On December 21st, at the invitation of Prof. Meng Weixiao and Associate Prof. Chen Shuyi from IEEE ComSoc Harbin Section, Prof. Tony Quek, a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and Prof. Jiangzhou Wang, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IET, honorary professor of HIT, and professor at the University of Kent, UK, gave distinguished lecturer talks online. The detailed information of the lectures are as follows:

Title 1：

Ready to talk about 6G?

Date and Time:

15:30-17:00,Dec 21st,2023

Abstract:

With 5G cellular technologies now beginning to be deployed around the world, the research community has embarked on the pathway to define the sixth generation (6G) wireless system to be deployed in the year 2030. The market demands of 2030 and beyond will likely introduce new applications, with more stringent requirements (in terms of ultra-high reliability, capacity, energy efficiency, and low latency. In this talk, we will share about some technology trends, current 5G systems, and our views about 6G. In addition, we will also share our 6G perspective and our national strategy towards research investment in this area.

Title 2：

Network-based Integrated Sensing and Communications

Date and Time:

18:00-19:30,Dec 21st,2023

Abstract:

With the advent of the era of 6G mobile communications, the integration of several core technologies such as sensing and communication has become inevitable. But network-based integration faces many challenges. What are technical challenges? This lecture will explore these open questions.

Biography:

Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and ST Engineering Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Head of ISTD Pillar, Director for Future Communications R&D Programme, Sector Lead for SUTD AI Program, and the Deputy Director of SUTD-ZJU IDEA. His current research topics include wireless communications and networking, 6G, network intelligence, non-terrestrial networks, and open radio access network.

Dr. Quek has been actively involved in organizing 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.

Dr. Quek 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 the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

Jiangzhou Wang is a Professor with the University of Kent, U.K. He has published more than 400 papers and four books. His research focuses on mobile communications. He was a recipient of the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize and IEEE Globecom2012 Best Paper Award. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2019), Shanghai, Executive Chair of the IEEE ICC2015, London, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE WCNC2013. He is/was the editor of a number of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1998 to 2013. Professor Wang is a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the IET.

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On December 20th, at the invitation of Prof. Meng Weixiao and Associate Prof. Chen Shuyi from IEEE ComSoc Harbin Section, Prof. Cheng Li, a Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Memorial University and Prof. Tony Quek, a Fellow of IEEE and Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, gave distinguished lecturer talks online. The detailed information of the lectures are as follows:

Title 1：

Underwater Acoustic Communications and Networking for the Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT)

Date and Time:

13:30-15:00,Dec 20th,2023

Abstract:

The Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), a new class of the Internet of Things (IoT), has emerged in recent years as a network of smart interconnected underwater objects to create a worldwide network that will digitally link the oceans, rivers, and lakes. There have been a number of research and development initiatives tackling technical challenges of the IoUT. These are still in the early stage of investigation. The most challenging remaining tasks include efficient and reliable communication and networking, energy efficiency, and cost reduction. In this talk, we present an overview of IoUT and its applications with the focuses on the offshore oil and gas industry and marine transportation and fishery industry. We review the challenges faced by the marine monitoring and sensing applications, and introduce underwater communications and networking as the key enabling technologies for the IoUT. We present large-scale array network as the technical solutions for such problems by showing how this can be integrated with the passive network sensing and proactive network sensing approaches. We conclude the talk by reviewing the technical challenges of the underwater communications and networking.

Title 2：

A Look at Federated Learning from Different Perspectives

Date and Time:

15:30-17:00,Dec 20th,2023

Abstract:

Machine learning is playing an increasingly crucial role in the field of wireless communications due to its high efficiency in dealing with complex computations and models. In this talk, we provide a comprehensive coverage of a distributed learning paradigm based on federated learning, including the general architecture, model training algorithm, and analytical framework that quantifies the convergence rate. Specifically, we investigate federated learning from different perspectives, namely, wireless federated learning, over-the-air federated learning, data heterogeneity, and learning efficiency. Furthermore, we share some of our recent works in this area to provide different innovative ways of looking at this federated learning and tackling the inherent challenges of this technology.

Biography:

Cheng Li received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada, in 2004. He is currently a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada.

