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).

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.

 

Asst. Prof. Xingran Chen

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Biography: Xingran Chen is a tenure-track Assistant Professor (as of Jul. 2026) in the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Prior to joining SUTD, he was a postdoc at Rutgers University (Jan. 2025 - Apr. 2026), and an Assistant Professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Sep. 2023 - Apr. 2026). He earned his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering (May 2023) from the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Chen's research focuses on fundamental limits and algorithm design for decentralized learning and decision-making in networked systems. He received the IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2023. Dr. Chen is a member of IEEE and IEEE ITSoc. He has served the research community through editorial and conference service, including a Guest Editor for China Communications in 2024 and Entropy in 2025, as an Advisory TPC member for IEEE INFOCOM 2027, and as a TPC member for IEEE ICC 2027, IEEE ITW 2027, WiOpt 2026, IEEE ICC 2024, and IEEE GLOBECOM Workshop 2020. His research is supported by NSF of China and Ministry of Education of China.