Officers

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. In Paris-Saclay University, he is a Member of the coordinating committee of the Ph.D. school on Information and Communication Technologies, and the Coordinator of the “Intelligent Networks” research cluster within the DigiCosme Laboratory of Excellence.

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, the 2019 Nokia Foundation Visiting Professorship, 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.

Yuanwei Liu (http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~yuanwei) received the Ph.D. degree from the Queen Mary University of London, U.K., in 2016. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Informatics, King’s College London, from 2016 to 2017. He has been a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), since 2017. His research interests include NOMA, 5G and beyond wireless networks, Internet of Things, machine learning, and stochastic geometry. He is the Senior Member of IEEE.

He published over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers (70+ top rated journals including Proceeding of the IEEE, IEEE JSAC, etc.), 1 book and 3 book chapters. He received over 5300+ google scholar citations, with h-index of 32. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications and IEEE Communications Letter. He has served as a TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as GLOBECOM and ICC. He received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters in 2015, the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2016 and 2017, and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2017 and 2018. He has served as the Publicity Co-Chair for VTC 2019-Fall. He also serves as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing special issue on Signal Processing Advances for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access in Next Generation Wireless Networks. He has received the ABTA Doctoral Researcher Awards in 2017.

Chau Yuen (S’04-M’06-SM’12) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, in 2000 and 2004, respectively. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 2005, and a Visiting Assistant Professor with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2008. From 2006 to 2010, he was with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore, where he was involved in an industrial project on developing an 802.11n Wireless LAN system and participated actively in 3Gpp long-term evolution (LTE) and LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) standardization. Since 2010, he has been with the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Dr. Yuen was a recipient of the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal, the Institution of Electrical Engineers Book Prize, the Institute of Engineering of Singapore Gold Medal, the Merck Sharp and Dohme Gold Medal, and twice a recipient of the Hewlett Packard Prize. He received the IEEE Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2012 and IEEE VTS Singapore Chapter Outstanding Service Award on 2019. He serves as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY, where he was awarded as the Top Associate Editor from 2009 to 2015. He served as the guest editor for several special issues, including IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.

Qingqing Wu (S’13-M’16-SM’21) received the B.Eng. and the Ph.D. degrees in Electronic Engineering from South China University of Technology and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2012 and 2016, respectively. From 2016 to 2020, 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 coauthored more than 100 IEEE journal papers with 26 ESI highly cited papers and 8 ESI hot papers, which have received more than 16,000 Google citations. He was listed as the Clarivate ESI Highly Cited Researcher in 2022 and 2021, the Most Influential Scholar Award in AI-2000 by Aminer in 2021 and World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University in 2020 and 2021.

He was the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Asia Pacific Best Young Researcher Award and Outstanding Paper Award in 2022, the IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award in 2021, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award of China Institute of Communications in 2017, the Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Funding in SJTU in 2016, the IEEE ICCC Best Paper Award in 2021, and IEEE WCSP Best Paper Award in 2015. 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 Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society (OJ-COMS), and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology (OJVT). 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 OJVT on “6G Intelligent Communications" and IEEE OJ-COMS on “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Based Communications for 6G Wireless Networks". He is the workshop co-chair for IEEE ICC 2019-2022 workshop on “Integrating UAVs into 5G and Beyond”, and the workshop co-chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 and ICC 2021 workshop on “Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for Wireless Communication for Beyond 5G”. He serves as the Workshops and Symposia Officer of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Emerging Technology Initiative and Research Blog Officer of Aerial Communications Emerging Technology Initiative. He is the IEEE Communications Society Young Professional Chair in Asia Pacific Region.