SPML 2025

Keynote Speakers

 

Prof. Jie Lu AO (IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, Australian Laureate Fellow), Director of Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney, Australia

 

Distinguished Professor Jie Lu is a world-renowned scientist in the field of computational intelligence, primarily known for her work in concept drift, fuzzy transfer learning, recommender systems, and decision support systems. She is an IEEE Fellow, IFSA Fellow, and Australian Laureate Fellow. Currently, Prof Lu is the Director of the Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute (AAII) at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. She has published 500 papers in leading journals and conferences; won 10 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Projects as first chief investigator, and over 20 industry projects; and supervised 50 doctoral students to completion. Prof Lu serves as Editor-In-Chief for Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems. She is a recognized keynote speaker, delivering over 40 keynote speeches at international conferences. She is the recipient of two IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper Awards (2019 and 2022), NeurIPS2022 Outstanding Paper Award, Australia's Most Innovative Engineer Award (2019), Australasian Artificial Intelligence Distinguished Research Contribution Award (2022), and Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Australia Day 2023.

 

 

Prof. Haijun Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China (IEEE Fellow)

 

Haijun Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Full Professor at University of Science and Technology Beijing, China. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. He serves/served as Track Co-Chair of VTC Fall 2022 and WCNC 2020/2021, Symposium Chair of Globecom’19, TPC Co-Chair of INFOCOM 2018 Workshop on Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks, and General Co-Chair of GameNets’16. He serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, and IEEE Transactions on Communications. He received the IEEE CSIM Technical Committee Best Journal Paper Award in 2018, IEEE ComSoc Young Author Best Paper Award in 2017, IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award in 2019. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE and IEEE Fellow.

 

Prof. Haipeng Yao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China (IET Fellow)

 

Haipeng Yao is a Professor in Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. Haipeng Yao received his Ph.D. in the Department of Telecommunication Engineering at University of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2011. His research interests include future network architecture, network artificial intelligence, networking, space-terrestrial integrated network, network resource allocation and dedicated networks. He has published more than 150 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He won the IEEE ICC 2022 Best Paper Award, IEEE IWCMC 2021 Best Paper Award, IEEE ICCC 2020 Best Paper Award, authorized more than 100 national invention patents. He is a fellow of IET, a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Yao has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE ACCESS, and a Guest Editor of IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMPUTER SOCIETY and China Communication. He has also served as a member of the technical program committee as well as the Symposium Chair for a number of international conferences, including IEEE IWCMC 2019 Symposium Chair, IEEE TrustCom 2021 Symposium Chair and an ACM TUR-C SIGSAC2020 Publication Chair.

 

Prof. Tomoaki Otsuki, Keio University, Japan

Tomoaki Otsuki (Ohtsuki) is a Professor at Keio University. Prof. Ohtsuki is a recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000, 2002 Funai Information and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Service Award, the 27th TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award, 9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award, 2020 Yagami Award, and The 26th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper Award. He has published more than 271 journal papers and 500 international conference papers.
He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee. He served as a technical editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He is also serving as the IEEE Communications Society, Asia Pacific Board Director. He has served as general-co chair, symposium co-chair, and TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM and ICC. He was Vice President and President of the Communications Society of the IEICE and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE. He is a fellow of the IEICE, a senior member of IEEE, and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.