Welcome to ICCT 2025

Keynote Speakers


Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, University of Waterloo, Canada

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen is a University Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests include user mobility and network resource management, wireless network security, for future communication systems. Professor Shen is the Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Globecom'24, Globecom'16, IEEE Infocom14, IEEE VTC’10 Fall, and IEEE Globecom'07. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, and IET Communications. Professor Shen served as the 2022-2023 President of IEEE Communications Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Engineering Institute of Canada, a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering, and an International Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan.

Shuguang Cui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China

Shuguang Cui received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, California, USA, in 2005. Afterwards, he has been working as assistant, associate, full, Chair Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univ. of Arizona, Texas A&M University, UC Davis, and CUHK at Shenzhen respectively. His current research interests focus on the merging between AI and communication networks. He was selected as the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher and listed in the Worlds’ Most Influential Scientific Minds by ScienceWatch in 2014. He was the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2012 Best Paper Award. He was also the Vice Chair of the IEEE VT Fellow Evaluation Committee and a member of the IEEE ComSoc Award Committee. He was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2013, an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer in 2014, and IEEE VT Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2019. In 2020, he won the IEEE ICC best paper award, ICIP best paper finalist, the IEEE Globecom best paper award. In 2021, he won the IEEE WCNC best paper award. In 2023, he won the IEEE Marconi Best Paper Award, got elected as a Fellow of both Canadian Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of Canada, and started to serve as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

David Gesbert, EURECOM, France

Prof. David Gesbert (Fellow, IEEE)  is serving as Director of EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis, France (www.eurecom.fr). He received the Ph.D. degree from TelecomParis, France, in 1997. From 1997 to 1999, he was with the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. He was a founding engineer of Iospan Wireless Inc., a Stanford spin off pioneering MIMO-OFDM (currently Intel). Before joining EURECOM in 2004, he was with the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. He has published about 350 articles and 25 patents, 7 of them winning  IEEE Best paper awards. He has been the Technical Program Co-Chair for ICC2017 and has been named a Thomson-Reuters Highly Cited Researchers in computer science.  He is a Board Member for the OpenAirInterface (OAI) Software Alliance. He was a previous awardee of an ERC Advanced Grant in the area of future networks. In 2020, he was also awarded funding by the French Interdisciplinary Institute on Artificial Intelligence for a Chair in the area of AI for the future IoT. In 2021, he received the Grand Prix in Research jointly from IMT and the French Academy of Sciences.

Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore

Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and ST Engineering Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Director of the Future Communications R&D Programme, the Head of ISTD Pillar, and the AI-on-RAN Working Group Chair in AI-RAN Alliance. His current research topics include wireless communications and networking, network intelligence, non-terrestrial networks, open radio access network, and 6G. He received the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2017 CTTC Early Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 Nokia Visiting Professorship, the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, and the 2024 IIT Bombay International Award for Excellence in Research in Engineering and Technology. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.