Prof. Georges Zissis

Toulouse III University (France), France

IEEE Fellow / Chair of IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community and IEEE Smart Lighting Initiative

Prof. Georges Zissis, PhD, SMIEE, immediate past-President IEEE Industrial Application Society and chair of IEEE Smart Cities Program, Vice-Rector Toulouse 3 University (2020-23). He has graduated in rom Physics department of University of Crete in general physics. He got his MSc and PhD in Plasma Science from Toulouse 3 University (France). He is today full Professor in Toulouse 3 University (France). His primary area of work is in the field of Light Sources Science and Technology. He won in December 2006 the 1st Award of the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC) Centenary Challenge for his work on normalization for urban lighting systems (in conjunction with IEEE, IET and the Observer). He is Chairman of the 4E-Solid State Lighting Annex of the International Energy Agency (2020-24).

Prof. Dr. AZLAN BIN MOHD ZAIN

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia

Azlan Mohd Zain (Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Computing, UTM. As an academic staff, he has successfully supervised more than 25 postgraduate students and received more than 20 research grant funding to support research students. He has published more than 100 research papers. He has been invited as keynote speaker at over five international conferences, serves on numerous committees, and has served on editorial board for several international journals.

Prof. Youyun Xu

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Youyun Xu is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, deputy director of the National Engineering Research Center for Communication and Network Technology, and director of the Nanjing Communication Network Industry Research Institute. He earned his bachelor's degree in 1988, master's degree in 1993, and Doctor of Engineering degree in 1999. He has served as a professor at the National University of Defense Technology and as an adjunct professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. With over 30 years of teaching and research experience in wireless mobile communication and satellite communication, he has led national key projects, including the next-generation wireless mobile communication system for intelligent railways. He has published more than 200 papers and holds over 80 authorized national invention patents. His research interests include B5G/6G, Internet of Things, wireless environment cognition, multi-network integration, and spatial information networks.

Prof. Zhiwei Zhao

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Zhiwei Zhao is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, holding a Ph.D. in Engineering. He completed his undergraduate studies at Xi’an Jiaotong University and received his doctorate from Zhejiang University. He has been selected for the EU Marie Curie Scholars Program and the National “Bo Xin” Plan, among other honors. His main research areas include ubiquitous edge computing and low-power Internet of Things (IoT), focusing on intelligent collaborative computing at the edge and IoT networking and transmission. Over the past five years, he has published more than 60 academic papers, with over 20 papers as the first author or corresponding author in CCF Class A journals and conferences as well as in Zone 1 journals of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He has received four Best Paper Awards at IEEE international conferences. He is the principal investigator of several research projects, including the National Natural Science Foundation of China General Program and subprojects of the National Key R&D Program, and collaborates with companies such as Huawei and IBM. He authored the monograph *Edge Computing: Principles, Technologies, and Practices*, which systematically elaborates on the principles and key technologies of edge computing architecture and has been adopted as a textbook by more than 30 universities. He offers courses including *Edge Computing* and *Professional Academic Writing*.

Assoc. Prof. Xiaofang Xia

Xidian University, China

Xiaofang Xia, Ph.D., is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University. She serves as deputy director of the Shaanxi Provincial Advanced Database Engineering Research Center and the Xi’an Key Laboratory of Advanced Database Technology. She earned her Ph.D. in Control Theory and Control Engineering from the Shenyang Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2019 and was co-trained at the University of Alabama under the China Scholarship Council from 2016 to 2018. Her research focuses on IoT, databases, data security, and cloud-edge collaboration. She has led projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation and participated in several major national research programs. She has published over 40 papers in top journals and conferences including IEEE TDSC, SIGMOD, and NeurIPS, with more than 20 papers in CCF Class A or top-tier journals. She holds over 20 national invention patents, with more than 10 authorized. She has received honors such as the Chinese Association for Science and Technology Young Talent Program, Shaanxi Youth Science Star, ACM Xi’an Rising Star Award, and the First Prize of Scientific Research in Shaanxi Higher Education.