Speakers of EICCT 2025

Ljiljana Trajkovic

IEEE Fellow
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Ljiljana Trajkovic received the Dipl. Ing. degree from University of Pristina, Yugoslavia, the M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from University of California at Los Angeles. She is currently a professor in the School of Engineering Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Her research interests include communication networks and dynamical systems. Dr. Trajkovic served as IEEE Division X Delegate/Director, President of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and President of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. She was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Circuits and System Society and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society. She is a Fellow of the IEEE. A light weight design for such as small unmanned aerial vehicle application. The SI-GWG bandpass filter is implemented using the Micro- Electromechanical System (MEMS) technique. The SI-GWG microstrip transitions are introduced here for system integration between the antenna and the active chips. The SI-GWG packaging lid is designed by 3-D printing technique. Finally, the future development of the SI-GWG is given in the Conclusion.

Zilong Liu

IEEE Senior member
University of Essex,Singapore

Dr Zilong Liu is an Associate Professor and the 6G Lab Director with the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex. He received his PhD (2014) from School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU, Singapore), advised by Prof Yong Liang Guan, Master Degree (2007) in the Department of Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University (China), advised by Prof Huazhong Yang (IEEE Fellow), and Bachelor Degree (2004) in the School of Electronics and Information Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST, China). He was also a Visiting PhD student to Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (hosted by Prof Wai Ho Mow) and the University of Melbourne (hosted by Prof Udaya Parampalli).

From Jan. 2018 to Nov. 2019, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS), Home of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), University of Surrey, during which he studied the air-interface design of 5G communication networks. Prior to his career in UK, he spent nine and half years in NTU, first as a Research Associate (Jul. 2008 to Oct. 2014) and then a Research Fellow (Nov. 2014 to Dec. 2017). His PhD thesis “Perfect- and Quasi- Complementary Sequences”, focusing on fundamental limits, algebraic constructions, and applications of complementary sequences in wireless communications, has settled a few long-standing open problems in the field.

His research lies in the interplay of coding, signal processing, and communications, with a major objective of bridging theory and practice. Recently, he has developed an interest in advanced 6G V2X communication, sensing, and localization technologies for future connected autonomous vehicles as well as machine learning for enhanced communications and networking. His research is/was generously supported by EPSRC, The Royal Society, British Council, London Mathematical Society, EU-H2020, The Research Council of Norway, The Research Foundation of Singapore, NSFC, etc.

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Access, and Advances in Mathematics of Communications. He was the Hosting General Co-Chair of the 12th Sequences and Their Applications (SETA’2024,https://seta-2024.github.io/) and the 10th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Design and its Applications in Communications (iwsda2022.github.io). He was named the 2024 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher in the Faculty of Science and Health, the University of Essex, in May 2024. He was a Consultant to the Japanese government on 6G assisted autonomous driving in January 2023. He was a Track Co-Chair on Networking andMAC in IEEE PIMRC’2023.