Biographical note

Tao Jiang is currently a Distinguished Professor in the School of Electronics Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in applied geophysics from China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, P. R. China, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China, in April 2004. From Aug. 2004 to Dec. 2007, he worked in some universities, such as Brunel University and University of Michigan-Dearborn, respectively. He has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers in major journals and conferences and 9 books/chapters in the areas of communications and networks. He served or is serving as symposium technical program committee membership of some major IEEE conferences, including INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, and ICC, etc.. He is invited to serve as TPC Symposium Chair for the IEEE GLOBECOM 2013, IEEEE WCNC 2013 and ICCC 2013. He is served or serving as Associate Editor of some technical journals in communications, including in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal, etc., and currently he is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of China Communications. He is a recipient of the National Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC) for Distinguished Young Scholars Award in 2013, and he is also a recipient of the Young and Middle-Aged Leading Scientists, Engineers and Innovators by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China in 2014. He was awarded as the Most Cited Chinese Researchers in Computer Science announced by Elsevier in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Currently, he is a Cheung Kong Professor of Ministry of Education, P. R. China. Dr. Da Chen is currently an ARC (Australian Research Council) DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) fellow at Department of Infrastructure Engineering, the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at School of Civil Engineering, the University of Queensland, where he obtained his PhD degree in June 2018. He worked as a research fellow at MFM and ISMD, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. He will shortly join School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW (University of New South Wales) Sydney, as a lecturer. Dr. Chen has an interdisciplinary research background across structural, material, and mechanical engineering with a focus on the advanced composite structural forms for various end-user applications, such as novel lightweight non-uniform foam components, graphene reinforced nanocomposites, vibration absorbers, concrete columns, and offshore fish cages. His study promotes the development of functionally graded porous structures and has been widely acknowledged. His research achievements include 6 Highly Cited Papers (top performing 1%), 2330 Web of Science citations, and 7.72 for Field-Weighted Citation Impact (2017-2021, SciVal), as of January 2023. Chunxing Ni received the B.S. degree from the School of Electronic Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2012, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree. He worked as a Visiting Ph.D. Candidate with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA from 2014-2016. His research interests include communication theory and signal processing for wireless communications. Daiming Qu is currently a Professor in the School of Electronics Information and Communications, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree in information and communication engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, P. R. China, in 2003. From 2014 to 2015, he was a visiting professor in at University of Utah. His current research interests include signal processing, coding, and dynamic spectrum techniques for wireless communications