His research interests include wireless communications and networking, communications signal processing, underwater communication and networking, and mobile computing and computer networks. He has contributed 4 book chapters and over 350 research articles, including more than 150 journal publications. He is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for the 2021-22 term.

He is an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the IEEE Internet-of-Things Journal, and the IEEE Network Magazine. He has served as the General Co-Chair of the ICNC’23, Q2SWinet’20, WINCOM’19, and AICON’19, and the TPC Co-Chair for the ICNC’20, ADHOCNETS’19, ACOSIS’19, WiCON’17, MSWiM’14, WiMob’11 and QBSC’10.

Dr. Li is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence at Memorial University in 2021, the recipient of the Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society Communications Software Technical Committee in 2018, and the recipient of several Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including the IEEE Globecom’2017 and ICC’2010. He is a registered Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada and is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the IEEE Communication Society, Computer Society, Vehicular Technology Society, and Ocean Engineering Society.

Tony Q.S. Quek received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, respectively. At Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he earned the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Currently, he is the Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) and ST Engineering Distinguished Professor. He also serves as the Head of ISTD Pillar, Director for Future Communications R&D Programme, Sector Lead for SUTD AI Program, and the Deputy Director of SUTD-ZJU IDEA. His current research topics include wireless communications and networking, 6G, network intelligence, non-terrestrial networks, and open radio access network.

Dr. Quek has been actively involved in organizing 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.

Dr. Quek 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 the 2022 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore.

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On December 13th, at the invitation of Prof. Meng Weixiao and Associate Prof. Chen Shuyi from IEEE ComSoc Harbin Section, Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi (IEEE Life Fellow), an internationally renowned expert in wireless communications from Tohoku University, Japan, and Prof. Peter Chong, an Associate Head of the School (Research), School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, gave distinguished lecturer talks online. The detailed information of the lectures are as follows:

Title 1：

Recent Advances in Wireless Technology Towards B5G/6G

Date and Time:

9:00-10:30,Dec 13th,2023

Abstract:

Over the past 40 years, mobile communication systems have evolved from 1G to 5G. Advances in wireless technology have greately contributed to this evolution. The first lecture concerns recent advances in wireless technology towards Beyond 5G (B5G)/6G. Due to the rapid growth of broadband data services, mmWave band is utilized for 5G systems. Unfortunately, however, its deployment is rather slow. Considering that the mmWave band is indispensable for radio access in B5G/6G, it is necessary to find a way to accelerate its utilization by changing the disadvantage of the mmWave short distance communication into an advantage. Ultra-densification of radio access not only greatly improves spectral efficiency, but also makes it possible to utilize the mmWave band. This lecture will introduce the concept of scalable and flexible cell-free/distributed multi-user MIMO.

Title 2：

Research Methodology: Techniques for writing review paper

Date and Time:

14:00-16:00,Dec 13th,2023

Abstract:

This topic provides guidelines and writing techniques for writing review research papers. The lecture content include: A research presentation will be given first. Then, through reading several sample research papers in class, the students will learn and understand of the essential writing skills and techniques for writing review research papers. Some basic rules for writing a literature review papers will be given and taught. At the end, the essential parameters to measure the research performance will be given.

Biography:

Fumiyuki Adachi (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Tokyo, Japan, and conducted research on digital cellular mobile communications. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT DOCOMO, Tokyo, where he led a Research Group on wideband/broadband wireless access for 3G and beyond. Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University. He is currently leading a Resilient Wireless Communication Research Group with the International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University, towards the development of beyond 5G systems. His research interests include the area of wireless signal processing and networking, multi-access, equalization, antenna diversity, adaptive transmission, channel coding, radio resource management. Dr. Adachi was the recipient of IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award 2000, IEICE Achievement Award 2002, Thomson Scientific Research Front Award 2004, Prime Minister Invention Award 2010, C&C Prize 2014, IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award 2017, IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award 2017, APCC2019 Best Paper Award.

Peter Han Joo Chong (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from The University of British Columbia, Canada, in 2000. He was an Associate Professor (tenured) with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From July 2000 and January 2001, he with the Advanced Networks Division, Agilent Technologies Canada Inc., Canada. From February 2001 to May 2002, he was a Research Engineer with the Nokia Research Center, Finland. From 2013 and 2016, he was the Director of the Infinitus, Centre for Infocomm Technology, NTU. He is currently a Full Professor and an Associate Head of the School (Research), School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. He is an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and an Honorary Professor with Amity University, India. He has published more than 300 research articles. His research interests include the areas of mobile communications systems, including MANETs/VANETs, C-V2X, the Internet of Things/Vehicles, AI for wireless networks, and 5G networks. He is a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET).

