Keynote Speakers

Prof.Trung Q. Duong,Chair Professor of Telecommunications, Queen's Uni. Belfast, UK (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, EIC Fellow, CAE Fellow, AAIA Fellow).

Biography:  Trung Q. Duong is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Queen’s University Belfast, UK and a visiting professor under eminent scholar program at Kyung Hee University, South Korea.  His current research interests include quantum optimisation and machine learning in wireless communications. He is an author/co-author of 670+ publications with 26,000+ citations and h-index 86. He has served as an Editor for many reputable IEEE journals (IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans on Communications, IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters) and has been awarded best paper awards in many flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, 2019, and 2022. He was the only UK-based researcher awarded both the Research Fellowship and Research Chair from the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2017, he was awarded the Newton Prize from the UK government. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He is the Founding Director of Quantum Communications and Computing Center (QC3).

Title:  Hybrid Classical–Quantum Optimization and Learning for Next-Generation Communication Networks

Prof.Yik-Chung Wu, The University of Hong Kong, China (IEEE Senior Member).

Biography: Yik-Chung Wu received the B.Eng. (EEE) degree in 1998 and the M.Phil. degree in 2001 from the University of Hong Kong (HKU).  He received the Croucher Foundation scholarship in 2002 to study Ph.D. degree at Texas A&M University, College Station, and graduated in 2005.  From August 2005 to August 2006, he was with the Thomson Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, as a Member of Technical Staff.  Since September 2006, he has been with HKU, currently as an Associate Professor.  He was a visiting scholar at Princeton University, in summers of 2015 and 2017.

His research interests are in general areas of signal processing and communication systems, and in particular Bayesian inference, distributed algorithms, and large-scale optimization.  Dr. Wu served as an Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is currently a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, an Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and an Editor for Journal of Communications and Networks.  He was a symposium chair for many international conferences, including IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023 and IEEE Globecom 2025.  He received four best paper awards in international conferences, with the most recent one from IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2020.  He was a top 1% scholar (ranked by Clarivate Analytics) for seven consecutive years (2015-2021). He was elected the Best Editor of the year 2023 in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. He is an elected member of IEEE signal processing society SPCOM Technical Committee (2025-2026), and an IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Distinguished Lecturer (2025 class).

Prof.Anand Nayyar,Duy Tan University,Viet Nam​,(SM IEEE/ACM) .

Biography: Dr. Anand Nayyar received Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh Bhagat University in 2017 in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Swarm Intelligence and Network Simulation. He is currently working in School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence (SCA)-Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam as Professor, Scientist, Vice-Chairman (Research) and Director- IoT and Intelligent Systems Lab. A Certified Professional with 280+ Professional certifications from CISCO, Microsoft, CompTIA, Amazon, Alibaba Cloud, Oracle, Google, Salesforce, Tableau, FinOps, Beingcert, EXIN, GAQM, Cyberoam and many more. Published more than 300+ Research Papers in various High-Quality ISI-SCI/SCIE/SSCI Impact Factor- Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4 Journals cum Scopus/ESCI indexed Journals, 80+ Papers in International Conferences indexed with Springer, IEEE and ACM Digital Library, 60+ Book Chapters in various SCOPUS/WEB OF SCIENCE Indexed Books with Springer, CRC Press, Wiley, IET, Elsevier with Citations: (Google Scholar): 23600+, H-Index: 77 and I-Index: 322; (Scopus): 13500+; H-index: 61. Member of more than 60+ Associations as Senior and Life Member like: IEEE (Senior Member) and ACM (Senior Member). He has authored/co-authored cum Edited 70+ Books of Computer Science. Associated with more than 600+ International Conferences as Programme Committee/Chair/Advisory Board/Review Board member. He has completed 1 Grassroot and 1 ASEAN Project. He has 18 Australian Patents, 16 German Patents, 4 Japanese Patents, 44 Indian Design cum Utility Patents, 13 UK Patents, 1 USA Patent, 3 Indian Copyrights and 2 Canadian Copyrights to his credit in the area of Wireless Communications, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, IoT, Healthcare, Drones, Robotics and Image Processing. He has guided more than 200+ Undergraduate Students (B.S. Degree), 30 MCA, 7 M.S. Students and completed 1 Ph.D Student and currently 3 Ph.D Scholars are working under him. He has completed 4 Research Grants Projects including 1 ASEAN and 1 Glocal 30 Project and 1 Grassroot Project in DTU. Awarded 58 Awards for Teaching and Research—Young Scientist, Best Scientist, Best Senior Scientist, Asia Top 50 Academicians and Researchers, Young Researcher Award, Outstanding Researcher Award, Excellence in Teaching, Best Senior Scientist Award, DTU Best Professor and Researcher Award- 2019, 2020-2021, 2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025, Distinguished Scientist Award by National University of Singapore, Obada Prize 2023, Lifetime Achievement Award 2023, 2024; Asian Admirable Achievers 2024; Distinguished Academic Leader 2024, Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 and many more. 
He is listed in Top 2% Scientists as per Stanford University (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Ad Index (Rank No:1 Duy Tan University, Rank No:2 Computer Science in Viet Nam) and Listed on Research.com (Top Scientist of Computer Science in Viet Nam- National Ranking: 2; D-Index: 56; World Ranking: 3694). 
He is acting as Associate Editor for Computer Communications (Elsevier), International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET) (Inderscience), Tech Science Press- IASC, Cogent Engineering, Human Centric Computing and Information Sciences (HCIS), IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (IEEE TAI), Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, IJFC, IJISP, IJDST, IJCINI, IJGC, IJSIR, IJBDCN, IJNR, IJSI, IJIES. He is acting as Managing Editor of IGI-Global Journal, USA titled “International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Science (IJKSS)”. He has reviewed more than 5700+ Articles for diverse Web of Science and Scopus Indexed Journals. He is currently researching in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Swarm Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Drones, Blockchain, Cyber Security, Healthcare Informatics, Big Data and Wireless Communications.

