INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Jie Tian

Young Taishan Scholar Shandong Normal University, China

Biography: Jie Tian is a Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at Shandong Normal University, and currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs of the School of Communication and Electronic Engineering. She is a Young Taishan Scholar of Shandong Province and a Dongyue Young Scholar of Shandong Normal University. She also serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Communication and Microwave Professional Committee of the Shandong Electronics Society, a member of the Shandong Provincial Electronic and Communication Standardization Technical Committee, a Senior Member of the China Institute of Communications, and a member of IEEE and ACM. She is currently an Associate Editor of IJCS and serves as a Young Editorial Board Member or Guest Editor for several journals, including China Communications. She has also served as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member for international conferences such as IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM.

In the past five years, she has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and three provincial- and ministerial-level projects, and participated in more than ten national-level projects. She has published more than 50 papers in leading journals and conferences, including IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), and IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT). Some of her papers have been recognized as ESI Highly Cited Papers (top 1%), and her related research achievements have been incorporated into 6G white papers. She has been granted more than 20 national invention patents, and several research achievements have been successfully transferred.

She has received several awards, including the First Prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award from the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the Science and Technology Youth Award from the Shandong Electronics Society, the IEEE ICNC Best Paper Award, and the ACM Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award (Jinan).

 

Prof. Zhaozhong Guo

Beijing Information Science and Technology University, China

Biography: Guo Zhaozhong holds a dual bachelor's degree in Science and Economics from Peking University, a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, and is a Boya Postdoctoral Fellow and Senior Engineer. He has been selected for a provincial-level youth talent program and currently serves as a professor and master's supervisor at Beijing Information Science and Technology University, as well as a specially appointed researcher at the Ministry of Education's Key Laboratory of Blockchain. With extensive expertise in cryptography, blockchain, and privacy computing, he excels in cryptographic security protocols and blockchain architecture design. He has published over 10 SCI/EI-indexed papers and filed more than 20 patent applications, with 12 granted. In cryptography, his identity-based hierarchical encryption mechanism (IBE) won second prize in a military cryptographic algorithm competition. In blockchain, as project leader, he has overseen the military's "Huiyan Action" achievement transformation and application project and an open research project from the Yunnan Provincial Key Laboratory of Blockchain Application Technology. He has also participated as a key researcher in multiple national key R&D projects on blockchain and pre-research projects on blockchain for the Central Military Commission's Equipment Development Department. The consensus mechanism he designed, Baguena, was included in the China Blockchain Blue Book.

 

 

Assoc. Prof. Chengzong Peng

Chengdu University of Information Technology, China

Biography: Chengzong Peng is an Associate Professor and Master's Supervisor at the School of Cyberspace Security, Chengdu University of Information Technology, China. His research interests include cybersecurity, network resource optimization and deployment, network reliability, and artificial intelligence security. His recent research focuses on resource optimization in large-scale heterogeneous networks, intelligent network service deployment, large language model inference service chain optimization, and AI agent security. His work aims to advance performance optimization, reliability assurance, and proactive security for next-generation intelligent network systems. He has published over 40 academic papers, including 15 papers in international journals and conferences as the first or corresponding author.

Assoc. Prof. Yanqing Xu

South China University of Technology, China

Biography: Yanqing Xu received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information system from Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He is currently an Associate Professor with South China University of Technology. Before that, he was a senior engineer with Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., from July 2019 to July 2020. From September 2020 to September 2026, he was a PostDoc and a Research Assistant Professor with The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Dr. Xu's current research interest lies in pinching-antenna system analysis and design, and baseband signal processing for large-scale antenna systems. Dr. Xu is currently serving on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.

 

Asst. Prof. Xiangyi Chen

Southwest Jiaotong University, China

Biography: Xiangyi Chen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. Her research interests include multi-access edge computing, edge intelligence, artificial intelligence, federated learning, and deep reinforcement learning. She has published numerous papers in leading international journals and conferences, including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Services Computing(TSC), IEEE Transactions on Computers(TC), and IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM). She has served as the principal investigator (PI) of multiple research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province, the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. She has also participated in research projects and subprojects funded by the National Key R&D Program of China and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
She has delivered invited talks at several international conferences, including ICCC 2025, WCCCT 2026, ICET 2026, and AIAAS 2026. She served as a Session Chair at ICCC 2025 and as a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member and Session Chair at AINet 2024. She has also served as a reviewer for leading international journals including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), and IEEE Network.