2026 5th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Communications and Computer Networks (ISCCN 2026)

Prof. Julian Cheng

University of British Columbia, Canada

Julian Cheng received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is now the founding Dean of the School of Computing and Information Technology at Great Bay University, Dongguan. Formerly, he was with the Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is also a Professor Emeritus. His research interests include robotics wireless Communications for civilian and defense applications, deep learning for wireless communications, optical wireless technology. Dr. Cheng has been a technical program committee member for many IEEE conferences and workshops. He co-chaired the 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2011) in Kelowna, Canada. He also co-chaired the 2021 and 2024 Communication Theory Workshop. He served as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2018-2023). Previously, he was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters. He was a past Guest Editor for a special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on optical wireless communications. He also served as the President of the Canadian Society of Information Theory (2017-2021). From 2022 to 2023, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Cheng holds the Principal Research Chair (Tier-1) at UBC on Advanced Wireless Systems. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Optica. In 2025, he was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE).

Prof. Shui Yu

University of Technology Sydney, Australia

Shui Yu is a Professor of School of Computer Science, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. His research interest includes Cybersecurity, Network Science, Big Data, and Mathematical Modelling. He has published five monographs and edited two books, more than 500 technical papers at different venues, such as IEEE TDSC, TPDS, TC, TIFS, TMC, TKDE, TETC, ToN, and INFOCOM. His current h-index is 66. Professor Yu promoted the research field of networking for big data since 2013, and his research outputs have been widely adopted by industrial systems, such as Amazon cloud security. He is currently serving the editorial boards of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (Area Editor) and IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Editor). He served as a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society (2018-2021). He is a Distinguished Visitor of IEEE Computer Society, and an elected member of Board of Governors of IEEE VTS and IEEE ComSoc, respectively. He is a member of ACM and AAAS, and a Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Jie Wu

Temple University, USA

Jie Wu is Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University and the Director of the Center for Networked Computing (CNC). He served as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences and Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs. Prior to joining Temple University, he was a program director at the National Science Foundation and was a distinguished professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. His current research interests include mobile computing and wireless networks, routing protocols, network trust and security, distributed algorithms, applied machine learning, and cloud computing. Dr. Wu regularly published in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. He serves on several editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Dr. Wu is/was general chair/co-chair for IEEE DCOSS’09, IEEE ICDCS’13, ICPP’16, IEEE CNS’16, WiOpt’21, ICDCN’22, IEEE IPDPS'23, ACM MobiHoc'23, and IEEE CCGrid 2024 as well as program chair/cochair for IEEE MASS’04, IEEE INFOCOM’11, CCF CNCC’13, and ICCCN’20. He was an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the AAAS and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the recipient of the 2011 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Achievement Award. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE). Currently, Dr. Wu is on leave working at China Telecom as a Scientist in Cloud Computing.

Prof.Charles Ling

Western University, Canada

Charles X. Ling earned his dual-BSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ in China, and both of his MSc and PhD from Computer and Information Science at Univ of Pennsylvania (Ivy League) within four years.

Since then he has been a faculty member in Computer Science at University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is currently a Professor.

His main research areas include machine learning and data mining, cognitive modeling, and child education.

He has published over 100 research papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE TKDE and Computational Intelligence Journal, and IEEE Senior Member.

He is the Director of Data Mining and E-Business Lab, leading data mining development in CRM, Bioinformatics, and the Internet.