Resource Optimization in Wireless Communications

Lie-Liang Yang the professor of Wireless Communications in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. He received his MEng and PhD degrees in communications and electronics from Northern (Beijing) Jiaotong University, Beijing, China in 1991 and 1997, respectively, and his BEng degree in communications engineering from Shanghai TieDao University, Shanghai, China in 1988. He has research interest in wireless communications, wireless networks and signal processing for wireless communications, as well as molecular communications and nano-networks. On these research topics, he has graduated 30+ PhD students and supervised 150+ master projects, published 400+ research papers in journals and conference proceedings, authored/co-authored three books and also published 10+ book chapters. He is a fellow of the IEEE, IET and of the AAIA, and was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE VTS. He served as an associate editor to various journals and is currently a senior editor to the IEEE Access and a subject editor to the Electronics Letters. He was one of the guest editors for some special issues in, such as IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine, IEEE Communication Magazine (2014), etc. He acted different roles, such as TPC/symposium/area/track/ chairs, for organization of conferences.

Dr. Jia Shi received his MSc. and Ph.D degrees from the University of Southampton, UK, in 2010 and 2015, respectively. He was a research associate with Lancaster University, UK, during 2015-2017. Then, he worked as a research fellow with the 5GIC, University of Surrey, UK, from 2017 to 2018. Since 2018, he has been with Xidian University, China, and is now an Associate Professor in the National Key Lab. of Integrated Services Networks (ISN). His current research interests include resource allocation in wireless systems, covert communications, physical layer security, mmWave communications, satellite communications, etc. He is now serving as an Associate Editor to Electronic Letters, and an Editor to the International Journal of Communications System, and serves as a Guest Editor for China Communications.

Kai-Ten Feng received the B.S. degree from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 1992, the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2000.

Since August 2011, he has been a full Professor with the Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he was an Associate Professor and Assistant Professor from August 2007 to July 2011 and from February 2003 to July 2007, respectively. From July 2009 to March 2010, he was a Visiting Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Davis. Between 2000 and 2003, he was an In-Vehicle Development Manager/Senior Technologist with OnStar Corporation, a subsidiary of General Motors Corporation, where he worked on the design of future Telematics platforms and in-vehicle networks. His current research interests include AI-empowered broadband wireless networks, wireless indoor localization and tracking, and device-free wireless sensing technologies.

Dr. Feng received the Best Paper Award from the Spring 2006 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, which ranked his paper first among the 615 accepted papers. He also received the FutureTech Award in 2022 from National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), the Outstanding Youth Electrical Engineer Award in 2007 from the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering, and the Distinguished Researcher Award from NCTU in 2008, 2010, and 2011. He has also served on the technical program committees in various international conferences.

Li-Hsiang Shen received Ph.D. degree from the Institute of Communication Engineering, National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2020. From 2024, he will be an Assistant Professor with Department of Communication Engineering, National Central University (NCU), Taoyuan, Taiwan. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Next Generation Wireless Research Group of ECE, University of Southampton, U.K. From 2021 to 2023, he has been a Postdoc Researcher with Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU), Hsinchu, Taiwan. From 2023, he was a Visiting Scholar with California PATH, Berkeley DeepDrive, University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA. From 2018 to 2023, 40+ articles were published and he reviewed 100+ papers. He served as TPC Member in IEEE VTC2021-Fall, VTC2023-Fall, WPMC2023, and ICC2024. His research interests include wireless broadband, satellite communications, metasurfaces, wireless local area networks, integrated sensing and communications, wireless sensing, and machine/deep learning.

Sau-Hsuan Wu received the B.S. and the M.S. degrees from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1990 and 1993, respectively, both in engineering science, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, CA, USA, in 2003. From 1995 to 1999, and from 2004 to 2005, he served in the industry first as a senior circuit and system design engineer, and then as a technical consultant for wireless communication system designs. Since 2005, he has been with National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and is currently a full Professor with the Institute of Communications Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests lie in the areas of signal processing, system design and performance analysis for wireless communications systems and healthcare AIoT. He has won the best paper award in IEEE Greencom 2013, the first prize, and the second prize awards in 2018 and 2021 Mobileheroes Taiwan, respectively.

Ta-Sung Lee received the B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1983, the M.S. degree from University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN, in 1989, all in electrical engineering. In 1990, he joined the Faculty of National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he holds a position as Professor of Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. From 2005 to 2007, he was Chairman of Department of Communication Engineering, and from 2007 to 2008 and 2012 to 2014, he was Vice President for Student Affairs of NCTU. He was Vice President for Research and Development of NCTU from 2016 to 2021. He was Vice Chairman and Chairman of IEEE Communications Society Taipei Chapter from 2005 to 2008, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2009 to 2013, and IEEE Signal Processing Society Regional Director-at-Large for Region 10 from 2009 to 2013. Dr. Lee was appointed Commissioner of National Communications Commission (NCC) by the Premier of Taiwan, for the term 2008-2010. He was Chairman of Telecom Technology Center, a government funded agency for telecommunications R&D, from 2013 to 2016. He has been Director of IoT & Intelligent Systems Research Center of NCTU since 2017, and Senior Vice President of National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU, a merger of National Yang-Ming University and NCTU) since 2021. Dr. Lee is active in research and development in advanced techniques for wireless communications, such as MIMO systems, mobile network resource management, and advanced radar systems for autonomous vehicles. He has led many collaborative projects in several national research programs, such as “Program for Promoting Academic Excellence of Universities– Phases I and II,” “National Science and Technology Program for Telecommunications” and “4G Mobile Communications Research Program,” “B5G/6G Wireless Communications and Networking Technologies Program,” and “Featured Areas Research Center Program of the Higher Education Sprout Project.” Dr. Lee has won several awards for his research, engineering and education contributions; these include National Science Council (NSC) Excellent Research Award, Young Electrical Engineer Award of the Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE), Distinguished Electrical Engineering Professor Award of CIEE, NCTU Distinguished Scholar Award, and NCTU Teaching Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, IET Fellow, AAIA Fellow and Advance HE Principal Fellow.