Prof. Zhiyuan Zha

IEEE Senior Member

Jilin University, China

Zhiyuan Zha (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree with the School of Electronic Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China, in 2018. He is a Professor at the College of Communication Engineering, Jilin University. Prior to that, he was a Senior Research Fellow with Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research interests include inverse problems in image/video processing, sparse signal representation and machine learning. He was a recipient of the Platinum Best Paper Award and the Best Paper Runner Up Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo in 2017 and 2020, respectively. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing since 2024, a Handling Editor for Signal Processing since 2024, and an Associate Editor for The Visual Computer since 2023. He was supported by the Excellent Young Scientist Foundation of NSFC (Overseas) of 2024.

Prof. Maode Ma, Qatar University, Doha

IET Fellow

Prof. Maode Ma, a Fellow of IET, received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1999. Now, Prof. Ma is a Research Professor in the College of Engineering at Qatar University in Qatar. Before joining Qatar University, he has been a faculty member at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore for over 20 years. He has extensive research interests including network security and wireless networking. He has led 26 research projects funded by government, industry, military, and universities in various countries. He has supervised 25 research students to get their Ph. D degrees. He has been a conference chair, technical symposium chair, tutorial chair, publication chair, publicity chair, and session chair for over 100 international conferences. He has been a member of the technical program committees for more than 200 international conferences. Prof. Ma has more than 500 international academic publications including over 250 journal papers and about 250 conference papers. He has edited a few technical books and produced over 28 book chapters. His publication has received over 10,000 citations in Google Scholar. He has delivered over 90 keynote speeches and 10 tutorials at various international conferences. Prof. Ma currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering and the Journal of Communications. He also serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing and International Journal of Communication Systems. Prof. Ma is a senior member of the IEEE Communication Society and a member of ACM. He is now the Chair of the ACM, Singapore Chapter. He has been serving as an IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2013 to 2016 and from 2023 to 2024.

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