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Professor Xuemin Shen has received numerous prestigious international honors, including the University of Waterloo President’s Award for Excellence in Research, the Premier’s Research Excellence Award (PREA) of Ontario, Canada, the West Lake Friendship Award of Zhejiang Province, as well as several of IEEE’s highest technical achievement and pioneering awards. He has published more than 1,500 papers in top international journals and conferences, with over 180,000 citations on Google Scholar. Over the years, he has led major national research projects funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), along with top-tier collaborative projects involving industry, academia, and research institutions, overseeing a cumulative research budget of tens of millions of Canadian dollars. Professor Shen previously served as President of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), the world’s leading academic organization in the communications field, and also as Vice President for Technical and Educational Activities. In addition, he has served as a Distinguished Lecturer for both the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and the IEEE Communications Society, and as Editor-in-Chief of several leading international journals, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, and IET Communications.

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Professor Ping Zhang is a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Fellow, and a Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. He serves as Director of the National Key Laboratory of Network and Switching Technology and has long been engaged in research on the fundamental theory and technological innovation of wireless mobile communications. Professor Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 1990 and was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2019. His research covers mobile communication transmission, networking, scientific instruments, 5G/6G systems, semantic communications, and goal-oriented communication networks. He has served in important national expert roles related to IMT-2020 (5G) and IMT-2030 (6G), and has made foundational contributions to the development of China’s mobile communication technologies toward international mainstream adoption. Over the years, Professor Zhang and his team have contributed to TDD mobile communication theory and systems, 4G-TDD trial networks, heterogeneous wireless networking technologies, and semantic communication for future 6G networks. His team has also built an outdoor 6G experimental network integrating communication and intelligence, supporting research on communication-AI convergence and intelligent simplified network architectures. Professor Zhang has received many major honors and awards, including the Special Prize of the State Science and Technology Progress Award, the Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress. His current research interests focus on semantic communication, communication-AI convergence, and intelligent 6G networks.

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Professor Yunhao Liu is Dean of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX) at Tsinghua University and a Professor in the Department of Automation. He was elected a Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2025, and is also an ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and CCF Fellow. His research focuses on the Internet of Things and Industrial Internet, indoor localization and network diagnosis, RFID systems, and embodied-intelligence navigation. Professor Yunhao Liu has received numerous major honors and awards, including the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Natural Science Award, the First Prize of the Ministry of Education Technological Invention Award, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the China Computer Federation, the First Prize of the Natural Science Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the ACM Presidential Award, the CCF Wang Xuan Award, and the ACM SenSys 2023 Test of Time Award. He has also received multiple best paper awards at leading international conferences such as ACM MobiCom, ACM SenSys, and ACM SIGCOMM. He has published more than 400 papers in leading journals and conferences. As of June 2025, his Google Scholar citations exceeded 50,000, with an h-index of 107. Over the years, he has led major research projects including major and key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China as well as national key R&D programs. He previously served as Dean of the School of Software at Tsinghua University, MSU Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Michigan State University, and is also Editor-in-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks and Honorary Chair of ACM China. Professor Liu has been invited many times to deliver keynote speeches at major international conferences in computer networks and systems.

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Professor Jamal Deen is a Distinguished University Professor and Dr. S. Haykin Distinguished Engineering Professor at McMaster University, Canada, and Director of the Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory. He previously held the Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology from 2001 to 2022. Professor Deen has received numerous prestigious international honours, including appointment as a Member of the Order of Canada, election as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and fellowships in the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE, the American Physical Society, the Electrochemical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Engineering Institute of Canada. He served as elected President of the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada from 2015 to 2017, and is widely recognized for his outstanding contributions to electrical engineering and applied physics, especially in semiconductor devices and circuits, micro-/nano-/opto-electronics, biosensors, smart sensing, and health-related technologies. According to McMaster’s official materials and his public Google Scholar profile, he holds seven patents, has published more than 400 peer-reviewed scholarly articles, and has been cited more than 35,000 times. He has also received many major distinctions, including the inaugural IEEE Electron Devices Society Simon M. Sze Education Award, the King Charles III Coronation Medal, the IEEE Canada A.G.L. McNaughton Gold Medal, the IEEE Canada R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal, the IEEE Canada Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award, the Royal Society of Canada’s Eadie Medal, and the Humboldt Research Award.

The 6G networks are expected to support a wide range of diverse use cases and applications, along with a significant increase in user data traffic. Artificial intelligence (AI) will be deeply embedded in the design and operation of the networks. Specifically, 6G will transition from an information-centric architecture, which connects people and devices, to intelligence-driven architectures that facilitate seamless data sharing, processing, and mining across devices, the edge, and the cloud within the network. This presentation will examine various aspects of integrating AI into network architecture and operations for intelligent network management and service provisioning. We will introduce a holistic network virtualization architecture designed to support AI functionalities and deliver customized services. Additionally, we will explore meta-learning to address non-stationary system dynamics in network management, with cooperative perception among nearby connected and autonomous vehicles as an application example. We will conclude by discussing the challenges and opportunities associated with network management automation, harnessing the advancements in AI technology.

Weihua Zhuang is a University Professor and a University Research Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo, Canada. Her research focuses on network architecture, algorithms and protocols, and service provisioning in future communication systems. She was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from 2007 to 2013, General Co-Chair of 2021 IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC), Technical Program Chair/Co-Chair of 2017/2016 IEEE VTC Fall, and Technical Program Symposia Chair of 2011 IEEE Globecom. She served as the President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2023-2024. Dr. Zhuang is a Fellow of the IEEE, Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Engineering Institute of Canada.

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Nei Kato is a Distinguished Professor with Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Japan. He served as the Dean of the Graduate School from 2021 to 2025. His research areas include computer networking, wireless mobile communications, satellite communications, ad hoc & sensor & mesh networks, UAV networks, AI, IoT, and Big Data. He is the Vice President for publication, IEEE Communications Society. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and the Vice President for Member and Global Activities, IEEE Communications Society. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher, a Fellow of the Engineering Academy of Japan, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IEICE.

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Dr. Minyi Guo is the Zhiyuan Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His present research interests include parallel/distributed computing, compiler optimizations, big data and cloud computing. He has more than 700 publications in major journals and international conferences in these areas. He received 10 best/highlight paper awards from international conferences including ISCA2024 and ISCA2026. Dr. Guo also got the national science and technology achievement award in 2019. He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing and now is the Transactions Operation Chair of IEEE Computer Society. He won 2023 IEEE Edward J. McCluskey Technical Achievement Award for his contributions to the design and realization of resource-efficient cloud computing. He is Fellow of IEEE and CCF.