Keynote Speakers
 | Prof. Ahmed Abdelgawad, IEEE Senior Member, Central Michigan University, USA |
Ahmed Abdelgawad
Dr. Ahmed Abdelgawad received his M.S. and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007 and 2011 and subsequently joined IBM as a Design Aids & Automation Engineering Professional at Semiconductor Research and Development Center. In Fall 2012 he joined Central Michigan University as a Computer Engineering Assistant Professor. In Fall 2022, Dr. Abdelgawad was promoted to the rank of Professor. He is a senior member of IEEE. His area of expertise is Internet of Things (IoT), distributed computing for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), data fusion techniques for WSN, low power embedded system, digital signal processing, Robotics, RFID, Localization, VLSI, and FPGA design. He has published two books and more than 130 articles in related journals and conferences. Dr. Abdelgawad served as a reviewer for several journals and conferences, including IEEE IoT Journal, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Transactions on VLSI, and IEEE Transactions on I&M, Springer, Elsevier, IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE SAS, and IEEE MWSCAS. Dr. Abdelgawad served as the general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, and Internet of Things, (AIBThings2023), the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI2024), and the International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Blockchain, and Communication Technologies (ISBCom2024). He severed in the organizing committees of IEEE WF-IoT, IEEE ISCAS, IEEE ICIP, IEEE SiPS, IEEE MWSCAS, and GIoTS. In addition, he taught many short IoT courses in different countries. He was the keynote speakers for many international conferences and conducted many webinars. He is currently the IEEE Northeast Michigan section chair and IEEE SPS Internet of Things (IoT) SIG Member. In addition, Dr. Abdelgawad served as a PI and Co-PI for several funded grants from NSF.
 | Asso Prof, VIPIN BALYAN, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa |
VIPIN BALYAN
VIPIN BALYAN received B.E degree in Electronics and Communication with honours in 2003, M.Tech degree in Electronics and Networking from LaTrobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne, Australia in 2006. He received Ph.D Degree in Efficient Single Code Assignment in OVSF based WCDMA Wireless Networks in 2013. He is currently working as an Associate Professor in Department of Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Bellville Campus, Cape Town, South Africa. He is also a Program Coordinator of French South African Institute of Technology. His research area includes CDMA, OFDM, 5G, Visible light communication and Fuel Cells. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) South Africa rated researcher, he received departmental Teaching Excellence Award in 2022, University Bronze award for publication in 2020, University Platinum Award in 2021 for publication and Bronze award for post graduate supervision in 2022. He received a funding of more than 2 million Rands (equivalent to 1 Crore rupees) from Hydrogen South Africa. He authored more than 100 SCI/Scopus indexed Journals and Conferences.
 | Prof. Jinsong Wu, IEEE Senior Member, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile |
Dr. Jinsong Wu is the proposer (2021), Founder (2022) and Founding Editor-in-Chief (2022-present) for the international journal, Green Technologies and Sustainability (GTS), co-published by Elsevier and China Science Publishing & Media Ltd., jointly called KeAi, which is the very first international journal dedicated to general green technologies. He received 2020 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award, for his outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking, and received 2017 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Excellent Services Award for his Excellent Technical Leadership and Services in the Green Communications and Computing Community. He was the leading Editor and a co-author of the comprehensive book, entitled “Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms, and Applications”, published by CRC Press in September 2012, which has been recognized as the very first comprehensive published book effort on green communications covering broad topics of green wireless communications, green wireline communications, general relevant green topics and applications in one book using a research perspective. His first-authored paper, "Big Data Meet Green Challenges: Big Data Toward Green Applications", won 2017 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Award. His second and corresponding authored paper "Energy-Efficient Cooperative Communication and Computation for Wireless Powered Mobile-Edge Computing" won the 2021 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Award. His co-authored paper “A Survey on Energy Internet: Architecture, Approach and Emerging Technologies” won the 2019 IEEE System Journal Best Paper Award. His co-authored paper “Green Industrial Internet of Things Architecture: An Energy-Efficient Perspective” won the 2018 IEEE Green Communications and Computing Technical Committee Best Magazine Paper Award. He also has received three best paper awards for IEEE conference papers. He was elected Vice Chair, Technical Activities, IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (EEI) (2017-2022), a pan-IEEE effort under IEEE Technical Activities Board (TAB) across 25 IEEE Societies, Councils, and organization units (OU). He was the founder (2011) and founding Chair (2011-2017) of the Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC). He is the current Chair (2022-present) and was the co-founder (2014) and founding Vice-Chair (2014-2022) of IEEE Technical Committee on Big Data (TCBD)， which was the very first technical organization on big data within the whole IEEE. He was the very first proposer of IEEE Journals/Transactions on green information and communications technologies (ICT) (2011-2012). He was the proposer (2012) and founder (2014) and Series Editor (2014-2018) on Green Communication and Computing Networks of the IEEE Communications Magazine. He was an Area Editor (2016-2020) of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He was Series Editor (2014-2016) of the IEEE Journal of Selected Areas on Communications (JSAC) Series on Green Communications and Networking. He was proposer, chair and speaker of the Technical Panels on Green Communications and Computing in the IEEE INFOCOM 2012, IEEE ICC 2012, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2012. He was one of key proposers (2012-2015) from Green Track into Green Symposium within IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences (2012). He was the leading General Chair in the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications (Greencom). In 2014, he proposed Big Data Track with very general topics coverage in IEEE Communications Society flagship conferences, starting at Globecom 2016, which have been 14 successful editions (2016-present). He was the proposer and leading organizer of IEEE International Workshop on Green Standardizations and Industry Issues for ICT and Relevant Technologies (GSICT) in IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, which was the very first dedicated conference effort on green standardizations within IEEE and ACM. For not short terms, he has professionally worked in industrial and academic positions in Asia, North America, and South America.
 | Prof. Wenhong Tian, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. |
Prof. Wenhong Tian received a Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. He is now a professor at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). His research interests include scheduling in Cloud computing, Bigdata and AI platforms, image recognition by deep learning, algorithmic theory of machine learning, parallel training of large-scale models and evolution algorithms. He has more than 100 journal/conference publications and 5 books in related areas. He is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM and CCF.
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