<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ***</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">=====================================================</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">CALL FOR PAPERS</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">3rd Annual IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking, and Applications</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">(MetaCom 2025), Aug. 27-29, 2025,</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> <b>Seoul, Republic of Korea</b></span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="http://www.ieee-metacom.org/" target="_blank" style="color:blue">http://www.ieee-metacom.org/</a></span><span lang="EN-US"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">******************************************************************</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paper Submission Due:     May 15, 2025 (FIRM)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Author Notification:            June 20, 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Camera-ready Due :  July 11, 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Conference Date:  August 27-29, 2025</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submission Link: <a href="https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=metacom2025" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=metacom2025</a></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IEEE MetaCom 2025 provides a forum for academic researchers and industry practitioners to present research progress, exchange new ideas, and identify future directions in the field of Computing, Networking, and Applications for the Metaverse.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Scope and Objectives</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The Metaverse, an immersive space supported by AR/VR/XR technologies that integrate pervasive computing, augmented reality, and virtualization, is one of the key enablers for the future society and an extension of today's Internet of Things. It is envisioned to bring a revolution to the digital world that spans areas from retail to defense, and from education to virtual tourism. In the Metaverse, the physical world will be seamlessly integrated with a cyber world through digitized physical objects (digital twins), posing numerous challenges in human-machine interface design, ultra-low latency communication, distributed synchronization, scalable real-time operation, reliability and trustworthiness. New multimodal content will be generated, calling for technologies for content authorship, capture, and multimodal search. Generative AI will be used to enhance virtual experiences that integrate physical and cyber components. The integration will endow objects with new virtual capabilities, allow virtual transformation in space and in time, and enable myriads of new services leveraging the combined affordances of pervasive computing and virtual environments. To realize this vision, a convergence of novel computing, networking, and application technologies is needed to support the development and use of Metaverse affordances in a wide range of domains including industry, finance, medical care, smart cities, entertainment, education, and agriculture.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IEEE MetaCom 2025 solicits original submissions from academia, industry, and government on research areas related to Metaverse computing, networking, and corresponding systems and applications. Topics of interest are covered by the following tracks.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 1: Metaverse Computing, Architectures, and Applications</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track1.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track1.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track Chairs: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Li Bai (Temple University, USA)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Qiang Wang (HIT Shenzhen, China)</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0mm;margin-bottom:0mm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse architectural and system design</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Digital twin modeling and rendering</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Animations and physical world simulations</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Model evolution, composition and library</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Virtual reality, augmented reality, mixed reality, extended reality</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Holographic applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Design and implementation of Metaverse applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Measurement studies of real-world platforms</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse scalability and interoperability</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Computational offloading in the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Metaverse data streaming and storage</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 2: Networking and Communications</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track2.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track2.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track Chairs: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork, Ireland)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Lijun Dong (China Mobile Technology, USA)</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0mm;margin-bottom:0mm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network architectures and design principles for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Routing metrics and algorithms</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rendezvous services for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Resource control and allocation</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Network management</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Interactions between cyber and physical spaces</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data center communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Decentralized communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ultra-low-time communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Green communications for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">B5G/6G for metaverse applications</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 3: AI for the Metaverse</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track3.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track3.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track Chairs: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hakim Hacid (Technology Innovation Institute, UAE)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Yifei Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0mm;margin-bottom:0mm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed AI/ML for Metaverse resource management and applications</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Deep reinforcement learning for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Federated Learning for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed model inference for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Large language models for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stable diffusion models for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Graph neural networks for the Metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Vision tasks in the Metaverse</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 4: Blockchain and Web 3.0</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track4.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track4.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track Chairs: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Zehua Wang (University of British Columbia, Canada)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Jong-Hyuk Lee (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0mm;margin-bottom:0mm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-trust architecture and protocol design for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Incentive and consensus mechanisms for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Identity Management System for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Distributed storage, identifiers, and data verification in blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fundamental limits and theoretical guidance for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Emerging technologies for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hardware and infrastructure implementation for blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Smart contract and chain code</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NFT applications and protocols</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Semantic computing and services in blockchain and web3.0</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Blockchain and web3.0 applications</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 5: Security, Privacy, and Trust</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track5.html" target="_blank">https://www.ieee-metacom.org/track5.html</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track Chairs: </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Hichem Sedjelmaci (Ericsson, France)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Xiaohui Liang (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA)</span></p><ul type="disc" style="margin-top:0mm;margin-bottom:0mm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security, privacy, and/or trust frameworks for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Secure protocols for dynamic IoT networks and metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Privacy mitigation techniques for IoT-enabled extended reality for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Secure data sharing and integration mechanisms across extended IoT networks for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trust issues to address AI/ML techniques in metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Security, privacy, and trust in the context of the metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">New cryptographic technologies for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Data security and governance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Privacy-preserving technologies</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Policy and regulation compliance</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Trust management framework</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ID management, authentication, and authorization</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Accountability for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-knowledge proof for metaverse</span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Zero-trust architecture for metaverse</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Track 6: Testbeds, Experiments, Use-Cases, and Evaluation</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times Ne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span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paper Submission</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IEEE MetaCom 2025 invites submission of original manuscripts that have not been previously published or currently under review by another conference or journal. Submitted manuscripts must be prepared according to the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">IEEE Conference Proceedings Format</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> (double column, 10pt font, letter paper) and submitted in the PDF format. The manuscript submitted for review should be no longer than 8 pages. After the manuscript is accepted, the camera-ready paper may have up to 10 pages, subject to an additional fee per extra page.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The paper review process will be double-blind. Submissions must not reveal the author' names and their affiliations and avoid obvious self-references. Manuscripts should be submitted to one of the research tracks. Submissions not meeting these guidelines will be desk-rejected without consideration of their merits. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE MetaCom 2025 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Submission Link: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metacom2023</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"\00ff2d\00ff33  \00ff30\0030b4\0030b7\0030c3\0030af";color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">IMPORTANT DATES:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Paper Submission Due:     May 15, 2025 (FIRM)</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Author Notification:            June 20, 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Camera-ready Due :  July 11, 2025</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Conference Date:  August 27-29, 2025</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">General Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">JaeSeung Song (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Baochun Li (University of Toronto, Canada)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">TPC Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Xiaowen Chu (HKUST-GZ, China)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Soumya Kanti Datta (DigioTouch)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Jaeho Kim (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Wanqing Tu (Durham University, U.K.)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Executive Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ruidong Li (Kanazawa University, Japan)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Panel Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Jeongwook Seo (Hanshin University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Workshop Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Cheolsoo Park (Kwangwoon University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Zhenjiang Li (City University of Hong Kong)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Poster and Demo Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Sanghee Shin (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Web Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Ningxin Su (University of Toronto, Canada)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Publicity Chairs:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Seongki Yoo (Coventry University, UK)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Andreas Kunz (Lenovo, Germany)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Student Challenge Program Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Brian Byunghyun Kang (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Local Organization Chair:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Jieun Lee (Sejong University, South Korea)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">*Supported by IEEE SIG on Metaverse (METASIG): <a href="http://www.ieee-metacom.org/sigmeta" target="_blank">www.ieee-metacom.org/sigmeta</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0mm;text-align:justify;font-size:10.5pt;font-family:游明朝,serif"><span lang="EN-US">*METASIG Linkedin Group:</span>　<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14120645" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14120645</a></span></p></div>