Qammer H. Abbasi (SMIEEE, MIET, FRET, FRSA, FEAI, Industrial FRAE), Professor of Applied
Electromagnetics & Sensing with the James Watt School (JWS) of Engineering, Theme lead for Connecting People priority
at JWS and deputy theme lead for Qua ntum technologies in the Un
iversity’s flagship
Advance Research Centre
at University of Glasgow, UK. He has
grant portfolio of £10M+ and contributed
to more than 500+ leading international technical journal (including nature portfolio) and peer reviewed
conference papers, 11 books
and received several recognitions for his research including UK exceptional
talent endorsement by Royal Academy of Engineering, Sensor 2021 Young Scientist Award, University
level Teaching excellence award
in addition to coverage by various media houses
including Analog IC tips,
Microwaves & RF newsletters, Vertical news, Pakistan Dawn news, BBC news, Scotland TV, Fiercewireless
and many other media houses. Prof.
Abbasi
is an IEEE senior member and is chair of IEEE AP/MTT UK,
Ireland and Scotland joint ch
apter. He is an Associate editor for IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and
Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, IEEE Sensors, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE open access Antenna and
Propagation, IEEE Journal Of Biomedical & Health Informatics and scientif
ic reports. He is a committee
member for IEEE APS Young professional, Sub
-
committee chair for IEEE YP Ambassador program,
IEEE
1906.1.1 standard on nano communication, IEEE APS/SC WG P145, IET Antenna & Propagation and
healthcare network. He is Fellow of
Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of
European Alliance of innovation and
industrial Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering.

Sonia Aïssa received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Canada, in 1998. Since then, she has been with INRS (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique),
Montreal, Canada, where she is currently Cyrille-Duquet Chair Professor. Prof Aïssa’s research interests are in the broad area of wireless communication systems and networks with focus on spectrum and energy efficiency, MIMO, wireless power, and sustainability. She received numerous best paper awards
in IEEE and IEICE conferences and journals. She is Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the Canadian
Academy of Engineering. She is the recipient of multiple international awards, including most recently the 2021 IEEE Communications Society WICE Outstanding Achievement Award, and the 2022 IEEE
Vehicular Technology Society Women's Distinguished Career Award.
Prof. Aïssa has a distinguished record of service and leadership in the IEEE. She is currently serving as a Member-At-Large of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), a position she also held from 2014 to 2016. She also serves regularly on many of ComSoc’s and IEEE’s standing committees and editorial boards. Her editorial activities from 2004 until now include: Editor and Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Associate Editor and Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, Technical Editor of IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, Editor-At-Large of IEEE Transactions on Communications, and Editorial Board Member of IEEE Access. Between 2013 and 2016, she was a ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer. She has been involved in organizing many flagship conferences of the IEEE, including the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications for which she served as the TPC chair. She is also active in promoting women in engineering, and is the
Founding Chair of the IEEE Women in Engineering Affinity Group in Montreal.

Dr. Abdulrahman Alhamed received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2016 , and the
Ph.D. degree in Electrical and
Computer Engineering from the
University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA, in 2021.
Dr. Alhamed joined the ASIC research group at Nokia Bell Labs,
NJ, USA, in the summer of 2021
as a doctoral researcher,
working on the development of mmWave wireless
communication circuits. Between 2021 and 2023, he served as a Senior Engineer in the Silicon Engineering Group at Apple Inc., California, working on the next generation of mmWave cellular chipsets. In 2023, Dr. Alhamed joined the College of Engineering at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he is
currently an Assistant Professor
at the Department of Electrical Engineering.
In recognition of his work on mmWave multiband phased-
arrays, Dr. Alhamed was awarded
the Outstanding Designer Award in 2021 by Analog Devices.

