Prof. Dusit (Tao) Niyato, Nanyang Technological University, Japan

IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
President's Chair Professor in Computer Science and Engineering

Dusit Niyato is currently a President's Chair Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Japan. Currently, Dusit is serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor of 34.4 for 2023) and will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) from 2026. He is also an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), topical editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), lead series editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN), IEEE Data Descriptions, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), and ACM Computing Surveys. He was also a guest editor of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas on Communications. Dusit is the Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society for 2024-2026. He was named the 2017-2023 highly cited researcher in computer science. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.

Prof. Hiroaki Nishi
Keio University, Japan

Hiroaki Nishi is a Professor of Keio University since 2014. He was a member of IEEE-SA Smart Grid Vision Project, IEEE802.3, IEEE2030, and IEEE P1394. Currently, he is a member of IEEE P1451.0, IEEE P2668, and IEEE P2805.x. He is the chair of the IEEE P1451-1-6 and IEEE P2992 Working Group. He was also a member of ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities WG2. These standardization activities are achieved through his experience of various smart city projects, such as the smart energy working group chief of Nagasaki EV&ITS project, the chair of the Smart Community Implementation Committee of Kawasaki Musashikosugi Area, the chair of the Smart City Exploratory Committee of Nasushiobara, the chair of the Smart Community Implementation Committee of Saitama Urawamisono Area, and a president of Omotenashi ICT Association. He is a sub-chief editor of Smart Grid News Letter of Impress Co. Ltd, and he published several books about the standards and conducted smart city demonstrations. Since 2015, he has been a director of Edge Computing Association, Japan. He is a director of Urban Technology Alliance. He is now deputy program director of Intelligent Knowledge Processing Infrastructure Integrating Physical and Virtual Domains, Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP). The main theme of his current research is to build the total network system, including the development of hardware and software architecture. In particular, service-oriented routers and smart grid/community are the centers of his research topics of demonstrations. He places importance on considering what is required for the highly networked information society in the future from the viewpoint of these applications. He researches the next-generation IP router architecture, edge computing infrastructure, data anonymization infrastructure, and effective network and control systems in smart grid/community.

                                Prof. Guiduo Duan, University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China

Guiduo Duan is a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. She is also the Deputy Director of National-Local Joint Engineering Research Center for Cloud Operating System Development and Application.
Guiduo Duan's research interests include knowledge graphs, natural language processing and multimodality. She has presided over more than 10 national/ministerial-level projects and participated in more than 20 national/ministerial-level projects. She has published more than 30 papers in the international journals and conferences,as well as three books. She has been granted more than 10 patents.She was honored with the Second Prize of the 2020 Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Progress Award and the Third Prize of the 2022 Sichuan Province Science and Technology Progress Award.

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Prof. Kiwon Lee
Hansung University, Korea

Kiwon Lee received his Ph.D. degree from Seoul National University in 1995 and worked as a Senior Researcher at Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) from 1995 to 2001. Since 2001, he has taught and conducted research on several subjects, including satellite image processing, geographic information systems, 3D graphics, and cloud computing, at Hansung University, Seoul in Korea. He also served the Korean Society of Remote Sensing as an executive director from 2005 to 2007, editor-in-chief from 2007 to 2009, and vice president from 2010 to 2012.
As part of his academic achievements, he received the Best Researcher Award from Hansung University in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, and 2016. In 2010 and 2011, he received the Best Presentation Paper Award at the Annual Conference of the Korea Spatial Information Society. Notably, in 2010, he was awarded two government honors: The Minister of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs Award of Korea and the Annual Best Paper Award from the Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies. In 2011, he received the Best Paper Award from the Korean Journal of Remote Sensing, along with the Best Cited Paper Award from the same journal. He also received the Best Presentation Paper Award from the Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science, and the Most Prolific Author Award from the Korean Journal of Remote Sensing in 2017, 2023, and 2024, respectively.

Assoc Prof. I. Ahmedy
Universiti Malaya, Malaysia

Ismail Ahmedy is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer System and Technology (CST), Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya. He is currently the Head for Research Grant Management Division, Department of Research Management, Universiti Malaya. He is also Head of the Center for Mobile Cloud Computing Research (C4MCCR). Previously, he was the Head of Department for Department of Computer System and Technology, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya.
He received his BSc (Computer) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2006. After completing his study, he has been granted a full scholarship to pursue his studies in Master and PhD where he received his MSc (Computer Science) from University of Queensland, Australia in 2009 and PhD (Computer Science) in 2015. He obtained his PhD (Computer Science) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia specialized in communication protocol for wireless sensor networks. His research interests are WSN, Internet of Things, Energy Managament and Optimization Algorithm.