ICWOC 2026 & ISA Global LiFi Summit>>> Nanjing, China
Keynote Speakers
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Harald haas, University of Cambridge, UK
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Harald Haas (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh, U.K., in 2001. He is currently the Van Eck Chair of Engineering with the University of Cambridge, U.K., and the Founder of pureLiFi Ltd., where he also works as the Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). His research interests include photonics, communication theory, and signal processing for optical wireless communication systems. Since 2017, he has been recognised as a highly cited researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science. He has delivered two TED talks and one TEDx talk. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. He was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2019, and the Enginuity: The Connect Places Innovation Award in 2021. In 2022, he received the Humboldt Research Award for his research contributions. He is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). In 2023, he was shortlisted for the European Inventor Award.
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Julian Cheng, Great Bay University, China
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Julian Cheng received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. He is now the founding Dean of the School of Computing and Information Technology at Great Bay University, Dongguan. Formerly, he was with the Faculty of Applied Science, The University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is also a Professor Emeritus. His research interests include robotics wireless Communications for civilian and defense applications, deep learning for wireless communications, optical wireless technology. Dr. Cheng has been a technical program committee member for many IEEE conferences and workshops. He co-chaired the 12th Canadian Workshop on Information Theory (CWIT 2011) in Kelowna, Canada. He also co-chaired the 2021 and 2024 Communication Theory Workshop. He served as an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2018-2023). Previously, he was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and IEEE Communications Letters. He was a past Guest Editor for a special issue of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications on optical wireless communications. He also served as the President of the Canadian Society of Information Theory (2017-2021). From 2022 to 2023, he was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Cheng holds the Principal Research Chair (Tier-1) at UBC on Advanced Wireless Systems. He is also a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Optica. In 2025, he was elected a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC) and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE).
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Nan Chi, Fudan Univerisity, China
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Professor Nan Chi is with School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University, China. She received the BS degree and PhD degree in electrical engineering from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. She is the author or co-author of more than 300 papers and has been cited more than 12000 times. She has been awarded as The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, the New Century Excellent Talents Awards from the Education Ministry of China, Shanghai Shu Guang scholarship. Her current research interests include optical packet/label switching, optical fiber communication and visible light communication. She is a fellow of the OSA.