Ahmed Alkhateeb received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2012, and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from The
University of Texas at Austin, USA,
in 2016. After the Ph.D., he spent some time as a Wireless
Communications Researcher at the Connectivity Lab, Facebook, before joining Arizona State
University (ASU) in Spring 2018, where he is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering. His research interests are in the broad areas of
wireless communications, signal processing, machine learning, and applied math. Dr. Alkhateeb
is the recipient of the 2012 MCD Fellowship from The University of Texas at Austin, the 2016 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award for his work on hybrid precoding and channel estimation in millimeter-wave communication systems, and the NSF CAREER Award 2021 to support his research on leveraging machine learning for large-scale MIMO systems.

Abdulah Jeza Aljohani (Senior Member, IEEE) received
the B.Sc. (Eng.) degree in electronics and communication
engineering from King Abdulaziz University, in 2006, and
the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in wireless communication
from the University of Southampton, Southampton, U.K., in 2010 and 2016, respectively. He is currently a Wireless
Technology Expert with the Communications, Space and Technology
Commission (CST), and an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University. His research
interests include channel coding, cooperative communications, free-space optical communication, and MIMO systems. He has received numerous patents in cutting-edge technologies and he has published over 50 papers in
leading scientific conferences and journals.

Tareq Al-Naffouri is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Principal investigator of the Information System Lab (ISL). He is also an active member of the Sensor Initiative (SI) at the King Abdullah University of Sciences and Technology, Saudi Arabia.

Tareq Al-Naffouri received the B.S. degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering (with first honors) from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 2004. He was a visiting scholar at California Institute of Technology in 2005 and during the summers of 2006 and 2008. He was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Southern California in 2008. In 2012, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he is currently a professor.

Professor Al-Naffouri's research interests lie in the areas of adaptive, sparse and statistical signal processing and their applications. These applications include communications, ultrawideband and ultrasound-based localization and tracking. His research also extends to the design and analysis of wireless networks.

Abdulaziz Alorainy received the B.Sc. degree in electrical
engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2010, the M.A.Sc. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) , Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, in 2012 and
the Ph.D. degree from the University of British Columbia (UB
C), Kelowna, BC, Canada, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Future Generation Connectivity and Wireless Sensors Research Institute at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include green communications, cross-layer design and performance analysis, and communications QoS.

Mohammed has over 20 years of experience in the field of spectrum policy. He has been involved in many national and international spectrum management activities including overseeing 4G and 5G spectrum auctions, reviewing spectrum policies for a number of countries in collaboration with ITU BDT and drafting Saudi Arabia’s National Spectrum Strategy 2020-2025.

He has academic and applied background in the area of quantitative policy analysis, technology and decision making, where he authored a number of papers and reports, taught courses, conducted workshops and provided consultancy and advisory services for several organizations. Mohammed holds a MSc and a PhD, in Engineering and Public Policy, from Carnegie Mellon University. He also holds a MSc from University of Pennsylvania and a BSc from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, both in Electrical Engineering.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena,
CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar,
Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi
Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. His current
research interests include the modeling, design, and
performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

Since 2010, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba GUEYE is university lecturer and researcher at Université Cheikh Anta Diop (UCAD). In 2006, he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the
University Pierre et Marie Curie
Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France. Between 2007 and 2010,
he was Research Assistant (Postdoc position) at the Université de Liège (Belgium), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He was a Visiting Scientist at UQÀM (Montréal, Canada) during the 2011/12 academic year. He was the general chair of IEEE MNE3SD conference, EAI fellows from class 2021, and was involved in several TCP journals
and conferences. He was the head of the Computer Science Laboratory between 2014 and 2021. He is currently
full professor with Université Cheikh Anta Diop, the head of the Computer Science
department, and the president of the Senegalese Organization of Scientific Researchers in
Computer Science.
His research interests are in Internet measurements, measurement-based geolocation, and Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN), with a recent focus on green cloud computing and network virtualization. In WSN, he promotes Sensor-based epidemiology detection. Besides, improving the quality of life in rural areas has been taking
a key role in our research
such as Pastoral mobility, livestock transhumance in the Sahel, and management of water points by using the Internet of Things.

