Bio: Shui Yu is Professor of the School of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at UTS, the Deputy Chair of the UTS Research Committee, and is a researcher of cybersecurity, privacy and the networking, communication aspects of Big Data, and applied mathematics for computer science.

In 2013, he initiated a new field, networking for big data, in the networking and communication domain. Shui was the leading editor of Networking for Big Data, published in 2015, which supplied an unprecedented look at cutting-edge research on the networking and communication aspects of Big Data. Many of his research outputs have been adopted by industry, for example, the auto scale strategy of Amazon Cloud against distributed denial-of-service attacks.

He has also investigated creating anonymous transactions on Blockchain to deal with threats to users’ privacy. His anonymous communication work for web browsing privacy has been cited by more than 200 US patents. He has published two monographs and edited two books, and produced more than 700 technical papers, published in top journals such as IEEE TPDS, TC, TIFS, TMC, TKDE, TETC, ToN, and INFOCOM. His h-index is 90.

Shui serves his research communities in various roles, including serving on the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Magazine and the IEEE Internet of Things Journal, among others.

Bio: Dr. Ruizhi Chen is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He is a World’s Top 2% Scientists by Sandford. He was the director of the State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing at Wuhan University, China, an Endowed Chair Professor at Texas A&M University Corpus Christ, US, and the Head & Professor of the Department of Navigation and Positioning at the Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland. He also worked in Nokia as an Engineering Manager during 1998-2001. Dr. Chen’s research interests include indoor positioning and location-based services. He has published 2 books and 200+ SCI papers. His research results were selected as cover stories two times in “GPS World”in US.

Bio: Miaowen Wen is Professor of the School of Electronic and Information Engineering in the South China University of Technology‌, China, He received his Ph.D. from Peking University in July 2014, where he was also awarded the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. From September 2012 to September 2013, he was a visiting scholar at Princeton University, USA, under a government-sponsored program. From January 2019 to January 2021, he conducted visiting research at the University of Hong Kong through the Hong Kong Scholar Program. He joined South China University of Technology in July 2014, was promoted to Associate Professor in April 2017 through an exceptional promotion, and became a Full Professor in 2021. In 2024, he was selected for a National Youth Talent Program.He has authored 2 English monographs and 5 book chapters, and published over 200 papers in IEEE journals, including more than 100 in IEEE Transactions. His publications have received over 10,000 Google Scholar citations, with an H-index of 55.

He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and a Youth Editor for the Journal on Communications. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Senior Member of the China Institute of Communications. He previously served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, and as a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (two issues), and China Communications.

Bio: Prof. Liang Yang was born in 1977. He is currently a Professor, Ph.D. Supervisor, and a "Science and Technology Innovation Leading Talent" under the Hunan Provincial Furong Program. He received his Ph.D. degree from Sun Yat-sen University in 2006 and previously conducted postdoctoral research at City University of Hong Kong and Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ). His primary research interests include wireless communications, low-altitude networks, Internet of Vehicles (IoV), and edge computing. Prof. Yang has published over 170 papers in IEEE journals, including 19 Highly Cited Papers and 2 Hot Papers. He holds an H-index of 46 on both Google Scholar and ResearchGate. He has been listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for six consecutive years and was named in Elsevier's "China Highly Cited Researchers" in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Prof. Yang has presided over five projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and one project under the National Key R&D Program of China. He also served as the Principal Investigator for a key project under the NSFC Regional Innovation and Development Joint Fund. He serves as an Associate Editor for multiple international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL), IEEE Communications Letters, Scientia Sinica (Informationis), Journal on Communications, Journal of Electronics & Information Technology, and Journal of Internet of Things.