Keynote Speakers

 

		Boon S. Ooi, FNAI, FIEEE, FOSA, FSPIE & FInstP King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia

Boon S. Ooi (FNAI, FIEEE, FOSA, FSPIE and FInstP) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST. He was Director of KACST-Technology Innovation Center at KAUST from 2012-2020. His research interests include high-speed optoelectronics and optical wireless communications. To date, he has trained 38 PhD students and 17 postdocs, and placed them in top places in academia, industry, and government all over the world. He is an inventor of 41 issued US Patents and the recipient of the following selected awards: the OSA/OSK Sang Soo Lee Award (OSA/OPTICA, 2024), the Khalifa International Award (UAE, 2023), the International Date Palm Innovation Prize (KSA, 2022), the PIFI Distinguished Scientist Award (CAS-China, 2021), as well as many paper awards. He served as Associate Editor of the Optics Express, Senior Editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal, and Chair/Co-chair/TPC of OFC, CLEO, IPC, ISLC, and IEDM. He is currently serving or has served on the IEEE Fellow Committee, the SPIE Fellow Selection Committee, and the IEEE Women in Photonics Award Committee. He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

Speech Title: Gbps Laser-based underwater wireless optical communication

Abstract: The ocean is key to human survival, providing natural resources, most of the global oxygen supply, and economic development through mineral, gas, and oil deposits. Although the sea is primarily considered a silent world, it is abundant with the natural sounds of marine life communication and geological processes. Human activities, especially active sonars, water polluting, shipping traffic, and underwater vehicles, have significantly affected the aquatic ecosystem and environment. In this talk, recent development and advances in underwater wireless optical communication will be presented. I will focus my discussion on optoelectronic device and system challenges facing long distance, multiple-Gbps underwater wireless optical communication. The future perspective of the underwater photonics will also be discussed.

 

		Peter Chong, IET Fellow Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

Professor Peter Han Joo Chong is the Associate Head of School (Research) at the School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Between 2016 and 2021, he was the Head of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at AUT. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2000. He has visited Tohoku University, Japan, as a Visiting Scientist in 2010 and Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Hong Kong, between 2011 and 2012. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, CUHK. He is an Honorary Professor at Amity University, India. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), UK. Prof. Chong is listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University in 2022.

Before joining AUT in 2016, Professor Chong was an Associate Professor (tenured) from July 2009 to April 2016 and Assistant Professor from May 2002 to June 2009 at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Between 2011 and 2013, he was the Assistant Head of Division of Communication Engineering. Between 2013 and 2016, he was the Director of Infinitus, Centre for Infocomm Technology. He was the recipient of ‘EEE Teaching Excellence Award’ and ‘Nanyang Award Excellence in Teaching’ in 2010, and ‘Nanyang Education Award (College)’ in 2015. In 2015, he became a Fellow of the Teaching Excellence Academy in NTU. From February 2001 to May 2002, he was with the Radio Communications Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Between July 2000 and January 2001, he worked in the Advanced Networks Division at Agilent Technologies Canada Inc., Canada. He co-founded P2 Wireless Technology in Hong Kong in 2009 and Zyetric Technologies in Hong Kong, New Zealand and US in 2017.

His current research projects focus on machine learning techniques applied to vehicular networks. He has been developing techniques of deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based resource management for future 5G-V2X networks. His research interests are in the areas of wireless/mobile communications systems including radio resource management, multiple access, MANETs/VANETs, green radio networks and 5G-V2X networks. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers, 2 edited books, 13 book chapters and 4 US patents in the relevant areas.

 

 

		Zhengyuan Xu (徐正元) University of Science and Technology of China, China 无线光通信研究中心创始主任，中国科学院无线光电通信重点实验室创始主任，国家级专家，国家973项目首席科学家，国家基金委无线通信大数据重点项目群负责人

Zhengyuan Xu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Tsinghua University, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Stevens Institute of Technology, USA. He was a Tenured Full Professor with the University of California at Riverside and later with Tsinghua University, before he joined the University of Science and Technology of China. He was the Founding Director of the multi-campus Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light, University of California, and the Founding Director of Wireless-Optical Communications Key Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was a Distinguished Expert and the Chief Scientist of the National Key Basic Research Program of China. He has published over 400 international journal and conference papers, and coauthored a book titled Visible Light Communications: Modulation and Signal Processing which has been selected by IEEE Series on Digital and Mobile Communication and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. His research focuses on Petahertz communications, optical wireless communications, mobile networking, artificial intelligence, wireless big data, sensing, ranging, and localization. He has been on the Elsevier annual list of Most Cited Chinese Researchers since 2014. He has served as an Associate Editor for different IEEE/OSA journals and was a Founding Co-Chair of IEEE Workshop on Optical Wireless Communications in 2010.

徐正元教授，中国科学技术大学教授、博士生导师、学术委员会委员、无线光通信研究中心创始主任，中国科学院无线光电通信重点实验室创始主任，国家级专家，国家973项目首席科学家，国家基金委无线通信大数据重点项目群负责人。1989年和1991年分别获得清华大学学士硕士学位，1991年至1996年在清华紫光集团担任部门经理与工程师，1999年获得美国史蒂文斯理工学院博士学位，毕业后加入加州大学河滨分校，先后任助理教授、终身副教授、教授，加州大学泛在光通信UC-Light研究中心创始主任，于2010年回国，曾任清华大学教授、中国科学技术大学信息学院副院长。主要从事移动通信与光通信领域的理论与实验研究，包括拍赫兹通信，宽光谱无线光通信，宽带移动通信，定位导航，智能交通，物联网，智能感知，无线通信大数据等。共发表期刊与会议论文400余篇，出版中英文专著3本，自2014年连续入选爱思唯尔Elsevier高被引学者榜单，成果入选《中国基础研究发展报告》。担任多年IEEE&OSA期刊副编辑，中国光学工程学会常务理事，多次为国际学术会议担任过技术委员会主席、国家科研项目和人才计划项目会评专家，多次受邀在国际会议上做大会报告和特邀报告。为2010年第一届IEEE无线光通信国际会议的创始主席。

 

 

		Liang Xia China Mobile Research Institute, China

Liang Xia received the M.S. degree in Information and Communication Engineering in 2008 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He is a technical manager in the Future Research Laboratory, China Mobile Research Institute. He is in charge of research and verification of 6G wireless technologies including millimetre-wave, THz, visible light communication and networking.