Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen  (IEEE Fellow、IET Fellow)

National Cheng Kung University, China

Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Oulu, Finland. He has long been dedicated to research in the fields of information and network security, wireless communications, and communication networks. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as a research assistant at the Telecommunications Laboratory of the University of Oulu, and subsequently as an associate researcher at the Academy of Finland. From 1992 to 1997, he was appointed as a lecturer and later a senior lecturer in the Department of Electronic Engineering at the National University of Singapore. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at National Chung Hsing University as an associate professor, and was later promoted to full professor. He also served as a visiting professor at the School of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, Japan (2000-2001), and the Institute of Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen, Germany (2002), where he was awarded the DFG fellowship. From 2001 to 2008, he served as professor and founding director of the Institute of Communications Engineering at National Sun Yat-sen University, and later as a visiting professor at the Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since 2008, he has been a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Engineering Science, National Cheng Kung University. Prof. Chen is also an IEEE Fellow, an IET Fellow, and has served in important leadership and editorial roles in several societies and international journals such as IEEE ComSoc and VTS. He was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Wiley’s IJCS, Chairman of the ComSoc Radio Communications Committee, Chairman of the Communications and Information Security Technical Committee, and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, among other positions, exerting a broad academic influence.

Prof. Xiangen Hu

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Prof. Xiangen Hu obtained his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees, both in Applied Mathematics from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1982 and 1985 respectively. He also received his Master of Arts degree in Social Sciences and Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Prof. Hu took up an Assistant Professorship at The University of Memphis in 1993 and was promoted to Associate Prof in 2000 and Prof in the Department of Psychology in 2009. Meanwhile, Prof HU has been appointed Prof and Dean of the School of Psychology in the Central China Normal University since 2016 on a visiting basis where he has established good connections with the Chinese mainland. He joined PolyU in Dec 2023 as Director of the Institute for Higher Education Research and Development.

Prof. Hu's research areas include Mathematical Psychology, Research Design and Statistics, and Cognitive Psychology. As an active researcher, Prof HU has secured significant research grants from various funding agencies, including the US National Science Foundation, US Institute for Education Sciences, US Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity, US Army Research Laboratories and US Office of Naval Research.