Energy Efficient Cooperative Wireless Communication and Networks

About Chi Harold LiuZhengguo Sheng

Zhengguo Sheng is a lecturer at the University of Sussex UK and co-founder of WRTnode. His current research interests cover Internet-of-Things machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile cloud computing and power line communication (PLC). Previously he was with the University of British Columbia as a research associate and with France Telecom Orange Labs as the senior researcher and project manager in M2M and Internet-of-Things as well as the coordinator of Orange and Asia telco on NFC-SWP partnership. He is also the winner of the Orange Outstanding Researcher Award and CEO Retention bonus recipient 2012. He also worked as a research intern with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center USA and U.S. Army Research Labs. With six years of research experience across industry and academia Sheng has research interests that cover a wide range in wireless communication from the fundamental information theory to radio technology and protocol design and so on. Before joining Orange Labs he received his Ph.D. and M.S. with distinction at Imperial College London in 2011 and 2007 respectively and his B.Sc. from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2006. He has published more than 30 prestigious conference and journal papers. He serves as the technical committee member of ELSEVIER Journals of Computer Communications (COMCOM). He has also served as the co-organizer of IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC14) session chair of IEEE VTC14-Fall technical program committee members of Tensymp'15 CloudCom'14 SmartComp'14 WCSP'14 Qshine'14 ICCAAD'14 ContextDD'14 etc. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).Chi Harold Liu is a Full Professor at the School of Software Beijing Institute of Technology China. He is also the Director of IBM Mainframe Excellence Center (Beijing) Director of IBM Big Data & Analysis Technology Center and Director of National Laboratory of Data Intelligence for China Light Industry. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Imperial College UK and a B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University China. Before moving to academia he joined IBM Research China as a staff researcher and project manager and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories Germany and as a visiting scholar at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center USA. His current research interests include the Internet-of-Things (IoT) big data analytics mobile computing and wireless ad hoc sensor and mesh networks. He received the Distinguished Young Scholar Award in 2013 IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award in 2012 and IBM First Patent Application Award in 2011 and was interviewed by EEWeb.com as the Featured Engineer in 2011. He has published more than 50 prestigious conference and journal papers and owned more than 10 EU/U.S./China patents. He serves as the editor for KSII Trans. on Internet and Information Systems and the book editor for four books published by Taylor & Francis Group USA. He also has served as the general chair of IEEE SECON13 workshop on IoT Networking and Control IEEE WCNC12 workshop on IoT Enabling Technologies and ACM UbiComp11 Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for IoT. He served as the consultant to Bain & Company and KPMG USA and the peer reviewer for Qatar National Research Foundation and National Science Foundation China. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.