■ Biography of the Speaker： Xiaodai Dong (S'97-M'00-SM’09) received her B.Sc. degree in Information and Control Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1992, her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore in 1995 and her Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada in 2000. Since January 2005 she has been with the University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, where she is now a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. She was a Canada Research Chair (Tier II) in 2005-2015. Between 2002 and 2004, she was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. >From 1999 to 2002, she was with Nortel Networks, Ottawa, ON, Canada and worked on the base transceiver design of the third-generation (3G) mobile communication systems. Dr. Dong’s research interests include mobile communications, radio propagation, ultra-wideband radio, machine to machine communications, wireless security, ehealth, smart grid, THz and nano-communications and signal processing for communication applications. She served as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in 2009-2014, an Editor for IEEE Transactions for Communications in 2001-2007, Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Physical Layer Network Coding” for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2009-2010), and Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Communications, Computers and Signal Processing” for International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (2011). She is currently an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.