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On September 13th, at the invitation of Prof. Weixiao Meng and Assistant Prof. Shuyi Chen from the School of Electronic and Information Engineering of HIT, with financial support from the “6G Advanced Wireless Communication and Networking Technology” Senior Foreign Experts Importation Program Project and under the joint support of IEEE COMSOC Harbin Chapter and IEEE VTS Harbin Chapter, Prof. Jiangzhou Wang, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the IET, honorary professor of HIT, and professor at the University of Kent, UK, visited IEEE Harbin ComSoc Chapter and gave an academic lecture. The detailed information of the lectures are as follows:

Title:

Near-field Communications and Sensing Technology

Date and Time:

11:00-12:30, Sep 13th, 2023

Location：

ROOM 1011, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

Far-field channel model has been considered for decades in wireless communications. However, as ultra-massive MIMO is promising for future wireless communications with high frequency such as millimeter wave and TeraHz, near-field channel model becomes important. In this talk, near-field channel model and latest research results in UM-MIMO will be presented.

Biography:

Jiangzhou Wang is a Professor with the University of Kent, U.K. He has published more than 400 papers and four books. His research focuses on mobile communications. He was a recipient of the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize and IEEE Globecom2012 Best Paper Award. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2019), Shanghai, Executive Chair of the IEEE ICC2015, London, and Technical Program Chair of the IEEE WCNC2013. He is/was the editor of a number of international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications from 1998 to 2013. Professor Wang is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Fellow of the IEEE, and Fellow of the IET.

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Prof. Weixiao Meng introduced Prof. Jiangzhou Wang

Prof. Jiangzhou Wang was giving a lecture

Prof. Wang answered the questions

group photo after the meeting

At the invitation of Prof. Weixiao Meng and Prof. Shuai Han from IEEE ComSoc Harbin Section, Prof. Kun Yang will give a distinguished lecturer talk online on November 24th, 2020. The detailed information of the lecture is as follows:

Title:

Mobile Edge Computing and Communications from the Sky

Date and Time:

2020/11/24 18:30-21:00

Online Meeting:

Welcome to the online meeting：https://meeting.tencent.com/s/eoYIs6kyTy2D

Meeting ID：414 639 595

Abstract:

With the advancement of UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) edge computing and communications from the sky become possible and indeed provide an effective way to complement the current ground-based horizontal edge computing and communications. This talk starts with a brief introduction of UAV and UAV-assisted wireless communications, and then moves on to discuss the necessity of a close collaboration of the two important resources in any ICT system, namely, communication and computation, again in the context of UAVs. Some algorithms for joint resource (both computing and communications) allocation and UAV trajectory (flying path) design are introduced and explained with practical considerations. Some explanation as to how a physical problem is turned into a mathematical optimization problem is given, which is expected to be useful to younger researchers. The talk concludes with discussions on future opportunities in this exciting research area. The talk is easy to follow and is suitable to young researchers who just start their research study and to anybody who is interested in mobile edge computing and UAV-enabled communications.

Biography:

Kun Yang received his PhD from the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering of University College London (UCL), UK. He is currently a Chair Professor in the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, UK, leading the Network Convergence Laboratory (NCL) and the Communications and Networks Group of Essex. Before joining Essex at 2003, he worked at UCL on several European Union (EU) research projects for several years. He has also been a visiting/affiliated professor at several universities. His main research interests include wireless networks and communications, IoT networking, data and energy integrated networks, mobile edge computing. He has published 300+ technical papers and filed 20+ patents in the above areas. He manages research projects funded by various sources such as UK EPSRC, EU FP7/H2020 and industries. He coordinated one EU FP7 research project. He has been a Judge of GSMA Global Mobile Awards 2019 and 2020 (MWC-Barcelona) and a member of UK EPSRC Peer Review College for many years. He serves on the editorial boards of a number of IEEE journals. He has been actively organizing international conferences/symposia/workshops.

