Chapter Chairs

Valentino Trainotti was born in Trento, Italy, in 1935. He received the Electronic Engineering Degree from the Universidad Tecnologica Nacional, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1963. His post-graduate coursework on Antenna Measurements and Geometric Theory of Diffraction was completed at California State University in 1981 and Ohio State University in 1985. He has worked from 1963 to 2003 at CITEFA as the Antenna \& Propagation Division Chief Engineer.  He is an IEEE Life Fellow, and Member of the IEEE Ad-Com BTS Society from 1999 to 2006,  and from 2010 to 2015. IEEE BTS Argentina Chapter Chair and IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility and Antenna and Propagation  Joint Chapter Secretary,  URSI Commission B Argentina Chair, and  1993 IEEE Region 9 Eminent Engineer. He received the  IEEE BTS Jules Cohen Award in December 2021.

Dr. Xianbin Wang (Fellow, IEEE) 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 the 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/6G technologies, Internet-of-Things, communications security, machine learning and intelligent communications. Dr. Wang has over 500 highly cited 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 prestigious awards and recognitions, including IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Award, Canada Research Chair, Engineering Research Excellence Award at Western, CRC President’s Excellence Award, Canadian Federal Government Public Service Award, Ontario Early Researcher Award and six IEEE Best Paper Awards. He currently serves/has served as an Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor-in-Chief, Editor/Associate Editor for over 10 journals. He was involved in many IEEE conferences including GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, PIMRC, WCNC, CCECE and CWIT, in different roles such as general chair, symposium chair, tutorial instructor, track chair, session chair, TPC co-chair and keynote speaker. He has been nominated as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer several times during the last ten years. Dr. Wang was the Chair of IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications (SPCC) Technical Committee and is currently serving as the Chair of IEEE London Section.

 

Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Bedfordshire, UK E-mail:Êezzyariwa@yahoo.co.uk, ezendu.ariwa@beds.ac.uk Brief Bio:Ê Professor Ezendu Ariwa holds the position of Professor at University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Department of Computer Science & Technology, with speciality in Practice in Computing. He is also a Visiting Professor at Gulf University, Bahrain, Visiting Professor, University of Lagos, Nigeria, Visiting Professor, IAMTECH, Sierra Leone and Visiting Professor, Kano State Polytechnics, Nigeria as well as Visiting Affiliate of the Green IT Observatory, RIMT University, Australia and Visiting Affiliate of ICT University, USA. He also holds the position of Director - Technical and Non-Executive Director and Research Professor for Enterprise Projects at Sun Bio IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, India. He is also the Chair for the IEEE Consumer Electronics Chapter, United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland (UKRI) and Chair for the IEEE Broadcast Technology Chapter, UKRI. He is a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (SMIEE); Chartered FELLOW of the British Computer Society (CITP, FBCS), Fellow of the Institute of Information Technology Training (FIITT), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). He is also a member of the Elite Group of The British Computer Society (BCS), member of British Institute of Facilities Management and Fellow of Global Strategic Management, Inc., Michigan, USA and Member of the UK Council for Health Informatics. He is the Co-ordinator of the Digital Enterprise Research Group (DERG), African Research in Business Group (ARBG) and working with the team to achieve African Business and Enterprise Research Observatory (ABERO) at the London Metropolitan Business School. The ABERO achieved good collaboration with multicultural SMEs in the United Kingdom, with respect to mentoring and working on joint professional development enterprise programmes. He has experience of doctoral research supervision as well as doctoral external examiner for various Universities both in the UK and internationally. He has a good research profile and the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Green Computing (IJGC), Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems (IJCDS), Journal of E-Technology, and the Associate Editor of the International Journal of E-Politics and the Associate Editor of International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST). He is a member of Policy Co-ordination Committee of the International Research Foundation for Development (A Corporation of NGO in special Consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations). Professor Ezendu Ariwa is author of a number of books and more than 100 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also delivered keynote speeches at various international conferences

Dr Jianping Chen is an ICT veteran with over 15 years of professional experiences in OT, IIoT, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Control. In roles of CTO, Chief Analytics Architect, Analytics Director, Senior Manager, R&D Lead, Senior Scientist etc., Dr Chen has led many projects in a wide range of area in ICT to success. He is currently a Director of Analytics with an MNC and takes care of the company’s Advanced Analytics Business in APAC. Dr Chen received a PhD degree in Network Security and Information Security from the National University of Singapore, an MEng degree in Control Theory and Control Engineering jointly awarded by Xiamen University and Tsinghua University, and a BEng degree in Control Theory from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, respectively. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and serving as the Chairman of IEEE Broadcast Technology Society, Singapore Section.

