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Speaker I: Prof. Haijun Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China

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

Speaker II: Prof. Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami, USA 

Biography: Mingzhe Chen received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2019. From 2016 to 2019, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. In 2022, he worked as an AI Researcher at Ericsson Research, USA. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Data Science and Computing at University of Miami. His research interests include federated learning, reinforcement learning, virtual reality, unmanned aerial vehicles, and Internet of Things. He has received from the IEEE Communication Society two paper awards including the 2021 Young Author Best Paper Award and the 2022 Fred W. Ellersick Prize Award, and three conference best paper awards at IEEE ICC in 2020, IEEE GLOBECOM in 2020, and IEEE WCNC in 2021. He currently serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking. Previously, he guest edited a special issue on Distributed Learning over Wireless Edge Networks for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC).