| Professor, Guangjie HanHohai University, China Profile: GuangjieHan, Ph.D., Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, is the Dean of the School of Information Science and Engineering at Hohai University, and a Fellow of IEEE, IET, and AAIA. His primary research areas include underwater acoustic communication and networking, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, and network security. In recent years, he has published over 380 high-level SCI journal papers in international journals such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE TMC, IEEE TPDS, and IEEE TON (including more than 130 papers in IEEE/ACM Transactions series). As of now, his work has been cited over 18,600 times according to Google Scholar, with an H-index of 73. He haschaired more than 30 provincial and ministerial-level projects, including major projects from the National Key Research and Development Program and the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has receivedten provincial- and ministerial-level awards and holds 144 authorized invention patents. He has been included in the list ofTop 2% Scientists globally for six consecutive years (2019-2024) and the list of highly-cited scholars in China by Elsevier for four consecutive years (2020-2023). Currently, Dr.Han isan associate editor for over ten international journals, including IEEE TII, IEEE TCCN, IEEE TVT, and IEEE Systems. He has been recognized as a member of the Jiangsu Provincial 333 High-level Talent (Level 2) Program, an expert with Outstanding Contributions in Jiangsu Province, and has received various honors such as the Wuyi Labor Medal in Changzhou. |
| Professor, Gerhard P. Hancke SrNanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Profile: Gerhard P. Hancke (M’88–SM’00–F’16–LF’19) received the B.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees (1970), and the M.Eng. degree (1973) from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, and the D.Eng. degree (1983) from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, all in Electronic Engineering. He is a Professor with the College for Automation and College for Artificial Intelligence at the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is recognized internationally as a pioneer and leading scholar in Industrial Wireless Sensor Network (IWSN) research, and was elevated to IEEE Fellow “for contributions to wireless sensor networks”. He initiated and co-edited the first Special Section on Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS in 2009 and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (TII) in 2013. He co-edited a textbook, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols and Standards (2013), the first on the topic. Two of his papers in the IWSN field are listed by ESI (Web of Science) as Highly Cited papers in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (ranked 3rd and 7th respectively). He received the TII Best Paper Award for 2012 (within the area of Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks). He co-edited a textbook, Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks: Applications, Protocols and Standards (2013), the first on the topic. Currently, he is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS and Senior Editor of IEEE ACCESS. |
