Professor Xiaoping Wu
Kaili University, China
XiaopingWu, Professor, Visiting Scholar of the "Western Light" Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He graduated from Guizhou Normal University with a bachelor's degree in Physics, and later earned his Master of Engineering degree in Communication and Information Systems from Capital Normal University. He has long been engaged in teaching and education in fields such as physics, computer and information engineering, and artificial intelligence, with his main research directions focusing on signal processing and artificial intelligence. He currently serves as the Secretary of the Party General Branch and Dean of the School of Microelectronics and Artificial Intelligence, presiding over the comprehensive Party affairs and administrative work of the college. He is responsible for the college's Party building, cadre team development, talent recruitment and cultivation, publicity, ideological and cultural work, ideology, national security, foreign affairs, rural revitalization, safety and stability, internal inspections, and target performance evaluation. He takes the lead in driving the college's high-quality development, governance according to law, faculty team building, development planning, auditing, modern university system construction, the integrated construction of "disciplines, majors, platforms, and teams," "Double First-Class" initiative construction, master's degree program development, industry-education integration, and international cooperative education. He fulfills the responsibilities as the primary person accountable for the strict governance of the Party within the college, while supporting and supervising other leadership members and subordinate Party organization secretaries in fulfilling their responsibilities regarding strict Party governance, safety, and stability. Additionally, he concurrently serves as the Director of the Engineering Research Center of Micro-Nano and Intelligent Manufacturing (Ministry of Education), Director of the Qiandongnan Glass Key Laboratory, Council Member of the Guizhou Integrated Circuit Society, and Council Member of the Guizhou Artificial Intelligence Society.
Visiting Research Scholar Kai Li
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Kai Li (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree from Shandong University, Jinan, China, in 2009, the M.S. degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, in 2014. From 2010 to 2011, he was a Full-Time Research Assistant with the Mobile Technologies Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, was a Visiting Research Assistant with the ICT Centre, CSIRO, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, from 2012 to 2013, and was also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, from 2014 to 2016. In 2022, he was a Visiting Research Scholar with the CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, CMU. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Visiting Research Scientist with the Division of Electrical Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K. He is currently a Visiting Research Scholar with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, TU Berlin, Berlin, Germany, and a Senior Research Scientist with the CISTER Research Centre, Porto, Portugal. He is also a CMU-Portugal Research Fellow, jointly supported by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Lisbon, Portugal. Since 2024, he has been an Associate Editor of journals, such as Internet of Things (Elsevier), Nature Computer Science (Springer) since 2023, Computer Communications (Elsevier) and Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) since 2021, and IEEE ACCESS from 2018 to 2024.
Associate Professor Minghui Liwang
Tongji University, China
Minghui Liwang received her Ph.D. in Engineering from Xiamen University in 2019. From 2017 to 2018, she was a joint Ph.D. visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical and ComputerEngineering at North Carolina State University (USA), under the supervision of Prof. Huaiyu Dai (IEEE Fellow). From 2019 to 2021, she conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Western University (Canada), supervised by Prof. Xianbin Wang (Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, IEEE Fellow). In 2023, she was recognized as a Provincial-Level Talent of Fujian Province. To date, she has published over 50 papers in SCI-indexed journals and international conferences. Among these, nearly 40 papers have been published as first author or corresponding author in top-tier journals and conferences in the field, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, IEEE/ACM TON, IEEE TSC, IEEE TWC, IEEE WCM, IEEE NETWORK, IEEE TCCN, and IEEE ICC. She has presided over several research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program, the Xiamen Natural Science Foundation Youth Project, and open research grants from the China Institute of Communications.