Keynote Speaker I

 

Prof. Wei Xiang
La Trobe University, Australia

Wei Xiang (S’00–M’04–SM’10) Professor Wei Xiang is Cisco Research Chair of AI and IoT, Director & Chief Scientist of the Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation, and Director of the Cisco-La Trobe Centre for AI and IoT at La Trobe University. Previously, he was Foundation Chair and Head of Discipline of IoT Engineering at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia. Due to his instrumental leadership in establishing Australia’s first accredited Internet of Things Engineering degree program, he was inducted into Pearcy Foundation’s Hall of Fame in October 2018. He is an elected Fellow of the IET in UK and Engineers Australia. He received the TNQ Innovation Award in 2016, and Pearcey Entrepreneurship Award in 2017, and Engineers Australia Cairns Engineer of the Year in 2017. He was a co-recipient of four Best Paper Awards at WiSATS’2019, WCSP’2015, IEEE WCNC’2011, and ICWMC’2009. He has been awarded several prestigious fellowship titles. He was named a Queensland International Fellow (2010-2011) by the Queensland Government of Australia, an Endeavour Research Fellow (2012-2013) by the Commonwealth Government of Australia, a Smart Futures Fellow (2012-2015) by the Queensland Government of Australia, and a JSPS Invitational Fellow jointly by the Australian Academy of Science and Japanese Society for Promotion of Science (2014-2015). He was the Vice Chair of the IEEE Northern Australia Section from 2016-2020. He was an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2015-2017), and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, and Nature journal of Scientific Reports. He has published over 350 peer-reviewed papers including 3 books and 300 journal articles. He has severed in a large number of international conferences in the capacity of General Co-Chair, TPC Co-Chair, Symposium Chair, etc. His research interest includes the Internet of Things, wireless communications, machine learning for IoT data analytics, and computer vision.

 

 

Prof. Limei Song
Tiangong University, China

Limei Song, a professor, and doctoral supervisor, graduated from Tianjin University with a master's degree and a Ph.D., currently serves as the deputy director of the Department of Information Science,as well as the executive deputy dean of the School of Control Science and Engineering of Tiangong University,She is a first-level talent of Tianjin’s “131” program and leads an innovation talent team in Tianjin higher education. Her research and long-term experience focus on machine vision, 3D measurement and perception, virtual reality, and automation. She has received three second-class and two third-class Tianjin Scientific and Technological Progress Awards, and two bronze awards in the National Postdoctoral Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.
As a project leader, she has led three projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and more than 20 provincial- and ministerial-level projects. She has published over 100 high-quality papers and holds more than 20 authorized invention patents. She has also earned numerous honors, including National First-Class Course Leader, National Model of Women’s Contribution, Most Beautiful Female Teacher of Tianjin, Tianjin May 1st Labor Medal, Tianjin March 8th Red-Banner Holder, CSIG Advanced Popular Science Worker, r, the Hong Kong Mulberry Award, etc.