Plenary Speaker
Professor Zuqing Zhu IEEE Fellow University of Science and Technology of China, China | Biography: Zuqing Zhu is a Full Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Since Jan. 2011, he has been leading the Intelligent Networking system & Future InterNet InfrasTructurE (INFINITE) Lab of USTC. Dr. Zhu has been the Chair of the Technical Committee on Optical Networking (ONTC) of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) (2022-2023). He is currently the Lead Series Editor of the Optical Communications and Networks Series in IEEE Communications Magazine, the Area Editor of Optical Communications and Networking of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Optics Express, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Optical Switching and Networking (Elsevier), etc. Dr. Zhu is the Steering Committee Chair of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), and has been a Member-at-Large of the GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content (GITC) Committee and an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2018-2021). He has published more than 370 papers in referred journals and conferences of IEEE and Optica. His h-index is 60 (Google Scholar, as of 02/2025), and his Google Scholar Profile is here. He has received the 2023 Distinguished Technical Achievement Award from the Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee (CSR-TC) of ComSoc, and the 2023 Malathi Veeraraghavan Service Award from the ONTC of ComSoc. Dr. Zhu is a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). From Jul. 2007 to Jan. 2011, Dr. Zhu was a Senior Software Engineer in the Service Provider Technology Group of Cisco. In July 2007, he got his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He received the M.S. degree from the same department in Sept. 2003, and the B.S. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering and Informati Speech Title: Accelerating Collective Communications with Mutual Benefits of Optical Rackless DC and In-Network Computing Abstract: We propose a novel data center (DC) architecture to explore the mutual benefits of optical rackless data center (ORDC) and in-network computing for accelerating collective communications for emerging applications such as MapReduce clasters and Large Language Model training. Our experimental results indicate that the proposal reduces job completion time of collective communications by 27:4% to 43:3% over traditional benchmarks. |
ProfessorSuleman Mazhar Harbin Engineering University, China | Biography: Suleman Mazhar (Senior Member, IEEE) received the postdoctoral degree in information and communication engineering from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA, in 2015, and the Ph.D degree in information and communication engineering from Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2010.,He loves teaching machine learning and data science and spends leisure time in software consultancy, field work, protecting endangered species in the rivers and endangered beings on the roads. He is currently a Professor with the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China. His research interests include acoustics and machine learning. Speech Title: TBD Abstract: TBD |
Thippa Reddy Gadekallu IEEE Senior Member Zhejiang A&F University, China | Biography: Thippa Reddy Gadekallu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the bachelor’s degree in computer science and engineering from Nagarjuna University, India, in 2003, the master’s degree in computer science and engineering from Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, in 2011, and the Ph.D. degree from Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, in 2017. He is currently with the Division of Research and Development, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon, and the Center of Research Impact and Outcome, Chitkara University, Punjab, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in teaching. He has more than 150 international/national publications in reputed journals and conferences. His research interests include machine learning, the Internet of Things, deep neural networks, blockchain, and computer vision. He is an editor of several publishers, such as Springer, Hindawi, Plosone, Scientific Reports (Nature), and Wiley. He also acted as a guest editor in several reputed publishers, such as IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Hindawi, and MDPI. He was recently recognized as one among the top 2% scientists in the world as per the survey conducted by Elsevier, in 2021. Speech Title: TBD Abstract: TBD |
