Dr. Shen Qian (Senior Member, IEEE) graduated from the School of Telecommunication Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an, China, in 2003. He received his M.Sc and Ph.D.in Information Science from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 2014 and 2017, respectively. He received his second Ph.D. in Communications Engineering from the University of Oulu, Finland, in 2017. From 2018 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Information Theory and Signal Processing Laboratory, JAIST. Since 2019, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Systems Creation, Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, Japan. He works as an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Informatics, Kanagawa University, Japan. His research interests include network information theory, cooperative wireless communication, and information transmission security in IoT networks. He was the recipient of the IEICE Outstanding Student Award in 2014, the NEC C&C Grants for Non-Japanese Researchers in 2015, the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) Presentation Award in 2016, the JAIST Outstanding Performance Award in 2017, and the Niwa Yasujiro Memorial Paper Awards in 2019 and 2020 consecutively.