IEEE Harbin ComSoc Chapter Advanced Communications Technologies Forum 2019

At the invitation of Prof. Qiyue Yu (IEEE Senior Member), Prof. Fumiyuki Adachi (IEEE Fellow,IEICE Fellow), an internationally renowned wireless communications expert from Northeast University of Japan, visits IEEE Harbin ComSoc Chapter from August 8th to August 11th, 2019. The detailed information of the lectures are as follows:

Title 1：

Enhancing 5G Radio Access Networks by Exploitation of Spatially Distributed Antennas and Users

Date and Time:

9:30-11:00, Aug 9th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

The 5^th generation (5G) mobile communication services are now about to start. In 5G systems, a significant improvement in the spectrum efficiency is demanded. The distributed MIMO is promising for improving the spectrum efficiency of radio access network (RAN). A number of antennas are spatially distributed in a base station (BS)-cell area. Some antennas near a user is selected for cooperative signal transmission and the same radio resource is simultaneously reused within BS-cell area. User clustering with antenna selection beyond the user cluster border can effectively reduce the intra-cell interference. Adjacent BSs are loosely coordinated to improve the scalability of RAN. As a result, the inter-cell interference (ICI) is produced. The ICI coordination based on the fractional frequency reuse (FFR) is applied for cell-edge users. The link capacity evaluation by computer simulation of distributed MIMO RAN with cooperative signal transmission, user clustering, and ICI coordination is presented.

Title 2：

Decentralized Radio Resource Management for Dense Heterogeneous Wireless Networks

Date and Time:

14:00-15:30, Aug 9th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

Due to the limited available bandwidth, the spectrum-efficiency was the most important concern for the last few decades. Also, the available energy, in particular, for battery operated user equipments (UEs), is limited. Therefore, the spectrum and energy-efficiencies will remain an eternal concern for mobile communication networks. One promising solution to improve both the spectrumy and energy-efficiencies is to introduce the small-cell structured network. However, wide range of UE mobility is problematic and causes frequent handover. Furthermore, UE density is not necessarily high everywhere. Recently, the heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) are attracting a lot of attention. In dense HetNets, a number of small base stations (SBSs) are deployed in the area of a macro BS (MBS). Decentralized management of limited radio resources is attractive to achieve flexible deployment of a number of SBSs and higher scalability of HetNets. In this presentation, we introduce decentralized SBS power on/off and decentralized dynamic channel assignment and their impacts on network power consumption, throughput, and handover (HO).

Biography:

International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks 2019: Invited Talk

Sponsored by Prof. Qing Guo, Weixiao Meng, Xuemai Gu, Xuejun Sha and Honglin Zhao, organized by HIT SEIE, with the co-financing of HIT Engineering and International Cooperation, as well as under the joint support of IEEE ComSoc Harbin Chapter and IEEE VTS Harbin Chapter, series activities of spring academic month and International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks will officially start on 25th May 2019, at Sofitel Hotel, Harbin. At that time, Prof. Jinhong Yuan, Ekram Hossain, Guoqiang Mao, Byonghyo Shim, and other IEEE Fellow professors, will provide excellent reports and warm discussions. Welcome all the experts, scholars, teachers and students!

Speakers

Jinhong Yuan (M’02–SM’11–F’16) received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. He has published two books, five book chapters, over 300 papers in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 50 industrial reports. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density-parity-check codes.He has co-authored four Best Paper Awards and one Best Poster Award, including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kansas City, USA, in 2018, the Best Paper Award from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Cancun, Mexico, in 2011, and the Best Paper Award from the   IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, Trondheim, Norway, in 2007. He is an IEEE Fellow and currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. His current research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications.

Ekram Hossain (F’15) is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Manitoba, Canada. He is a Member (Class of 2016) of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Also, he is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Dr. Hossain’s current research interests include design, analysis, and optimization beyond 5G/6G cellular wireless networks. His research works have received 24,000+ citations (in Google Scholar, with h-index = 80). He received the 2017 IEEE ComSoc TCGCC Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award “for outstanding technical leadership and achievement in green wireless communications and networking”. Dr. Hossain has won several research awards including the “2017 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award and the 2011 IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prize Paper Award. He was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2017 and 2018.Currently he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Press and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Also, he is an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society for the term 2018-2020.

