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Junshan Zhang is a professor in the ECE Department at University of California Davis. He received his Ph.D. degree from the School of ECE at Purdue University in Aug. 2000, and was on the faculty of ASU from 2000 to 2021. His research interests fall in the general field of information/data science and ML/AI, including edge AI, reinforcement learning, self-supervised learning, world model, continual learning, network optimization and control, with applications in connected and automated vehicles, 5G and beyond, wireless networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and smart grid. He is fortunate to be one of the pioneering researchers in the areas of edge computing and edge AI, cross-layer optimization of wireless networks, and cooperative relaying.

Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (class of 2024) and Fellow of the IEEE (class of 2012). He is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005 and the NSF CAREER award in 2003. He received the IEEE Wireless Communication Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2016. His papers have won a few awards, including the Best Student paper at WiOPT 2018, the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award of ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2016, the Best Paper Runner-up Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 and IEEE INFOCOM 2014, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2008 and ICC 2017. Building on his research findings, he co-founded Smartiply Inc in 2015, an edge computing startup company delivering boosted network connectivity and embedded AI for IoT applications.

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Albert Y. Zomaya is currently the Peter Nicol Russell Chair Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Centre for Distributed and High-Performance Computing in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney, Australia.Prior to that he was the Chair Professor of High Performance Computing & Networking (2008-2021). Professor Zomaya was an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow during 2010-2014 and held the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking during the period 2002–2007 and also served as the Head of School for 2006–2007.

To date, Professor Zomaya has published more than 700 scientific papers and articles and is (co-)author/editor of 30 books. A sought-after speaker, he has delivered more than 250 keynote addresses, invited seminars, and media briefings. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the ACM Computing Surveys and served in the past as Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Computers (2010-2014) and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (2016-2020). Professor Zomaya is the Founding Editor of several book series, such as, the Wiley Book Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing and the IET Book Series on Big Data.

Professor Zomaya was the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (1999–2003) and currently serves on its executive committee. He is Co–Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cyber-Physical Systems (IEEE Systems Council), Communication Chair of the IEEE Special Technical Community on Sustainable Computing (IEEE Computer Society), Founding Member of the Smart World Technical Committee (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society), and Founding Member of the Technical Committee on Big Data (IEEE Communications Society).

Professor Zomaya is a decorated scholar with numerous accolades including Fellowships of the IEEE, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (UK). Also, he is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales, Foreign Member of Academia Europaea, and Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.

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Prof. Cao is currently the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science and the Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), Hong Kong. He is also the Dean of Graduate School, the director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things (RIAIoT) in PolyU, the director of the Internet and Mobile Computing Lab (IMCL) . He was the founding director and now the director of PolyU's University's Research Facility in Big Data Analytics (UBDA). He served the department head from 2011 to 2017. Prof. Cao is a member of Academia Europaea, a fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Science, a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of China Computer Federation (CCF) and an ACM distinguished member.

Prof. Cao's research interests include distributed systems and blockchain, wireless sensing and networking, big data and machine learning, and mobile cloud and edge computing. He published 5 co-authored and 9 co-edited books, and over 500 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings. He also obtained 16 patents. Prof. Cao received many awards for his outstanding research achievements, including the PolyU President Award for Excellent Performance/Achievement in Research and Scholarly Activities, Ministry of Education Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards – Natural Science (Second Class), China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award, IEEE TCCLD Research Innovation Award, Hong Kong ICT Awards: Best Innovation & Research - Certificate of Merit and Special Mention, Bronze Medal Award of Brussels Innova, CVIC SE Software Talent Award, Ministry of Education Nominated State Science and Technology Award (First Class), National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), and best paper Awards from IEEE Trans. Industrial Informatics 2018, IEEE DSAA 2017, IEEE SMARTCOMP 2016, IEEE/IFIP EUC 2016, IEEE ISPA 2013, IEEE WCNC 2011, etc. Prof. Cao has delivered over 50 keynote speeches / invited talks.

Prof. Cao has directed and participated in over 130 research and development projects and, as a principal investigator, obtained over HK$67 million grants from funding agencies such as National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Ministry of Science and Technology of P. R. China (MOST), Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), The Society of Hong Kong Scholars, and industries and organizations like Alibaba, IBM, Nokia, HK Jocky Club and Hong Kong Construction Industry Council.

Prof. Cao served the Chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing of IEEE Computer Society 2012-2014, a member of IEEE Fellows Evaluation Committee of the Computer Society and the Reliability Society, a member of IEEE Computer Society Education Awards Selection Committee, a member of IEEE Communications Society Awards Committee, and a member of Steering Committee of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. Prof. Cao has also served as chairs and members of organizing and technical committees of many international conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE PERCOM, IEEE IoTDI, IEEE ICPADS, IEEE CLOUDCOM, SRDS and OPODIS, and as associate editor and member of the editorial boards of many international journals, including IEEE TC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TBD, IEEE IoT Journal, ACM ToSN, ACM TIST, ACM TCPS. Prof. Cao has also actively served Hong Kong local professional communities, including Entrepreneurship Advisor of HK A.I. Lab., member of HK Innovation and Technology Fund Research Projects Assessment Panel, member of Engineering Panel of Hong Kong Research Grant Council, member of Incu-Tech Business Incubation Programme Panel of Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks, and member of HKIE's Accreditation Committee for Computer Science Programmes.

Prof. Cao is one of the Academicians of PolyU.

In the AI era, communication between intelligent devices such as smart IoT devices is expected to dominate the traffic in communication networks. The current communication infrastructure is not optimally designed for machine-to-machine communication. AI-enabled industries and applications, such as Industry 4.0, call for a new communication paradigm. To answer this call, we propose pleno-communication, which consists of three communication tiers for perception, cognition, and reaction, respectively. The proposed pleno-communication system transmits signals with high fidelity, concise semantic information, and mission-relevant information. In this talk, I will present our vision and design of the pleno-communication system.

Dapeng Oliver Wu received Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, in 2003. Currently, he is Yeung Kin Man Chair Professor of Network Science, at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence, communications, image processing, computer vision, signal processing, and biomedical engineering.

He received University of Florida Term Professorship Award in 2017, University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award in 2009, AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2009, ONR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award in 2008, NSF CAREER award in 2007, the IEEE Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (CSVT) Transactions Best Paper Award for Year 2001, the Best Paper Award in GLOBECOM 2011, and the Best Paper Award in QShine 2006. He has served as founding Editor in Chief of Transactions of Artificial Intelligence, Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, founding Editor in Chief of Journal of Advances in Multimedia, Editor-at-Large for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He has served as Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012. He was elected as a Distinguished Lecturer by IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2016. He is an IEEE Fellow.

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Salil Kanhere is a Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia. His research interests cover various aspects of cybersecurity, mobile computing, IoT, blockchain, and applied machine learning. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and is leading several government and industry-funded research projects in these areas. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and the Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and has received 12 Best Paper Awards. He is an ACM Distinguished Member, an IEEE Senior Member, and an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor. He serves on the advisory board of three SMEs and has held visiting positions at RWTH Aachen, I2R Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, the University of Zurich, and Graz University of Technology. Salil is the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing. He has served on the organising committees of several IEEE/ACM international conferences and is a steering committee member for IEEE LCN and IEEE ICBC. Salil has also co-authored two books.