Current Chinese Science

Dr. Theodoros A. Tsiftsis received the BSc degree in physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1993, the MSc degree in digital systems engineering from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K in 1995, the MSc degree in decision sciences from the Athens University of Economics and Business, in 2000, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2006. He is currently a Professor in the School of Intelligent Systems Science \& Engineering at Jinan University, Zhuhai, China, and also Honorary Professor at Shandong Jiaotong University, Jinan, China. His research interests fall into the broad areas of communication theory and wireless communications with emphasis on energy efficient communications, smart surfaces, ultra-reliable and low-latency communication, and physical layer security. He has served as a senior or Associate Editor in different international journals.

Xian Sun is a Professor at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the B.Eng. degree from BeiHang University, Beijing, China, in 2004, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2009. His research interests include machine learning in vision, image/video analysis and remote sensing image understanding. He has published more than 120 papers in these areas, and won several National Scientific and Technological Progress Awards. He serves as Associate Editor, Guest editor and reviewer for more than 30 international journals.

Dr. Shichao Zhang received the PhD degree in computer science from Deakin University, Australia. He is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Technology, Central South University, China. His research interests include big data and pattern discovery. He is serving as an associate editor for the TKDD, TKDE, KAIS, and the IEEE Intelligent Informatics Bulletin. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.

Dr. K. SHANKAR (Member, IEEE) is currently a postdoctoral fellow with the Department of Computer Applications, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He has authored/co authored over more than 65 ISI journal articles (with total Impact Factor 200+) and more than 100 Scopus indexed articles. He has authored/edited conference proceedings, book chapters, and three books published by an international journal. He has been a part of various seminars, paper presentations, research paper reviews, and convener and a session chair of the several conferences. His current research interests include healthcare applications, secret image sharing scheme, digital image security, cryptography, the Internet of things, and optimization algorithms. He has guest-edited several special issues at many journals published by SAGE, TechScience, Inderscience, and MDPI. He has served as a Guest Editor and an Associate Editor in SCI, Scopus indexed journals, such as Elsevier, Springer, IGI, Wiley, & MDPI. He has served as a chair (program, publications, technical committee, and track) on several international conferences.

Dr Mohamad Hafiz Mamat holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Electronic Engineering Studies, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. He is also the Head of NANO-ElecTronic Centre (NET), Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia. His research interests include Nanoelectronics (Fabrication of sensors, solar cells, etc. using nanomaterials), Nano-characterization (Electrical, structural, and optical characterizations), Nanomaterials (ZnO, TiO2, etc). He has published more than 200 articles in distinguished well-reputed international journals.

Dr. Jun Ding was born in Jiangsu Province, China. He received the B.S. degree from Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, in 2004, the M.S. degree from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A in 2013. From 2013 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow in University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, USA. Since 2017, He is currently an Associate Professor at the East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include antennas, microwave and millimeter-wave devices, and signal processing.

Dr. received the B.E. degree in communication engineering from the Civil Aviation University of China, Tianjin, China, in 2002, the M.S. degree in signal and information processing from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in signal and information processing from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China, in 2008. He is currently a full Professor of electronic and information engineering at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China. His research interests are synthetic aperture radar signal processing, image processing, and high performance computing.Dr. Zhang has been an associate editor for the IEEE Access, and a Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, and the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation.

Dr. Weixian Tan is currently a Professor at the College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009 and Excellence Award of President of Chinese Academy of Sciences. From 2009 to 2014, he was an associate researcher with the National Key Laboratory of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2015, he has been introduced to work in Inner Mongolia University of Technology and awarded Inner Mongolia Grassland Outstanding Talent. He has published more than 80 academic papers and more than 40 Chinese invention patents. He has won the First prize of Inner Mongolia Natural Science Award, First prize of Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress Award, and several Excellent Paper Prizes. His research interests include airborne/ spaceborne microwave imaging radar, 3D millimeter wave imaging radar, ground-based micro deformation monitoring radar, radar signal processing and microwave remote sensing. He serves as reviewer for more than 10 international journals.

