THE SPCC OFFICERS (January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025)

Chair:

Ana Garcia Armada
University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
http://www.tsc.uc3m.es/~agarcia/
Email: anagar@ing.uc3m.es

Ana Garcia Armada received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in February 1998. She is currently a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she has occupied a variety of management positions (Head of Signal Theory and Communications Department, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of International Relations, among others). She is leading the Communications Research Group at this university. She has participated and coordinated several national and international research projects related to wireless communications. She is the co-author of eight book chapters on wireless communications and signal processing. She has published more than 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds four patents. She has contributed to international standards organizations such as ITU and ETSI. She has served on the editorial boards of Physical Communication (2008-2017), IET Communications (2014-2017). She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters since 2016 (Exemplary Editor Award 2017 and 2018). She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and he has been/is part of the organizing committee of IEEE Globecom 2019 and 2021, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2018, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2018 and 2019, IEEE 5G Summit 2017, International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET) 2017, IEEE Third Women´s Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2015, and the International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight) 2010. She has received a Young Researchers Excellence Award and an Award to Best Practices in Teaching, both from University Carlos III of Madrid. She was awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of information and communications technology. Her main interests are multi-carrier and multi-antenna techniques and signal processing applied to wireless communications.

Vice Chair:

Secretary:

Fang Fang
Western University, Canada
https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=SUpod8QAAAAJ&hl=en
Email: fang.fang@uwo.ca

Fang Fang (M’18-SM’23) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science, Western University, Canada. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada. Her current research interests include machine learning for intelligent wireless communications, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), multi-access edge computing (MEC), Semantic Communications and Edge AI, etc. Dr. Fang has been serving as a general chair for EAI GameNets 2022, a publications chair for IEEE VTC 2023 Fall, and a symposium chair for IEEE Globecom 2023, IEEE VTC 2024 Spring and IEEE ICC 2025. Dr. Fang currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Communication Letters and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COM). She received the Exemplary Reviewer Certificate from the IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2017 and 2021, as well as the Exemplary Editor Certificate from IEEE OJ-COM in 2021 and 2023. Dr. Fang won the IEEE SPCC Early Achievement Award in 2023.

Standards Liaison:

Richie Leo
ZTE Corporation, China
https://www.linkedin.com/in/richie-leo/
Email: richie.leo@zte.com.cn

Ruiqi (Richie) Liu (S’14-M’20) received the B.S. and M.S. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University in 2016 and 2019 respectively. He is now a master researcher in the wireless and computing research institute of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. His main research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication and wireless positioning. He is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters. He has participated in national key research projects as the researcher or research lead. During his 3-year service at 3GPP from 2019 to 2022, he has authored and submitted more than 500 technical documents with over 100 of them approved, and he served as the co-rapporteur of the work item (WI) on NR RRM enhancement and the feature lead of multiple features. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of ISG RIS in the ETSI. He actively participates in organizing committees, technical sessions, tutorials, workshops, symposia and industry panels in IEEE conferences as the chair, organizer, moderator, panelist or invited speaker. He served as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Quantum Communication, the Editor of ITU Journal of Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) and Guest Editor or Lead Guest Editor for a series of special issues. He is the Standardization Officer for IEEE ComSoc ETI on reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (ETI-RIS) and the Standards Liaison Officer for IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (SPCC-TC). His recent awards include the 2022 SPCC-TC Outstanding Service Award and the Beijing Science and Technology Invention Award (Second Prize, 2023).

Newsletter Editor:

Roberto Corvaja
University of Padova
roberto.corvaja@dei.unipd.it

Student Competition Representative:

Rui Dinis
Univ. Nova Lisboa, Portugal
https://www.it.pt/Members/Index/2913
Email: rdinis@fct.unl.pt

Rui Dinis received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001 and the Habilitation in Telecommunications from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), in 2010. From 2001 to 2008 he was a Professor at IST. Currently he is an associated professor at FCT-UNL and a senior researcher at IT (Instituto de Telecomunicações). During 2003 he was an invited professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Rui Dinis is an IEEE Senior Member and is or was editor at IEEE Open Journal on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and Elsevier Physical Communication, as well as guest editor for special numbers of several journals.
He was part of the Organizing Committee of multiple IEEE conferences (ICT’2014, VTC’2017-Fall, VTC’2018-Spring, ISWCS’2018, VTC’2019-Spring, VTC’2020-Spring, VTC’2020-Fall, GLOBECOM’2020). He is also president of VTS Portugal Chapter since 2016 and a member of several IEEE technical committees (CTTC, SPCC, RCC and WCT).
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Member of the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and IEEE Information Theory Society. Since 2018, he has been a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. He was Invited Lecturer, Invited Speaker and Invited Panelist at several international events and PhD schools.
Rui Dinis has been actively involved in several international and national research projects in the broadband wireless communications area. He was involved in pioneer projects on the use of mm-waves for broadband wireless communications and his main research activities are on modulation and transmitter design, nonlinear effects on digital communications and receiver design (detection, equalization, channel estimation and carrier synchronization), with emphasis on frequency-domain implementations, namely for MIMO systems and/or OFDM and SC-FDE modulations. He is also working on cross-layer design and optimization involving PHY, MAC and LLC issues, as well as indoor positioning techniques.

