ASIA PACIFIC BOARD (APB)GENERAL MEETING

Wanjiun Liao

Director, IEEE ComSoc APB

Email: wjliao@ntu.edu.tw

Dec. 9 2014

MEETING AGENDA

Welcome and Introduction

IEEE ComSoC APB Awards

APB Committee Updates

Invited Talk Experience on the Board of IEEE Technical Field Award

Committee, by Prof. Russell Hsing (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

Next APB General Meeting

Any Other Business

IEEE COMSOC APB AWARDS

Best Young Researcher:

Yulong Zou (Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

Outstanding Young Researchers:

Nan Yang (Australian National University, Australia)

Haojin Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)

Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, China)

Jemin Lee (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)

Mugen Peng (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China)

IEEE COMSOC APB AWARDS

-- OUTSTANDING PAPER AWARD

Magazine paper Title: Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine

Communication Authors: Shao-Yu Lien, Kwang-Cheng Chen, Yonghua Lin Source: IEEE Comm. Magazine, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 66-74, Apr. 2011

Journal papers Title: Delay and Capacity Tradeoff Analysis for MotionCast Authors: Xinbing Wang, Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang,

Chenhui Hu Source: IEEE Transactions on Networking, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1354-1367, Mar

2011

Title: Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks viaSemidefinite Programming

Authors: Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang and Anthony Man-Cho So Source: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Comm., vol. 29, no. 2, Feb. 2011

18%

Class of 2015

All Members Members In AP

IEEE FELLOWS

15%

Class of 2013

15%

Class of 2014

51/297/831 52/293/852 64/300/874

x/y/z: x: # of Fellows from AP; y: # of Fellows; z: # of nominees

IEEE FELLOW DISTRIBUTION IN AP2013 2014 2015

Australia 2 6 15China 8 8 16Hong Kong 7 6 6India 5 3 4Iran 0 1 0Japan 16 13 11Malaysia 0 1 0New Zealand 0 0 2Singapore 2 3 2South Korea 2 5 3Taiwan 9 6 5Total 51 52 64

APB COMMITTEE UPDATES

Membership Development Committee (MDC) Chair: Prof. Sunghyun Choi

Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) Chair: Prof. Yao-Wen Peter Hong

Information Service Committee (ISC) Chair: Dr. Sumei Sun

Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC) Chair: Prof. Jiming Chen

Chapter Coordination Committee (CCC) Chair: Prof. Eiji Oki

MEETING AGENDA

Welcome and Introduction IEEE ComSoC APB Awards APB Committee Updates Invited Talk:

Experience on the Board of IEEE Technical Field Award Committee, by Prof. Russell Hsing (National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan)

Next APB General Meeting Any Other Business

NEXT APB GENERAL MEETING

June 9, 2015 (Tuesday)IEEE ICC 2015

London, UK

THANK YOU~

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)Report

Eiji OkiCCC Chair

The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC)

Chair Eiji Oki, The University of

Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

Vice Chairs Liang Zhou, Nanjing University

of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

Chih-Peng Li, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

APB-CCC Plans for 2014-2015 Collaborate with the AP Office in running the

Distinguished Lecturer Tour (DLT) Program DLTs so far in 2014

16 granted, 15 delivered, 1 withdrew The most popular region for DLTs in ComSoc

Collaborate with the AP Office in coordinating ComSoc Executives' visit to Chapters

2014 ComSoc DLTs in Asia PacificDistinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #1: Pascal Lorenz

5 - 8 January 2014 Indonesia ComSoc Chapter

Malaysia ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #2: Pradeep Kumar Ray

11 - 18 March 2014 Delhi ComSoc Chapter

Kolkata ComSoc Chapter

Bangladesh ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #3: George Chrisikos

16 - 22 February 2014 Singapore ComSoc Chapter

Taipei ComSoc Chapter

Hong Kong ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #4: R. Chandramouli

7 - 22 March 2014 Madras ComSoc Chapter

Kerala ComSoc Chapter

Bombay ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #5: Tarik Taleb

5 - 11 May 2014 Beijing ComSoc Chapter

Shanghai ComSoc Chapter

Continued:-Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #6: Rath Vannithamby

25 - 29 August 2014 Indonesia ComSoc Chapter(Jakarta - Bali)

AP DLT #7: Xiaoming Fu

4 - 11 May 2014 Shanghai ComSoc Chapter

Beijing ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #8: Fabrizio Granelli

14 - 18 July 2014 Kansai ComSoc Chapter

Japan Council ComSoc Chapter

Sendai ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #9: Pradeep Kumar Ray

(** This DLT was cancelled due to Prof. Pradeep Ray’s health condition)

