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Professor Nan Yang is a Professor of Wireless Communications and Signal Processing in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University, where he leads the Information and Signal Processing Cluster, the multi-scale communications research team, and the Emerging Communications Laboratory. He earned his B.S. degree in Electronics from China Agricultural University in 2005, M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the same institution in 2011. As a Ph.D. student, he served as a visiting student at the University of New South Wales from 2008 to 2010. Subsequently, he held postdoctoral research fellowships at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 2010 to 2012 and at the University of New South Wales from 2012 to 2014. Since joining ANU in July 2014, he has advanced through positions including lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor, and professor, and served as Associate Dean for Higher Degree Research in the College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics from 2019 to 2021.

Nan Yang's research focuses on communications theory and signal processing, including terahertz communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, cyber-physical security, intelligent communications, massive antenna systems, next-generation multiple access techniques, and molecular communications. He has garnered significant recognition, including the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2014, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for 2023-2024, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2025-2027, Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICC 2024, IEEE Globecom 2022 and 2016, IEEE VTC Spring 2013, and Best Paper Award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee in 2024. Additional honors encompass the Exemplary Editor Award from IEEE Communications Letters in 2023, Top Editor Award from Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies in 2017, Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2024 (cross-field), and rankings among the world's top 1-2% scientists in electronics, electrical engineering, and computer science. Notable publications include "Performance Analysis of Finite Blocklength Transmissions Over Wiretap Fading Channels: An Average Information Leakage Perspective" (IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024), "Heterogeneous Receptors-Based Molecule Harvesting in MC: Analysis for ISI Mitigation and Energy Efficiency" (IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2024), and "On the Information Leakage Performance of Secure Finite Blocklength Transmissions over Rayleigh Fading Channels" (IEEE ICC, 2024). He serves on editorial boards for IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, and Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and has co-organized over 30 workshops and chaired symposia at IEEE flagship conferences.