Guoqiang Mao received PhD in telecommunications engineering in 2002 from Edith Cowan University, Australia. He was a Faculty member at the School of Electrical and Information Engineering, the University of Sydney between 2002 and 2014. He joined the University of Technology Sydney in February 2014 as Professor of Wireless Networking and Director of Center for Real-time Information Networks.He has published three books and over 200 papers in international conferences and journals, including over 100 papers in IEEE journals, that have been cited over 7,000 times. He is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and received “Top Editor” award for outstanding contributions to the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology in 2011, 2014 and 2015. He is a co-chair of IEEE Intelligent Transport Systems Society Technical Committee on Communication Networks. He has served as a chair, co-chair and TPC member in a number of international conferences, and has received best paper awards from several leading international conferences. His research interest includes intelligent transportation systems, vehicular networks, Internet of Things, next generation mobile communication systems, and wireless localization techniques. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IET.

Byonghyo Shim received the B.S. and M.S. degree in Control and Instrumentation Engineering (currently Electrical Eng.) from Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, Korea, in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and the M.S. degree in Mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Urbana, USA, in 2004 and 2005, respectively.Since September 2014, he has been with the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests include signal processing for wireless communications, statistical signal processing, estimation and detection, compressed sensing and matrix completion, and information theory. Dr. Shim was the recipient of the M. E. Van Valkenburg Research Award from the ECE Department of the University of Illinois (2005), Hadong Young Engineer Award from IEIE (2010), and Irwin Jacobs Award from Qualcomm and KICS (2016). He is a senior member of IEEE, a technical committee member of Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (SPCOM), an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM), IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (WCL), Journal of Communications and Networks (JCN), and a guest editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (location awareness for radios and networks).

Cheng Li received his B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, P. R. China, in 1992 and 1995, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Memorial University, St. John抯, Canada, in 2004. He is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science of Memorial University, St. John抯, Canada. His research interests include mobile ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, wireless communications and mobile computing, switching and routing, and broadband communication networks. He has published over 280 reference articles, including close to 100 journal publications. Many of them appear at the prestigious IEEE journals. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Ad Hoc Networks (ADHOCNETS’18), Cairns, Australia, Sept. 2018, the 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’17), Singapore, Dec. 2017, and the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’10), Cape Town, South Africa, June 2010. He is an editorial board member of Journal of Networks, China Communications, Wireless Communication and Mobile Computing, and an associate editor of Security and Communication Networks. He has served as the general co-chair of WINCOM?9 and WINCOM?7. He has served as technical program committee (TPC) co-chair for the ICNC?0, AICON?9, WiCON’17, IEEE/ACM MSWiM’14, MSWiM’13, IEEE WiMob?1 and QBSC?0. He has served as a co-chair for various technical symposia of many international conferences, including the IEEE GLOBECOM and ICC. He is currently the elected Chair of the IEEE Communication Society Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee. Dr. Li is a registered Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) in Canada and is a member of IEEE Communication Society, Computer Society, Vehicular Technology Society, Ocean Engineering Society.

Professor Zhang Haixia, winner of the National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation, special expert for Taishan scholars. The main research fields are intelligent communication and network, communication big data processing and application, communication signal processing, communication network resource management and optimization, data processing, machine learning, etc., and undertake a number of provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. More than 100 academic papers (more than 40 published by SCI) and 4 academic works were published in internationally renowned journals including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE International academic conferences and she has been granted 21 national invention patents. The scientific research achievements have been nominated by the Ministry of Education for the second prize of the National Science and Technology Award (Natural Science Award), the first prize of the Shandong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the second prize of the Shandong Natural Science Award, and the first prize of the Shandong University Scientific Research Achievement Award. In 2010, Shandong Province excellent doctoral thesis Award, International Conference IEEE ICCT’2011,IEEE ICCT’2012,IEEE Smart Data’2016 Best thesis Award and other academic awards of more than 10. Students who are interested in information technology research, such as intelligent communication and network, communication signal processing, communication big data processing and application, are welcome to apply for master’s degree and doctor.

