Dr. Tierui Gong is currently a Research Fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University—NTU Singapore. He received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), Beijing, China, in 2020. From June 2018 to May 2019, he was a Visiting Student with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, and then with the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Dr. Gong was a Special Research Associate at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, between 2020 and 2021, and was a Research Fellow at the Engineering Product Development Pillar in Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, between 2022 and 2023. Dr. Gong is serving as the Lead Workshop Chair of IEEE PIMRC 2026 and the Lead Guest Editor of Electronics. He has served as the TPC member of several prestigious IEEE conferences, and the reviewer of a list of top-tier journals. His research interests include quantum information technologies for advanced wireless communication and sensing systems, Rydberg neutral atom empowered wireless systems, holographic and massive MIMO for 6G, electromagnetic signal and information theory. 

Dr. Qunsong Zeng received the B.S. degree in physics from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). He was a recipient of the P. K. Yu Memorial Scholarship in 2021 and the HKU Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Postgraduate Students in 2024. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, HKU. His research interests include exploring different potential 6G technologies, such as quantum receivers and in-memory baseband processing. He has organized and served as a co-chair for IEEE ICCC 2025 workshop WS-22 and IEEE PIMRC 2025 workshop WS-10. 

Dr. Qihao Peng received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, U.K., in 2024. He is currently a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Surrey, UK. His research interests include quantum sensing for wireless communications and sensing, reconfigurable intelligent surface, cell-free massive MIMO, and URLLC. Dr. Peng is now severing as the Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS and the Lead Guest Editor of IEEE INTERNET OF THINGS JOURNAL special issue. He has served as the organizer/chair for workshops and tutorials on related topics of the smart radio environment and integrated sensing, communication, and computation.

Dr. Yuanbin Chen is a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He received the B.S. degree in Communications Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019, and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Systems from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), Beijing, China, in 2024. He was selected in the Stanford/Elsevier Top 2% Scientists list in 2024 and 2025, and received several honors, including the Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award (BUPT, 2024), the University-Level Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award (BUPT, 2024), and the Excellent Ph.D. Dissertation Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics Education Society (2025). He received the 2025 IEEE IWCMC Best Paper Award and the 2023 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Workshop Paper Award. His current research interests include quantum sensing, Rydberg atomic receivers, and 6G advanced MIMO technologies.

Prof. Wei E. I. Sha (Fellow, IEEE) is a Tenured Associate Professor at Zhejiang University. He focuses on theoretical and applied electromagnetics, including computational electromagnetics, quantum electromagnetics, and electromagnetic information. Dr. Sha has authored/co-authored two books, 10 book chapters, over 220 journal papers, and 200 conference papers (Google Scholar: 13,164+ citations, h-index 60). He has reviewed for more than 60 journals, served on the Technical Program Committees of over 10 IEEE conferences, and served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques, the IEEE Open Journal of Antennas and Propagation, and Electromagnetic Science. Dr. Sha is a National Distinguished Young Scholar and a recipient of the 2022 ACES Technical Achievement Award, the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award of the China Institute of Communications, the Second Prize for Science and Technology from the Anhui Provincial Government, and 11 international conference paper awards.

Prof. Tianqi Mao received the B.S., M.S. (Hons.), and Ph.D. (Hons.) degrees from Tsinghua University in 2015, 2018, and January 2022. He is currently an Associate Professor with the School of Interdisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China. He has authored over 60 journal and conference papers, including three Highly Cited Papers of ESI (as the first author). His research interests include modulation, waveform design, and signal processing for wireless communications, integrated sensing and communication, and AI/LLM-enabled communications. He was a recipient of the Young Elite Scientists Sponsorship Program by the China Association for Science and Technology, the Science and Technology Award (Second Prize) of the China Institute of Communications, and the Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate of Beijing City. He was the winner of the IEEE IWCMC 2024 Best Paper Award and the IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 Best Workshop Paper Award. He has served as the Lead Workshop Chair of IEEE PIMRC 2025 and IEEE WCNC 2026, the Workshop Co-Chair of IEEE ICC 2026, the Organizer of an industry panel in IEEE WCNC 2024, and a Tutorial Lecturer in IEEE ICC 2025, IEEE VTC-fall 2024, and IEEE IWCMC 2024. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, and was the Lead Guest Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications and IEEE Network as well as the Guest Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi- Scale Communications and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (two Special Issues). 

