Yi Hong

Biography:

Yi Hong is an Associate Professor in the ECSE DEPT at Monash University. She served as a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts (2018-20) and she was the Director of Graduate Research (2016-18) of the ECSE Department at Monash University. She is a Senior Member of IEEE, the IET Fellow, and a member of IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Information Theory Soceity, and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. She was the Tutorial Chair of 2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Melbourne. She was the General co-Chair of 2014 IEEE Information Theory Workshop at Hobart, Tasmania; the Technical Program Committee Chair of the 2011 Australian Communication Theory workshop, Melbourne; the Publicity Chair of 2009 IEEE Information Theory Workshop at Taromina, Sicily; and Technical Program Committee Member of various IEEE leading conferences. She is currently the Associate Editor (AE) of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN). She served as the AE for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL) and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT). She received the NICTA-ACoRN Early Career Researcher award at AUSCTW Adelaide 2007. She leads a group of research students and postdocs working on communications technology, wireless security, and coding techniques for wireless communications and networking as well as SSD storage. 

Zan Li

Biography:

Prof. Zan Li is a University Professor at the Xidian University, China. She received the B.S. degree in communications engineering and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in communication and information systems from Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 1998, 2001, and 2006, respectively. She worked as a visiting scholar at IMEC Technology Center, Belgium, from July 2009 to September 2009. Her research interests include high-security and high-reliable communication, spectrum sensing and utilization, intelligent covert communication, anti-interference communication, etc. She has published 4 books and more than 200 international journal and conference papers in IEEE journals and IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences. She received the Best Paper Awards from EISIC 2015, IEEE ICFNDS 2017, CSPS 2018, and IEEE SAGC 2020, as well as the Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE CIT 2014 and IEEE CITS 2015. Prof. Zan Li is the Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), China Institute of Electronics (CIE), and China Institute of Communications (CIC), and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Dr. Jia Shi received both his MSc. and Ph.D degrees from University of Southampton, UK, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a research associate with Lancaster University, UK, during 2015-2017. Then, he became a research fellow with 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK, from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018, he joined Xidian University, China, and now is an Associate Professor in National Key Lab. of Integrated Services Networks (ISN). His current research interests include resource allocation in wireless systems, reliable LEO satellite communicartions, covert communications, physical layer security, mmWave communications, satellite communications etc. He is now serving as an Associate Editor for Electronic Letters, and an Editor for International Journal of Communications System, and is serving as a Guest Editor for China Communications.