Keynote Speakers

Fan Liu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2013 and 2018 respectively, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of System Design and Intelligent Manufacturing (SDIM), Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech). He has previously held academic positions with the University College London (UCL), first as a Visiting Researcher from 2016 to 2018, and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2018 to 2020. His research interests include signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He has 10 papers selected as IEEE ComSoc Best Readings. He is the founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), an Elected Member of the IEEE SPS Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM-TC), a Founding Member of the IEEE SPS ISAC Technical Working Group (ISAC-TWG), an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing and IEEE Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Wireless Communications, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine. He has served as the organizer and Co-Chair for several workshops, special sessions and tutorials in flagship IEEE conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, ICASSP, SPAWC, and MobiCom. He is a TPC Co-Chair of the 2nd–4th IEEE Joint Communication and Sensing (JC&S) Symposium, a Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2023, and a Track Co-Chair for the IEEE WCNC 2024. He is a member of the IMT-2030 (6G) ISAC Task Group. He was listed among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact from 2021 to 2023, and among the 2023 Elsevier Highly-Cited Chinese Researchers. He was the recipient of the 2023 IEEE Communications Society Stephan O. Rice Prize, 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2023 IEEE/CIC ICCC 2023 Best Paper Award, 2022 First Prize of Science and Technology Progress of China Institue of Communications, 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, 2019 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics, 2018 EU Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, and has been named as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE TWC/TCOM/COMML for 5 times.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998 before serving as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and later at Texas A&M University at Qatar. In 2009, he became a founding faculty member at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he currently is the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected. Dr. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA and his research interests encompass a wide array of research topics in wireless and satellite communications. He is currently particularly focusing on addressing the technical challenges associated with information and communication technologies (ICT) in underserved regions and is committed to bridging the digital divide by tackling issues related to the uneven distribution, access to, and utilization of ICT in rural, low-income, disaster-prone, and hard-to-reach areas.