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Fellow of IEEE
Prof. Kaibin Huang, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong

Speech Title: Connecting Small Devices for Big AI

Kaibin Huang received the B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from the National University of Singapore and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Texas at Austin, all in electrical engineering. He is a Professor and the Head at the Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), Hong Kong. He received the IEEE Communication Society’s 2021 Best Survey Paper, 2019 Best Tutorial Paper, 2019 and 2023 Asia–Pacific Outstanding Paper, 2015 Asia–Pacific Best Paper Award, and the best paper awards at IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 and IEEE/CIC ICCC 2018. He has been named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate in 2019-2023 and an AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar (Top 30 in Internet of Things) in 2023-2024. He is a Fellow of IEEE and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He is a member of the Engineering Panel of Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) and a RGC Research Fellow (2021 Class). He received the Outstanding Teaching Award from Yonsei University, South Korea, in 2011. He is an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. Previously, he served on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) and IEEE Wireless Communication Letters. He has guest edited special issues of IEEE JSAC, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Signal Processing, and IEEE Communications Magazine, and IEEE Network. He served as the Lead Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE Globecom 2017 and the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and 2014, and the TPC Co-chair for IEEE PIMRC 2017 and IEEE CTW 2023 and 2013. He is the founding President of the HKU chapter of National Academy of Inventors.