2027 The 2nd International Conference on Cybersecurity and Edge Computing
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Huawei Huang, IEEE Senior Member
Sun Yat-sen University, China
Huawei Huang is a professor at Sun Yat-sen University and a dual-appointment professor at Lingnan College of SYSU. Since 2021, he has been consecutively recognized among the Top 2% Scientists Worldwide by Stanford University. His research interests include blockchain systems and protocols, blockchain finance protocols, and trusted infrastructure for AI agents. He has published numerous research papers in CCF-A journals and conferences such as IEEE/ACM ToN, JSAC, TPDS, TSC, TDSC, TIFS, TMC, TC, and INFOCOM. He has served as chair for many academic conferences, workshops, and symposiums. He has published three blockchain monographs, as well as a popular blockchain science book, namely “From Blockchain to Web3: building the next-generation Internet”. Under his leadership, his team developed and open-sourced a blockchain experimental tool, BlockEmulator, which provides researchers a mature, high-quality experimental framework and code base. BlockEmulator has served researchers from over 90 countries and regions worldwide.
Prof. P. Takis Mathiopoulos, IEEE Life Senior Member
University of Athens, Greece
P. Takis Mathiopoulos received the Ph.D. degree in digital communications from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, in 1989. From 1982 to 1986, he was with Raytheon Canada Ltd., working in the areas of air navigational and satellite communications.
In 1989, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada, as an Assistant Professor and where he was a faculty member until 2003, holding the rank of Professor from 2000 to 2003. From 2000 to 2014, he was the Director (2000‑2004) and then the Director of Research of the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing (ISARS), National Observatory of Athens (NOA). In 2014 he was appointed Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.He also held visiting faculty long‑term honorary academic appointments as Guest Professor at Southwest Jiao Tong University (SWJTU), Chengdu, China, and Guest (Global) Professor at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan.
His research activities and contributions have dealt with wireless terrestrial and satellite communication systems and networks as well as remote sensing, LiDAR systems, and information technology, including blockchain systems. In these areas, he has co‑authored more than 150 journal papers published mainly in various IEEE journals, one edited book, 5 book chapters, and more than 160 international conference papers.Dr. Mathiopoulos has been or currently serves on the editorial board of several archival journals, including IET Communications as an Area Editor, the IEEE Transactions on Communications, the Remote Sensing Journal, and Specialty Chief‑Editor for the Aerial and Space Network Journal of Frontiers.
From 2001 to 2014, he has served as a Greek Representative to high‑level committees in the European Commission and the European Space Agency. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committees (TPC) for numerous IEEE and other international conferences and has served as TPC Vice‑Chair of several IEEE conferences. He has delivered numerous invited presentations, including plenary and keynote lectures, and has taught many short‑courses all over the world.During his tenure at UBC, he obtained an Advanced Systems Institute (ASI) Fellowship as well as a Killam Research Fellowship. He is also the co‑recipient of three best‑paper awards from international IEEE conferences, and he received the Satellite and Space Communication Technical Committee “2017 Distinguished Service Award” from the IEEE Communications Society for outstanding contributions in the field of Satellite and Space Communications.