Prof.  Rose Qingyang Hu [S’95, M’98, SM’06] (rosehu@ieee.org) is a full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Utah State University. She received her B.S. degree from University of Science and Technology of China, her M.S. degree from New York University, and her Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas.Besides 10 years’ academia research experience, Prof. Rose Qingyang Hu also has more than 10 years R&D experience with Nortel, Blackberry and Intel as technical manager, senior research scientist, and senior wireless system architect, actively participating in industrial 3G/4G technology development, standardization, system level simulation and performance evaluation. Her current research interests include next-generation wireless communications, wireless network design and optimization, Internet of Things, Cloud computing/Fog computing, multimedia QoS/QoE, wireless system modeling and performance analysis. She has published over 180 papers in top IEEE journals and conferences and holds over 30 patents in her research areas. Prof. Hu is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2015-2018 and recipient of Best Paper Awards from IEEE Globecom 2012, IEEE ICC 2015, IEEE VTC Spring 2016, and IEEE ICC 2016.  She served as TPC Co-Chair for IEEE ICC 2018. She is currently serving on the editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.  Prof. Hu is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Phi Kappa Phi Society.

Shui Yu is a Professor of School of Software, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr Yu’s research interest includes Security and Privacy, Networking, Big Data, and Mathematical Modelling. He has published two monographs and edited two books, more than 200 technical papers, including top journals and top conferences, such as IEEE TPDS, TC, TIFS, TMC, TKDE, TETC, ToN, and INFOCOM. Dr Yu initiated the research field of networking for big data in 2013. His h-index is 35. Dr Yu actively serves his research communities in various roles. He is currently serving a number of prestigious editorial boards, including IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Area Editor), IEEE Communications Magazine (Series Editor). He has served many international conferences as a member of organizing committee, such as publication chair for IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEE INFOCOM 2016 and 2017, and general chair for ACSW 2017. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of AAAS and ACM, and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communication Society.

Bo Rong is currently a Research Scientist with the Communications Research Center Canada, Ottawa, ON. He has authored and co-authored over 100 technical papers in major journals and conferences on the topic of wireless networking and communications. Many of these publications have theoretical and practical significance to both research community and industry. Dr. Rong is the 1st author of Springer book-“5G Heterogeneous Networks: Self-organizing and Optimization”. He is also one of the key developers and patent holders of next generation digital TV international standard: ATSC 3.0-wireless physical layer. His current research interests include intelligent radio resource management for 5G/6G, smart IoT, etc. Dr. Rong is a member of IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Broadcasting Society. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS as well as the Guest Editors of special issues in IEEE COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE, and IEEE INTERNET of THINGS JOURNAL.

Mianxiong Dong received B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The University of Aizu, Japan. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. He was a JSPS Research Fellow with School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Aizu, Japan and was a visiting scholar with BBCR group at University of Waterloo, Canada supported by JSPS Excellent Young Researcher Overseas Visit Program from April 2010 to August 2011. Dr. Dong was selected as a Foreigner Research Fellow (a total of 3 recipients all over Japan) by NEC C&C Foundation in 2011. His research interests include Wireless Networks, Cloud Computing, and Cyber-physical Systems. He has received best paper awards from IEEE HPCC 2008, IEEE ICESS 2008, ICA3PP 2014, GPC 2015, IEEE DASC 2015, IEEE VTC 2016-Fall, FCST 2017, 2017 IET Communications Premium Award and IEEE ComSoc CSIM Best Conference Paper Award 2018. Dr. Dong serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN), IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Cloud Computing, IEEE Access, as well as a leading guest editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS). He has been serving as the Vice Chair of IEEE Communications Society Asia/Pacific Region Information Services Committee and Meetings and Conference Committee, Leading Symposium Chair of IEEE ICC 2019, Student Travel Grants Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, and Symposium Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, 2017. He is the recipient of IEEE TCSC Early Career Award 2016, IEEE SCSTC Outstanding Young Researcher Award 2017, The 12th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2017, Funai Research Award 2018 and NISTEP Researcher 2018 (one of only 11 people in Japan) in recognition of significant contributions in science and technology. He is currently the Member of Board of Governors and Chair of Student Fellowship Committee of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, and Treasurer of IEEE ComSoc Japan Joint Sections Chapter.

