Prof. Amin Abbosh, IEEE Fellow,         The University of Queensland, Australia

Biography:

Amin Abbosh (Fellow, IEEE) is Professor and Director of Electromagnetic Innovations (ƐMAGIN) at The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. He has previously served as Head of the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at UQ, as well as Director of Research, Director of Research Training, and Director of the Medical Electromagnetic Imaging (MEI) Cooperative Research Centre. Professor Abbosh is the chief inventor on more than 20 patents licensed to the medical industry, forming the core intellectual property of two Australian MedTech companies. He has authored over 600 refereed journal and conference publications, spanning fundamental theory, applied research, and industry translation. His honours include the IEEE King Prize (twice), UQ Excellence Awards in HDR Supervision, Research, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, and multiple best paper awards at leading international conferences.

Prof. Huseyin Arslan, IEEE Fellow               Medipol University, Turkey

Biography:

Prof. Arslan (IEEE Fellow, NAI Fellow, Member of Turkish Academy of Science) received his BS degree from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey in 1992; his MS and Ph.D. degrees were received respectively in 1994 and 1998 from Southern Methodist University (SMU), Dallas, TX. From January 1998 to August 2002, he was with the research group of Ericsson, where he was involved with several projects related to 2G and 3G wireless communication systems. Between August 2002 and August 2022, he was with the Electrical Engineering Department, at the University of South Florida, where he was a Professor. In December 2013, he joined Istanbul Medipol University to found the Engineering College, where he has been working as the Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences. In addition, he has worked as a part-time consultant for various companies and institutions including Anritsu Company, Savronik Inc., and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Dr. Arslan served as the founding Chairman of The Board Of Directors of ULAK Communication company, which is the Turkish telecom equipment provider. He was also the member of the Tubitak Scientific Board. Between 2021 and 2024, he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors for Turkcell, the biggest cellular operator in Turkey while also operating in Ukrain, Belarus, and Cyprus. Dr. Arslan conducts research in wireless systems, with emphasis on the physical and medium access layers of communications. His current research interests are on 6G and beyond radio access technologies, physical layer security, interference management (avoidance, awareness, and cancellation), cognitive radio, multi-carrier wireless technologies (beyond OFDM), dynamic spectrum access, co-existence issues, non-terrestial communications (High Altitude Platforms), joint radar (sensing) and communication designs. Dr. Arslan has been collaborating extensively with key national and international industrial partners and his research has generated significant interest in companies such as InterDigital, Anritsu, NTT DoCoMo, Raytheon, Honeywell, Aselsan, Vestel,Türkcell, Keysight technologies. Collaborations and feedback from industry partners has significantly influenced his research. In addition to his research activities, Dr. Arslan has also contributed to wireless communication education. He has integrated the outcomes of his research into education which lead him to develop a number of courses at the University of South Florida and Istanbul Medipol University. He has developed a unique “Wireless Systems Laboratory” course (funded by the National Science Foundation and Keysight technologies) where he was able to teach not only the theory but also the practical aspects of wireless communication system with the most contemporary test and measurement equipment. Dr. Arslan has served as general chair, technical program committee chair, session and symposium organizer, workshop chair, and technical program committee member in several IEEE conferences. He has also served as a member of the editorial board for the IEEE Surveys and Tutorials and the Sensors Journal, IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), and several other scholarly journals by Elsevier, Hindawi, and Wiley Publishing.

Biography:

Steven Gao is a Professor at Department of Electronic Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, China, and the Director of Center for intelligent Electromagnetic Systems at CUHK. His research interests include intelligent antennas, phased array, MIMO, multi-band/wideband antennas, reflectarrays, transmitarrays, filtering antennas and wireless systems. He co-authored/co-edited 3 books (<<Space Antenna Handbook>>, Wiley, 2012; <<Circularly Polarized Antennas>>, IEEE-Wiley, 2014; <<Low-Cost Smart Antennas>>, Wiley, 2019), over 600 papersand over 20 patents. Prof. Gao is an IEEE Fellow and the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL). He was the UK’s representative in European Association of Antennas and Propagation (2021-2022) and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE (2014-2016).

