Asia Pacific Board (APB) General Meeting Sumei Sun Director – Asia/Pacific Region Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) [email protected] Agenda Welcome and Introduction APB Update https://apb.regions.comsoc.org/ APB Committee Report Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) Meetings and Conference Committee (MCC) Information Services Committee (ISC) Membership Development Committee (MDC) Chapters Coordination Committee (CCC) Next APB meeting at ICC 2021 in virtual Next APB meeting will be at ICC 2021 in virtual. Technical Affairs Committee (TAC) Report GLOBECOM 2020 Dec. 08, 2020 TAC Members (2020-2021) TAC Vice Director: Wei Zhang, University of New South Wales, Australia TAC Co-Chairs: Lingyang Song, Peking University, China Hung-Yun Hsieh, National Taiwan University, Taiwan TAC Vice Co-Chairs: Chan-Byoung Chae, Yonsei University, Korea Tony Quek, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore TAC Action Plan (2020-2021) TAC selected winners for 2020 Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award. TAC selected winners for 2020 Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award. Call for Applications (1/5) The IEEE ComSoc 15th AP Young Researcher Award (YRA) honors young active researchers in IEEE ComSoc publications and conference activities over the last 3 years (Jan. 2017 to Dec. 2019). Eligibility: Age 35 or younger (born on or after 1984/1/1) Member of the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific region One best YRA given to the best candidate, and other candidates will be considered as Outstanding YRAs Self-nomination is permitted Call for Applications (2/5) Selection Criteria: Creativity, research impact, and contributions to ComSoc activities Award Prize: One Best YRA with a certificate and an honorarium of US $500 Several Outstanding YRAs each with a certificate and an honorarium of US $250 Call for Applications (3/5) APB Young Research Award Committee: Wei Zhang (Chair) Australia Chan-Byoung Chae Korea Hung-Yun Hsieh Taiwan Neelesh Mehta India Kaoru Ota Japan Tony Quek Singapore Lingyang Song China For inquires and nominations, send to APB TAC: [email protected] Call for Applications (4/5) Application Process: Please complete and email Nomination Form to apb-officers- [email protected] with the subject of “2020 Asia Pacific Young Researcher Award Nomination” before the deadline Important Dates: Application submission deadline: July 31, 2020 Announcement of awardees: October 1, 2020 Award ceremony: IEEE Globecom 2020 (December 2020) Application Form can be downloaded by https://apb.regions.comsoc.org/files/2020/05/APB-Researcher- Award-final.pdf Call for Applications (5/5) Application Form Young Researcher Award Winners Among the 21 applications, the winners of 1 Best Young Researcher Award and 6 Outstanding Young Researcher Awards were selected Best Young Researcher Award Winner Chunxiao Jiang (Tsinghua University, China) for contributions to heterogeneous networks convergence Outstanding Young Researcher Award Winners Jiayi Zhang (Bejing Jiaotong University, China) for contribution to massive MIMO wireless communications Miaowen Wen (South China University of Technology, China) for contribution to index modulation techniques Nan Cheng (Xidian University, China) for contribution to space-air-ground integrated networking Ya-Feng Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) for contribution to signal processing for wireless communications Wonjae Shin (Pusan National University, South Korea) for contribution to multi-cell networks Yuichi Kawamoto (Tohoku University, Japan) for contribution to unmanned aerial vehicle communications Call for Nominations (1/5) The IEEE ComSoc 9th AP Outstanding Paper Award honors outstanding original papers authored by members in the AP region over the last 3 years (Jan. 2017 to Dec. 2019). Eligibility: Appeared in IEEE ComSoc journals, magazines, conference proceedings, and so on (including those technically co-sponsored by ComSoc). All authors’ affiliations must be from the AP region. Nominated by IEEE ComSoc AP region members (no self- nomination). Call for Nominations (2/5) Selection Criteria Impact, originality, utility, timeliness, and clarity of presentation Award Prize: A plaque and honorarium up to US $500 (award total each paper) Call for Nominations (3/5) APB Outstanding Paper Award Committee Lingyang Song (Chair) China Chan-Byoung Chae Korea Swades De India Hung-Yun Hsieh Taiwan Tony Quek Singapore Shinya Sugiura Japan Yingjun Zhang Hong Kong For inquires and nominations, send to APB TAC: [email protected] Call for Nominations (4/5) Nomination Process: Please complete and email Nomination Form to apb-officers- [email protected] with the subject of “2020 Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Award Nomination” before the deadline