Chapter Chairs

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.

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.

Chih-Peng Li received the B.S. degree in Physics from National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu, Taiwan, in June 1989 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, in December 1997. From 1998 to 2000, Dr. Li was a Member of Technical Staff with Lucent Technologies. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Manager of Acer Mobile Networks. Since 2002, he has been with National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, where he is currently a Distinguished Professor of the Institute of Communications Engineering. Dr. Li has served various positions with NSYSU, including the Chairman of Electrical Engineering Department, the VP of General Affairs, the Dean of Engineering College, and the VP of Academic Affairs. His research interests include wireless communications, baseband signal processing, and data networks. He is now the Director General with the Engineering and Technologies Department, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan.

Dr. Li is currently the Chapter Chair of IEEE Broadcasting Technology Society Tainan Section. Dr. Li has also served as the Chapter Chair of IEEE Communication Society Tainan Section, the President of Taiwan Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, the Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, the General Chair of 2020 Taiwan Telecommunications Annual Symposium, the General Co-Chair of 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, the General Chair of 2014 IEEE 11th VTS Asia Pacific Wireless Communications Symposium, and the Member of Board of Governors with IEEE Tainan Section. Dr. Li has received various awards, including the Outstanding Research Award of Ministry of Science and Technology. Dr. Li is a Fellow of the IEEE.

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.,

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.

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.