He received the Ph.D. degrees Kochi University of Technology (KUT), Japan and Fudan University, China in 2007. From 2007 to 2010, He was at Ryukoku University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Then he was a Research Scientist at Wave Engineering Laboratories, ATR Institute International, Japan till March 2014 and a Guest Research Scientist till now. He was an Assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) and Assistant Professor then Associate Professor of Okayama University, Japan, till now. His research interests include wireless communication systems, and signal processing. He received the IEICE Communications Society Best Paper Awards in 2016 and 2020, and the Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2017. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Access and an editor of IEEE Consumer Technology Society News on Consumer Technology (CTSoc-NCT). Dr. Hou is a senior member of IEEE and IEICE.

Dr. Fang Yungen, Technical Director and Senior Engineer of Oriental Certification Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Technical Assessor of China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS), Distinguished Lecturer for Foreign Aid Training of the Ministry of Commerce, and Part time Professor at Shanghai Business School. His main research direction is the system Safety and security assurance and assessment in the fields of intelligent connected vehicles, rail transit, and industrial automation, as well as the accreditation of inspection body and testing laboratory in the field of Functional Safety. Since 2006, he have published nearly 20 papers, participated in drafting 5 Chinese industry standards, and completed the assessment and certification of more than 100 safety critical products in domestic and abroad, as well as the safety assessment of more than 40 fully automation operation rail transit construction projects.