Mobile sensing in AI age

Chair:  Prof. Huadong Ma, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Members:  Prof. Daqing Zhang, Peking University and IP Paris

Prof. Xinbing Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Prof. John C.S. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,  Hong Kong

Biography

Dr. Huadong Ma is a Professor of School of Computer Science, and Vice-Chair of Academic Committee, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT), China. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science in 1995. He was Chief Scientist of the project “Basic Research on the Architecture of Internet of Things” supported by the National 973 Program of China from 2010 to 2013. His current research focuses on sensor networks and Internet of things, multimedia computing, and he has published over 400 papers in journals or Conferences and 5 books on these fields. As a co-author, he got the 2019 Prize Paper award of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and the 2018 Best Paper Award from IEEE MultiMedia. He was awarded National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists in 2009, the Natural Science Award of the Ministry of Education, China in 2017. He was/is an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, and ACM Transactions on Internet of Things. He serves for Chair of ACM SIGMOBILE China, Director of CCF Technical Committee on IoT. He is IEEE/CCF/CAAI Fellow.

Daqing Zhang is a Chair Professor with Peking University, China and IP Paris, France. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, context-aware computing, big data analytics and Intelligent IoT. He has published more than 300 technical papers in leading conferences and journals, where his work on context model and WiFi-based sensing theory is widely accepted by pervasive computing, mobile computing and service computing communities. He is the winner of the Ten Years CoMoRea Impact Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2013 and Ten Years Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE UIC 2019, the Best Paper Award Runner-up at ACM MobiCom 2022, the Distinguished Paper Award of IMWUT (Ubicomp 2021), Honorable Mention Award at ACM UbiComp 2015 and 2016, etc.. He served as the general or program chair for more than a dozen of international conferences, and in the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing and Proceeding of ACM IMWUT. Daqing Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and Member of Academy of Europe.

Dr. Xinbing Wang is a Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is the Chairman of the ACM China Council, was the Vice Dean of the School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, as well as the Executive Director of the John Hopcroft Center for Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He is leading the project of ACEMAP (www.acemap.info), an academic knowledge graph system with billion nodes. He has served on the editorial boards of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has supervised three Ph.D. students  awarded as ACM China Doctoral Dissertation, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE) and Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from Chinese Institute of Communications (CIC), and more than 40 graduated students working in various universities in China.

John C.S. Lui is currently the Choh-Ming Li Chair Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a fellow of ACM, fellow of IEEE, fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences and Senior research fellow of the Croucher Foundation. His current research interests are in quantum Internet and the theory of online learning and optimization. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA, Columbia University, Caltech, Uni. of Maryland, Purdue University, Univ. of Massachusetts at Amherst and INRIA(France). He has  been serving as senior editor and associate editor in various IEEE and ACM Transactions, and has received numerous best paper awards in IEEE/ACM conferences as well as teaching awards from CUHK. His personal interests include films and general readings.