Prof.Muazzam A. Khan Khattak,Quaid -i- Azam University, Islamabad. Pakistan.,USA.(SM IEEE, AAAI & Member Pakistan Academy of Sciences).

Biography: Prof. Khattak (Member NADRA Authority Board) listed among top 2% highly cited scientists of the world in 2024 and 2025 and Gold Medalist of Pakistan Academy of Sciences-COMSTECH Prize 2025. Currently he is serving as Director Farabi Center for Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security, Director Science & Tech / Director ICESCO Chair Data Analytics and Edge Computing, Quaid i Azam University, Islamabad. He is also Chairperson of UNESCO National IFAP Committee. Earlier he served as Associate Dean Computing and Head Postgraduate Program at SEECS, NUST. He received his PhD in a sandwich from IIUI and University of Missouri (UMKC), USA. He also completed his postdoc from University of Missouri (UMKC), USA in 2016 and joined them as an adjunct Professor. He has published more than 230 publications, 03 books and 16 book chapters with total citations of 6800 and h-index of 45.His research interests include Artificial Intelligence based smart solutions for different research problems in Internet of Things, IoVs, IIoTs, Smart Cities, Information security,

He is also serving as adjunct professor at USAK University, Turkiye, Baku State University, Azerbaijan, Harbin Institute of Technology, China and Margullan University, Kazakhstan.He has been awarded with the Pakistan Academy of Science-COMSTECH Gold Bedal in Computer Science (IT), best performance award by the Minister of education in 2023 and Performance based awards at NUST from 2015 to 2019. In 2024 he was nominated for the prestigious civil award Tamgha-e-Imtiaz in 2024. He has been awarded with grants of Rs. 1.7 billion by the Ministry of Education, Kazakhstan, British Council, University of Missouri, USA, USAK University, Turkiye, and Margullan University, Kazakhstan. He is also a member of the International advisory board, USAK University, Türkiye and Baku State University, Azerbaijan, Xidian University, China, Member Senate MUST University, AJK and senior member of Pakistan Academy of Sciences. He is a master trainer in IPFP and train in the trainers program by NAHE, Higher Education Academy, HEC Pakistan.

Prof.Lu Leng, School of Software, Nanchang Hangkong University, China (IEEE/ACM/CCF/CSIGI/CAAI Member).

Biography: LU LENG received his Ph.D degree from Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P. R. China, in 2012. He performed his postdoctoral research at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, P. R. China. He was a visiting scholar at West Virginia University, USA, and Yonsei University, South Korea. Currently, he is a full professor, the dean of Institute of Computer Vision, the office director of Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition at Nanchang Hangkong University.

Prof. Leng has published more than 100 international journal and conference papers, including more than 70 SCI papers and three highly cited papers. He has been granted several scholarships and funding projects, including six projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). He serves as a reviewer of more than 100 international journals and conferences. His research interests include computer vision, biometric template protection, biometric recognition, medical image processing, data hiding, etc.

Prof. Leng was awarded Jiangxi Youth May-4th Medal, and is an outstanding representative of "Innovation Talent" of Jiangxi Enterprise in "Science and Technology China", "Jiangxi Hundred-Thousand-Ten-thousand Talent Project", "Jiangxi Voyage Project", etc.

Associate Prof. Yanqing Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Biography: Yanqing Xu received the Ph.D. degree in communication and information system from the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China, in 2019. He was a senior engineer with Huawei Technologies Company Ltd., from July 2019 to July 2020. From September 2020 to August 2022, he was a PostDoc researcher with The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where he is currently working as a research assistant professor. He is also with the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data. Dr. Xu’s current research interest lies in signal processing algorithm designs for large-scale antenna systems, pinching-antenna systems, and integrated sensing and communication systems. Dr. Xu served as a special session co-organizer and chair in IEEE SPAWC 2024. He was a recipient of the Shenzhen Overseas High-Caliber Personnel and the Top 3% Paper Recognition of the IEEE ICASSP 2023. Several of his research outcomes have been successfully deployed in Huawei’s wireless networks, for which he has received the Huawei Technical Cooperation Achievement Transformation Award (1st Prize) in 2024, the Huawei Wireless Product Line Outstanding Technical Cooperation Project Award in 2024, and the Huawei Technical Cooperation Achievement Transformation Award (2nd Prize) in 2022. He is currently serving on the Editorial Board of EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking.