Qiang (John) Ye (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2016. Since September 2023, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, AB, Canada. Before joining UCalgary, he worked as an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada, from September 2021 to August 2023, and with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA, from September 2019 to August 2021. He was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then a Research Associate, from December 2016 to September 2019. He has published around 80 research papers in top-ranked journals and conference proceedings. He is/was a general, publication, publicity, TPC, or symposium co-chair for different reputable international conferences and workshops (e.g., IEEE INFOCOM, GLOBECOM, VTC, ICCC, ICCT, WISEE, SWC). He also serves/served as the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Region 7 Chapter Coordinator in 2024, the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Southern Alberta Chapter Vice Chair from 2024, and the VTS Regions 1-7 Chapters Coordinator from 2022 to 2023. He is the leading co-chair of a special interest group (SIG) in the IEEE ComSoc - Internet of Things, Ad Hoc & Sensor Networks (IoT-AHSN) Technical Committee. Dr. Ye serves as an Associate Editor for prestigious IEEE journals, such as IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. He received the Best Paper Award in the IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China (ICCC) in 2024 and the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking Exemplary Editor Award in 2023. Dr. Ye received the Early Career Research Excellence Award, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, in 2024. He has been selected as an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2025-2026.
Lecture Topics
- Intelligent Networking and Computing for Next-Generation Wireless Applications
- Digital-Twin-Assisted Network Traffic Prediction and Network Modeling
- Edge Intelligence for IoT
- RAN Slicing and Computation Offloading for Autonomous Vehicular Networks