IEEE Global Communications Conference
8–10 December 2020 // In-person (Taipei, Taiwan)
7-11 December 2020 // Virtual
Communications for Human and Machine Intelligence

Committees

General Chairs

Alessio Zappone - University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy

Alessio Zappone received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. both from the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. In 2012 he has worked with the Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT) in the framework of the FP7 EU-funded project TREND. From 2012 to 2016 he has been with the Dresden University of Technology, managing the project CEMRIN on energy-efficient resource allocation in wireless networks, funded by the German research foundation (DFG). In 2017 he was the recipient of the H2020 Marie Curie IF BESMART fellowship for experienced researchers, carried out at the LANEAS group of CentraleSupelec (Gif-sur-Yvette, France). Since 2019, he is a tenured professor at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio. He is a senior memeber of the IEEE, serves as senior area editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and has served as guest editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. He received several exemplary reviewer awards from the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 

Wei Xu - National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University, China

Wei Xu is currently a Professor with the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, Southeast University. He has co-authored over 80 refereed journal articles in addition to 28 granted domestic patents and three U.S. patents. He has served on the technical program committees for international conferences, including the IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE VTC, and IEEE PIMRC. He received the best paper awards from the IEEE MAPE in 2013, the IEEE/CIC ICCC in 2014, the IEEE GLOBECOM in 2014, the IEEE ICUWB in 2016, and WCSP in 2017. He was a co-recipient of the First Prize of the Science and Technology Award in Jiangsu Province, China, in 2014. He was an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, from 2012 to 2017. He is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Access. He has served as a Co-Chair for a workshop in the IEEE ICCC 2018, and for the Wireless Communication Track of the WCSP 2019.  

Marco Di Renzo  -  CNRS, CentraleSuplec, Univ. Paris Saclay, France

Marco Di Renzo 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 Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. He is a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland, and an Honorary Professor at University Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. He served as 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 2013 IEEE-COMSOC Best Young Researcher Award for Europe, Middle East and Africa, the 2013 NoE-NEWCOM# Best Paper Award, the 2014-2015 Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, the 2015 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Best System Paper Award, the 2015 CNRS Award for Excellence in Research and Ph.D. Supervision, the 2016 MSCA Global Fellowship (declined), the 2017 SEE-IEEE Alain Glavieux Award, the 2018 IEEE-COMSOC Young Professional in Academia Award, and 8 Best Paper Awards at IEEE conferences (2012 and 2014 IEEE CAMAD, 2013 IEEE VTC-Fall, 2014 IEEE ATC, 2015 IEEE ComManTel, 2017 IEEE SigTelCom, EAI 2018 INISCOM, IEEE ICC 2019). He is a Highly Cited Researcher according to Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Qingqing Wu - University of Macau, Macau. 

Qingqing Wu is currently an Assistant Professor in the State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the University of Macau, China. He was a Research Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore. His current research interest includes intelligent reflecting surface (IRS), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications, and MIMO transceiver design. He has published over 70 IEEE journal and conference papers with more than 3700 google scholar citations. 

He was the recipient of the IEEE WCSP Best Paper Award in 2015, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Funding in SJTU in 2016, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award of China Institute of Communications in 2017. He was the Exemplary Editor of IEEE Communications Letters in 2019 and the Exemplary Reviewer of several IEEE journals. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society. He is the Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on ``UAV Communications in 5G and Beyond Networks", and the Guest Editor for IEEE Open Journal on Vehicular Technology on ``6G Intelligent Communications" and IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society on ``Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Communications for 6G Wireless Networks". He is the workshop co-chair for ICC 2019 and ICC 2020 workshop on ``Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond". 

Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Australia

Derrick Wing Kwan Ng is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Prof. in US systems) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include convex and non-convex optimization, physical layer security, wireless information and power transfer, and green (energy-efficient) wireless communications. Dr. Ng is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications. He has been a TPC member of various conferences, including the Globecom, WCNC, ICC, VTC, and PIMRC. He has received 7 best paper awards from various international conferences, including Globecom, ICC, WCNC, etc. He has served as a guest editor for IEEE JSAC for four special issues. He served as a Co-Chair for the Wireless Access Track of the 2014 IEEE 80th Vehicular Technology Conference, the IEEE Globecom Workshop, Wireless Energy Harvesting Communication Networks (WEHCH), 2016- 2018, the  IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) 2017, and the IEEE ICC Workshop, Energy Harvesting Wireless Communication, 2018. In addition, he is listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019.

Dr. Xiaodai Dong - Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Canada.

Xiaodai Dong is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria. From 1999 to 2002, she was with Nortel Networks, Ottawa, ON, Canada, where she worked on the base transceiver design of the third-generation (3G) mobile communication systems. From 2002 to 2004, she was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Her research interests include 5G, mmWave communications, radio propagation, the Internet of things, machine learning, localization, wireless security, e-health, smart grid, and nano-communications. She was the Canada Research Chair (Tier II), from 2005 to 2015. She has served as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, from 2001 to 2007, and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, from 2009 to 2014. She is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. She has been involved as TPC Co-chairs for the IEEE VTC-Fall 2014, WCNC 2016, VTC-Fall 2017, and IEEE BSC 2018. She has also been served as a Workshop Chair for the IEEE SmartgridComm 2019 and the General Chair for the IEEE Pacrim Conference 2019. 

Technical Chairs

Jiayi Zhang - School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, China.

Dr. Jiayi Zhang received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. (with distinction) degree of Communication Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 2007 and 2014, respectively. He is currently a Professor in School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. He was a Humboldt Research Fellow in Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) from September 2014 to August 2015. He served as a TPC member for many IEEE conferences. He received the best paper award from WCSP2017 and APCC2017. He serves as the leading guest editor of JSAC SI in Multiple Antenna Technologies for Beyond 5G, and Associate Editor of the IEEE TCOM and IEEE COMML.

Xianghao Yu - Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. 

Xianghao Yu is an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Digital Communications, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His research interests include millimetre-wave communications, MIMO systems, large intelligent surface-assisted communications, and stochastic geometry. He has served on the technical program committees for the IEEE GLOBECOM and IEEE ICC. Dr. Yu is a co-author of the book Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Multi-Antenna Wireless Networks(Springer, 2019). He was honoured as an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2017 and 2018. He was also the recipient of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2017 Best Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Best Paper Award.

Zhangjie Peng - College of Information, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Normal Univ., China.

Zhangjie Peng is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Information, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Normal University. His research interests include massive MIMO, information theory, physical layer security, and machine learning for wireless communications. He is the reviewer for several IEEE journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, etc. He has been served as members of the technical program committee of top-referred conferences including IEEE ICC and IEEE Globecom.

Baolong Li - School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University, China.

Baolong Li is currently a Lecturer with School of Internet of Things Engineering, Jiangnan University. From 2013 to 2017, he was with Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he worked on visible light communication. From 2015 to 2016, he was also a Visiting Scholar with the Southampton Wireless Group, University of Southampton. His current research interests include modulation and signal processing for optical wireless communication, convex and non-convex optimization, information theory, and narrowband internet of things. He is a reviewer for several IEEE journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE communications letters, etc. He has been served as TPC member of various conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE TVT, and WCSP.

Steering Committee

Lajos Hanzo - Southampton University, UK

Slim Alouini -  King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Robert Schober - Friederich-Alexander Universität, Germany

Dusit Niyato - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Vincenzo Sciancalepore - NEC Heidelberg, Germany

Haris Gacanin - RWTH Aachen, Germany

Patrons