SIG Coordinator:

Melda Yuksel
Middle East Technical University, Turkey (e-mail: ymelda@metu.edu.tr)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2TcttlQAAAAJ&hl=en
Email: ymelda@metu.edu.tr

Dr. Melda Yuksel (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2001, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, in August 2007. She was at the TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara, from 2007 to 2021. She is an Associate Professor with Middle East Technical University. Her research interests include wireless communications, communication theory, and information theory. Dr. Yuksel was a recipient of the Best Paper Award from the Communication Theory Symposium of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Communications and the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey and the 2012 CAREER Award. She was the Treasurer of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium of Information Theory. She is currently serving as an Editorial Board Member for Physical Communication (PHYCOM) and an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal.

Public Engagement & Social Networks Coordinator

Xidong Mu
Queen’s University Belfast, UK
https://xidongmu.github.io/
Email: x.mu@qub.ac.uk

Dr. Xidong Mu has been a lecturer (an assistant professor) with the Centre for Wireless Innovation (CWI), Queen’s University Belfast, U.K. since August 2024. His research interests include non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), IRSs/RISs aided communications, integrated sensing and communications, semantic communications, and optimization theory. He received the IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Researcher Award for EMEA region in 2023, and is the co-receipt of the 2024 IEEE Communications Society Heinrich Hertz Award, the Best Paper Award in ISWCS 2022, the 2022 IEEE SPCC-TC Best Paper Award, and the Best Student Paper Award in IEEE VTC2022-Fall. He serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications, a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking Special Issue on “Machine Learning and Intelligent Signal Processing for Near-Field Technologies”, and IEEE Internet of Things Journal Special Issue on “Next Generation Multiple Access for Internet-of-Things”.

WICE/YP Liasion:  

Leyi Zhang
ZTE Corporation, China
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xMpdZqAAAAAJ&hl=en
Email: leyi.zhang@zte.com.cn

Leyi Zhang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees (with honors) in electrical engineering from the Department of Electronic Information Engineering, Beihang University in 2020 and 2023 respectively. She is working as a researcher with the technology planning department of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. Her research interests include network security and quantum communication. She has many peer-reviewed publications. She took part in many international academic conferences as the session chair or invited speaker. She participated in national key research projects as the research assistant or researcher. She actively participates in global standardization activities through platforms such as ITU-T, 3GPP, ETSI and CCSA. She currently serves as the chief delegate of ZTE to ITU-T SG17.

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Former Officers:

• 2022-2023:
  • Chair: Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas)
  • Vice Chair: Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
  • Secretary: Yuanwei Liu (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
•  2019-2021:
  • Chair: Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
  • Vice Chair: Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas)
  • Secretary: Ana Garcia Armada (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
• 2017-2018:
  • Chair: Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
  • Vice Chair: Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
  • Secretary: Jingxian Wu (University of Arkansas)
• 2015-2016:
  • Chair: Hai Lin (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
  • Vice Chair: Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
  • Secretary: Xianbin Wang (Western University, Canada)
• 2013-2014:
  • Chair: Nallanathan Arumugam (King’s College London, UK)
  • Vice Chair: Hai Lin (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
  • Secretary: Octavia A. Dobre (Memorial University, Canada)
• 2010-2012:
  • Chair: Hung Nguyen (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
  • Vice Chair: Nallanathan Arumugam (King’s College London, UK)
  • Secretary: Hai Lin (Osaka Prefecture University, Japan)
• 2008-2010:
  • Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
  • Vice Chair: Hung Nguyen (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
  • Secretary: Nallanathan Arumugam (King’s College London, UK)
• 2006-2008:
  • Chair: Tomohiko Taniguchi (Fujitsu Laboratories Limited, Japan)
  • Vice Chair: Tomoaki Ohtsuki (Keio University, Japan)
  • Secretary: Hung Nguyen (The Aerospace Corporation, USA)
• 2004-2006: Chair: Bin Qiu (Monash University, Australia)
• 2002-2004: Chair: Ron P. Smith (NGC, USA)
• 2000-2002: Chair: Jaafar Elmirghani (University of Wales, Swansea, UK)
• 1998-2000: Chair: Naohisa Ohta (Sony, Japan)
• 1996-1998: Chair: Trevor Clarkson (King’s College London, UK)
• 1992-1996: Chair: Stamatios Kartalopoulos (AT&T/Lucent, USA)
• 1988-1992: Chair: Curtis Siller (AT&T/Lucent, USA)
• 1984-1988: Chair: Don Puckette (T.J. Watson / IBM, USA)