Prof. Zhi Ning Chen, IEEE Fellow

National University of Singapore, Singapore 

Biography:

Prof. Zhi Ning Chen received his two Ph.D. degrees in 1993 and 2003 from institutions in China and Japan, respectively. He currently serves as a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and as Director of the Advanced Research and Technology Innovation Centre at the National University of Singapore. Professor Chen has authored or co-authored 760 journal and conference papers, along with seven books. His current research interests include electromagnetic metamaterials and metasurfaces, metantennas, AI algorithms for generative antenna design, antennAI, and wireless systems. Professor Chen was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2007, elected Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore in 2019, and is a Fellow and Vice President of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (2021). Among numerous academic and technical honors, he received the IEEE AP-S John Kraus Antenna Award in 2021 and the EurAAP Antenna Award in 2025. In addition to his research achievements, Professor Chen has played a leading role in international conferences. He served as the General Chair of the 2021 IEEE AP-S Symposium (Singapore) and is the Founding General Chair of several key conferences, including the IEEE International Workshop on Antenna Technology (2005), the Asia-Pacific Conference on Antennas and Propagation (2012), and the Marina Forum on Metantennas+X (2021).

Prof. Wei Hong, IEEE Fellow

 Southeast University, China                 

Biography:

Prof. Wei Hong received the B.S. degree from the University of Information Engineering, Zhengzhou, China, in 1982, and the M.S. and PhD degrees from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1985 and 1988, respectively, all in radio engineering. He is currently a professor of the School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University. In 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998, he was a short-term visiting scholar with the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz, respectively. He has been engaged in numerical methods for electromagnetic problems, millimeter wave and terahertz theory and technology, antennas, RF technology for wireless communications etc. He has authored and co-authored over 400 technical publications and 5 books. He twice awarded the National Natural Prizes of China, once awarded the National Science and Technology Progress Award, four times awarded the first-class Science and Technology Progress Prizes issued by the Ministry of Education of China and Jiangsu Province Government, and 2021 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize etc. Dr. Hong is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of CIE, the vice presidents of the CIE Microwave Society and Antenna Society, and was an elected IEEE MTT-S AdCom Member during 2014-2016, served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Trans. on MTT from 2007 to 2010. In November 2025, Prof. Hong was elected as Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

Dr. Giacomo Oliveri, IEEE Fellow

  University of  Trento, Italy

Biography:

Giacomo OLIVERI (IEEE Fellow) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Telecommunications Engineering and the PhD degree in Space Sciences and Engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 2003, 2005, and 2009 respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, and a Board Member of the ELEDIA Research Center. Moreover, he was Adjunct Professor at CentraleSupélec and member of the Laboratoire des signaux et systèmes (L2S)@CentraleSupélec Gif-sur-Yvette (France) from 2015 to 2020. He was a visiting researcher at L2S in 2012, 2013, and 2015, Invited Associate Professor at the University of Paris Sud, France, in 2014, and visiting professor at Université Paris-Saclay in 2016 and 2017. He is the author/co-author of over 450 peer reviewed papers on international journals and conferences. His research work is mainly focused on electromagnetic direct and inverse problems, antenna array synthesis, and multifunctional metamaterials and metastructures engineering. Dr. Oliveri served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (2016-2022) and of the IEEE Journal on Multiscale and Multiphysics Computational Techniques (2017-2023), and he is AE of EPJ Applied Metamaterials, of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, of the International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, of the Microwave Processing journal, and of the Sensors journal. He is the Chair of the IEEE AP/ED/MTT North Italy Chapter. He has been serving as the Chair of the AP-S IEEE Press Liaison  Committee, as a Member of the IEEE AP-S Field Award Subcommittee, as a Member of the IEEE AP-S Membership and Benefit Committee, and as a Member of the IEEE AP-S Fellow Evaluation Committee. He was elected as an IEEE AP-S AdCom Member for the triennium 2025–2027.

