About the Techblog Editorial Team

Alan J Weissberger, ScD

• Content Manager and principal contributing author to IEEE ComSoc blog sites since March 2009.
• IEEE volunteer and technical conference session organizer since March 1974.
• IEEE ComSoc member since formation of the society in 1972.
• IEEE ComSocSCV Program Chair (2006-2011), Chapter Chair (1978-1980, 2009-2011)
• IEEE Global Communications Network (GCN) North America Correspondent & author of numerous GCN articles.
• Creator and manager of IEEE member email discussion group (2006 to present).
• IEEE & ComSoc member liaison for ComSocSCV (2006 to present).
• Founder of IEEE Silicon Valley Tech History Committee in 2013 and Chairman 2013-2015.
• Simulation studies for U.S. Navy Atlantic Fleet Weapons Range at Roosevelt Roads Naval Air Station, Ceiba, Puerto Rico (1966-1967).
• Follow Alan on Twitter @ajwdct to get notifications of new IEEE Techblog and other blog posts; Connect with him on Linked In at https://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-j-weissberger-a284a1/
• Alan also writes for the Viodi View newsletter (https://viodi.com/category/weissberger), the IT History Society (https://www.ithistory.org/blog), the Curmudgeon at http://fiendbear.com/ and SIGCIS (https://www.sigcis.org/blog).  Also see: https://muckrack.com/alan-weissberger/bio

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Boya Di, PhD, is  an Assistant Professor at Peking University. Her current research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces enabled communications and sensing, multi-agent systems, edge computing, vehicular networks, and aerial access networks.  Boya serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor for IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning for Communications and Networking. She has also served as a workshop co-chair for IEEE WCNC 2020&2021.

She received the best doctoral thesis award from China Education Society of Electronics in 2019, was the recipient of 2020 IEEE N2WOMEN Top-10 Rising Star in Communications and Networking, 2021 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award and 2022 IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

Boya obtained her PhD degree from the Department of Electronics, Peking University, China, in 2019. Prior to that, she received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Peking University in 2014. She was a postdoc researcher at Imperial College London before returning to Peking University as an Assistant Professor.