Keynote Speakers
Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi, IEEE Life Fellow,
Tohoku University, Japan
Fumiyuki Adachi (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and Dr. Eng.
degrees in electrical B engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai,
Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the
Electrical Communications Laboratories with Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone (NTT), Tokyo, Japan, and conducted research on digital
cellular mobile communications. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was
with NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, where he led a Research Group on
wideband/broadband wireless access for 3G and beyond. Since January
2000, he has been with Tohoku University. He is currently leading a
Resilient Wireless Communication Research Group with the International
Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, towards the
development of beyond 5G systems. His research interests include the
area of wireless signal processing and networking, multi-access,
equalization, antenna diversity, adaptive transmission, channel coding,
radio resource management. Dr. Adachi was the recipient of IEEE VTS
Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, Thomson Scientific
Research Front Award
Prof. Gang Zhou, IEEE Fellow
William & Mary, USA
Dr. Gang Zhou is a professor of computer science at William & Mary,
where he previously served as the Graduate Program Director from 2015 to
2017. He is an IEEE Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, a co-Editor-In-Chief of ACM
Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, and a co-Area-Editor of IEEE
Internet of Things Journal. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the
University of Virginia in 2007. His research interests encompass a range
of cutting-edge topics, including wearables & sensor systems, smart
health, internet of things, wireless, ubiquitous & mobile computing.
Dr. Zhou has served as a Steering Committee member (2018-present),
General Chair (2019), and TPC Chair (2018 and 2024) of
CHASE---ACM/IEEE’s premier conference on Connected Health: Applications,
Systems and Engineering Technologies. He has also been recognized with
several prestigious awards, including the NSF CAREER Award in 2013, the
Best Paper Award from IEEE Internet Computing in 2020, and the Best
Paper Award from IEEE ICNP in 2010.
Prof. Ainuddin Wahid Bin Abdul Wahab
University of Malaya, Malaysia