Keynote Speakers

Prof. Xiangjie Kong

Zhejiang University of Technology, China

Bio: Dr. Xiangjie Kong is a full professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University of Technology, China. He was an associate professor at the School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, China, and served as the head of the Department of Network Engineering. He is the founding director of The CSSC Lab (The Urban Social Computational Science Laboratory), a distinguished member of CCF, a senior member of IEEE, a full member of Sigma Xi, and a member of ACM. He has served as general co-chair, workshop chair, publicity chair, or program committee member of more than 30 conferences, and editorial board member of 6 international journals. Research interests include big data, network science, and computational social science. Named in the top 2% of global scientists in 2019 and 2020 published by Stanford University, he has received the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Best Land Transportation Paper Award and the Outstanding Young Scholar Award from the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province.

Prof. P. Takis Mathiopoulos

Bio: P. Takis Mathiopoulos received the Ph.D. degree in digital communications from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 1989. From 1982 to 1986, he was with Raytheon Canada Ltd., working in the areas of air navigational and satellite communications.In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, as an Assistant Professor and where he was a faculty member until 2003, holding the rank of Professor from 2000 to 2003. From 2000 to 2014, he was the Director (2000 - 2004) and then the Director of Research of the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS), National Observatory of Athens (NOA). Since 2014, he is Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. He also held visiting faculty long term honorary academic appointments as Guest Professor at South West Jiao Tong University ( SWJTU ), Chengdu, China, and Guest(Global) Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.  His research activities and contributions have dealt with wireless terrestrial and satellite communication systems and network as well as in remote sensing, LiDAR systems, and information technology, including blockchain systems. In these areas, he has coauthored 140 journal papers published mainly in various IEEE journals, 1 book (edited), 5 book chapters, and more than 140 conference papers. Dr. Mathiopoulos has been or currently serves on the editorial board of several archival journals, including the IET Communications as an Area Editor, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the Remote Sensing Journal, and as Specialty Chief Editor for the Arial and Space Network Journal of Frontiers.