27 May - 12 July 2014 Tainan ComSoc Chapter

Taipei ComSoc Chapter

Shanghai ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #10: Ying-Dar Lin

8 - 18 June 2014 New South Wales ComSoc Chapter

Victorian ComSoc Chapter

Continued:-Distinguished Lecturer Tour dates Hosting Chapters

AP DLT #11:Ekram Hossain

November 9-11, 2014 New Zealand Central ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #12: Rath Vannithamby

November ? (to be checked), 2014

Malaysia ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #13: Sumit Roy

September 3-6, 2014 Hyderabad ComSoc Chapter

AP DLT #14: Jaafar Elmirghani

November 10-12, 2014 New Zealand Central Section

AP DLT #15: Anura Jayasumana

November 6, 2014 Australian Capital Territory ComSocChapter

AP DLT #16:Pradeep Kumar Ray

November 15, 2014 The Republic of Philippines ComSocChapter

ISC Activity Report

Globecom 2014

Sumei Sun, ISC ChairInstitute for Infocomm Research(I2R)

Singapore

IEEE ComSoc APB

The Team• Chair

– Sumei Sun, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

• Vice Co-Chairs (Newsletter)

– Wei Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia

– Hung-Yun Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

• Vice Chair (Homepage)

– Takaya Miyazawa, NICT, Japan

– Youngchul Sung, KAIST, Korea2

The ISC Mission

- To manage and update the AP Region Homepage to provide

new and important information for the AP Regional ComSoc

members

- To publish and distribute the AP Region email news

- To publish and distribute AP Newsletters

- To provide liaison to the IEEE Global Communication

Newsletter (GCN)

- To collaborate with the AP Office in information service related

matters

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AP NewsletterBiannual (every ICC and GLOBECOM)

• Maintain coverage of “conventional” topics– Message from Directors/Vice Directors/officers– IEEE ComSoc APB Outstanding Paper Awards– IEEE ComSoc APB Young Researcher Awards– DLT report– Committee activity report– Upcoming Conferences

• 2 issues in 2014 have been published

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AP NewsletterBiannual (every ICC and GLOBECOM)

• New Contents in Issue 2, 2014

– Biography of APB Best/Outstanding Young Researchers

– Abstract of APB Outstanding papers

– Hot paper introduction

– Student activities from local chapters

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APB Homepagehttp://chapters.comsoc.org/~APB/

• Timely update of web contents– Newsletters– APB Chapter activities– Officers, Committee (TAC, MCC, ISC, MDC, CCC), Chapter

Coordination, ComSoc Liaison, Advisor, AP Office– Mailing list– Regional activity, sister society– Conference– Archives (AP newsletter, Action plan, …)– APB Award, Distinguished Lecturer Tour, Student Travel

Grant

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Call for Contributions to GCN

• IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN)– Appears monthly within IEEE Communication Magazine– present news and events related to communications around

the world– Activities by APB Chapters

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Thank You!

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TAC report

December 9, 2014

Y.-W. Peter Hong, TAC Chair

IEEE ComSoc APB General Meeeting @ Globecom 2014

TAC Action Plan 2014-2015

TAC Action Plan: To hold the Asia Pacific Young Researcher Awards and the

Outstanding Paper Awards for 2014 and 2015. To select and to promote the winners of 2014 and 2015.

Current Status: Completed the selection of 2014 Asia-Pacific Young

Researcher Award and Outstanding Paper Award winners. Honor awardees at APB General Meeting at Globecom 2014. Plan to promote the awardees through the APB newsletter

and website (e.g., by soliciting articles from the awardees). Prepare the call for application and nomination of the 2015

APB Young Researcher and Outstanding Paper Awards.

The 9th Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Awards

The IEEE ComSoc AP Young Researcher Award honors young researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2013).

Eligibility: Age 35 or younger (i.e., born on or after 1978/01/01) Member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region.

Award Prize: ONE Best YRA with a certificate and US$500 and SEVERAL

Outstanding YRAs with a certificate and US$250.

YRA Selection Committee

Committee Chair: Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Members: Y.-W. Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University) Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University) Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore) Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University)

Winners of the 9th (i.e., 2014) Young Researcher Awards

Best Researcher Yulong Zou (Nanjing University of Posts and Teleco-

mmunications, China)

Outstanding Researchers Nan Yang (Australian National University, Australia) Haojin Zhu (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China) Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, China) Jemin Lee (Singapore University of Technology and

Design, Singapore) Mugen Peng (Beijing University of Posts and

Telecommunications, China)

Best Young Researcher Yulong Zou

PhD (‘12), Stevens Institute of Technology and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT)

Full Professor at NUPT His research interests span a wide range

of topics in wireless communications and networks, including cooperative communications, cognitive radio, wireless physical-layer security, and energy-efficient communications.

For his contributions to cognitive and cooperative communications in wireless networks.

