Xudong Wang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003. He is currently a professor with the thrust of Internet of Things and the acting dean of the College of Future Technology in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). He is also an affiliate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Washington. His current research interests include wireless communication networks (6G and beyond), distributed machine learning, mobile edge computing, and joint communications and sensing.

He was the John Wu and Jane Sun chair professor with UM-SJTU Joint Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He was a senior research engineer, a senior network architect, and an R&D manager with several US companies. He was the editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, and China Communications. He was the guest editor of several international journals. He was the general chair of 2017 IEEE 5G Summit in Shanghai and the TPC co-chair of the 32nd International Conference on Information Networking. He was the demo co-chair of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (ACM MOBIHOC 2006), technical program co-chair of Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) 2007, and general co-chair of WICON 2008. He is an IEEE fellow (Communications Society) and was a voting member of IEEE 802.11 and 802.15 Standard Committees.