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.,

Prof. Bo Ai （IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow）is the professor and doctoral supervisor of Beijing Jiaotong University. He is also the deputy director of the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety. Prof. Bo Ai has published 6 Chinese academic books, 3 English books, over 150 IEEE journal articles. He has obtained 13 international paper awards include IEEE VTS Neil Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Award and IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 Best Paper Award, 32cinvention patents; 23 proposals adopted by the ITU, 3GPP, etc., and 9 provincial and ministerial-level science and technology awards. His research results has been involved in 5 national standards. He is mainly engaged in the research and application of the theory and core technology of broadband mobile communication and rail transit dedicated mobile communication systems (GSM-R, LTE-R, 5G-R, LTE-M). Prof. Bo Ai is the Fellow of Chinese Institute of Electronics, Fellow of China Institute of Communications, Chair of IEEE BTS Xi'an Branch, IEEE VTS distinguished lecturer, am expert of the 5G Industry Expert Group of the China Mobile Group Technical Advisory Committee，and expert of the 6G Group in China.

Dr. Sung-Ik Park (IEEE Fellow) joined the Broadcasting System Research Group of Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) in 2002, and he is in charge of terrestrial broadcasting standardization, HW/SW implementations, and laboratory/field tests. Dr. Park is a principal member of the research staff and leading several ATSC 3.0-related research projects. His research interests are in the area of error correction codes and digital communications, in particular, signal processing for digital television. Dr. Park has more than 250 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications and various best paper and contribution awards for his work on broadcasting technologies. Dr. Park currently serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and ETRI Journal, and a distinguished lecturer of IEEE Broadcasting Technology Society.

Received his B. Eng and Ph.D degrees from Electrical Engineering Department, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1990 and 1995, respectively and worked for the same university upon his graduation. He then conducted the Postdoctoral research work in The Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Waterloo in Canada in 1996 and 1997, respectively. He has been with the Advance Development Group of Hughes Network Systems in USA before joining the faculty team of Tsinghua in 2005 as a full professor. Dr. Song is now the Director of DTV Technology R&D Center of Tsinghua University, one of the major technical contributors for the Chinese terrestrial transmission standard of digital TV. He is very active in the community, serving as General and TPC chairs for many international conferences, giving invited talks, and being as panelist. He is the Chairman of IEEE BTS Beijing Chapter since 2007, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, and EiC of IEEE Access for BTS. He also has strong tie with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), serving as the working party vice chair of ITU Study Group 6 and ITU Standards Representative for IEEE BTS. Dr. Song’s research interest is in the physical layer technology and has been working in different areas, such as optical, satellite, and wireless communications. His current research interest includes digital broadcasting, network convergence, powerline and visible light communications. Dr. Song has published more than 300 journal and conference papers, and holds two US and more than 80 Chinese patents.

Shuai Han (S’11–M’12–SM’17) is currently a full Professor at Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology. Shuai Han’s research interests include wireless communications security, satellite IoT and the global navigation satellite system. Over the academic career, his students and he have contributed in various fields in wireless networks and wireless positioning.

He has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers in major journals and conferences. His IEEE ICC2017 paper for wireless security was the candidate of best paper. As PI, he has more than twenty grants on wireless networks and positioning. He is an associate editor of IEEE China Communications, IEEE ACCESS, Journal of Communications and Information Networks(JCIN), Journal of Telemetry, Tracking and Command, Journal of Signal Processing. And has served as guest editors for many IEEE magazines and journals. He has served as a co-chair for technical symposia of international conference IEEE GC 2021, IEEE GC 2019, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE VTC FALL 2016. He has also served as the TPC Chair for some international conferences, including the AICON2019 and MLICOM2018. He is a member of 2020-2021 R10 Awards & Recognition Committee. Also he is senior member of IEEE Communication Society, Chair of IEEE BTS Chapter, Vice Chair of IEEE Harbin ComSoc Chapter and Vice Chair of IEEE Harbin VTS Chapter.