Prof. Zheng Yan (IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA
Fellow, and AIIA Fellow)
Xidian University, China
Dr. Zheng Yan is currently a Huashan distinguished
professor at the Xidian University, China. She is a
Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, and AIIA. She received the B.
Eng in electrical engineering and M. Eng in computer
science and engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University
in 1994 and 1997. She received a second M. Eng in
information security from National University of
Singapore in 2000. She earned the Licentiate of Science
and the Doctor of Science in Technology in electrical
engineering from Helsinki University of Technology in
2005 and 2007. She joined the Nokia Research Center,
Helsinki in 2000, working as a senior researcher until
2011. She worked as a visiting professor and a Finnish
Academy Fellow at the Aalto University, Finland for over
seven years.
Her research interests are in cyber trust, security,
privacy, and data analytics. She has led 30+ projects,
sponsored by EU, Academy of Finland, NSFC, MOST, telecom
industry, etc. At the helm of a research team with 60+
members, she has supervised 160+ post-doctoral
researchers and graduates. She has authored 400+
publications, with 270+ first and corresponding
authorships, featured prominently in top-tier venues.
Thirteen of them are top 0.1% or 1% highly-cited ESI
papers. She is the sole author of two books on trust
management, utilized in teaching for a decade. 150
patents (including 82 independent international
inventions) invented by her have been adopted by
industry, a few of them have been incorporated into
international standards and widely used in practice with
billions of users. She has delivered 30+ invited keynote
speeches and talks at international conferences and
world-leading companies. Her Google Scholar citation is
over 16,000 with an H-index of 66,
Zheng served and is serving as an
EiC/area/associate/guest editor for 60+ reputable
journals, e.g., executive EiC of Information Sciences,
associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, area editor
of Information Fusion. She is a steering committee
member of several conferences, a general/program chair
for 40+ international conferences. She is a founding
steering committee co-chair of IEEE International
Conference on Blockchain, which becomes a leading venue
in the field.
Dr. Yan is recognized as a Stanford World Top 2%
Scientist since 2019 and an Elsevier Highly Cited
Chinese Researcher since 2020. She has earned many
accolades, including Distinguished Inventor of Nokia for
significant technology contributions, N²Women Star in
Computer Networking and Communications, IEEE TCSC Award
for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE TEMS
Distinguished Leadership Award, ELEC Impact Award for
patent contributions to Finnish society, the Best
Journal Paper Award issued by IEEE ComSoc and several
other Best Paper awards, 18 times other IEEE
Distinguished/Outstanding Leadership/Service awards,
three EU awards, Excellent PhD Dissertation Supervisor
Award of Chinese Society of Electronic Education,
Shaanxi Nature Science Prize, etc. Her students have
been rewarded more than 50 national or international
awards. Her excellence has been covered by the media on
numerous occasions.
Prof. Tomoaki Otsuki
Keio University, Japan
Tomoaki Otsuki (Ohtsuki) received the
B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan in 1990, 1992, and
1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995 he was a Post
Doctoral Fellow and a Visiting Researcher in Electrical
Engineering at Keio University. From 1993 to 1995 he was
a Special Researcher of Fellowships of the Japan Society
for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior
Scientists. From 1995 to 2005 he was with Science
University of Tokyo. In 2005 he joined Keio University.
He is now a Professor at Keio University. From 1998 to
1999 he was with the department of electrical
engineering and computer sciences, University of
California, Berkeley. He is engaged in research on
wireless communications, optical communications, signal
processing, and information theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a
recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young
Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young
Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000,
2002 Funai Information and Science Award for Young
Scientist, IEEE the 1st Asia-Pacific Young Researcher
Award 2001, the 5th International Communication
Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE
Outstanding Service Award, the 27th TELECOM System
Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer
Award, 9th International Conference on Communications
and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper
Award, 2020 Yagami Award, The 26th Asia-Pacific
Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper
Award, and International Conference on Internet of
Things, Communication and Intelligent Technology
(IoTCIT) 2024 Best Paper Award. He has published more
than 276 journal papers and 518 international conference
papers.
He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society,
Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics
Technical Committee. He served as a technical editor of
the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor
of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving
as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular
Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications
Surveys and Tutorials. He is also serving as the IEEE
Communications Society, Asia Pacific Board Director. He
has served as general-co chair, symposium co-chair, and
TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE
GLOBECOM 2008, SPC, IEEE ICC 2011, CTS, IEEE GLOBECOM
2012, SPC, IEEE ICC 2020, SPC, IEEE APWCS, IEEE SPAWC,
and IEEE VTC. He gave tutorials and keynote speeches at
many international conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE
PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, and so on. He was Vice President and
President of the Communications Society of the IEICE,
also he was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE. He is
a fellow of the IEICE, a Fellow of Asia-Pacific
Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), a senior
member of the IEEE, and a member of the Engineering
Academy of Japan.
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BDE 2025 conference secretary
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