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Professor Nan Yang is a Professor in the School of Engineering at the Australian National University (ANU), serving as Lead of the Information and Signal Processing Cluster, leader of the multi-scale communications research team, and Head of the Emerging Communications Laboratory. He was Associate Dean (Higher Degree Research) for the College from 2019 to 2021. Nan Yang obtained his B.S. degree in Electronics from China Agricultural University in 2005, M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) in 2007, and Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from BIT in 2011. As a Ph.D. student, he visited the University of New South Wales (UNSW) from 2008 to 2010. Post-Ph.D., he held Post-doctoral Research Fellow positions at CSIRO (2010-2012) and UNSW (2012-2014), funded by OCE and ARC fellowships. He joined ANU in 2014 as Lecturer and Future Engineering Research Leadership (FERL) Research Fellow, progressed to Senior Lecturer and FERL Fellow (2017-2020), Associate Professor (2021-2024), and Professor (2025-present).

Nan Yang's research specializes in communications theory and signal processing, including terahertz communications, ultra-reliable and low-latency communications, cyber-physical security, intelligent communications, massive multiple-antenna and heterogeneous wireless systems, next-generation multiple access, and molecular communications. He has garnered major awards such as the IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2014), Best Paper Awards at IEEE ICC (2024), Globecom (2022, 2016), VTC Spring (2013), and IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee (2024). Additional honors include Exemplary Editor Award from IEEE Communications Letters (2023), Top Editor Award from Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2017), and multiple Exemplary Reviewer Certificates from IEEE journals. He serves on editorial boards of 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. Nan Yang is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (2023-2024) and IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer (2025-2027). He leads ARC Discovery projects, including "Goal-oriented semantic wireless communications for 6G era" ($741,259). Key publications encompass "Performance Analysis of Finite Blocklength Transmissions Over Wiretap Fading Channels: An Average Information Leakage Perspective" (2024), "Joint Resource Optimization and 3D Trajectory Design" (2024), and "Artificial-Noise-Aided Secure Transmission in Wiretap Channels".