New Members of ZTE Communications Editorial Board

HWANG Jenq?Neng received his PhD degree from the University of Southern California， USA. In the summer of 1989， Dr. Hwang joined the Department of Electrical Engineering of the University of Washington in Seattle， USA， where he has been promoted to Full Professor since 1999. He served as the Associate Chair for Research from 2003 to 2005， and from 2011-2015. He is currently the Associate Chair for Global Affairs and International Development in the EE Department. He has written more than 300 journal， conference papers and book chapters in the areas of multimedia signal processing， and multimedia system integration and networking， including an authored textbook on “Multimedia Networking： from Theory to Practice，” published by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Hwang has close working relationship with the industry on multimedia signal processing and multimedia networking.

Dr. Hwang received the 1995 IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Journal Paper Award. He is a founding member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society and was the Society's representative to IEEE Neural Network Council from 1996 to 2000. He is currently a member of Multimedia Technical Committee （MMTC） of IEEE Communication Society and also a member of Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee （MMSP TC） of IEEE Signal Processing Society. He served as associate editors for IEEE T?SP， T?NN and T?CSVT， T?IP and Signal Processing Magazine （SPM）. He is currently on the editorial board of ETRI， IJDMB and JSPS journals. He is the Program Co?Chair of IEEE ICME 2016 and was the Program Co?Chairs of ICASSP 1998 and ISCAS 2009. Dr. Hwang is a fellow of IEEE since 2001.

WANG Zhengdao received his bachelors degree in electronic engineering and information science from the University of Science and Technology of China （USTC）， China in 1996， the MSc degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Virginia， USA in 1999， and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Minnesota， USA in 2002. He is now with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Iowa State University， USA. His interests are in the areas of signal processing， communications， and information theory. He served as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology from April 2004 to April 2006， an associate editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters between August 2005 and August 2008， and an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing between 2013 and 2015. He was a co?recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award in 2003， the IEEE Communications Society Marconi Paper Prize Award in 2004， and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing Best Paper Award in 2009. He is serving as an editor for The IEEE Signal Processing Society Online Video Library， an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications， and an editor for ZTE Communications. He is an IEEE Fellow.

ZHANG Chengqi has been appointed as a Research Professor of Information Technology at The University of Technology Sydney （UTS）， Australia since December 2001 and Honorary Professor of the University of Queensland （UQ）， Australia since March 2015. He has been the founding director of the UTS Priority Research Centre for QCIS since April 2008. He has been elected as the chairmen of the Australian Computer Society National Committee for Artificial Intelligence since November 2005 and of IEEE Computer Society TCII since June 2014.

Prof. Zhang obtained his PhD degree from the UQ in 1991， followed by a Doctor of Science （Higher Doctorate） from Deakin University， Australia in 2002， all in computer science.

Prof. Zhang has achieved outstanding research results and provided excellent leadership during his academic career. His key areas of research are distributed artificial intelligence， data mining and its applications. He has published more than 200 refereed research papers and six monographs and edited 16 books. His total citations till now （4 August 2016） are 10，000+ times based on Google Scholar and H?Index is 38. He has delivered 14 keynote/invited speeches at international conferences over the last eight years. He has attracted 12 ARC grants of $4.7 M. He received NSW State Science and Engineering Award in Engineer and ICT Category and UTS Chancellor Research Excellence Award in Research Leadership Category in 2011. Prof. Zhang is a fellow of ACS and a senior member of IEEE. He had been serving as an associate editor for three international journals， including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering from 2005 to 2008； and served as General Chair， PC Chair or Organising Chair for five international conferences including ICDM and KDD. He is also Local Arrangements Chair of IJCAI 2017.