Prof. Kun Yang
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, Distinguished Member of ACM
University of Essex, UK
Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, leading the Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL). He is also an affiliated professor of Nanjing University, China. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, future Internet and edge computing. In particular he is interested in energy aspects of future communication systems and AI for wireless. He has managed research projects funded by UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020, and industries. He has published 400+ papers and filed 30 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE ComMag, TNSE, TVT, WCL). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He has been a Judge of GSMA GLOMO Award at World Mobile Congress – Barcelona since 2019. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc (2020-2021).
He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Member of ACM.
Prof. Mingcong Deng
IEEE Fellow
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Prof. Mingcong Deng received his PhD in Systems Science from Kumamoto University, Japan, in 1997. From 1997.04 to 2010.09, he was with Kumamoto University; University of Exeter, UK; NTT Communication Science Laboratories; Okayama University. From 2010.10, he has been with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan, as a professor. Prof. Deng has over 550 publications including 195 journal papers, in peer reviewed journals including IEEE Transactions, IEEE Press and other top tier outlets. Prof. Deng is a chair of agricultural robotics and automation technical committee, IEEE RA Society; Chair of the environmental sensing, networking, and decision making technical committee, IEEE SMC Society; Member of IEEE SMC SSE committee; Representative of IEEE Systems Council AdCom. He was the recipient of 2014 & 2019 Meritorious Services Award of IEEE SMC Society, 2020 IEEE RAS Most Active Technical Committee Award. He is a fellow of AAIA, and a member of The Engineering Academy of Japan.