Current Officers
2022–2023
Chair
Lin Lin, Tongji University, China
Vice-chair
Adam Noel, University of Warwick, UK
Secretary
Nan Yang, Australian National University, Australia
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Prabhat Kumar Sharma, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India
Chair
Lin Lin is an Associate Professor in the College of Electronics and Information Engineering at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He received his B.Eng. and M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering from Tianjin University, China in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore in 2012. Lin is an EU Marie Curie Fellow. Lin’s research interests includes molecular communication, Internet of Nanothings (IoNTs), Body Sensor Networks (BSNs), etc. He received several research grants from NSF China and Shanghai government on the topic of molecular communication and IoNTs. He hosted the 1st China-Germany Molecular Communication Workshop in 2019. He served as the TPC co-chair for BICT 2020.
Vice-chair
Adam Noel is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering (Systems and Information Stream) at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK, which he joined in 2018. He received the B.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009 from Memorial University in St. John’s, NL, Canada. He received the M.A.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 2011 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2015, both from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In 2013, he was a Visiting Scientist at the Institute for Digital Communication at Friedrich-Alexander-University in Erlangen, Germany. He was also a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Ottawa (2016-2018). Adam is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications and was previously an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters (2017-2021). He has received several awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada, including a Postdoctoral Fellowship. He also received a Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications (one of the flagship conferences of the IEEE Communications Society).
Secretary
Nan Yang is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2011. He joined ANU in 2014 and is currently the Head of the Emerging Communications Laboratory and the leader of the multi-scale communications research team. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014 and the Best Paper Awards from the IEEE GlobeCOM 2016 and the IEEE VTC 2013-Spring. He also received the Top Editor Award from the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and several Exemplary/Top Reviewer Awards from prestigious IEEE transactions and letters from 2012 to 2019. He is now serving in the Editorial Board of the IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies. His research interests include molecular communications, terahertz communications, ultra-reliable low latency communications, cyber-physical security, and intelligent communications.
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Prabhat Kumar Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur, India. He received the B.Tech. degree from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, Lucknow, the M.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering and VLSI design from Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, and the Ph.D. degree in wireless communications from the University of Delhi in 2015. Prabhat is a recipient of the Visvesvaraya Young Faculty Research Fellowship from the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India. In 2019, He was awarded the URSI/InRaSS Young Indian Radio Scientist Award by the International Radio Science Union. He has authored over 80 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include physical layer aspects of wireless, molecular and biological, and quantum communications.