Outstanding Young Researcher Nan Yang

PhD (‘11), University of New South Wales and Beijing Institute of Technology

Lecturer at Australian National University His research interests include

collaborative networks, network security, resource management, massive multi-antenna systems, and millimeter wave communications.

For his contributions to cooperative networking and wireless security.

Outstanding Young Researcher Haojin Zhu

PhD (‘09), University of Waterloo Associate Professor at Shanghai Jiao

Tong University His research interests include wireless

network security and distributed system security.

For his contributions to wireless network security and privacy.

Outstanding Young Researcher Kaishun Wu

PhD (‘11), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Distinguished Professor at Shenzhen University

His research interests include wireless communications and mobile computing.

For his contributions to wireless communications and mobile computing.

Outstanding Young Researcher Jemin Lee

PhD (‘10), Yonsei University Temasek Research Fellow and a Principal

Investigator at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)

Her research interests include wireless security, heterogeneous networks, cognitive radio networks, and cooperative communications.

For her contributions to her contributions to wireless communications and network secrecy.

Outstanding Young Researcher Mugen Peng

PhD (‘05), Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications (BUPT)

Full Professor at BUPT His research interests include cooperative

communication, wireless network coding, self-organizing networking, heterogeneous network, and cloud computing.

For his contributions to cooperative network coding and hierarchical heterogeneous networking.

The 3rd AP Outstanding Paper Award The IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award honors

outstanding original papers authored by members in the AP region over the last 3 years (Jan. 2011 to Dec. 2013).

Eligibility: Appeared in IEEE ComSoc publications. All authors affiliations must be from the AP region. Nominated by IEEE ComSoc AP region members.

Award Prize: Plaque and honorarium up to US $500 (per paper)

OPA Selection Committee

Committee Chair: Hiroshi Shigeno (Keio University)

Members: Y.-W. Peter Hong (National Tsing Hua University) Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) Rui Zhang (National University of Singapore) Saewoong Bahk (Seoul National University)

Winners of the 3rd (i.e., 2014) Outstanding Paper Awards (1/3)

Title: Toward Ubiquitous Massive Accesses in 3GPP Machine-to-Machine Communication

Authors: Shao-Yu Lien (National Taiwan University), Kwang-Cheng Chen, and Yonghua Lin

Source: IEEE Communications Magazine, April 2011 Nominator by Prof. Hsiao-Hwa Chen, Prof. Dong In Kim

Winners of the 3rd (i.e., 2014) Outstanding Paper Awards (2/3)

Title: Delay and Capacity Tradeoff Analysis for MotionCast Authors: Xinbing Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ.),

Wentao Huang, Shangxing Wang, Jinbei Zhang, and Chenhui Hu

Source: IEEE Transactions on Networking, Mar. 2011 Nominated by Prof. Zhisheng Niu

Winners of the 3rd (i.e., 2014) Outstanding Paper Awards (3/3)

Title: Optimal Spectrum Sharing in MIMO Cognitive Radio Networks via Semidefinite Programming

Authors: Ying Jun (Angela) Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Anthony Man-Cho So

Source: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Feb. 2011

Nominated by Dr. Ying-Chang Liang

Call for Application (1/2):10th AP Young Researcher Awards

The IEEE ComSoc AP Young Researcher Award honors young researchers who have been very active in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2012 to Dec. 2014).

Eligibility: Age 35 or younger (i.e., born on or after 1979/01/01) Member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region.

Award Prize: ONE Best YRA with a certificate and US$500 and SEVERAL

Outstanding YRAs with a certificate and US$250.

Call for Application (2/2):10th AP Young Researcher Awards

Application should include: Cover page with applicant's name, affiliation, address, telephone,

fax number and e-mail address. Short biography (limited to 400 words.) Information regarding research topics, publications, conference

activities, and awards/recognitions over the past 3 years.

Important Dates: Application Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2015 Award Ceremony at Globecom 2015 (December, 2015)

Send to APB TAC: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org

Call for Nomination (1/2):4thAP Outstanding Paper Award

The IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the AP region over the last 3 years (Jan. 2012 to Dec. 2014).

Eligibility: Appeared in IEEE ComSoc publications. All authors affiliations must be from the AP region. Nominated by IEEE ComSoc AP region members.

Award Prize: Plaque and honorarium up to US $500 per paper.

Call for Nomination (2/2):4th AP Outstanding Paper Award

Nomination should include: Cover page with nominator’s name and contact information. Paper Information (including title, authors, source etc) A copy of nominated paper. Letter of recommendation (up to A4 1 page). Optional supportive information (e.g., citation number etc.)

Important Dates: Application Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Announcement of Awardees: October 1, 2015 Award Ceremony at Globecom 2015 (December, 2015)

Send to APB TAC: apb-officers-tac@ieee.org