Proposed Lecture Topics:
- Revisit the Cellular: A Hyper-cellular Framework for Green and Smart (5G) Mobile Communication Systems
- Fundamental Energy-Delay Tradeoff in GREEN Communications
- Smart Energy Management in Wireless Networks with Harvested Energy
Zhisheng Niu graduated from Beijing Jiaotong University, China, in 1985,
and got his M.E. and D.E. degrees from Toyohashi University of
Technology, Japan, in 1989 and 1992, respectively. During 1992-94, he
worked for Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan, and in 1994 joined with
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is now a professor and
deputy dean of the School of Information Science and Technology. His
major research interests include queueing theory, traffic engineering,
mobile Internet, radio resource management, and green communication and
networks. Dr. Niu received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from
Natural Science Foundation of China in 2009, Best Paper Award from IEEE
Communication Society Asia-Pacific Board in 2013, and Best Paper Awards
from APCC'07/'09/'13 and WCSP'13. He is now the Chief Scientist of the
National Basic Research Program (so called "973 Project") of China on
"Fundamental Research on the Energy and Resource Optimized
Hyper-Cellular Mobile Communication System" (2012-2016). He is a fellow
of both IEEE and IEICE.
Dr. Niu has been an active volunteer for various academic societies,
including Director for Asia-Pacific Board (2008-09), Director for
Conference Publications (2010-11), and member of the Award Committee
(2011-13) of IEEE Communication Society, Membership Development
Coordinator (2009-10) of IEEE Region 10, and Councilor of IEICE-Japan
(2009-11). He has also been serving as general co-chairs of
APCC'09/WiCOM'09, TPC co-chairs of APCC'04/ICC'08/WOCC'10/ICCC'12/
WOCC'13/ITC25, panel co-chair of WCNC'10, tutorial co-chairs of
VTC2010-Fall and Globecom-12, and publicity co-chairs of
PIMRC'10/WCNC'12. He was an editor of ACM Journal of Wireless Networks
(2007-11) and editor of IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine (2009-13).
He is now a distinguished lecturer (2012-15) and Chair of Emerging
Technology Committee (2014-15) of IEEE Communication Society,
distinguished lecturer (2014-16) of IEEE Vehicular Technology Society,
member of the Fellow Nomination Committee of IEICE Communication Society
(2013-14), and standing committee member of Chinese Institute of
Communications (CIC, 2012-16). |