Important Dates: Application submission deadline: July 31, 2020. Announcement of awardees: October 1, 2020. Award ceremony: IEEE Globecom 2020 (December 2020). Nomination Form can be downloaded at https://apb.regions.comsoc.org/files/2020/05/APB-Paper-Award- final.pdf Call for Nominations (5/5) Nomination Form Outstanding Paper Award Winners Among the 7 nominations for the APB Outstanding Paper Awards, 3 winners were selected Chiya Zhang and Wei Zhang, "Spectrum Sharing for Drone Networks,“ IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 136-144,January 2017. Zubair Md Fadlullah, Fengxiao Tang, Bomin Mao, Nei Kato, Osamu Akashi, Takeru Inoue, and Kimihiro Mizutani, "State-of-the-Art Deep Learning: Evolving Machine Intelligence Toward Tomorrow’s Intelligent Network Traffic Control Systems,“ IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2432-2455, Fourth quarter 2017. He Li, Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong, "Learning IoT in Edge: Deep Learning for the Internet of Things with Edge Computing,"IEEE Network, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 96-101, Jan. 2018. Globecom 2020, Taiwan Meeting and Conference Committee (MCC) Report Neelesh B. Mehta Hiroshi Shigeno (Vice-Chairs, MCC) INTRODUCTION Mission: Promote participation of AP region in ComSoc conferences and meetings MCC Committee 2019-2020 Co-Chairs: Neelesh B. Mehta, Indian Institute of Science, India Hiroshi Shigeno, Keio University, Japan Vice Chairs Doohwan Lee, NTT Corporation, Japan Li Wang, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China Upcoming Conferences Conference Name Conference Date Host City Country Paper Deadline IEEE CTW 2020 -Postponed- Banff Canada TBA IEEE ANTS 2020 Dec. 14-17, 2020 Virtual (Delhi) India Nov. 28, 2020 IEEE CCNC 2021 Jan. 9-12, 2021 Virtual (Las USA Aug. 31, 2020 Vegas) Mar. 29-Apr. 1, IEEE WCNC 2021 Nanjing China Oct. 30, 2020 2021 IEEE ICBC 2021 May 3-6, 2021 Virtual Australia Dec. 4, 2020 (Sydney) Virtual IEEE INFOCOM 2021 May 10-13, 2021 Canada Aug. 15, 2020 (Vancouver) OFC 2021 Jun. 6-10, 2021 San Francisco USA Jan. 26, 2021 IEEE ICC 2021 Jun. 14-18, 2021 Montreal Canada Jan. 20, 2021 Virtual IEEE ISIT 2021 Jul. 11-16, 2021 Australia Jan. 10, 2021 (Melbourne) IEEE NETSOFT 2021 Jun. 28-Jul. 2, Tokyo Japan Dec. 14, 2020 2021 IEEE PIMRC 2021 Sep. 13-16, 2021 Helsinki Finland Mar. 19, 2021 IEEE SmartGridComm Oct. 18-21, 2021 Aachen Germany TBA 2021 IEEE ANTS 2020 VIRTUAL • General chairs: Anand Srivastava, V. Radha • When: Dec. 14-17, 2020 IEEE CCNC 2021 VIRTUAL • General chair: Joonhyuk Kang • Submission deadline: Aug. 31, 2020 IEEE WCNC 2021 • General chair: Hikmet Sari • Submission deadline: Oct. 2, 2020 IEEE ICBC 2021 • General Chair: Kostas Plataniotis • Submission deadline: Dec. 4, 2020 IEEE INFOCOM 2021 • General chair: Ben Liang • Submission Deadline: Aug. 15, 2020 OFC 2021 BLENDED • General Chair: Po Dong, Jun-ichi Kani, Chongjin Xie • Submission deadline: Jan. 26, 2021 IEEE ICC 2021 • General chair: Ibrahim Gedeon • Submission deadline: Jan. 20, 2021 IEEE ISIT 2021 VIRTUAL • General chairs: Parastoo Sadeghi, Emanuele Viterbo • Submission Deadline: Jan. 10, 2021 IEEE NETSOFT 2021 • General chairs: Kohei Shiomoto, Young-Tak Kim, Kazuhiko Kinoshita • Submission deadline: Dec. 14, 2020 IEEE PIMRC 2021 VIRTUAL • General Chair: Matti Latva-aho • Submission Deadline: Mar. 19, 2021 IEEE SmartGridComm 2021 • Venue: Aachen, Germany • Date: Oct. 18-21, 2021 Promotion of MCC Actively involved in IEEE ComSoc flagship conferences INFOCOM, ICC, GLOBECOM, ICCC Actively advertising APB sponsored regional conferences APNOMS, APCC, ISPACP Through APB email list and regional local lists Helping organize special invited sessions with international speakers Help to advertise other AP local conferences New blended format in conferences Virtual + in-person Information Services Committee (ISC) Report [Globecom 2020] De-Nian Yang, Mianxiong Dong, Jemin Lee, and Yong Zeng Main task Publish semi-annual AP Newsletters for release during ICC/Globecom Topics such as call for awards, DLT report, and committee/local chapter activity report Continue to look for new design ideas in terms of layout and content to bring better awareness of the APB and improve bonding of members Manage the APB homepage Continue to improve the look, content, and functionality of the APB homepage, such as the inclusion of information from sister societies Manage the APB email broadcast to its members Dissemination of call for papers/participation under approval of AP Director Announcement of homepage and newsletter updates Liaise the contribution to the IEEE Global Communication Newsletter (GCN). • Message from APB Director • Trending Topics in the Eyes of IEEE Fellows • 2020 IEEE ComSoc APB Awards Announcement • Interview of Best/Outstanding Young Researchers • Interview