Dr. Pingping Huang is currently a Professor at College of Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He was awarded the State Candidate of Millions of Talents Project, Expert of Outstanding Contribution in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Inner Mongolia Grassland Outstanding Talent, Inner Mongolia Outstanding Youth of Natural Science, Young Science and Technology Talents of Inner Mongolia Colleges and Universities, etc. He has published more than 100 academic papers and more than 30 Chinese invention patents. He has won the First prize of Inner Mongolia Natural Science Award, First prize of Inner Mongolia Science and Technology Progress Award, Inner Mongolia May First Labor Medal and several Excellent Paper Prizes. Prof. Pingping Huang is the academic leader of Inner Mongolian Key Laboratory of Radar Technology and Application and the vice president of the College of Information Engineering of Inner Mongolia University of Technology. He is a committee member of Signal Processing Branch of Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and a committee member of Graduate Student Education Branch of China Education Society of Electronics (CESE). His research interests include radar processing and remote sensing application technology related to ecological safety, production safety and defense safety. He serves as Associate Editor, Guest editor and reviewer for more than 10 journals.

Dr. Muhammad Waseem Ashraf received his Doctorate of Engineering in Microelectronics at the Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand in 2011. Previously, he received Masters of Philosophy in Microelectronics Engineering and Semiconductor Physics from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan and Masters of Science in Physics from GC University Lahore, Pakistan. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor Electronics, Department of Physics at GC University, Lahore, Pakistan. He also served at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand as a Research Associate and Research Specialist. During his service at GC University, Dr. Waseem has established Nano-Electronics Research Lab to facilitate researchers and students. He is author/co-author of more than 130 peer reviewed international Conferences papers, Book chapters and Impact factor Journal articles. His research interests are Simulation, Modeling, IoT, Fuzzy Systems, Artificial Intelligence, MEMS, NEMS, Nanotechnology, Material Processing and Energy Devices.

Dr. Amandeep Singh is an Associate Editorial Board Member of the Current Chinese Science-Signal Processing journal. He is working as a faculty at the School of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at MIT Academy of Engineering Pune-412105, Maharashtra (India). His research interests include: signal processing, smart agriculture, vehicle dynamics, biodynamic response to vibration, seating dynamics, computational techniques and optimization. Dr. Singh has contributed a number of research papers in the peer reviewed international journals/conferences. He has received research project funding from various agencies like The Institution of Engineers (India), Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP), All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). He has been granted International Travel Funding (ITF) by many agencies like Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Dr. Yuan Zhang is currently an Associate Professor at the North China University of Technology, teaching the course "Digital Signal Processing" in English. He received his Ph.D. degree from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2017. From 2015 to 2016, he did a joint Ph.D. at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM). From 2008 to 2013, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded outstanding young backbone talents by the organization department of Beijing municipal committee of China. He presided over 1 National Natural Science Foundation project and 3 provincial projects, and published dozens of SCI and EI papers. His research area is radar signal and information processing.

Dr. Yongsheng Zhou is currently a Professor at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He received his PhD in the signal and information processing from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2010. He published more than 40 research papers. His general research interests lie in target detection and recognition from microwave remotely sensed image, digital signal processing, digital image processing, etc.

Dr. Lijia Huang is an Associate Professor at the Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences. She received her B.Eng. degree from BeiHang University, Beijing, China, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2011. Her research interests include the signal processing of synthetic aperture radar and the applications of their datum and images. She has published more than 30 papers in well-reputed journals and conferences, and serves as a reviewer for many journals. She won the National Scientific and Technological Progress Award in 2019.

Dr. Zheng Zhang is an Associate Professor at the School of information at North China University of Technology. He received the B.Eng. degree from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, in 2005, and then Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 2010. His research interests include machine learning in vision, image/video analysis and multimodal remote sensing data processing. He has published several scientific papers in these areas, and won PLA Scientific and Technological Progress Awards.

Dr. Qiang Yin is an Associate Professor at the College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in signal and information processing from Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Science. From 2014 to 2015, she was a Research Fellow at the European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN). She is also a Lecturer of the Advanced Land Remote Sensing International Training Course of ESA-MOST Dragon Cooperation. Since 2016 she is a Coordinator of IEEE GRSS in Asia and Pacific Region. Her research interests include radar image processing, classification based on polarimetric signatures, and quantitative parameter inversions.

