Keynote Speakers of ICCSN2026
Prof. C. Patrick Yue
IEEE Fellow, OSA Fellow
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China
Biography: C. Patrick Yue (S’93–M’98–SM’05–F’15) received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (Highest Hons.) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively.
Based on his Ph.D. thesis work, he co-founded Atheros Communications in 1998 and contributed to the development and deployment of the world's first IEEE802.11a CMOS Wi-Fi transceiver system-on-chip (SoC). In 2002, he joined Aeluros to work on CMOS high-speed PHY/SerDes IC design and signal integrity issues in chip packaging. Between 2001 and 2003, while working at the start-ups, he served as a Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford in the EE Department focusing on research in the area of high-frequency CMOS IC design and RF device modeling. In 2003, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, he moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara and was promoted to full professor in 2010. Since 2011, he has been a Professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the first Associate Provost for Knowledge Transfer at HKUST. In 2016, he took a sabbatical leave from HKUST to Tsinghua University, Beijing, PRC as a Visiting Chair Professor in the Institute of Microelectronics. In 2017, he founded LiPHY Communications to commercialize visible light communication (VLC) technology for smart building and IoT market. Currently, he is the Director of the HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center (ICDC), the Optical Wireless Lab (OWL), and the HKUST-Qualcomm Joint Innovation and Research Lab. His research interest includes optical wireless physical layer circuits and systems, high-speed wireline communication SoC, millimeter-wave communication and sensing circuits, indoor positioning and image processing technologies for robotic applications, and edge computing accelerator design for IoT applications.
Prof. Yue has contributed to more than 200 peer-reviewed articles, 20 granted patents, and 2 book chapters. He was awarded the eleventh Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Youth Award by the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) in 2016. He and his students received the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) Best Student Paper Award in 2003, the IEEE International Wireless Symposium (IWS) Best Student Paper Award in 2016, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Outstanding Young Author Award in 2017. He has served on the technical program committees of the ISSCC, the IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSI-Circuits), the IEEE RFIC Symposium (RFIC), the IEEE European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), the IEEE IWS, and the IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC). He was an Editor for IEEE Electron Device Letters and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine, and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. Since 2018, he has been an Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE. He was an Elected AdCom Member from 2015 to 2017 for the IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society (SSCS) and was a SSCS Distinguished Lecturer between 2017 and 2018. He served as the Vice-President of Membership of the IEEE SSCS between 2016 to 2021. Prof. Yue is a Member of ACM and a Fellow of IEEE and OSA.
Prof. Min Chen
IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow
South China University of Technology, China
Speech Title: HongWU: Hierarchical On-demand Cognitive Big Model with World Utility
Abstract: Contemporary large-scale models encounter fundamental bottlenecks: training data depletion, insufficient alignment with human intent, and inadequate grounding in physical systems. We present HongWU (Hierarchical On-demand Cognitive Big Model with World Utility), i.e., a unified cognitive architecture for symbiotic human-machine collaboration. HongWU integrates physical models, data sources, and intelligent tools into a unified tool matrix orchestrated by the foundation model. Leveraging parameter-efficient fine-tuning and human-in-the-loop feedback, it dynamically optimizes objectives to align with human requirements. Its federated knowledge system and multi-agent workflow enforce physically consistent reasoning and enable scalable management of complex engineering systems. HongWU establishes a principled architectural foundation for the next phase of AI development.
Biography: Min Chen is currently a Full Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology. He was the Director of EPIC Laboratory, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Before joined HUST, he was an Assistant Professor with the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University. His Google Scholar Citations reached more than 55,300 with an H-index of 103. His top paper was cited more than 6,100 times. He was a recipient of the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2017, the IEEE Jack Neubauer MemorialAward in 2019, and the IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Award in 2022. He is the founding Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Communities on Big Data and the Chair of IEEE Globecom 2022 eHealth Symposium. He was selected as a Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2025. He is fellow of IEEE and IET.
Prof. Yong Zeng
IEEE Fellow
Southeast University, China
Biography: Yong Zeng, IEEE Fellow, Young Chief Professor of Southeast University and Purple Mountain Laboratory, Nanjing, China. He received the Bachelor of Engineering (First-Class Honours) and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. From 2013 to 2018, he was a Research Fellow and Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore (NUS). From 2018 to 2019, he was a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia.
Prof. Zeng was listed as Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher for 7 consecutive years (2019-2025), AI2000 Most Influential Scholars in the field of Internet of Things for 4 consecutive years (2021-2024), Stanford "Top 2% of Scientists in the World - Lifetime Influence". Prof. Zeng is the recipient of Australia Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and won 10 international and domestic best paper awards including IEEE Marconi Award (2020 and 2024), Heinrich Hertz Award (2017 and 2020), etc. Prof. Zeng proposed the concept of channel knowledge map (CKM), and his works have been cited by more than 37,000 times. He serves on the editorial board of SCI journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Communications Letters, and leading guest editor of journals including IEEE ComMag, Wireless ComMag, China Communications, and Science China Information Sciences. Prof. Zeng was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to unmanned aerial vehicle communications and wireless power transfer”.