Prof. Yansha Deng is currently a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, London, United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Queen Mary University of London, U.K., in 2015. From 2015 to 2017, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with King’s College London, U.K. She has secured more than £2.6 million of research funding as the principal investigator and has received the EPSRC NIA award. She has published 120+ journal papers and 60+ IEEE/ACM conference papers. Her research interests include molecular communication and machine learning for 5G and 6G wireless networks. She was a recipient of the Best Paper Awards from ICC 2016 and GLOBECOM 2017 as the first author, and the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region 2021. She has been the Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters since 2020, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017, the Associate Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials since 2022, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking since 2022, the Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications since 2019, the Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society since 2019 and the Vertical Area Editor of IEEE Internet of Things Magazine since 2021.
Associate Professor
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US
Sasitharan (Sasi) Balasubramaniam received the BE (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 1998 and 2005, respectively, and Masters of Engineering Science from Queensland University of Technology, Australia in 1999. He is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Computing, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Previously he was the Director of Research at the Walton Institute, South East Technological University, Ireland. He was a Past PI for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) VistaMilk and CONNECT research centres in Ireland and a recipient of the Academy of Finland Research Fellow at Tampere University, Finland. Sasi was also a past recipient of the SFI Starter Investigator Research Grant. He has also received grants as PI and Co-PI from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and European Commission H2020 Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) program. His research interests include molecular communications and biological AI modeling and simulations and the Internet of Bio-Nano Things. He is currently an Editor in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications, Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience. He is also a Technical Editor for IEEE Academy for IoT and a past Associate Editor for IEEE Internet of Things Journal. In 2018, he was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Nanotechnology Council.