Prof. Chau Yuen (Fellow, IEEE) is with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University. He is currently Provost’s Chair in Wireless Communications, Assistant Dean in Graduate College. Dr. Yuen received IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (2024), IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award (2024), IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (2023), IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (2021), IEEE APB Outstanding Paper Award (2023), and EURASIP Best Paper Award for JWCN (2021). Dr Yuen current serves as an Editor for IEEE TVT, TNNLS, and TNSE, where he was awarded as IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award 2024 and 2022, and Top Associate Editor for TVT from 2009 to 2015. He also served as the guest editor for several special issues, including IEEE JSAC, WCM, CM, VTM, TCCN, and ELSEVIER APPLIED ENERGY. He is listed as Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, and also a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Web of Science from 2022.

Prof. Kaibin Huang (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the National University of Singapore and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical engineering. He is the Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professor in Electrical Engineering and the Department Head at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong. His work was recognized with seven Best Paper awards from the IEEE Communication Society. He is a member of the Engineering Panel of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) and a RGC Research Fellow (2021 Class). He has served on the editorial boards of five major journals in the area of wireless communications and co-edited ten journal special issues. He has been active in organizing international conferences such as the 2014, 2017, and 2023 editions of IEEE Globecom, a flagship conference in communication. He has been named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in the last six years (2019-2024) and an AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Top 30 in Internet of Things) in 2023-2024. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the U.S. National Academy of Inventors.

Prof. Pei Xiao (Senior Member, IEEE) is a Professor in Wireless Communications in the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at University of Surrey. He is currently the technical manager of 5GIC/6GIC, leading the research team in the new physical layer work area, and coordinating/supervising research activities across all the work areas (https://www.surrey.ac.uk/institute-communication-systems/5g-6g-innovation-centre). Prior to this, he worked at Newcastle University and Queen’s University Belfast. He also held positions at Nokia Networks in Finland. He has published extensively in the fields of communication theory, RF and antenna design, signal processing for wireless communications, and is an inventor on over 15 recent patents addressing bottleneck problems in 5G/6G systems.

Prof. Linglong Dai (Fellow, IEEE) is a full professor at Tsinghua University, China. He has published over 80 IEEE journal papers and over 50 IEEE conference papers. He also holds 20 granted patents. His current research interests include 5G/6G wireless communication technologies including massive MIMO, reconfigurable intelligent surface, millimeter-wave/Terahertz communications, wireless AI, and electromagnetic information theory. He is a Co-Chair of the Information Service Committee, IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board, a Co-Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group (SIG) on Signal Processing Techniques in 5G Communication Systems. He has served as the Secretary of the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board (2020-2021). He is currently serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and Editor of the IEEE Trans. Wireless Communications.

Prof. Dezhi Zheng received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in precision instruments and mechanical engineering from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Since 2006, he has served as a professor at Beihang University and Beijing Institute of Technology. From 2014 to 2015, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He is currently a Professor with the School of Interdisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, and the Associate Director of  State Key Laboratory of Environment Characteristics and Effects for Near-space. He is the author of more than 50 articles and more than ten inventions. His research interests include sensor technology, signal detection, and processing technology.

Prof. Mérouane Debbah (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor at Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and founding Director of the KU 6G Research Center. His research has been lying at the interface of fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information, and communication sciences, with a special focus on random matrix theory and learning algorithms. In the Communication field, he has been at the heart of the development of small cells (4G), Massive MIMO (5G), and Large Intelligent Surfaces (6G) technologies. In the AI field, he is known for his work on Large Language Models, distributed AI systems for networks, and semantic communications. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, an Eurasip Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an Institut Louis Bachelier Fellow, an AIIA Fellow, and a Membre émérite SEE. He is actually chair of the IEEE Large Generative AI Models in Telecom (GenAINet) Emerging Technology Initiative and a member of the Marconi Prize Selection Advisory Committee.