Prof. Atif Shamim, IEEE Fellow

King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST),  Saudi Arabia  

Biography:

Atif Shamim received his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada in 2004 and 2009 respectively. He was an NSERC Alexander Graham Bell Graduate scholar at Carleton University from 2007 till 2009 and an NSERC postdoctoral Fellow in 2009-2010 at Royal Military College Canada and KAUST. In August 2010, he joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at KAUST, where he is currently a Full Professor and Principal Investigator of IMPACT Lab. He was an invited researcher at the VTT Micro-Modules Research Center (Oulu, Finland) in 2006. His research work has won best paper awards in IEEE ICMAC 2021, IEEE IMS 2016, IEEE MECAP 2016, IEEE EuWiT 2008, first prize in IEEE IMS 2019 3MT competition, IEEE AP-S Design Competition 2022 and IEEE MTT-S Design Competition 2024, finalist/honorable mention prizes in IEEE APS 2023, IEEE AP-S Design Competition 2020, IEEE IMS 2017 (3MT competition), IEEE IMS 2014, IEEE APS 2005 and R. W. P. King prize for journal papers in IEEE TAP 2017 and 2020. He has served as the Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE AP-S (2022-2024). He has won the Kings Prize for the best innovation of the year (2018) for his work on sensors for the oil industry. He was given the Ottawa Centre of Research Innovation (OCRI) Researcher of the Year Award in 2008 in Canada. His work on Wireless Dosimeter won the ITAC SMC Award at Canadian Microelectronics Corporation TEXPO in 2007. Prof. Shamim also won numerous business-related awards, including 1st prize in Canada’s national business plan competition and was awarded OCRI Entrepreneur of the year award in 2010. He is an author/co-author of 1 book, 3 book chapters and more than 400 international publications, an inventor on 40 patents and has given over 120 invited talks at various international forums. His research interests are in innovative antenna designs and their integration strategies with circuits and sensors for flexible and wearable wireless sensing systems through a combination of CMOS and additive manufacturing technologies. He is a Fellow of IEEE and currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology(JERM), Chair of IEEE AP-S TC-8 (wireless Communication), Chair of Selected IEEE AP-S Student Travel Grants, Track Chair of IEEE AP Symposium 2026, member of the IEEE APS Fellow Evaluation Committee, and Vice Chair of IEEE APS MGA Committee. He founded the first IEEE AP/MTT chapter in Saudi Arabia (2013) and served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation (2013-2019), IEEE JERM (2020-2024), and as a Guest Editor for IEEE AWPL Special issue (2019). He also served as the AdCom member for IEEE AP-S (2025) and has previously served on IEEE TC on Antenna Measurements (AP-S), Microwave Controls (MTT-S 13), and Additive Manufacturing (CRFID).

Prof. Xuemin (Sherman) Shen, IEEE Fellow

University of Waterloo, Canada

Biography:

Xuemin (Sherman) Shen is a University Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada. His research focuses on network resource management, wireless network security, and AI for networking. Dr. Shen is a registered Professional Engineer of Ontario, Canada, Fellow of Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, Royal Society of Canada, Chinese Academy of Engineering Foreign Member, and International Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan. Dr. Shen received the IEEE Canada 2026 A.G.L. McNaughton Award, Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research from the Canadian Society of Information Theory in 2021, R.A. Fessenden Award in 2019 from IEEE Canada, Award of Merit from the Federation of Chinese Canadian Professionals in 2019, James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2018 from the IEEE VTS, Joseph LoCicero Award in 2015 and Education Award in 2017 from the IEEE ComSoc, and Technical Recognition Award from Wireless Communications Technical Committee (2019) and AHSN Technical Committee (2013). He has also received the Excellent Graduate Supervision Award in 2006 from the University of Waterloo. Dr. Shen served as General Chair for ACM Mobihoc'2015, Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE Globecom’2024, 2016 and 2007, IEEE Infocom’2014, IEEE VTC’2010 Fall. He is the Past President of the IEEE ComSoc.