2025 Vice President - Conferences Candidate

Position Statement

I have been organizing/steering committee members in more than 45 conferences/workshops/panels financially or technically by IEEE ComSoc/CompuSoc/VTS/System Council). I have been actively involved in IEEE (ComSoc as well as other Societies or organization units) or non-IEEE technical activities such conferences, journal publications, standardizations, IEEE Initiatives, and IEEE technical committees for quite a few years. I have witnessed a number of challenging issues in different ComSoc conferences, such as high registration fees, difficulties in obtaining financial sponsors, and limitations to technical committees and members. If elected, I would work together with other ComSoc members to bravely face and tackle those challenges by

SUpporting the analyses and changes of ComSoc conferences and relevant services to provide improved values to ComSoc members, technical committees, and emerging technical committees,

Supporting new conference models to support ComSoc TechnicAl committees and members,

Integrating green technologies and Sustainable practices into the strategic agenda

promote research and development in emergiNg areas to empower ComSoc community with cutting-edge tools and methodologies and encourage collaboration across disciplines and sectors.

enABling technical committees with more rights in creating IEEE entitled conferences

try to provide Lower and differential conference attendee expenses for different regions or countries

Enhance global collaborations that unite researchers, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide and encouraging industrial participations in ComSoc conferences.

It would be my great honor to humbly serve you while bringing the most values for ALL of you.

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Biography 

He has organized many IEEE (ComSoc and other OUs) and non-IEEE conferences. He was a key proposer (2012-2015) from Green Track into Green Symposium within ComSoc flagship conferences. He proposed (2014) and created (2016) the general Big Data Track series (2016-present) in ComSoc flagship conferences. He was one of leading organizers of the earliest IEEE online conferences （2012). 

He was founder (2011), founding Chair (2011-2017) of ComSoc Technical-Committee on Green-Communications-and-Computing (TCGCC), and the primary founding Vice-Chair (2014-2022), Chair (2022-2024) of ComSoc TC on Big-Data (TCBD). He was Vice-Chair, Technical-Activities, IEEE Environmental-Engineering-Initiative (2017-2022).

He was the very first proposer (2012) of IEEE Green ICT Transactions/Journals. He was founder of IEEE ComMag Green Series (2012-2018).  He received 2020 IEEE TCGCC Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award. He received 2017, 2019 and 2021 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Awards. He received his PhD in Queen’s University, Canada.