Dr. Yun Lin is currently an Associate Professor at the North China University of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Signal and Information Processing from the Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2011. From 2011 to 2018, she has been with the National Key Lab of Microwave Imaging Technology, Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she was in charge of the signal processing algorithm development and successfully processed the first airborne circular SAR image in China in the year of 2011. Since 2018, she has joined the School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing, China. Her current activities of research are focused on the topics of multi-aspect SAR imaging and its applications. She has published more than 40 scientific journal papers and obtained 20 authorized patents.

Dr. Firdous A. Shah obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Kashmir, and a Ph.D in Mathematics at the Central University, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Kashmir, India. Prior to his position at University of Kashmir, he was an Assistant Professor at BGSB University, Jammu as an Assistant Professor. He has authored/co-authored over 100 published scientific research papers. He has co-authored two books on Wavelet Transforms and Their Applications, Birkhauser, Springer in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He is also serving as an editorial board member of several mathematics and engineering journals, and reviewer of several international journals. He has undertaken several research projects and already 05 students completed their Ph.D research work under his guidance. His current research interests include the development of new time-frequency transforms, multi-scale wavelet analysis, applied harmonic analysis, Clifford Fourier transforms and the applications of wavelets to differential and integral equations, and mathematical biology.

Dr Marko Simeunović received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the University of Montenegro, in 2008, 2009 and 2013, respectively. From 2008 to 2016 he was with the University of Montenegro covering positions of teaching/research assistant and ICT fellow researcher specialized for e-service engineering. In 2016 he was also involved in the first Center of Excellence in Montenegro. He joined the University of Donja Gorica in 2016 where he is currently holding the position of assistant professor. His courses are related to electrical engineering, programming, information systems and digital signal and image processing. He published more than 60 papers in international scientific journals and conferences, and participated in several FP7, H2020, bilateral and national research projects. Currently, he is a leader of two innovative projects funded by the Ministry of Science of Montenegro. Marko Simeunović is a reviewer in most world’s leading journals from the signal processing area. In 2013, Dr. Simeunović was awarded by the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts for outstanding scientific achievements. His research interests include time-frequency signal analysis, robust estimation, parametric and nonparametric estimation, statistical and array signal processing, genetic algorithm applications, radar signal processing and wireless sensor networks. More information can be found at http://marko-simeunovic.online/.

Jiaqiu Ai is currently an Associate Professor at Hefei University of Technology, Anhui Province, China. He received his BS degree in Electronics & Information from the Beijing Information Science and Technology University in 2007, and his PhD degree in Information & Communication from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2012. He served as a senior engineer at the 38th institute, China Electronic Technology Group Corporation (CETC) from 2012 to 2016. He is the author of more than 30 journal papers. He has been invited as the reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, International Journal of Remote Sensing, Signal Processing, Remote Sensing Letters, Journal of Applied Remote Sensing. His current research interests include SAR image processing, radar target detection and radar system design. He has been awarded with the best reviewer for Chinese famous journal of 《Journal of remote Sensing》in 2019.

Dr. Sixin Liu is a Professor in the Department of Geophysics at the Jilin University, China. He received B. Eng. and M. Eng. degrees in Applied Geophysics from Changchun College of Geology, Changchun, China, in 1989 and 1992, respectively, and received his PhD in Geoscience and Engineering from Tohoku University, Japan in 2002. He received secondary Sci&Tech progressive award from Ministry of Geological and Mineral Resource (MGMS) of China in 1995. He received young geologist award (golden hammer award) from the Chinese Society of Geology in 2003. He received secondary Sci & Tech progressive award from Liaoning province in 2008. He was awarded the excellent young scholar by Changchun municipal government in 2012. He has more than 100 publications in peer-referred journals, conference proceedings, and technical reports. His current research focuses on Engineering and Environmental Geophysics(EEG), Near Surface Geophysics(NSG), including ground penetrating radar (GPR), borehole radar (BR), electromagnetic logging (EM Logging).