Keynote Speaker
Professor Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore
About the lecture
This lecture and panel discussion will examine how reconfigurable MIMO can support the development of future 6G networks. Professor Rui Zhang will introduce key concepts and recent advances in intelligent reflecting surfaces, movable antennas, and other technologies that enable wireless environments and antenna configurations to be actively adapted. The lecture will explain how these approaches can improve coverage, spectral efficiency, reliability, and flexibility beyond conventional MIMO systems. The panel discussion will bring together leading experts to discuss major research opportunities, practical implementation challenges, system integration, standardization, and the potential role of reconfigurable MIMO in future wireless networks.
Registration
All members of the HKU community and the general public are welcome to join. Seats for on-site participants are limited. Interested parties, please register through the link below by September 16, 2026, 10:30:
https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=109042
A confirmation email will be sent to participants who have successfully registered.
About the keynote speaker
Professor Rui Zhang, National University of Singapore
Professor Zhang is a Provost’s Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National University of Singapore. He has published over 600 papers that are truly impactful, as evident from the more than 128,000 total citations with H-index of 163 (Google Scholar). Professor Zhang has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Thomson Reuters/Clarivate Analytics since 2015. He is a Fellow of IEEE and Academy of Engineering Singapore, and was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. His work received 18 IEEE Best Journal Paper Awards, including the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications (twice), the IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Prize Paper Award (thrice), the IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, etc. He was the recipient of the 2020 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Recognition Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks Recognition Award, and the 2025 IEEE James Evans Avant Garde Award. He served as an Editor for several IEEE journals, including TWC/TCOM/JSAC/TSP and as TPC co-chair/organizing committee member for 30+ international conferences.
Panellists
Professor Yuanwei Liu, The University of Hong Kong
Professor Yuanwei Liu is a tenured full Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at HKU. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of AAIA, a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher, a Young Member of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering, an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, an IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer. He serves the Chair for IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications. He received IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA in 2020. He received the 2020 IEEE SPCC Technical Committee Early Achievement Award, IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee 2021 Early Achievement Award. He received IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Nominee for Best Young Professionals Award in 2021. He is the co-recipient of the 2024 IEEE ComSoc Heinrich Hertz Award. He serves as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of IEEE ComSoc TC Newsletter, an Area Editor of IEEE TCOMM and IEEE Communications Letters, an Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE TWC, IEEE TVT, IEEE TNSE, and IEEE TCCN. He is the (leading) Guest Editor for Proceedings of the IEEE on Next Generation Multiple Access, IEEE JSAC on Next Generation Multiple Access, IEEE JSTSP, and IEEE Network.
Professor Jun Zhang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Professor Jun Zhang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2009. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering and an Associate Director of the Computer Engineering (CPEG) Program with The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include integrated communications and AI, generative AI, and edge AI systems. He was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2023–2024). He has co-authored/co-edited five books. He is a co-recipient of several best paper awards, including the 2025 IEEE ComSoc Katherine Johnson Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Best Survey Paper Award of the IEEE ComSoc, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society & Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award, and the 2016 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He also received the 2016 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award. He served as the Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE WCNC 2011 and 2026 and IEEE ICC 2021, and the TPC Co-Chair for The IEEE Hong Kong 6G Wireless Summit 2023 and 2024. He is also an Area Editor of IEEE TWC and IEEE TMLCN.
Professor Jie Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Professor Jie is currently an Associate Professor (Tenured) with the School of Science and Engineering, the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii-Shenzhen), and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He was a recipient of the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the IEEE/CIC ICCC 2019 Best Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award, and the 2019 Wireless Communications Technical Committee Outstanding Young Researcher Award. He is the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2019 Wireless Communications Symposium and the IEEE ICC 2025 Communication Theory Symposium, the Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee. He served or is serving as an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE TMC, an Editor of the IEEE TWC, IEEE TCOMM, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, and Journal of Communications and Information Networks, an Associate Editor of IEEE Access, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, Science China Information Sciences, and China Communications. He is a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc.
Professor Liang Liu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Professor Liang LIU received the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore in 2014. Currently, he is an Associate Professor in the Department of EEE at PolyU. Professor Liang LIU is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2025-2026. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, the 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the Best Student Paper Award for 2022 IEEE ICASSP, and the Best Paper Award for 2011 WCSP. He was listed in Highly Cited Researchers, also known as World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, by Clarivate Analytics (Thomson Reuters) in 2018. He is a member of Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee in IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is an Editor for IEEE TWC and an Associate Editor for IEEE TSP, and was a leading guest editor for IEEE Wireless Communications special issue on “Massive Machine-Type Communications for IoT”. Professor Liang LIU is a Fellow of IEEE and Young Member of The Hong Kong Academy of Engineering.