Steering Committee

Chair
Canada Excellence Research Chair and Full Professor at Memorial University, Canada
Dr. Trung Q. Duong (IEEE Fellow, CAE Fellow, IET Fellow, EIC Fellow, and AAIA Fellow) is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and Full Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is also an adjunct professor at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. His current research interests include quantum optimisation and machine learning in wireless communications. He is an author/co-author of 600+ publications with 23,000+ citations and h-index 81. He has served as an Editor for many reputable IEEE journals (IEEE Trans on Wireless Communications, IEEE Trans on Communications, IEEE Trans on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters) and has been awarded best paper awards in many flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2014, 2005, IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, 2019, and 2022. He was awarded the Research Fellowship and Research Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In 2017, he was awarded the Newton Prize from the UK government. He is a Fellow of IEEE, EIC, and AAIA. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.