Kegen Yu
is currently Distinguished Professor in the School of Environment Science and Spatial Informatics at China University of Mining and Technology (CUMT), Xuzhou, China. He received his bachelor's degree from Changchun Geological College (now Jilin University), Changchun, China, in 1983; master’s degree from Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, in 1999; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, in 2003. Prof. Yu has worked for universities and research organizations in Australia, China, and Finland, including UNSW, CSIRO, Wuhan University, and Oulu University. He participated in a number of research and development projects, as Task Leader or Principal Investigator, including projects funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China, NSFC, European Commission, Australian government, and industry such as Boeing. His research focuses on the fields of positioning, navigation, and remote sensing. Prof. Yu was awarded Hubei Provincial “One Hundred Talents Program” and received the honor of Distinguished Expert of Hubei Province in 2015. He has co-authored and edited 7 English books published by Wiley and IEEE Press, Springer Nature, and Science Press. He also coauthored more than 140 SCI journal papers, most of which are in top-tier journals such as IEEE TGRS, IEEE TVT, IEEE IOT Journal, IEEE TMC and IEEE TWC. He was ranked in the world's top 2% most-cited scientists list for career-long contributions (2024) and single-year impact (2023,2024) by Stanford University and Elsevier.
E. S. Lohan
is a professor in wireless positioning field at the Wireless Research Center at Tampere University (TAU) and the leader of signal processing for wireless positioning (TLTPOS) research group at TAU. She is a co-editor of the first book on Galileo satellite system (Springer "Galileo Positioning technology"), co-editor of a book on "Multi-technology positioning", and author or co-author in more than 300 international peer-reviewed publications. Her research interests are related to GNSS, indoor and 5G/6G-based positioning, tracking and navigation for intelligent and automated machines, RF fingerprinting and interference mitigation and management in wireless navigation receivers, SLAM and ISAC-related research, and LEO-based navigation solutions.
Dr. Ian Oppermann
is co-founder of ServiceGen, helping Governments accelerate digital service delivery. He is also an Industry Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and member of the board for multiple deep technology start-ups. Ian is also the Chair of the Commonwealth’s Data Standards Committee and an Advisor to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. From 2015 to 2023, Ian was the NSW Government’s inaugural Chief Data Scientist (CDS) and was the founding CEO of the NSW Data Analytics Centre (DAC). Established in 2015, the NSW CDS was a strategic, whole-of-government role tasked to effectively bring world class data and analytics to bear on complex challenges, to develop and lead the DAC, and to affect cultural change towards the use of data within Government. Prior to NSW Government, Ian held senior management roles in Europe and Australia as Director for Radio Access Performance at
, Global Head of Sales Partnering (network software) at
, and then Divisional Chief and Flagship Director at
. He has worked in the fast growth private sector running a start-up, and as CEO of financial market data company
as well as a strong track record in innovation in the University sector leading a major research centre, the
, in Oulu Finland. Ian is considered a thought leader in the area of the Data, AI and the Digital Economy. He is a regular speaker on data and digital, broadband enabled services and the impact of technology on society. He has contributed to 6 books and co-authored more than 130 papers which have been cited more than 4500 times. Ian has an MBA from the University of London and a PhD in Mobile Telecommunications from Sydney University. Ian is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineers Australia, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), a Fellow of the Royal Society NSW (FRSN), Fellow and Past President of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), and a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). He is National Committee President of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the JTC-1 Strategic Advisory Committee, a joint activity with the IEC and the ISO (International Standards Organisation).
