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.

Zhiwen Yu, Harbin Engineering University, China

Dr. Zhiwen Yu is currently a vice president of Harbin Engineering University, China and a professor of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China. He has worked as an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at Mannheim University, Germany from Nov. 2009 to Oct. 2010, a research fellow at Kyoto University, Japan from Feb. 2007 to Jan. 2009, and a post-doctoral researcher at Nagoya University, Japan in 2006-2007. His research interests cover Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things, and Crowd Sensing and Computing. He is the Editor-in-Chief of CCF Transactions on Pervasive Computing and Interaction. He has served as an associate/guest editor for a number of international journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, and ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. He received the CCF Young Scientist Award in 2011, the Humboldt Fellowship in 2008, and the CCF Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Award in 2006. He got the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2017.

Chen Tian, Nanjing University, China

Chen Tian, is currently a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, Nanjing University. In 2023, he was selected for the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. His research expertise lies in computer networks and distributed systems. He has published more than 100 papers in top academic conferences and renowned international journals in the fields of computer networks and distributed systems, such as SIGCOMM, NSDI, OSDI, FAST, SIGMOD, PPoPP, and Eurosys. He proposed a congestion management concept centered on traffic control for next-generation data center networks, designed a stateful programmable network tester with independent intellectual property rights, led the realization of large-scale parallel acceleration of open-source network simulation software, and served as the rotating chairman of the OpenNetLab international network testbed.

Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Shangguang Wang is a professor at the School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He is also the Dean of the School of Computer Science, the Deputy Dean of the Shenzhen Research Institute, the Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, the founder and chief scientist of Tiansuan Constellation. He received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2023. His research interests include service computing, mobile edge computing, cloud computing, and satellite computing. He is currently serving as the chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC). He has also served as the general chair or program chair of more than 10 IEEE conferences and as an advisor or associate editor for several journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, Journal of Cloud Computing, Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, and International Journal of Web and Grid Services. He is a senior member of IEEE and a Fellow of the IET.

Min Huang, Northeastern University, China

Min Huang is currently a Full Professor with the College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China. She received the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2013, and has been a Changjiang Scholarship Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, China, since 2016. She was a Senior Visiting Scholar with the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Michigan, USA, in 2011. Prof. Huang is the Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department of Northeastern University, the director of the Liaoning Key Laboratory of Intelligent Science and Intelligent System. She is the recipient of eight national or provincial prizes and awards. Prof. Huang has been granted over more than 40 national and provincial projects, authored more than 200 refereed publications in international academic journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, published 10 books (1 translation), with her research interests including modeling, analytics, and optimization for industrial network, blockchain, chain systems, risk management, behavioral operations management, computational intelligence.