Harbin Institute of Technology Advanced Communications Technologies Forum 2019

At the invitation of Prof. Han Shuai, vice chair of Harbin ComSoc Chapter, and Prof. Weixiao Meng, chair of Harbin ComSoc Chapter, under the support of high-quality foreign experts project (cultural and teaching) of the State Administration of Foreign Experts, IEEE ComSoc Harbin Chapter and IEEE VTS Harbin Chapter, Prof. Julian Zhishen Cheng of the University of British Columbia will visit Harbin Institute of Technology from May 13rd to May 18th, 2019.

Title 1：

When Free-Space Optical Communications Meets Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Date and Time:

13:30-15:00, May 14th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

The fifth-generation (5G) wireless network is expected to leap ahead of current wireless technologies by offering a variety of remarkable services, and it will pave the way for new types of data-hungry applications. To reach this milestone, it is necessary to enhance the network capacity through an ultra-dense deployment of low-power and low-cost remote radio heads (RRHs). However, due to the RF spectrum scarcity, the data explosion challenge triggered by such data-rate-hungry services cannot be well addressed by using RF-based networks alone.  Optical fibers have so far been considered as a high capacity solution for establishing front-haul links while network operators have to seek municipal approval for digging up a street to lay its cable. However, because of cell densification as well as the wide deployment of RRHs in 5G, the number of existing fiber links used for a front-haul connection is limited. To cope with these challenges, the idea of employing free space optical (FSO) communication has been recently proposed for establishing back-haul and front-haul links as an alternative easy-to-deploy solution to traditional optical fiber communication. Indeed, recent advances in small-scale unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has opened up new horizons for establishing UAV-FSO links. In this talk, a state-of-the-art literature review on UAV-based FSO communications is provided. Moreover, the technical challenges of establishing UAV-based FSO links as well as the proposed solution to confront such challenges are expressed in details.

Title 2：

80 Years of Research on Sum of Lognormal Random Variables: Recent Breakthroughs and Applications in Wireless Communications

Date and Time:

15:15-16:45, May 14th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

The distribution for the sum of lognormal random variables finds applications in many science and engineering disciplines, and it is particularly important for wireless communication engineers. However, the distribution for the simplistic sum of independent lognormal random variables is analytically intractable, and it is more so for a sum of correlated lognormal random variables with non-identical parameters. In 1934, Wilkinson from Bell Telephone Labs first studied this problem in an unpublished work. Since then, various approximations have been proposed in the literature. All these approximations fail to accurately quantify the left tail (or right tail) behavior of the distribution function of a sum of lognormal random variables. In this talk, in the context of diversity receptions over lognormal fading channels, we first present that the left tail distribution of the sum of independent lognormal random variables can be accurately represented by a Marcum Q-function. The proposed analytical result outperforms all existing well-known sum of lognormal approximations. Using a different approach, we then extend the problem to a sum of correlated and non-identically lognormal random variables, and show that its left-tail distribution can again be represented by another Marcum Q-function. Our study reveals a number of new and surprising engineering insights into the transmission characteristics over the lognormal fading channels. For example, for the dual-branch case, we show that the outage performance of negatively correlated lognormal channels is better than that of independent lognormal channels. We also show that under certain parameter conditions, one of the two lognormal channels can contribute no performance gain to the diversity reception systems. This implies that one link can be discarded without causing asymptotic performance loss. These new findings can guide the communication engineers to design better systems for transmission over the lognormal fading channels.

Title 3：

Multiple Scattering Models for Scattering Based Optical Wireless Communication

Date and Time:

8:30-10:00, May 16th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

Scattering based optical wireless communications, e.g., ultraviolet communication and underwater optical communication, have attracted increasing attention for their valuable military and civil implementations. Multiple scattering effects have to be considered in accurate channel path loss and impulse response estimations. By now, the Monte-Carlo method based channel models are used for modeling the multiple scattering channel in both ultraviolet communication and underwater optical communication. This presentation focuses on a special Monte-Carlo model: the Monte-Carlo integration (MCI) model. We proved the feasibility of obtaining system impulse response function by MCI model for the first time. After analyzing the convergence performance of the MCI model, we proposed an improved MCI model based on the partial importance sampling method (MCI-PIS model). Numerical simulation for the computation efficiency of different Monte-Carlo models suggests that for a three-order scattering case, the computation efficiency of the MCI-PIS model is about 12 times of the original Monte-Carlo integration model based on uniform sampling (MCI-US model) and 5.6 times of the widely used Monte-Carlo simulation (MCS) model for ultraviolet communication, and 10.6 times and 2.12 times of those for the underwater optical communication. The numerical results also suggest that the computation efficiency of the MCI-PIS model can be higher in a higher scattering order communication compared to the MCS model. We provided a new optimizing direction for the improvement of Monte-Carlo channel models for the scattering based optical communications.