Sinem Coleri is a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL) and director of Ford Otosan Automotive Technologies Laboratory. Sinem Coleri received the BS degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Bilkent University in 2000, the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences from University of California Berkeley in 2002 and 2005. She worked as a research scientist in Wireless Sensor Networks Berkeley Lab under sponsorship of Pirelli and Telecom Italia from 2006 to 2009. Since September 2009, she has been a faculty member in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. Her research interests are in 6G wireless communications and networking, machine learning for wireless networks, machine-to-machine communications, wireless networked control systems and vehicular networks. Dr. Coleri has more than 150 publications with citations over 10180 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including N2Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022; TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020. Dr. Coleri has been Interim Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society since 2023, Executive Editor of IEEE Communications Letters since 2023, Editor-at-Large of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2023, Senior Editor of IEEE Access since 2022 and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking since 2022.

Dr. Coleri is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer."

Dr. Ana Margarida Costa is a sustainability expert with more than 23 years of professional experience, specializing in the development of environmental sustainability programs for academic, corporate, and government organizations. Currently, she serves as the head of the KAUST Office of Sustainability within the President's Office, where she oversees the university's sustainability vision and strategic plan. This oversight includes research-based collaborations, engagement projects, outreach programs, and the establishment of strategic partnerships. Dr. Costa also holds the position of Faculty of Practice of Sustainability at KAUST.

Before joining KAUST, Dr. Costa conducted research at the University of Aveiro in Portugal, focusing on numerical modeling of urban atmospheric flows, the dispersion of pollutants, and human exposure to atmospheric contaminants. She holds a Master's degree in Atmospheric Pollution and a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences, both from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Dr. Costa has contributed her scientific expertise to European and national-level R&D projects, provided guidance to government entities as a subject matter advisor, taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and mentored graduate students.

Additionally, Dr. Costa served as the director of the Environmental and Air Quality Unit at the Institute of Environment and Development in Portugal. In this role, she coordinated national and international studies and programs, leading multinational teams in various areas, including sustainability, environmental policy, air quality management, the impacts of climate change, and the development of air quality technologies for smart cities.

Moussa DIALL
O received his Master in electronics and telecommunications from the
University of Limoges (France) in 2007. In October 2010, he received the PhD degree
in Telecommunications from the University of Rennes (France). His research interests
are in Wireless Co
mmunication, Wireless Sensor Networks and IoT. He worked in
R&D at Orange LABs (France) before joining the academic world. He is currently a full
professor at the Polytechnic Institute of the University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Senegal.

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University
Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013.
Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) at Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and
CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. Also, he is an elected member of the L2S Board Council and a member of the L2S Management Committee. At Paris-Saclay University, he serves as the Coordinator of the
Communications and Networks Research Area of the Laboratory of Excellence DigiCosme, as a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, and as a Member of the Evaluation Committee of the
Graduate School in Computer Science. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he serves as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, and AAIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he holds the 2023 France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT, and was a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York,
USA, a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor, and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC
Outstanding Paper Award, the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the 2023 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the
2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award (wireless), the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Heinrich Hertz Award, and the 2023 IEEE VTS James Evans Avant Garde Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters during the period 2019-2023, and he is now serving in the Advisory Board."

Faissal El Bouanani (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in networkand communication engineering from Mohammed V University–Souissi, Rabat (M5US), Morocco,in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He was a Faculty Member at the University of Moulay Ismail,Meknes (MIUM), from 1997 to 2009. In 2009, he joined the National High School, IT/ENSIAS College of Engineering, Mohammed V University in Rabat (M5UR), in 2009, where he is currently a Professor, associate Dean for the Scientific Research and Cooperation, and Director of Doctoral Studies Center ST2I. He advised many Ph.D. and master’s students at M5UR, MIUM, and Mohammed I University. So far, his research efforts have culminated in more than 130 papers in a wide variety of IEEE/ACM international conferences and journals. His current research interests include performance analysis and design of WCSs. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the best one by M5US in 2010. He served as the TPC Chair for the ICSDE conferences and the General Co-Chair ofACOSIS 2016 and General Chair of CommNet’17-23 conferences. Dr. El Bouanani is an Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and an associate Editor of IEEE Access and Frontiers in Communications and Networks journal.

