Zhengguo Sheng is a lecturer at the University of Sussex, UK, and cofounder of WRTnode. His current research interests cover Internet-of-things (IoT), machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies, mobile cloud computing, and power line communication (PLC). Previously, he was with the University of British Columbia as a research associate and with France Telecom Orange Labs as the senior researcher and project manager in M2M and Internet-of-Things, as well as the coordinator of Orange and Asia telco on NFC-SWP partnership. He is also the winner of the Orange Outstanding Researcher Award and CEO Retention bonus recipient, 2012. He also worked as a research intern with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA, and U.S. Army Research Labs. With six years of research experience across industry and academia, Sheng has research interests that cover a wide range in wireless communication from the fundamental information theory to radio technology and protocol design, and so on. Before joining Orange Labs, he received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees with distinction at Imperial College London in 2011 and 2007, respectively, and his B.Sc. degree from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2006. He has published more than 30 prestigious conference and journal papers. He serves as the technical committee member of Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications (COMCOM). He has also served as the coorganizer of IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Vehicular Communications (WiVeC'14), session chair of IEEE VTC'14-Fall, and technical program committee members of Tensymp'15, CloudCom'14, Smart-Comp'14, WCSP'14, Qshine'14, ICCAAD'14, ContextDD'14, and others. He is also a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Vehicular Technology Society (VTS), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Chi Harold Liu is a full professor at the School of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is also the director of the IBM Mainframe Excellence Center (Beijing), director of the IBM Big Data and Analysis Technology Center, and director of the National Laboratory of Data Intelligence for China Light Industry. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, UK, and a B.Eng. degree from Tsinghua University, China. Before moving to academia, he joined IBM Research-China as a staff researcher and project manager, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Germany, and as a visiting scholar at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA. His current research interests include the Internet-of-Things (IoT), big data analytics, mobile computing, and wireless ad hoc, sensor, and mesh networks. He received the DistinguishedYoung Scholar Award in 2013, IBM First Plateau Invention Achievement Award in 2012, and IBM First Patent Application Award in 2011 and was interviewed by EEWeb.com as the Featured Engineer in 2011. He has published more than 50 prestigious conference and journal papers and owned more than 10 EU/U.S./China patents. He serves as the editor for KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems and the book editor for four books published by Taylor& FrancisGroup, USA. He also has served as the general chair of IEEE SECON'13 workshop on IoT Networking and Control, IEEEWCNC'12 workshop on IoT Enabling Technologies, and ACM UbiComp'11 Workshop on Networking and Object Memories for IoT. He served as a consultant to Bain & Company and KPMG, USA, and as a peer reviewer for the Qatar National Research Foundation and National Science Foundation, China. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.
