Meet the ICSSIP 2025 Keynote Speakers
Keynote speaker
Prof. Kun Yang (Fellow of IEEE & IET), Nanjing University, China
Kun Yang received his PhD from University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently the founding Director of the Institute of Nanjing Intelligent Networks and Communications (NINE), Nanjing University, China. He is also an affiliated professor of University of Essex, UK. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, communication-computing cooperation, and new AI (artificial intelligence) for wireless. He has published 500+ papers and filed 50 patents. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals (e.g., IEEE WCM, TVT, TNB). He is a Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Smart Cities Journal. He is the Chair of IEEE ComSoc Smart Grid Communications Technical Committee (2024-2025). He has been a Judge of the GSMA GLOMO Award at World Mobile Congress – Barcelona since 2019. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc (2020-2021) and a Recipient of the 2024 IET Achievement Medals. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of IET and a Distinguished Member of ACM.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Tony Quek (Fellow of IEEE), Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Professor Tony Quek is a tenured professor at SUTD, where he also serves as the Head of the Information Systems Technology and Design (ISTD) pillar, Director of the Future Communications Research and Development Programme (FCP), and Deputy Director of SUTD-ZJU IDEA. He also holds the Cheng Tsang Man Professorship, with a focus on advancing academic and research excellence in the ISTD pillar. His research interests encompass wireless communications and networking, network intelligence, non-terrestrial networks, open radio access networks, and 6G.
Prof Quek has been actively involved in organising and chairing sessions and has served as a TPC member in numerous international conferences. He is currently serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He was an Executive Editorial Committee Member of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and an Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
He received the 2008 Philip Yeo Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Research, the 2012 IEEE William R. Bennett Prize, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2017 CTTC Early Achievement Award, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2020 IEEE Stephen O. Rice Prize, the 2020 Nokia Visiting Professorship, and the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.
Prof Quek co-authored “Small Cell Networks: Deployment, PHY Techniques, and Resource Allocation” (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and “Cloud Radio Access Networks: Principles, Technologies, and Applications” (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
He received his BE and ME degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Prof. Dave Towey, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Professor Dave Towey received the BA and MA degrees in computer science, linguistics, and languages from the University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland; the MEd degree in education leadership from the University of Bristol, U.K.; and the PhD degree in computer science from The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China. He has been with University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) since 2013, where he serves as the head of the School of Computer Science, and as deputy director of the International Doctoral Innovation Centre. He previously served as the associate dean of education and student experience for the Faculty of Science and Engineering. Prior to joining UNNC, he spent eight years working in a variety of roles with another Sino-foreign university in Zhuhai (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University: United International College, UIC ... recently renamed to Beijing Normal Baptist University, BNBU). His current research interests include software testing (especially adaptive random testing, for which he was amongst the earliest researchers who established the field, and metamorphic testing) and technology-enhanced education. He co-founded the ICSE International Workshop on Metamorphic Testing in 2016. He is a fellow of the HEA, and a senior member of the ACM and IEEE.
Tentative Speech Title: Testing Untestable Software, and Teaching How: Metamorphic Testing