Prof. Pingyi Fan

Tsinghua University, China

Biography:

Dr. Pingyi Fan is a professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University. He received his Ph.D. degree at the Department of Electronic Engineering of Tsinghua University in 1994. From 1997 to 1999, he visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the University of Delaware in the United States. He also visited many universities and research institutes in the United States, Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He has obtained many research grants, including the national 973 Project, 863 Project, the mobile special project and the key R&D program, national natural funds, and international cooperation projects. He has published more than 190 SCI papers (more than 130 IEEE journals), and 4 academic books. He also applied for more than 30 national invention patents, and 5 international patents. He won seven best paper awards from international conferences, including IEEE ICC2020 and Globecom 2014, and received the best paper award from IEEE TAOS Technical Committee in 2020, the excellent editor award of IEEE TWC (2009), etc. He has served as the editorial board member of several Journals, including IEEE and MDPI. He is currently the editorial board member of the Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences, the deputy director of China Information Theory Society, the co-chair of China's 6G-ANA TG4, and the chairman of the Network and Communication Technology Committee of IEEE ChinaSIP. His current research interests are in 6G wireless communication networks and machine learning, semantic information theory and generalized information theory, big data processing theory, intelligent network and system detection, etc.

Prof. Pascal LORENZ

University of Haute Alsace, France

Biography:

Pascal Lorenz (lorenz@ieee.org) received his M.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Nancy, France. Between 1990 and 1995, he was a research engineer at WorldFIP Europe and Alcatel-Alsthom. He has been a professor at the University of Haute-Alsace, France, since 1995. His research interests include QoS, wireless networks, and high-speed networks. He is the author/co-author of 3 books, 3 patents, and 200 international publications in refereed journals and conferences. He was Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine Editorial Board (2000-2006), IEEE Networks Magazine since 2015, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2017, Chair of IEEE ComSoc France (2014-2020), Financial chair of IEEE France (2017-2022), Chair of Vertical Issues in Communication Systems Technical Committee Cluster (2008-2009), Chair of the Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2003-2009), Chair of the Communications Software Technical Committee (2008-2010) and Chair of the Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and Networking (2016-2017), Chair of IEEE/ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Finance Committee (2022-2023), IEEE R8 Conference Coordination Committee (2023). He has served as Co-Program Chair of IEEE WCNC'2012 and ICC'2004, Executive Vice-Chair of ICC'2017, TPC Vice Chair of Globecom'2018, Panel sessions co-chair for Globecom'16, tutorial chair of VTC'2013 Spring and WCNC'2010, track chair of PIMRC'2012 and WCNC'2014, symposium Co-Chair at Globecom 2007-2011, Globecom'2019, ICC 2008-2010, ICC'2014 and '2016. He has served as Co-Guest Editor for special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Networks Magazine, Wireless Communications Magazine, Telecommunications Systems, and LNCS. He is an associate Editor for International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS-Wiley), Journal on Security and Communication Networks (SCN-Wiley) and International Journal of Business Data Communications and Networking, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA-Elsevier). He is a senior member of the IEEE, an IARIA fellow and a member of many international program committees. He has organized many conferences, chaired several technical sessions and given tutorials at major international conferences. He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer Tour during 2013-2014.

Prof. Jinsong Wu

University of Chile, Chile

Biography:

Jinsong Wu was the leading Editor and a co-author of the comprehensive book, entitled “Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications”, published by CRC Press in September 2012. His co-authored paper, "Big Data Meet Green Challenges: Big Data Toward Green Applications", has won the 2017 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Award. He also has received three best paper awards for IEEE conference papers. He is elected Vice Chair of Technical Activities, IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI), a pan-IEEE effort under IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) across 25 IEEE Societies, Councils, and Organization Units (OU). He is the founder and current Chair of the Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC). He is also the co-founder and Vice-Chair of the Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD). He was the very first proposer of IEEE Green Journals/Transactions (2012). He is the founder and Series Editor of Green Communication and Computing Networks of the IEEE Communications Magazine. He is an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was an Editor of the IEEE J. Select. Areas on Communications (JSAC) Series on Green Communications and Networking, Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Associate Editor of IEEE Systems Journal, Associate Editor of IEEE Access. He was one of the key proposers and a long-term promotor from Green Track to a full green symposium in flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society. He opened Big Data Track with general and wide topic coverage in the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society, starting at IEEE Globecom 2016. He was Symposium Co-Chair and Track Vice-Chair on Green Communication Systems and Networks of the Selected Areas in Communications Symposium, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He was the leading General Chair at 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications. He was the Technical Program Committee Chair of the IEEE Online Conference on Green Communications in both 2012 and 2013. He was Track Co-Chair on Green Communications and Networks, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2014 Fall and 2017 Fall. He is the Technical Program Committee Co-Chair in the first IEEE Environmental Engineering Conference, which is the flagship conference of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative.

Prof. Parikshit N. Mahalle

Senior Member IEEE, Member ACM

Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune

Biography:

Dr. Parikshit Narendra Mahalle has been working as a Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, at Vishwakarma Institute of Information Technology, Pune since 1st July, 2021. Dr. Parikshit N. Mahalle obtained his B.E degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati, India and M.E. degree in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. He completed his Ph. D in Computer Science and Engineering specialization in Wireless Communication from Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark. He has more than 19 years of experience in education and research.