Jaafar Elmirghani Joined Neom in 2022 as Head of Engineering and Technology in the Department of Communications and Connectivity and is currently Head of Technology, Research and Innovation in the Department of Public Safety in Neom where his work focuses on computing, robotics, sensing, communications and sustainability. He held a Chair in Communication Networks and Systems in Kings College London and was for 15 years the Director of the Institute of Communication and Power Networks, University of Leeds, UK.

He is Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of IET and Fellow of Institute of Physics and has provided outstanding leadership in a number of large research projects, secured over £30m in grants and was PI of the £6m EPSRC Intelligent Energy Aware Networks (INTERNET) Programme Grant, 2010-2016. He is Co-Chair of the IEEE Sustainable ICT initiative, a pan IEEE Societies initiative responsible for Green ICT activities across IEEE, 2012-present.

He was awarded in international competition the IEEE Comsoc 2005 Hal Sobol award; 3 IEEE Comsoc outstanding technical achievement and service awards (2009, 2015, 2020); the 2015 GreenTouch 1000x award; IET Optoelectronics 2016 Premium Award for work on energy efficiency and shared the 2016 Edison Award in the collective disruption category with a team of 6 from GreenTouch and Nokia Bell Labs for joint work on the GreenMeter.

His work led to 5 IEEE standards with a focus on cloud and fog computing and energy efficiency, where he currently heads the Working Group responsible for IEEE P1925.1, IEEE P1926.1, IEEE P1927.1, IEEE P1928.1 and IEEE P1929.1 standards; this resulting in significant impact through industrial and academic uptake. He was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2021 for “Contributions to Energy-Efficient Communications”.

He was Area Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) series on Machine Learning for Communications and is PI of the EPSRC £6.6m Terabit Bidirectional Multi-user Optical Wireless System (TOWS) for 6G LiFi, 2019-2024. He has published over 600 technical papers, supervised over 75 PhD students, received a number of best paper awards and has research interests in energy efficiency, optimisation, machine learning, cloud and fog computing.

Dr. Naser ElSheimy is Professor and former Head of the Department of Geomatics Engineering, the University of Calgary. He holds a Tier Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Geomatics Multi-sensor Systems.
His research expertise includes Geomatics multi-sensor systems, GPS/INS integration, and mobile
mapping systems. He is the founder and president of Profound Positioning Inc.
Dr. ElSheimy published two books, 6 book chapters and over
500 papers in academic journals, conference and workshop proceedings, in which he has received over 30 national and international paper awards. He
supervised and graduated over 60 Masters and PhD students. He is the recipient of many national and international awards including the ASTech “Leadership in Alberta Technology” Award the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) Educational Excellence Award. He also received the Schulich School of Engineering Research Excellence Award, the Schulich School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Award, The UofC Student Union Teaching Excellence Award, and 4 times
the departmental teaching award, 2 times departmental research excellence award, and the department of Geomatics Engineering Graduate Educator Award. Dr. ElSheimy was the president of Commission I on "Sensors and Platforms" of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) from 2008-2012. He organized and participated in organizing many national and international conferences and chaired many conferences such as the USA Institute of Navigation Global Navigation
Satellite Systems (GNSS). Dr. ElSheimy is currently Chief Editor of MDPI geomatics, a member of the editorial board of Journal of
Satellite Navigation, Survey Review, MDPI Sensors, Journal of Applied Geodesy, and Coordinates.

