Prof. Weijia Jia is currently a Chair Professor at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University and a Professor at Beijing Normal University (BNU), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China. He also serves as the Director of Joint BNU-BNBU Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Future Networking. Prior joining BNU/BNBU, he served as the Chair Professor and Deputy Director of the State Kay Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City at the University of Macau and Zhiyuan Chair Professor at the Shanghai Jiaotong University, PR China. He received BSc/MSc from Center South University, China in 1982-1984 and PhD from Polytechnic Faculty of Mons (now with the University of Mons), Belgium in 1991-1993, respectively; all in computer science. For 1993-1995, he joined German National Research Center for Information Science (GMD) in Bonn (St. Augustine), Germany as a research fellow. From 1995-2013, he worked in City University of Hong Kong as an Assit./Assoc./full professor.

His contributions have been recognized as the theory and algorithms of AI (NLP in particular) optimal network routing and deployment, intelligent edge computing, vertex cover, anycast and multicast protocols, sensors networking, and knowledge relation extractions. He has over 500 publications in the prestige international journals/conferences (e.g. IEEE/ACM Transactions/journals, Infocom, AAAI etc.) and research books and book chapters. His current H-index is 67 (Google scholar, citations 15000+). He received the 1st Prize of Scientific Research Awards from the Ministry of Education of China in 2017 and many provincial science and technology awards. He has guided the students to attain 30+ top prizes in various top international conferences and AI competitions. Based on his research outcome and input into the system implementations, he received the best product awards from the International Science & Tech. Expo (Shenzhen, China) in the consecutive years of 2011 and 2012. He has served as area editor for various prestige international journals (e.g. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computer Communications), chair and PC member/keynote speaker for top international conferences. He has been recognized as Chinese National Expert and listed in 2020-2022 as Top 2% of life Scientists on Stanford List. He is the Fellow of IEEE and the Distinguished Member of China Computer Federation (CCF).

Prof. Weijia Jia

IEEE Fellow

Beijing Normal University (BNU-Zhuhai)

His research interests cover a broad range of signal processing, machine learning, and wireless communications, including but not limited to multi-antenna and cooperative communications, sparse and structured signal recovery, Bayesian approximate inference, network coding, etc. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed research papers in the leading international journals and conferences in the related areas. He has served on a number of technical programs for international conferences. He is an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017, and also an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications since 2018. He was a co-recipient of the Best Paper Award of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2014, and also a co-recipient of the Best Journal Paper Award of IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC) 2017.

Prof. Xiaojun Yuan

IEEE Fellow

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China