Distinguished Lecturers

Prof. Shiwen Mao  Contract: smao@ieee.org Auburn University, Auburn, AL  Lecture Term Date: 31 December 2022 Location: Alabama, United States Biography: Shiwen Mao received his BE and ME, both in Electronic Engineering, from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 1994 and 1997, respectively.  He also received a BEc in Enterprise Management from Tsinghua University in 1994 and an MS in Systems Engineering from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering), Brooklyn, NY, in 2000. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University in 2004. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate and then a Research Scientist in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), Blacksburg,

Title: Blockchain in RFID Supported Supply Chain Prof. Joseph Liu  Contract: joseph.liu@monash.edu  Monash University, Australia Biography: Joseph Liu is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He got his PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong at 2004. His research areas include cyber security, blockchain and applied cryptography. He has received more than 8700 citations and his H-index is 53, with more than 200 publications in top venues such as CRYPTO, ACM CCS, NDSS, INFOCOM. He is currently the lead of the Monash Cyber Security Discipline Group. He has established the Monash Blockchain Technology Centre at 2019 and serves as the founding

Title: Design and optimization of Meta-mountable UHF RFID tag antennas Miniaturization techniques for UHF RFID Tag antennas Recent Development of Flexible UHF RFID Tag antennas Prof. Eng Hock Lim Contract: limeh@utar.edu.my University Tunku Abdul Rahman (Malaysia) Biography: Eng-Hock Lim was born in Selangor, Malaysia, in 1974. He received his B. Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from National Taiwan Ocean University in 1997, M. Eng. (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) from Nanyang Technological University in 2000, and Ph.D. (Electronic Engineering) from City University of Hong Kong in 2007. He served as the Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Antennas and Propagation from 2013 to 2016. Currently, he is also serving as the Associate

Title: Batteryless Wireless Systems – Connecting Information and Energy Transmission Prof. Nuno Borges Carvalho Contract: nbcarvalho@ua.pt Biography: Nuno Borges Carvalho (S’97–M’00–SM’05-F’15) was born in Luanda, Angola, in 1972. He received the Diploma and Doctoral degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering from the University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor and a Senior Research Scientist with the Institute of Telecommunications, University of Aveiro and an IEEE Fellow. He coauthored Intermodulation in Microwave and Wireless Circuits (Artech House, 2003), Microwave and Wireless Measurement Techniques (Cambridge University Press, 2013), White Space Communication Technologies (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and Wireless Power Transmission for Sustainable Electronics

Title: Security and Privacy in an Internet of Things World Dr. Daniel W. Engels Associate Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Dept., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA Abstract: The Internet of Things already surrounds us and is making our lives better in both small and large ways. Toll tags, smart thermostats, and automated industrial monitoring and control systems are just the beginnings of an Internet of Things world. These are the early touch, easily quantified benefits applications. However, the future of the Internet of Things goes beyond these simple applications to a world of truly pervasive computers and smart things that provide us a sixth sense of our world (both