Ahmed M. Eltawil is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he joined the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) in 2019. At KAUST, he is the founder and director of the Communication and Computing Systems Laboratory (CCSL). Prior to that he was with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) from 2005-2019, where he was the founder of the Wireless Systems and Circuits Laboratory (WSCL). Professor Eltawil’s research is in the area of efficient architectures for computing and communications systems in general, and wireless systems in particular, spanning the application domains of low-power mobile systems, machine learning platforms, sensor networks, and critical infrastructure networks. He received the Doctorate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003 and the M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees (with honors) from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 1999 and 1997, respectively. Professor Eltawil has been on the technical program committees and steering committees for numerous workshops, symposia, and conferences in the areas of low-power computing and wireless communication system design. He received several meritorious awards and grants, including the NSF CAREER grant supporting his research in low-power computing and communication systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, USA. In 2021, he was selected as “Innovator of the Year” by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He was a recipient of two certificates of Recognition from the United States Congress recognizing his contributions to innovations in the field of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Professor Eltawil is a veteran of multiple startup in the area of communication technology, all of which have had significant translational research impact.

Ismail Guvenc is a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NC State University. His recent research interests include 5G/6G wireless networks, UAV communications, millimeter/terahertz communications, and heterogeneous networks. He has published more than 300 conference/journal papers and book chapters, several standardization contributions, four books, and over 30 U.S. patents. Dr. Guvenc is the PI and the director for the NSF AERPAW project and a site director for the NSF BWAC I/UCRC center. He is an IEEE Fellow, a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, and a recipient of several awards, including the NC State Alcoa Distinguished Engineering Research Award (2023), University Faculty Scholar Award (2021), R. Ray Bennett Faculty Fellow Award (2019), FIU COE Faculty Research Award (2016), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award (2014), and USF Outstanding Dissertation Award (2006).

Naveed Ul Hassan is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (Supelec), Gif-sur-Yvette, France, in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He has completed several impactful research projects and published over 100 research papers at international journals and conferences. His research interests include wireless communication systems, smart energy systems, blockchain technology, and indoor positioning systems. He serves as an Associate Editor for Nature Computer Science (Springer) and IET Smart Grid.

Babak Hassibi (Member, IEEE) was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1967. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1993 and 1996, respectively. From October 1996 to October 1998, he was a Research Associate with the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. From November 1998 to December 2000, he was a member of the Technical Staff with the Mathematical Sciences Research Center, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. Since January 2001, he has been with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, where he is currently the Mose and Lilian S. Bohn Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 2013 to 2016, he was the Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Electrical Engineering and he was an Executive Officer of Electrical Engineering from 2008 to 2015, as well as the Associate Director of the Information Science and Technology. He has also held short-term appointments at the Ricoh California Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, and Linkoping University, Sweden. He is the coauthor of the books (both with A.H. Sayed and T. Kailath) Indefinite Quadratic Estimation and Control: A Unified Approach to H2 and H1 Theories (SIAM, 1999) and Linear Estimation (Prentice Hall, 2000). His research interests include communications and information theory, control and network science, and signal processing and machine learning. He is a recipient of an Alborz Foundation Fellowship, the 1999 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control Council (with H. Hindi and S.P. Boyd), the 2002 National Science Foundation Career Award, the 2002 Okawa Foundation Research Grant for Information and Telecommunications, the 2003 David and Lucille Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, the 2003 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), and the 2009 Al-Marai Award for Innovative Research in Communications, and he was also a participant in the 2004 National Academy of Engineering “Frontiers in Engineering” program. He has been a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Special Issue on “Space-time transmission, reception, coding and signal processing,” an Associate Editor for Communications of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory from 2004 to 2006, and he is currently an Editor of the journal Foundations and Trends in Information and Communication and the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering He was an IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Lecturer from 2016 to 2017.

