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.

Prof.Zhiyuan Zhu is currently a Professor at Southwest University. He received the Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics and Solid-State Electronics from Peking University in January 2016. And then he joined Zhejiang University as an assistant professor. In September 2019, he joined Southwest University as a full professor. Prof. Zhu has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers and contributed 10 invited or keynote conference talks. He also served as TPC member or Session Chair for more than 10 conferences. Prof. Zhu was awarded as the outstanding researchers at Chongqing Institute of Electronics in 2021. He is the formal Committee member of IoT Young Scientist Technical Group at Chinese Institute of Electronics. He also serves as editorial board member for Plos One, Electronics and guest editor for Sensors, Processes.