Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia
Fellow of IEEE
University of Delaware, USA
Biography: Xiang-Gen Xia received his B.S.
degree in mathematics from Nanjing
Normal University, Nanjing, China, and
his M.S. degree in mathematics from
Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and
his Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, in
1983, 1986, and 1992, respectively. He
is currently the Charles Black Evans
Professor, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of
Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. Dr. Xia
was the Kumar’s Chair Professor Group
Professor (guest) in Wireless
Communications, Tsinghua University,
during 2009-2011, the Chang Jiang Chair
Professor (visiting), Xidian University,
during 2010-2012, and the WCU Chair
Professor (visiting), Chonbuk National
University, during 2009-2013. Dr. Xia’s
current research interests include
space-time coding, MIMO and OFDM
systems, digital signal processing, and
SAR and ISAR imaging. He is the author
of the book Modulated Coding for
Intersymbol Interference Channels (New
York, Marcel Dekker, 2000).
Dr. Xia received the National Science
Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career
Development (CAREER) Program Award in
1997, the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
Young Investigator Award in 1998, and
the Outstanding Overseas Young
Investigator Award from the National
Nature Science Foundation of China in
2001. He is currently serving and has
served as an Associate Editor for
numerous international journals
including IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Wireless Communications, IEEE
Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology,
and Science China -- Information
Sciences. Dr. Xia is Technical Program
Chair of the Signal Processing Symp.,
Globecom 2007 in Washington D.C. and the
General Co-Chair of ICASSP 2005 in
Philadelphia. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
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Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan
Fellow of NAI, ASA, IEEE, ISCA, APS, AAAS, and AIMBE
University of Southern California, USA
Biography: Prof.
Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is University
Professor and Niki & C. L. Max Nikias
Chair in Engineering at the University
of Southern California, where he is
Professor of Electrical & Computer
Engineering, Computer Science,
Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience,
Pediatrics, and Otolaryngology-Head &
Neck Surgery, Director of the Ming Hsieh
Institute and Research Director of the
Information Sciences Institute. Prior to
USC he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T
Research. His research focuses on
human-centered information processing
and communication technologies. He is a
Fellow of the National Academy of
Inventors, the Acoustical Society of
America, IEEE, ISCA, the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science (AAAS), the Association for
Psychological Science, and the American
Institute for Medical and Biological
Engineering (AIMBE). He is a recipient
of several honors including the 2015
Engineers Council's Distinguished
Educator Award, a Mellon award for
mentoring excellence, the 2005 and 2009
Best Journal Paper awards from the IEEE
Signal Processing Society and serving as
its Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-11,
a 2018 ISCA CSL Best Journal Paper
award, and serving as an ISCA
Distinguished Lecturer for 2015-16,
Willard R. Zemlin Memorial Lecturer for
ASHA in 2017, and the Ten Year Technical
Impact Award in 2014 and the Sustained
Accomplishment Award in 2020 from ACM
ICMI. He has published over 900 papers
and has been granted seventeen U.S.
patents. His research and inventions
have led to technology commercialization
including through startups he
co-founded: Behavioral Signals
Technologies focused on the
telecommunication services and AI based
conversational assistance industry and
Lyssn focused on mental health care
delivery, treatment and quality
assurance.
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Prof. Chip Hong Chang
Fellow of IEEE and IET
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography: Chip
Hong Chang received the B.Eng. (Hons.)
degree from the National University of
Singapore, in 1989, and the M. Eng. and
Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore, in 1993 and
1998, respectively. He served as a
Technical Consultant in industry prior
to joining the School of Electrical and
Electronic Engineering (EEE), NTU, in
1999, where he is currently an Associate
Professor. He held joint appointments
with the university as Assistant Chair
of Alumni of the School of EEE from June
2008 to May 2014, Deputy Director of the
100-strong Center for High Performance
Embedded Systems from 2000 to 2011, and
Program Director of the Center for
Integrated Circuits and Systems from
2003 to 2009. He has coedited five
books, published 13 book chapters, more
than 100 international journal papers
(>70 are IEEE) and more than 180
refereed international conference
papers. His research interests are
hardware security, AI security, residue
and unconventional number systems,
low-power arithmetic circuits, digital
filter design and digital image
processing. He has delivered more than
50 keynotes, plenary, tutorials and
invited seminars.
Dr. Chang currently serves as the Senior
Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on
Information Forensic and Security
(TIFS), and Associate Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I
(TCAS-I) and IEEE Transactions on Very
Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems.
He was the Associate Editor of the IEEE
TIFS and IEEE Transactions on
Computer-Aided Design of Integrated
Circuits and Systems (TCAD) from 2016 to
2019, IEEE Access from 2013 to 2019,
IEEE TCAS-I from 2010 to 2013,
Integration, the VLSI Journal from 2013
to 2015, Springer Journal of Hardware
and System Security from 2016 to 2020
and Microelectronics Journal from 2014
to 2020. He also guest edited eight
journal special issues including IEEE
TCAS-I, IEEE Transactions on Dependable
and Secure Computing (TDSC), IEEE TCAD
and IEEE Journal on Emerging and
Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
(JETCAS). He has held key appointments
in the organizing and technical program
committees of more than 60 international
conferences (mostly IEEE), including the
General Co-Chair of 2018 IEEE
Asia-Pacific Conference on Circuits and
Systems and the inaugural Workshop Chair
and Steering Committee of the ACM CCS
satellite workshop on Attacks and
Solutions in Hardware Security. He is
the 2018-2019 IEEE CASS Distinguished
Lecturer, a Fellow of the IEEE and the
IET.
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