Keynote Speakers

Prof. Honggang Wang (IEEE Fellow)
Yeshiva University, USA

Dr. Honggang Wang is the founding Chair and Professor of Department of Gradaute Computer Science, Katz School of Science and Health, Yeshiva University in New York City. He was a professor and the “Scholar of The Year” (2016) at UMass Dartmouth (UMassD). He was early promoted to full professor at UMassD in 2020. He is an alumnus of NAE Frontiers of Engineering program. He has graduated 30 MS/Ph.D. students and produced high-quality publications in prestigious journals and conferences in his research areas, winning several prestigious best paper awards. His research interests include Internet of Things and its applications in health and transportation (e.g., autonomous vehicles) domains, Machine Learning and Big Data, Multimedia and Cyber Security, Smart and Connected Health, Wireless Networks and Multimedia Communications. He is an IEEE distinguished lecturer and a Fellow of IEEE and AAIA. He has also been serving as the Editor in Chief (EiC) for IEEE Internet of Things Journal (5 Year Impact Factor: 11.7) since 2020. He was the past Chair (2018-2020) of IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee and is the IEEE eHealth Technical Committee Chair (2020-2021).
 

 

Prof. LEE Kwok On Matthew
City University of Hong Kong, China


Professor Matthew K. O. Lee is Chair Professor of Information Systems & E-Commerce at the City University of Hong Kong (CityU). Professor Lee holds a first-class honors bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering, an MSc in software engineering, a Ph.D. in computer science, an MBA, and two law degrees. He is the recipient of several prestigious University scholarships and prizes, including an IEE Prize and a College Scholarship from Oxford University where he read for one of his degrees.
Professor Lee has a research and professional interest in IT-based innovation adoption and diffusion, knowledge management, electronic commerce, online social networks, online addiction, and the development of digital competence. He was Chairman of the Hong Kong Committee for Pacific Economic Cooperation (HKCPEC) advising the HKSAR Government on relevant APEC-related economic and cooperation matters (2016-2022), and he is currently a council member of the Hong Kong Productivity Council.
Professor Lee has published over one hundred refereed articles in leading international journals, conference proceedings, and research textbooks. His research has generated substantial impact as witnessed by his strong citation record. According to the “H-Index for Management Information Systems” published by the University of Arizona in May 2022, Prof Lee ranks in the top 3 in Asia as an MIS professor. He is ranked among the top 2% of scientists in his field since 2020, according to annual reports and data metrics published by Stanford University. Professor Lee is a recipient of the Research.com Business and Management in China Leader Award, being ranked as one of the top 10 best scientists in the field of business and management in China.
(Google Scholar Citations: 32649; H-Index: 77 - as of 16 June 2023)
 

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Prof. Ender Ayanoglu (IEEE Fellow)
University of California, USA


Ender Ayanoglu received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA in 1986 in electrical engineering. He was with the Communications Systems Research Laboratory, Holmdel, NJ, part of AT&T Bell Laboratories until 1996, and Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies from 1996 until 1999. During 1999-2002, he was a Systems Architect at Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA. Since 2002, he has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, where he served as the Director of the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing and held the Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair during 2002-2010. His past accomplishments include invention of the 56K modems, characterization of wavelength conversion gain in Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) systems, and diversity coding. 56K modems broke what was believed to be the "Shannon limit" of about 36 kb/s for voiceband modems. Since every laptop computer includes one, the number of implementations of 56K modems is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions or even billions. His work on wavelength conversion gain in WDM networks showed large gains can be achieved via better wavelength selection and routing algorithms without the need for optical wavelength converters. And, diversity coding is a technique for link failure recovery in communication networks employing erasure coding introduced in 1990, prior to the publication of the first papers on network coding. During 2000-2001, Dr. Ayanoglu served as the founding chair of the IEEE-ISTO Broadband Wireless Internet Forum (BWIF), an industry standards organization which developed and built a broadband wireless system employing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and a Medium Access Control (MAC) algorithm that provides Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees. This system is the precursor of today's Fourth Generation (4G) and Fifth Generation (5G) cellular wireless systems. From 1990 to 2002, Dr. Ayanoglu served on the Executive Committee of the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Committee, and from 1999 to 2001, was its Chair. From 1993 until 2014 he was an Editor, and since January 2014 is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications from 2004 to 2008. Since December 2014, he is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications - Series on Green Communications and Networking. He led the efforts to convert this series into an IEEE journal, and from June 2016 until June 2020, he served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the new journal IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. Dr. Ayanoglu is the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in 1995 and the IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 1997. He received the IEEE Communications Society Communication Theory Technical Committee Outstanding Service Award in 2014. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 1998. He is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer from January 2022 until January 2024.

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