Global Communications Newsletter - IEEE ComSoc in the Asia Pacific Region

This article continues the series of ten interviews with the Officers of the IEEE ComSoc Member and Global Activities (MGA) Council for the term 2024–2025, which is published every month in the Global Communications Newsletter. In this series of articles, I introduce the Vice-President and the six Directors of the MGA Council (namely: Member Services, Industry Outreach, and AP, NA, LA, and EMEA Regions), as well as the three Chairs of the Women in Communications Engineering (WICE), Young Professionals (YP), and Sister Societies Standing Committees. In each interview, one by one, they present their sector activities and plans. In this issue, I interview Lingyang Song, IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific (AP) Region Director. Lingyang Song received his Ph.D. from the University of York, United Kingdom, in 2007, where he received the K. M. Stott Prize for excellent research. He worked as a research fellow at the University of Oslo, Norway, until rejoining Philips Research UK in March 2008. In May 2009, he joined the Department of Electronics, School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University, and is now a Boya Distinguished Professor. His main research interests include wireless communication and networks, signal processing, and machine learning. He was the recipient of the IEEE ComSoc AP Young Researcher Award in 2012, the IEEE ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize in 2016, the IEEE ComSoc Heinrich Hertz Award in 2021, and the IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Paper Award in 2021. He is a fellow and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE.