Jiawen Kang is a Full Professor at Guangdong University of Technology. He received his M.S. degree from the Guangdong University of Technology, China, in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree from the same school in 2018. He was a postdoc at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 2018 to 2021. His research interests mainly focus on blockchain, metaverse, edge intelligence, security and privacy protection, etc. 

He has published more than 120 research papers in leading journals (e.g., JSAC, TWC, TDSC, JSTSP, TIE, TII) and flagship conferences (e.g., Infocom, MASS, ICC, Globecom) including 11 ESI highly cited papers and 3 ESI hot papers. He is the co-inventor of 15 granted patents and has won IEEE VTS Best Paper Award,  IEEE Communications Society CSIM Technical Committee Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE HITC Award for Excellence in Hyper-Intelligence Systems (Early Career Researcher award), IEEE Computer Society Smart Computing Special Technical Community Early-Career Award， and 11 best paper awards of international conferences (i.e., IEEE WCNC, IEEE IWCMC, IEEE Blockchain, IEEE CPSCom, AAAI Workshop, WWW Workshop, EAI 6GN, ACM DroneCom, IEEE CSCloud, EAI Qshine  and IEEE Scalcom) as well. 

He is listed in the World’s Top 2% of Scientists identified by Stanford University. He is now serving as the editor or guest editor for 10 leading journals including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE Systems Journal, Frontiers of Computer Science, IET Communications, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies and IEEE Networking Letter,  and has also severed as the Co-chair of  ICDCS, IEEE WCNC, IEEE ICC,  IEEE Globecom, IEEE EUC, IEEE things, IEEE HPCC, WCSP, etc. He received  IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award for 2022 EUC Conference (Program Chair) He is a vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks Special Interest Group on "Wireless Blockchain Networks.