Keynote Speakers

Prof. Zhihan Lv, Qingdao University, China

Zhihan Lyu is an IEEE Senior Member, British Computer Society Fellow, ACM Distinguished Speaker, Career-long Scientific Influence Rankings of Stanford's Top 2% Scientists, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He is a Professor at Xidian University in Virtual Reality, Digital Twins and Metaverse major in Mathematics and Computer Applied Technology. His research application fields widely range from everyday life to traditional research fields (i.e. Geography and Transportation, Biology and Chemistry, Medicine and Rehabilitation, Industry and Entertainment). He has contributed 300 papers including more than 100 papers on IEEE/ACM Transactions. He has four granted patents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE CEMAG, IEEE TITS, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TCSS, IEEE TNSE, ACM TOMM. He is General Chair, Co-Chair or TPC of 50 conferences including Area Chair of ACM MM 2021-2023, Workshop Chair of ACM MM 2023, Online Experience Chair of IEEE VR 2023, Sponsorship Chair of MobileHCI 2023, Program Committee member of ACM IUI 2015-2023. He has reviewed 400 papers. He has received more than 20 awards from China, Europe, IEEE. He has supervised the students to get more than 20 awards. He has won 10 Best Paper awards. He has given 80 invited talks for universities and companies. He has given 23 keynote talks for International conferences. His research has been featured by popular news media outlets, including AAAS, SCIENMAG, APNEWS, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News. Before joining Uppsala University, he had research experience at French National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS)-UPR9080 at Paris in France, at Umea University at Umea in Sweden, at Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics(VECG) group at University College London(UCL) at London in UK, at Event Lab at University of Barcelona.

Prof. Kaida Xu, University of Alcalá, Spain

Kai-Da Xu received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electromagnetic Field and Microwave Technology from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu, China, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He received the 2nd Ph.D. degree in Communications Engineering from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2024.
From 2012 to 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Duke University, Durham, NC, USA. From 2015 to 2018, he was an Assistant Professor with the Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. From 2018 to 2019, he was an Honorary Fellow with the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellow with the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. In 2020, he joined the Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China. From Aug. 2023 to Sep. 2023, he was a visiting professor at Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, under the financial support by JSPS. Since 2024, he has been a European Marie Curie Researcher with the University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, supported by the European Union's Program Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship. He has authored and coauthored over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including 110+ in the IEEE Transactions/Letters/Journals) and over 60 papers in conference proceedings. He was in the list of “Most Cited Chinese Researchers” for three years announced by Elsevier in 2023, 2024 and 2025. His current research interests include microwave/millimeter-wave/THz devices and antenna arrays.
Dr. Xu received two fellowships from the JSPS. He received the UESTC Outstanding Graduate Awards in 2009 and 2015, respectively. He was a recipient of the National Graduate Student Scholarship in 2012, 2013, and 2014 from the Ministry of Education, China. He was the winner of the Electronics 2023 Young Investigator Award. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member for the InfoMat, AEÜ-International Journal of Electronics and Communications,and MDPI Electronics. Also, he has been serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE ACCESS, IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, and Electronics Letters. As a Guest Editor, he has organized several special issues in some journals, such as Materials & Design, Frontiers in Physics, ACES Journal and so on.

Tentative speech: Millimeter-Wave and Terahertz Components Based on Spoof Surface Plasmon Polaritons for Next-Generation Communications

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