, and the Ph.D. degree from Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea in 2011. Since 2002, he has been with the broadcasting research department at Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI), where he is in charge of research, standardization, implementation & field test for terrestrial DTV system. His research interests are in the areas of error correction codes and digital communications, in particular, signal processing for digital television. In this area, he has successfully developed ATSC 1.0/3.0 transmitter and receiver, on-channel repeater, distributed translator, augmented data transmission system, layered division multiplexing (LDM) system etc. Dr. Park has around 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, and multiple best paper and contribution awards for his work on broadcasting/communication areas. Dr. Park currently serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and ETRI Journal, and distinguished lecturer of IEEE Broadcasting Technology Society.