ICTCE 2024 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker I

Mohsen Guizani

Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), UAE

IEEE Fellow

Mohsen Guizani (Fellow, IEEE) received the BS (with distinction), MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA in 1985, 1987 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Machine Learning at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Previously, he worked in different institutions in the USA. His research interests include applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, smart city, Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent autonomous systems, and cybersecurity. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2009 and was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022. Dr. Guizani has won several research awards including the “2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award”, the Best ComSoc Journal Paper Award in 2021 as well 5 Best Paper Awards from ICC and Globecom Conferences. He is the author of 11 books, more than 1000 publications and several US patents. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award, the 2018 AdHoc Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition (CISTC) Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of many IEEE Transactions and Magazines. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and the Chair of the TAOS Technical Committee. He served as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker and is currently the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

Keynote Speaker II

Moshe Zukerman

City University of Hong Kong, China

IEEE Fellow

Moshe Zukerman received a B.Sc. degree in industrial engineering and management, an M.Sc. degree in operations research from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, and a Ph.D. degree in engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985. He was an independent consultant with the IRI Corporation and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of California, Los Angeles, during 1985–1986. In 1986–1997, he was with Telstra Research Laboratories (TRL), first as a research engineer and between 1988-1997 as a project leader managing a team of researchers providing expert advice to Telstra on network design and traffic engineering, and traffic aspects of evolving telecommunications standards. He also taught and supervised graduate students at Monash University between 1990–2001. During 1997–2008, he was with The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, as a senior research fellow (1997-1998), associate professor (1998-2001), and professor (2001-2008). In 2008 he joined the City University of Hong Kong as a Chair Professor of Information Engineering, and a team leader. Between 2020-2022, he also serves as Acting Chief Information Officer of CityU. He has over 400 publications in scientific journals and conference proceedings and served on various journal editorial boards and contributed to conference organizations and technical committees. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Keynote Speaker III

Tsung-Hui Chang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ), China

IEEE Fellow

Tsung-Hui Chang (Fellow of IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from the National Tsing Hua University (NTHU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. From 2012 to 2015, he was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taipei, Taiwan. In August 2015, Dr. Chang joined the School of Science and Engineering (SSE), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHKSZ), China, as an Assistant Professor, and since August 2018, as an Associate Professor. Prior to being a faculty member, Dr. Chang held research positions with NTHU, from 2008 to 2011, and the University of California, Davis, CA, USA, from 2011 to 2012. His research interests include signal processing and optimization problems in data communications, machine learning and big data analysis. Dr. Chang received the Young Scholar Research Award of NTUST in 2014, IEEE ComSoc Asian-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2015, the prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Best Paper Award in 2018 and 2021, and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award of SSE, CUHKSZ, in 2021. Dr. Chang is an Elected Member of IEEE SPS Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee (SPCOM TC) (2020/01-), the Founding Chair of IEEE SPS Integrated Sensing and Communciation Technical Working Group (ISAC TWG) (2021/07-), and IEEE SPS Regional Director-at-Large of Region 10 (2022/01-). He has served the editorial board for major SP journals, including an Associate Editor (2014/08-2018/12) and Senior Area Editor (2021/02-present) of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, and an Associate Editor of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS (2015/01-2018/12) and IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF SIGNAL PROCESSING (2020/01-). Dr. Chang was elevated to an IEEE Fellow in the year 2023.

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