Ranked #8 worldwide in Mobile Computing (past 5 years, ScholarGPS)
Editor, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2023- 
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2023- 
Editor, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), 2017-2022. 
Guest Editor of IEEE JSAC and TCCN, 2019
Area Chair, AAAI 2026
Regular TPC member of IEEE INFOCOM and ACM MobiHoc
Director, Edge AI & Economics Lab (EAE-Lab) @HKUST(GZ)

Lingjie Duan is a Professor in both Internet of Things Thrust and Artificial Intelligence Thrust at HKUST(GZ). He earned his Ph.D. from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2012. Following a Visiting Scholarship at the University of California, Berkeley, he joined the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a collaboration with MIT. At SUTD, he rose to tenured Associate Professor and then served as Associate Head (Research) of the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar/School. He was also instrumental in founding the SUTD Wireless Innovation Centre (SWIC), collaborating with leading tech companies on IoT and AI research. His research is distinctively interdisciplinary, covering human-centric AI, distributed machine learning, large language models, multi-agent autonomous systems, and computer networking. He has served as editor for major IEEE/ACM journals in computer communications and networking, and chaired IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2023 and AAAI 2026. Since 2021, Stanford University has recognized him among the World’s Top 2% Scientists, and ScholarGPS named him a 2022 Highly Ranked Scholar (Prior Five Years). His awards include the First Prize Paper Award from the Computer Academy of Guangdong (2024), a Finalist for the Best Paper Award at IEEE/IFIP WiOpt 2024, and the SUTD Excellence in Research Award. Earlier in his career, he was the Runner-up for the IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professionals Award (2016) and received the 10th Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the IEEE ComSoc (2015). His research has been robustly supported by over $10 million USD in funding, spanning grants from the National Research Foundation of Singapore, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Defence, Singapore National Laboratories, MIT-SUTD Joint Postdoctoral Program, and partnerships with global tech giants. His mentorship has also been highly successful, with numerous Ph.D. and postdoc graduates now holding senior faculty positions in prestigious academic institutions (e.g., Sun Yat-Sen University, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Northwestern Polytechnical University) and leading industry roles (e.g., NSF AI Institute for Future Edge Networks and Distributed Intelligence (USA), Samsung, Huawei Global) globally.