Plenary Talks

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Hiroki Koga received B.E., M.E. and D.E. degrees from University of Tokyo, in 1990, 1992 and 1995, respectively. From 1995 to 1999, he was a Research Associate in Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo. Since 1999, he has been with University of Tsukuba, where he is currently a Professor of Institute of Systems and Information. His research interests include Shannon theory and information security. Dr. Koga is a member of IEICE,and IEEE.

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Vincent Y. F. Tan (S'07-M'11-SM'15) was born in Singapore in 1981. He received the B.A. and M.Eng. degrees in electrical and information science from Cambridge University in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2011. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Mathematics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests include information theory, machine learning, and statistical signal processing.
Dr. Tan is an elected member of the IEEE Information Theory Society Board of Governors. He was an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2018 to 2019. He received the MIT EECS Jin-Au Kong Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Prize in 2011, the NUS Young Investigator Award in 2014, the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Fellowship (Class of 2018), the Engineering Young Researcher Award in 2018, and the NUS Young Researcher Award in 2019. A dedicated educator, he was awarded the Engineering Educator Award in 2020 and 2021 and the (university level) Annual Teaching Excellence Award in 2022. He is currently serving as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and as an Associate Editor in Machine Learning and Statistics for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He also regularly serves as an Area Chair of prominent machine learning conferences such as the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) and the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

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Yeong-Luh Ueng (M’05-SM’15) received his Ph.D. degree in communication engineering from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2001. From 2001 to 2005, he was with a private communication technology company, where he focused on the design and development of various wireless chips. Since December 2005, he has been a member of the faculty at the National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Institute of Communications Engineering. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Wu Ta-You Memorial Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). In 2018, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Electrical Engineering Professor award from the Chinese Electrical Engineering Association, as well as the Outstanding Research Award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan.
Dr. Ueng is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters and Vice- Chair of IEEE Communications Society Taipei Chapter. In the past, he has also served as a guest editor for IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (2020). He was also Chair of IEEE Information Theory Society Taipei Chapter (2019-2021). He served as Co-Chair of 2018 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Symposium on Design, Implementation and Optimization of Deep Learning for Wireless Communications, Invited Session Organizer of 2017 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW), and Tutorial Chair of 2019 IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Systems (SiPS) and 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. His research interests include coding theory, wireless communications, communication ICs, and deep learning.