ICET 2025 Speakers | 主旨报告

Prof. Tony Q.S. Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Fellow of IEEE, WWRF; H-index 81

Speech Title: Unlocking the Potential of AI-RAN: A Pathway towards Future Network Intelligence

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.

Dr. Quek is currently serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 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.

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Prof. Koichi ITO, Chiba University, Japan
Life Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of URSI, Fellow of IEICE; H-index 41

Speech Title: Emerging Antenna Technologies for Cancer Treatment

Koichi Ito received the Ph.D degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He is currently a Professor Emeritus and Visiting Professor at the Center for Frontier Medical Engineering (CFME), Chiba University, Japan. He served as Deputy Vice-President for Research and Director of the CFME, Chiba University. His main research interests include antennas for medical applications, small antennas for mobile communications, research on evaluation of the interaction between electromagnetic fields and a human body by use of phantoms, and antenna systems for body-centric wireless communications. Dr. Ito is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of URSI, and a Fellow of IEICE, Japan. He is the recipient of the 2020 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal from URSI. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, an AdCom member for the IEEE AP-S, a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE AP-S, a BoD member for the Bioelectromagnetics Society, General Chair of ISAP2012, a Delegate to the European Association on Antennas and Propagation, a Vice-President of the Japanese Society for Thermal Medicine, Chair of URSI Commission K, and IEEE AP-S President for 2019. He currently serves as Chair of the IEEE AP-S Technical Directions Committee.

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Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Fellow of IEEE, Optica; H-index 80

Speech Title: Emerging Semiconductor Optoelectronics of Colloidal Quantum Wells: Pushing the Limits, Breaking Records

Hilmi Volkan Demir (IEEE Fellow, OPTICA Fellow) is a professor of electrical engineering, physics and materials science at NTU Singapore. Professor Demir established the Centre of Excellence for Semiconductor Lighting and Displays, LUMINOUS! at NTU. Demir earned his PhD (2004) and MSc (2000) degrees from Stanford University, USA, and his BSc (1998) from Bilkent University, Ankara, one of the top engineering schools in Turkey. Concurrently, Dr. Demir is affiliated with Bilkent University, his alma mater, and UNAM–The National Nanotechnology Research Center at Bilkent. His current research interests include the science and technology of semiconductor lighting/displays and nanocrystal optoelectronics. Demir published over 350 peer-reviewed research articles in major scientific journals, 140 of which belong to Nature Index journals, and delivered over 250 invited seminars, lectures and colloquia in industry and academia around the globe. As a PI, Demir has contributed to commercialization and licensing of over 10 enabling technologies, generating over 100 patent applications (granted and pending) as a principle inventor. These scientific and entrepreneurship activities resulted in several important awards including Nanyang Award for Research Excellence, NRF Investigatorship Award of Singapore, EURYI Award of European Science Foundation, and TÜBİTAK Science Award of Turkey.

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Prof. Zheng YAN, Xidian University, China
Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA
闫峥 教授，西安电子科技大学 （“华山学者”领军教授）, H-index 66

Dr. Zheng Yan, Distinguished Professor at Xidian University, is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, and AAIA Fellow. She is a Stanford World top 2% scientiss, a Finnish Academy Fellow, and a highly cited researcher by Elsevier in China. Her research interests are in trust management, information and network security, privacy protection, and data analysis. She has published over 390 papers in prestigious journals and conferences worldwide, including IEEE SP, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TDSC, INFOCOM, and ICSE, with over 260 as first or corresponding author. She has authored two English books used for teaching for nearly a decade. She holds 108 international and domestic patents, including 50 PCT patents (with 30 independent inventions), with more than130 patents adopted by industry, some of which have entered international standards or are widely used. Her U.S. patents are tracked by over 60 Fortune Global 500 companies. She has received numerous awards, including the Nokia Distinguished Inventor Award, three EU awards, N²Women Star in Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE TEMS Distinguished Leadership Award, 17 IEEE Outstanding Leadership and Service Awards, AALTO ELEC Impact Award, IEEE ComSoc Big Data Technical Committee Best Journal Paper, IEEE TrustCom Outstanding Paper, Shaanxi Natural Science Award, and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Supervisor by the Electronic Association. She founded the first IEEE Blockchain International Conference and serves as a Steering Committee Co-chair. She serves as an Executive Editor-in-Chief of Information Sciences and Area Editor/Associate Editor/Editorial Board Member of over 60 journals, including ACM Computing Surveys, Information Fusion, IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Network Magazine, etc. She has served as a General Chair or Program Committee Chair for over 40 international conferences and has delivered about 30 keynote and invited speeches at international conferences and renowned enterprises.

More speakers to be announced.

ICET Previous Speakers | 往届嘉宾

Zhihua Wang Tsinghua University, China IEEE Fellow	Mohamad Sawan Westlake University, China IEEE Fellow	Weida Hu Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, CAS	Marjan Popov Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands IEEE Fellow	Yuhua Cheng Peking University, China IEEE Fellow	Xinzhou Dong Tsinghua University, China IEEE Fellow
Tao Li Xi`an University of Posts & Telecommunications, China	Zhi Ning Chen National University of Singapore IEEE Fellow	Vladimir Terzija Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Russia IEEE Fellow	Andrea Massa University of Trento, Italy IEEE Fellow	Gang Feng University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	Chonglin Chen The University of Texas at San Antonio,USA
Weihao Hu University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	Eiji Oki Kyoto University, Japan	Zhirun Hu The University of Manchester, UK	Shiwen Yang University of Electronic Science and Technology of China	Hongsheng Chen Zhejiang University, China IEEE Fellow	Yu Wang Tsinghua University, China IEEE Fellow
Xiaoqing Wen Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan IEEE Fellow	Jin He Peking University, China	Tao Jin Fuzhou University, China IET Fellow	Koichi Asatani Kogakuin University, Japan IEEE & IEICE Life Fellow, Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc	James Tin-Yau KWOK Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China IEEE Fellow	Cheng-Xiang Wang Southeast University MAE, MEASA, FRSE, FIEEE, FIET