Title 4：

How to Write an IEEE Style Paper and Get it Published?

Date and Time:

10:15-11:45, May 16th, 2019

Location：

ROOM 1013, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is world’s largest professional association which is best known, among other engineering disciplines, for its high quality flagship journal and conference publications. For electrical engineering graduate students and researchers, it is increasingly important to publish their research findings in core IEEE journals and conferences. However, most top IEEE journals and conferences typically have acceptance rate at 35% or much less, and it is also rare that a manuscript receives an outright acceptance. In this talk, I will introduce basic elements of an IEEE style paper, and offer some personal tips and strategies on how to improve the odds of acceptance. The goal of this presentation is to provide the proper guidance to the beginning graduate students so that, with some practice, they can write an IEEE style paper with high confidence. These graduate students can then focus more on the technical contributions of their work.

Biography:

Julian Cheng received his B. Eng. degree in electrical engineering from University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, M.Sc. (Eng.) degree in Mathematics and Engineering from Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is currently a Full Professor in the School of Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science, at The University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus in Kelowna, BC, Canada. His current research interests include wireless communication theory, wireless networks, optical wireless communications, and quantum communications. Dr. Cheng has served as a member of technical program committee for many IEEE conferences and workshops. He co-chaired the 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2011) in Kelowna, Canada. In 2012, he chaired the 2012 Wireless Communications in Banff, Canada. Dr. Cheng also chaired the sixth IEEE Optical Wireless Communications Symposium at the 2015 IEEE Global Communications Conference. He now volunteers as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. In the past, he served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Access, and was a past Guest Editor for a special issue of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on optical wireless communications. Currently, he serves as the President of the Canadian Society of Information Theory as well as the Secretary of IEEE Radio Communication Technical Committee within the IEEE Communication Society.

School of Electronics and Information Engineering of HIT Advanced Youth Academic Salon 2019

Invited Report：How to do quality research: An old question revisited

Date and Time: 15:00-17:00, March 20th, 2019

Location：ROOM 1011, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Biography:

Hsiao-Hua Chen, professor in Harbin Institute of Technology, well-known international scholar in wireless communication and networking, has published more than 300 international journal papers, and won over 10 international academic contribution awards. He is also chief editors of several top international  journals, the best doctoral thesis tutor of Chinese Electronic Education Society in 2018.

Harbin Institute of Technology Advanced Communications Technologies Forum 2019

Title：

Understanding Optimization and Generalization in Deep Learning: A Trajectory-based Analysis

Date and Time: 9:00-11:00, January 4th, 2019

Location：ROOM 1011, BUILDING 2A, NO.2 YIKUANG STREET,

HARBIN, HEILONGJIANG, CHINA

Abstract:

This presentation will present recent progress on understanding deep neural networks by analyzing the trajectory of the gradient descent algorithm. Using this analysis technique, we are able to explain:

1) Why gradient descent finds a global minimum of the training loss even though the objective function is highly non-convex, and

2) Why a neural network can generalize even the number of parameters in the neural network is more than the number of training data.

Biography:

Simon Shaolei Du , Ph.D Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, whose tutors are Prof.  Aarti Singh and Prof. Barnabás Póczos. His research interests include theoretical machine learning and statistical topics such as in-depth learning, matrix decomposition, convex/nonconvex optimization, transfer learning, reinforcement learning, nonparametric statistics, and robust statistics. In 2015, he received a double degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer, Engineering Mathematics and Statistics from the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Berkeley EECS winner, a member of Etta Kappa Nu, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. As a leading young scholar in international machine learning, he is the 2018 NeurIPS top conference Best paper winner, the 2018 NeurIPS top conference NVIDIA Pioneer Award winner, and 19 computer top conference papers. He has also worked in research labs at Microsoft and Facebook.