Biography: T. Aaron Gulliver received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton, NB, Canada, in 1982 and 1984, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of Victoria (UVic), Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1989. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UVic, where he holds the Canada Research Chair in Advanced Wireless Communications. From 1989 to 1991, he served as a Defence Scientist at the Defence Research Establishment Ottawa, Canada. He joined Carleton University as an Assistant Professor in 1991, later becoming an Associate Professor. In 2002, he was made a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. In 2012, he was made a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Gulliver has published over 800 papers. His research focuses on wireless communication systems, signal processing, and control theory.
Prof. Nian Fushun
Chief Scientist of Test Instruments at China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC)
Director of the Key Laboratory of Electronic Testing Technology
No. 41 Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, China
Biography: Nian Fushun, Chief Scientist of Test Instruments at China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC) and Director of the Key Laboratory of Electronic Testing Technology, has long been engaged in scientific research, development, and management of electronic testing instruments. He led research on the design and manufacturing technology of microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz circuits, establishing a product system for active and passive components characterized by wide bandwidth, achieving full domestic production of key components for microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz testing instruments. He spearheaded the development of continuous-wave, multi-port, pulse, and nonlinear vector network analyzers, enabling China's microwave, millimeter-wave, and terahertz vector network analyzers to develop systematically and at scale, with testing frequencies covering 10 kHz to 750 GHz. Using vector network analyzers as core instruments, he constructed electromagnetic material, antenna, and radar cross-section testing systems, solving measurement and evaluation challenges for on-chip antennas, low-sidelobe antennas, large phased-array antennas, stealth materials, and stealth targets, thereby expanding the application scope of vector network analyzers.
His scientific achievements have earned him one National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class), six provincial/ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards (First Class), 60 invention patents, and three national standards. He enjoys the State Council's Special Government Allowance and has been honored with titles such as National Model Worker, Outstanding Individual in the Shenzhou-6 Manned Space Mission, Taishan Scholar Climbing Plan Expert, Shandong Province Outstanding Mid-Career and Young Expert, and Qilu Most Beautiful Scientific and Technological Worker.
Prof. Zhu Han
Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IEEE
Distinguished Member of the ACM
University of Houston, USA
Biography: Zhu Han, a John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Chair Professor at the University of Houston, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an IEEE Fellow, and a Distinguished Member of the ACM. He received his bachelor's degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at Tsinghua University in 1997, followed by a master's degree (1999) and a Ph.D. (2003) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Maryland, USA. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as an R&D engineer at JDS Uniphase (Maryland). From 2003 to 2006, he served as a researcher at the University of Maryland. Later, from 2006 to 2008, he was an assistant professor at Boise State University. He is currently the John and Rebecca Moores Distinguished Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Houston. With over 55,000 Google Scholar citations, he has been recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher globally for multiple consecutive years since 2017.
His research focuses on wireless network resource allocation and management, wireless communications and networking, game theory, big data analytics, cybersecurity, and smart grids. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2010, the IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize (Best Magazine Paper Award) in 2011, the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2015, and the IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize (Best Paper Award in IEEE JSAC, one of the highest-impact journals in the field) in 2016, along with 16 Best Conference Paper Awards from various IEEE conferences. From 2015 to 2018, he served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. In 2021, he was honored with the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award in recognition of his contributions to game theory and distributed management of autonomous communication networks.
Prof. Hao Zhang
the National "Ten Thousand Talent Program"
Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talents
New Century Excellent Talents
Ocean University of China, China
Biography: Hao Zhang is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at Ocean University of China. He has been honored with prestigious national and provincial distinctions, including the National "Ten Thousand Talent Program", Innovative and Entrepreneurial Talents of the Innovation Talent Promotion Program by the Ministry of Science and Technology, New Century Excellent Talents by the Ministry of Education, and the Natural Science Outstanding Youth Fund of Shandong Province. His accolades also encompass the First Prize of Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, First Prize of Satellite Navigation and Positioning Science and Technology Progress Award, and First Prize of Qingdao Science and Technology Award (Natural Science).
His research focuses on marine communication systems, MIMO communication systems, BeiDou Satellite Navigation and Positioning System, and novel marine observation and detection platforms. He has authored over 200 high-quality papers in top-tier international journals such as IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Communications, with all publications indexed by SCI/EI. Additionally, he holds 25 granted invention patents.
