Xiaoli Chu is a Professor in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Sheffield, UK. She received the B.Eng. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Xi’an Jiao Tong University in 2001 and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2005. From 2005 to 2012, she was with the Centre for Telecommunications Research at King’s College London. Xiaoli has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, including 7 ESI Highly Cited Papers and the IEEE Communications Society 2017 Young Author Best Paper. She co-authored/co-edited the books “Fog-Enabled Intelligent IoT Systems” (Springer 2020), “Ultra Dense Networks for 5G and Beyond” (Wiley 2019), “Heterogeneous Cellular Networks - Theory, Simulation and Deployment” (Cambridge University Press 2013), and “4G Femtocells: Resource Allocation and Interference Management” (Springer 2013). She is Senior Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, and received the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award in 2018.

Research Interest: Air interface and transmission technologies, network architecture, resource allocation, Integration and coordination of communication, computing, sensing, control, localization, Wireless networked control of mobile robotic objects (autonomous driving, IIoT automation), Cloud/edge/fog/device-computing assisted radio access networks, Energy efficiency and sustainability in wireless communication, Wireless energy transfer and harvesting, Dynamic and intelligent spectrum sharing and accessing, Space-air-ground-sea integrated networks