Pingzhi Fan received his MSc degree in Computer Science from the Southwest Jiaotong University (SWJTU), PRC, in 1987, and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Hull University, U.K., in 1994. He is currently a distinguished professor of SWJTU, director of the institute of mobile communications, and honorary dean of the Sino-UK SWJTU-Leeds Joint School. He is also a visiting/guest professor of Leeds University (UK, 1997-), and Shanghai Jiaotong University (China, 1999-). He served as vice president for academic affairs of SWJTU between 2007-2014, dean of the graduate school (SWJTU) between 2007-2012, dean of the school of info sci & tech (SWJTU) between 1998-2008. 

He is a recipient of the UK ORS Award (1992), the NSFC Outstanding Young Scientist Award (1998), IEEE VT Society Jack Neubauer Memorial Award (2018), IEEE SP Society SPL Best Paper Award (2018), IEEE VT Society Best Magazine Paper Award (2023), and several IEEE conference best paper awards. He was the chief scientist of a national 973 research project (MoST, 2012-2016), IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer (2015.7-2019.6) and Distinguished Speaker (2019.7-2022.6-2025.6), and a fellow of IEEE, IET, CIE and CIC.

He served as a general chair or TPC chair of a number of international conferences including PIMRC’2023, ITW’2018, VTC’2016Spring, IWSDA’2022 & HMWC’2022, as well as the coming VTC2025Fall (IEEE VTSoc), ISIT’2026 (IEEE ITSoc), ICC’2028 (IEEE ComSoc). and is the guest editor-in-chief, guest editor or editorial member of several international journals. He is the founding chair of IEEE VTS BJ Chapter and IEEE ComSoc CD Chapter, founding chair of IEEE CD Section. He also served as a board member of IEEE Region 10 (Asia-Pacific), IET Council, and IET Asia-Pacific Region.

He has published over 900 research works, including 8 books and edited books published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd, RSP, Springer, IEEE Press, Nova Science Publishers, etc., over 430 journal papers published in various internationally renowned English journals (IEEE Trans on Com, IEEE Trans on WC, IEEE Trans on VT, IEEE Trans on IT, IEEE JSAC, IEEE Trans on SP, IEEE Trans on PDS, IEEE Trans on Computer, IEEE CL/WCL, IEICE Trans on Fundamentals, IEE/IET Electronic Letters, IEE Proc on Communications etc.), as well as over 160 Chinese journal papers and over 330 referred international conference papers. He is also an inventor of 30+ granted Chinese and PCT patents. His works has been cited 28,540+ times, with h-index=66. (Google Scholar, Sept 2024).

范平志教授：工学博士（英国），IEEE Fellow、IET(IEE) Fellow、中国电子学会(CIE)会士、中国通信学会(CIC)会士、国家级有突出贡献的中青年专家、国家杰出青年科学基金获得者、国家973计划项目首席科学家、IEEE VT学会杰出讲师(Distinguished Lecturer)和杰出演讲者(Distinguished Speaker)。1997年起受聘英国Leeds大学客座教授；2000年起受聘上海交通大学兼职教授；分别于1996年在芬兰Mikkeli理工大学、2001年在美国乔治亚州立大学、2003年在韩国全北大学、2005年在日本筑波大学担任3-6个月的访问教授。曾任西南交通大学副校长(2007.1-2014.9)、研究生院院长(2007.6-2012.7)、信息科学与技术学院院长(1998.11-2008.4)，科技部“现代交通通信与传感网络”国家级国际联合研究中心创始主任(2015.10-2021.9)。现为西南交通大学首席教授、移动通信研究所所长、 西南交通大学-利兹学院名誉院长。

担任多个国际学术会议大会主席或TPC主席，创立IWSDA和HMWC二个由IEEE支持的系列国际学术会议；担任多个学术刊物客座主编、客座编辑或编委；在国际电子电气工程师学会（IEEE）和国际工程技术学会（IET）等学术组织担任多项学术志愿者职务，如IEEE VTS BJ Chapter和IEEE ComSoc CD Chapter创始主席、IEEE CD Section创始主席、IEEE亚太区执委、IET总部理事会理事、IET亚太区执委、中国电子学会理事 、中国电子学会信息论分会副主任、中国电子学会通信分会副主任等。

在美国IEEE Press、美国Nova Science、英国RSP/John Wiley、德国Springer-Verlag和电子工业等出版社出版中英文著作8部（含编辑出版）；获中国和国际发明专利授权30余项；在IEEE/IEE/IEICE等英文学术刊物发表研究论文430余篇，另有中文刊物论文160余篇和国际学术会议论文330余篇 (Google Scholar cited 28,540+ times, with h-index=66, Sept 2024)；连续多年入选斯坦福全球前2%顶尖科学家榜单和爱思唯尔中国高被引学者榜单，荣获第十三届茅以升铁道科技奖，IEEE VTS 2018年度Jack Neubauer奖，IEEE SPS 2019年度SPL最佳期刊论文奖, IEEE VTS 2023年度杂志最佳论文奖，ICC2023等多项IEEE国际会议最佳论文奖。

主持或主持完成中英、中新、中德、中美、中日、中俄、中韩等多项国际合作项目，主持或主持完成国家973计划 项目、国家863计划 项目 、国家自然科学基金重点项目、国家重大专项子项等多个国家级研究项目。

在指导毕业的博士研究生中，唐小虎获2003年度全国百篇优秀博士论文奖 （唐小虎所指导的博士生周正春也于2013年度获全国百篇优秀博士论文奖），杨正获中国电子教育学会2017年度优秀博士论文奖，4名获四川省优秀博士论文奖，11名获校级优秀博士论文奖。