

Keynote Speakers
Prof. Xiang-Gen Xia Biography: Xiang-Gen Xia received his B.S. degree in mathematics from Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China, and his M.S. degree in mathematics from Nankai University, Tianjin, China, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1983, 1986, and 1992, respectively. He is currently the Charles Black Evans Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA. Dr. Xia was the Kumar’s Chair Professor Group Professor (guest) in Wireless Communications, Tsinghua University, during 2009-2011, the Chang Jiang Chair Professor (visiting), Xidian University, during 2010-2012, and the WCU Chair Professor (visiting), Chonbuk National University, during 2009-2013. Dr. Xia’s current research interests include space-time coding, MIMO and OFDM systems, digital signal processing, and SAR and ISAR imaging. He is the author of the book Modulated Coding for Intersymbol Interference Channels (New York, Marcel Dekker, 2000). Dr. Xia received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award in 1997, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award in 1998, and the Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator Award from the National Nature Science Foundation of China in 2001. He is currently serving and has served as an Associate Editor for numerous international journals including IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and Science China -- Information Sciences. Dr. Xia is Technical Program Chair of the Signal Processing Symp., Globecom 2007 in Washington D.C. and the General Co-Chair of ICASSP 2005 in Philadelphia. He is a Fellow of IEEE.
Prof. Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan
Biography: Shrikanth (Shri) Narayanan is
University Professor and
Niki & C. L. Max Nikias Chair in Engineering at the University of Southern California, where he is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Neuroscience, Pediatrics, and Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery, Director of the Ming Hsieh Institute and Research Director of the Information Sciences Institute. Prior to USC he was with AT&T Bell Labs and AT&T Research. His research focuses on human-centered information processing and communication technologies. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, the Acoustical Society of America, IEEE, ISCA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is a recipient of several honors including the 2015 Engineers Council’s Distinguished Educator Award, a Mellon award for mentoring excellence, the 2005 and 2009 Best Journal Paper awards from the IEEE Signal Processing Society and serving as its Distinguished Lecturer for 2010-11, a 2018 ISCA CSL Best Journal Paper award, and serving as an ISCA Distinguished Lecturer for 2015-16, Willard R. Zemlin Memorial Lecturer for ASHA in 2017, and the Ten Year Technical Impact Award in 2014 and the Sustained Accomplishment Award in 2020 from ACM ICMI. He has published over 900 papers and has been granted eighteen U.S. patents. His research and inventions have led to technology commercialization including through startups he co-founded:
Behavioral Signals Technologies focused on the telecommunication services and AI based conversational assistance industry and
Lyssn focused on mental health care delivery, treatment and quality assurance. He serves as the inaugural Vice President–Education for the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Prof. Chip Hong Chang
Biography: Chip Hong Chang is an Associate
Professor at the Nanyang Technological
University (NTU) of Singapore. He held
concurrent appointments at NTU as Assistant
Chair of Alumni of the School of EEE from 2008
to 2014, Deputy Director of the Center for High
Performance Embedded Systems from 2000 to 2011,
and Program Director of the Center for
Integrated Circuits and Systems from 2003 to
2009. He has coedited five books, and have
published 13 book chapters, more than 100
international journal papers (>80 are in IEEE),
more than 180 refereed international conference
papers (mostly IEEE), and have delivered over 50
keynotes, tutorial and invited seminars. His
current research interests include hardware
security, trustworthy sensing, anti-spoofing
biometric, secure edge AI and PQC accelerators.
Dr. Chang currently serves as the Senior Area
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information
Forensic and Security (TIFS), and Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and
Systems-I (TCAS-I) and IEEE Transactions on Very
Large Scale Integration (TVLSI) Systems. He was
the Associate Editor of the IEEE TIFS and IEEE
Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of
Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), IEEE
Access, IEEE TCAS-I, etc.. He also guest edited
about 10 journal special issues. He has held key
appointments in the organizing and technical
program committees of more than 60 international
conferences (mostly IEEE). He is the 2018-2019
IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer, a Fellow of
the IEEE, IET and AAIA. He was recently
conferred the Award of Excellence in Hardware
Security by the Venus International Foundation
Center for Advance Research and Design.
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