Keynotes
Fumiyuki Adachi received the B.S. and Dr. Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 1973 and 1984, respectively. In April 1973, he joined the Electrical Communications Laboratories of NTT and started mobile communications research. From July 1992 to December 1999, he was with NTT DOCOMO, leading a research group on wideband/broadband wireless access for 3G and beyond. He contributed to developing the 3G air interface standard, known as W-CDMA. Since January 2000, he has been with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. Currently, as a Specially Appointed Research Fellow/Professor Emeritus at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University, he is researching the resilient wireless communication technology for B5G/6G systems. He is IEEE/IEICE Life Fellow. He is the recipient of 2000 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award, 2002 IEICE Achievement Award, 2004 Thomson Scientific Research Front Award, 2010 Prime Minister Invention Award, 2014 C&C Prize, 2017 IEEE VTS Stuart Meyer Memorial Award, and 2017 IEEE ComSoc RCC Technical Recognition Award.
Fumiyuki Adachi
Ying-Chang Liang
Ying-Chang Liang (Fellow, IEEE) was a Professor with The University of Sydney, Australia; and a Principal Scientist with the Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Singapore. He is currently a Professor with the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China. His research interests include 5G/6G networks, cognitive radio, dynamic spectrum access, symbiotic radio, and passive Internet of Things. He was a recipient of numerous paper awards, including the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award in 2025, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications in 2022, the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize in 2021, and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Jack Neubauer Memorial Award in 2014. He also received the Recognition Award and Publication Award from the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks in 2018 and 2020, respectively. He served as the TPC Chair and the Executive Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom 2017, the TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE Globecom 2024, and General Chair for IEEE VTC-Fall 2025. He has been recognized by Clarivate Analytics as a Highly Cited Researcher since 2014. He was the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications: Cognitive Radio Series from 2011 to 2014 and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking from 2019 to 2022. He was a Guest/Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Network. He is the Associate Editor-in-Chief of China Communications.
