Haipeng Yao Author

Haipeng Yao (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 2011. He is currently a Professor with the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 papers in prestigious peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests include future network architecture, network artificial intelligence, networking, space-terrestrial integrated network, network resource allocation, and dedicated networks. Dr. Yao served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Access, and the Guest Editor of IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society and Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management. He has won several research awards including the 2022 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, 2021 IEEE IWCMC Best Paper Award, 2020 IEEE ICCC Best Paper Award. He was the Member of the TechnicalProgram Committee and the Symposium Chair for a number of international conferences, including IWCMC 2019 Symposium Chair, and ACM TUR-C SIGSAC2020 Publication Chair.
Mohsen Guizani (Fellow, IEEE) received his BS (with distinction), MS, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Syracuse University, NY. He is currently a professor and an associate provost at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Previously, he worked in different institutions in the United States. His research interests include applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, intelligent systems, smart city, and cybersecurity. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2019, 2020, and 2021. He has won several research awards including the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award as well as four Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC and GLOBECOM. He is the author of 10 books and more than 800 publications. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award, the 2018 Ad Hoc Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition (CISTC) Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of many IEEE transactions and magazines. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and the Chair of the TAOS Technical Committee. He served as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker and is currently an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.