Prof. Zhongxiang Shen 沈忠祥教授 / IEEE Fellow

Yangtze River Delta Research Institute, Beijing Institute of Technology (Jiaxing), China | 北京理工大学长三角学院（嘉兴）

Biography: Zhongxiang Shen (M’98–SM’04–F’17) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1987, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1990, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 1997.
From 1990 to 1994, he was with the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing. In 1997, he joined Com Dev Ltd., Cambridge, ON, as an Advanced Member of Technical Staff. In 1998, he joined the Gordon McKay Laboratory, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, and the Radiation Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. From Jan. 1999 to Dec. 2023, he was a faculty member (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor) of Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is now a Strategic Scientist at Yangtze Delta Region Academy of Beijing Institute of Technology, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal papers (among them 200 were published in IEEE journals) and presented more than 200 conference papers. His current research interests include the design of small and planar antennas for various wireless communication systems as well as analysis and design of electromagnetic-selective structures.
Prof. Shen served as the Chair for the IEEE MTT/AP Singapore Chapter in 2009. He was the Chair of the IEEE AP-S Chapter Activities Committee from 2010 to 2014. He served as the Secretary of the IEEE AP-S from Jul. 2014 to Dec. 2018 and was an elected AdCom member of the IEEE AP-S from Jan. 2016 to Dec. 2019. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE AP-S from Jan 2021 to Dec. 2023. Prof. Shen is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

Prof. Yonghui Li / IEEE Fellow

University of Sydney, Australia

Biography: Yonghui Li is now a Professor and Director of Wireless Engineering Laboratory in School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of Sydney. He is the recipient of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship in 2008, ARC Future Fellowship in 2012 and ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship in 2025. He is an IEEE Fellow and Clarivate highly cited researcher. His current research interests are in the area of wireless communications. Professor Li was an editor for IEEE transactions on communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology and guest editors for several special issues of IEEE journals, such as IEEE JSAC, IEEE IoT Journals, IEEE Communications Magazine. He received the best paper awards from several conferences. He has published one book, more than 300 papers in premier IEEE journals and more than 200 papers in premier IEEE conferences. His publications have been cited more than 25000 times.