Keynote and Plenary Speakers (more to come)

Professor Vincent Poor
Princeton University
H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at Princeton University, where his interests include information theory, machine learning and network science, and their applications in wireless networks, energy systems, and related areas. He is a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering andU.S.  National Academy of Sciences, and also a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and other national and international academies. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2017 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal and honorary doctorates from several universities in Asia, Europe and North America.
Topic: To Be Announced

Dr. Junyi Li
Qualcomm.
Junyi Li is a Vice President of Engineering and Qualcomm Fellow at Qualcomm. Junyi was a key inventor of Flash-OFDM, the first commercially deployed OFDMA-based mobile broadband wireless communications system. He was a co-founder of Flarion Technologies, a startup acquired by Qualcomm in 2006. Prior to that, he was with Bell Labs research. Since joining Qualcomm, Junyi has spearheaded research projects on D2D communications, V2V communications, and mmWave communications. He received the Qualcomm IP Excellence Award in 2020 and the 2024 Thomas Edison Patent Award. Currently he holds more than 2,700 U.S. granted patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and co-authored two books, “OFDMA Mobile Broadband Communications,” published by Cambridge University Press, and "Millimeter Wave Communications in 5G and Towards 6G," published by CRC Press.
Toptic: 6G Enabling scalable mobile connectivity for AI-driven digital society

Dr. Stephen F. Smith
Carnegie Mellon University
Stephen F. Smith is a Research Professor in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is Director of the Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory. Dr. Smith’s research focuses broadly on the theory and practice of next-generation technologies for planning, scheduling and coordination. Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored over 250 technical articles in the areas of artificial intelligence, planning, scheduling and optimization. He is associate editor of the Journal of Scheduling and a member of the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Constraints, and the International Journal of Planning and Scheduling. He served as a founding member of the executive council of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS). He is the current President of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and is a member of the executive council of the International Society of Interdisciplinary Scheduling (ISIS). He is an elected Fellow of the AAAI.
Toptic: To Be Announced