ZTE Communications ›› 2024, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (2): 1-2.DOI: 10.12142/ZTECOM.202402001

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Special Topic on Advancements in Web3 Infrastructure for the Metaverse

Victor C. M. LEUNG, CAI Wei   

  • Online:2024-06-25 Published:2024-06-25
  • About author:Victor C.M. LEUNG received the BASc (Hons.) and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada in 1977 and 1981, respectively. Dr. LEUNG is the Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and a Professor of Engineering at Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, China, a Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Shenzhen University, China, and also an Emeritus Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) Laboratory at UBC, Canada. His research is in the broad areas of wireless networks and mobile systems, and he has published widely in these areas. Dr. LEUNG is serving on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, and several other journals. He received the 1977 APEBC Gold Medal, 1977-1981 NSERC Postgraduate Scholarships, IEEE Vancouver Section Centennial Award, 2011 UBC Killam Research Prize, 2017 Canadian Award for Telecommunications Research, 2018 IEEE TCGCC Distinguished Technical Achievement Recognition Award, and 2018 ACM MSWiM Reginald Fessenden Award. He co-authored papers that won the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Fred W. Ellersick Prize, 2017 IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award, 2018 IEEE CSIM Best Journal Paper Award, and 2019 IEEE TCGCC Best Journal Paper Award. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Academy of Science), Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Engineering Institute of Canada. He is named in the Clarivate Analytics lists of “Highly Cited Researchers” in the last four years.
    CAI Wei received his PhD, MSc and BEng from The University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, Seoul National University, Korea, and Xiamen University, China in 2016, 2011 and 2008, respectively. Dr. CAI is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering in the School of Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. He currently serves as the Director of the Human-Crypto Society Laboratory and the CUHK(SZ)-White Matrix Joint Metaverse Laboratory. Prior to joining CUHK-Shenzhen, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wireless Networks and Mobile Systems (WiNMoS) Laboratory at UBC. He has also completed research visits at Academia Sinica (Taiwan), China, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, and National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Dr. CAI has co-authored more than 100 journal/conference papers and received six best paper awards. His recent research interests focus on decentralized computing, including decentralized mechanisms, decentralized social computing, decentralized multimedia, and decentralized applications. He is an associate editor for ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM.