Jiangzhou Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xidian University, Xian, China, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree (with Greatest Distinction) from the University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium, in 1990, all in electrical engineering. Dr. Wang is currently a Professor and Chair in the Department of Electronics, University of Kent, Kent, U.K. From 1995 to 2005, he was with the University of Hong Kong, where he is still serving as an Honorary Professor. From 1992 to 1995, he was a Senior System Engineer with Rockwell International Corporation (now Conexant), Newport Beach, CA. From 1990 to 1992, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of California at San Diego, CA. He held a Visiting Professor position with NTT DoCoMo, Japan. He has published over 140 papers, including more than 40 IEEE Transactions/Journal papers in the areas of wireless mobile and spread spectrum communications. He has written/edited two books, Broadband Wireless Communications (Boston, MA: Kluwer, 2001) and Advances in 3G Enhanced Technologies for Wireless Communications (Norwood, MA: Artech House, 2002). The latter book has been translated into Chinese. He holds one U.S. patent in the GSM system. Dr. Wang is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and a Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (Wideband CDMA, 2000 and 2001, and Advances in Multicarrier CDMA, 2006). He is listed in Who's Who in the World (New Providence, NJ: Marquis). He was a Technical Chairman of the IEEE Workshop in 3G Mobile Communications in 2000. He has been a Technical Committee Member and Session Chair for a number of international conferences.
Sam Kwong received his B.Sc. degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo,
M.A.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Ph.D. from
Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany. Before joining the City University of Hong Kong (CityU), he was a
Diagnostic Engineer with Control Data Canada, where he was responsible for designing diagnostic
software to detect the manufacturing faults of the VLSI chips in the Cyber 430 machine. He later
joined Bell Northern Research as a Member of Scientific Staff working on the Integrated Services
Digital Network (ISDN) project.
Kwong is currently Chair Professor at the CityU Department of Computer Science, where he previously
served as Department Head and Professor from 2012 to 2018. Prof Kwong joined CityU as a lecturer in
the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1989. Prof. Kwong is currently the associate editor of
leading IEEE transaction journals, including IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE
Transactions on Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics.
Kwong has a prolific research record. He has coauthored three research books, eight book chapters,
and over 300 technical papers. His works have been cited over 23,000 times according to Google
Scholar with an h-index of 67. He has been the distinguished lecturer of IEEE SMCS since 2018 and
delivers two DL lectures yearly to promote IEEE SMC Society and cutting-edge cybernetics technology.
He also frequently delivers keynote speeches in IEEE supported conferences. In 2014, he was elevated
to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to optimization techniques in cybernetics and video coding.