IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference
10–13 April 2022 // Austin, TX, USA
Boosting Verticals into Wireless Orbit

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Organizers’ Bios

General Co-chairs:

Marco Di Renzo, CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University, France (marco.direnzo@centralesupelec.fr)

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) was born in L’Aquila, Italy, in 1978. He received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud, France, in 2013. Since 2010, he has been with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), where he is a CNRS Research Director (CNRS Professor) in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) of ParisSaclay University– CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. He served an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and as the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Communications Society. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2016 MSCA Global Fellowship (declined), the 2017 SEE-IEEE Alain Glavieux Award, the 2018 IEEE-COMSOC Young Professional in Academia Award. He is a Highly Cited Researcher according to Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Yonghui Li, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, NW, Australia (yonghui.li@sydney.edu.au)

Yonghui Li (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, in November 2002. From 1999 to 2003, he was affiliated with LinkAir Communication, Inc., where he held a position of Project Manager with responsibility for the design of physical-layer solutions for the LAS-CDMA system. Since 2003, he has been with the Centre of Excellence in Telecommunications, The University of Sydney, Australia. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney. His current research interests include wireless communications, especially on MIMO, millimeter wave communications, machine to machine communications, coding techniques, and cooperative communications. He received the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, the IEEE PIMRC 2017, and the IEEE Wireless Days Conferences (WD) 2014. He is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He also served as a Guest Editor for several special issues of the IEEE journals, such as the IEEE JSAC special issue on millimeter wave communications.

Program Co-chairs:

Hongliang Zhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, NJ, USA (hz16@princeton.edu)

Hongliang Zhang (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Peking University, in 2014 and 2019, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Houston, Texas from Jul. 2019 to Jul. 2020. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, New Jersey. His current research interest includes reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, aerial access networks, and game theory. He received the best doctoral thesis award from Chinese Institute of Electronics in 2019. He is an exemplary reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2020. He is also the recipient of 2021 IEEE Comsoc Heinrich Hertz Award for Best Communications Letters. He has served as a TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as Globecom, ICC, and WCNC. He is currently an Editor for IET Communications and Frontiers in Signal Processing. He also serves as a Guest Editor for IEEE IoT-J special issue on Internet of UAVs over Cellular Networks.

Boya Di, Department of Electronics, Peking University, China  (diboya@pku.edu.cn)

Boya Di (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree from Peking University in 2014, and the Ph.D. degree from Peking University in 2019. She was a post-doctoral research associate in Imperial College London, London, UK from 2019 to 2021. Now she works as an assistant professor at Peking University, Beijing, China. Her main research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, multi-antenna systems, wireless resource allocation and management, edge computing, and optimization theory. She has published more than 60 journal and conference articles, including 15 RIS-related articles. She has also published one book (Springer) titled Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Empowered 6G. Currently, she serves as an editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. She has also served as a reviewer for multiple IEEE journals including IEEE JSAC, TWC, TCOM, etc.

Miaowen Wen, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, China (eemwwen@scut.edu.cn)

Miaowen Wen (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2014. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Visiting Student Research Collaborator with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. From 2019 to 2021, he was with The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor with the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. He has published two books and more than 130 journal articles. His research interests include a variety of topics in the areas of wireless and molecular communications. He was a recipient of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2020, and four Best Paper Awards from the IEEE ITST’12, the IEEE ITSC’14, the IEEE ICNC’16, and the IEEE ICCT’19. He was the winner in data bakeoff competition (Molecular MIMO) at IEEE Communication Theory Workshop (CTW) 2019, Selfoss, Iceland. He served as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing. Currently, he is serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, and the IEEE Communications Letters.

Beixiong Zheng, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore (elezbe@nus.edu.sg)

Beixiong Zheng (Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is currently a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore. His recent research interests include intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), index modulation (IM), and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Student Research Collaborator with Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. He was a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications in 2016, the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award from China Education Society of Electronics in 2018, the Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Communications Letters, and the Outstanding Reviewer of Physical Communication. Currently, he is serving as an Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters.

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