Wonbin Hong received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette in 2004 and Masters and Ph.D. also in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005 and 2009 respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he was with Samsung Electronics as a principal and senior engineer. As of 2016 February, Dr. Hong is with the Department of Electrical Engineering at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) as Full Professor. He currently holds the Mueunjae Chaired Professorship.

Dr. Hong is the recipient of numerous recognition. Prof Hong was elected into the 2022 Young Korean Academy of Science and Technology (YKAST), the nation's highest academy of science. Prof. Hong received official commendation from the Ministry of SMEs and Startups of the Republic of Korea for his contributions in developing the antenna and RF startup ecosystem in the nation in 2022. In 2020, Prof. Hong received the 'Scientist of the Month’ by the Ministry of Science and ICT, and National Research Foundation of Korea. Prof. Hong also received an official commendation from the Minister of Science and ICT on the 55th Annual Invention Day hosted by the Korean Intellectual Property Office. He was recognized for his contribution of inventing and commercializing the source technology on 5G millimeter-wave.
His students have received recognition including 1st Place Best Student Paper Award, 2nd Place Best Paper Award in 2023 International Workshop on Antenna Technology (2023 IEEE iWAT), the 2nd Place Best Student Paper Award in 2021 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, 1st Place Best Student Paper Award in the 2020 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation , Best Student Paper Award IEEE European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP) 2020. Prof. Hong is an IEEE Fellow.

Eva Rajo-Iglesias received the M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo, Spain, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in Telecommunication
Engineering from the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, in 2002.
She is now a Professor with
the Department of Signal Theory and Communications
University Carlos III of Madrid since 2018 where she works since 2002.
She has been an Affiliated
Professor with the Antenna Group of Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) since 2009
to 2016 and Visiting Professor in other universities as KTH, Siena. PUCV or Paris X.
She has co-authored more than
100 papers in JCR international journals and more than 150 papers in international
conferences where she has been plenary and keynote speaker
on several occasions. Her current
research interests include artificial surfaces and periodic structures
with higher symmetries,
gap waveguide technology,
printed and 3D printed
antennas and MIMO systems.
In 2022, she was appointed European Association on Antennas and Propagation (EurAAP) Ambassador
Prof. Rajo-Iglesias was the recipient of LAPC Conference
Best Paper Award in 2007,
the Best Poster at the conference Metamaterials 2009 , the 2014 Excellence Award to Young Research Staff at the University Carlos III of Madrid, the Third Place Winner of the Bell Labs Prize 2014 and the 2020 ISAP
Best Student paper Award. She
has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION MAGAZINE
(2009-2019) , Associate Editor
of the IEEE ANTENNAS AND WIRELESS PROPAGATION LETTERS (2011-2017)
and she is now Associate
Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION.

Hamid Jafarkhani is a Chancellor's Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, where he is also the Director of Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing, the Conexant-Broadcom Endowed Chair, and the former Director of Networked Systems Program. He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University in 2015 and a Visiting Professor at California Institute of Technology in 2018. He was the 2020-2022 elected Faculty Chair of the UCI School of Engineering.
Dr. Jafarkhani was an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished lecturer. Among his awards are the NSF Career Award, the UCI Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Research, the School of Engineering Excellence in Research Senior Career Award,
the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications, the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication, the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, the IEEE Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Recognition Award, and the IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. He is the 2017 Innovation Hall of Fame Inductee at the University of Maryland's School of Engineering.
Dr. Jafarkhani is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher.
According to the Thomson Scientific, he is one of the top 10 most-cited researchers in the
field of "computer science" during 1997-2007.
He is a Fellow of AAAS, an IEEE Fellow, and the author of the book "Space-Time Coding: Theory and Practice."

Ammar Kouki received the B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science from Pennsylvania State University, in 1985 and 1987, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1991. He is currently a Full Professor of Electrical Engineering and the Founding Director of the
LTCC@ETS Laboratory at École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of modeling, simulation and design
of active and passive
microwave and mm-wave devices and circuits, reconfigurable and energy-efficient RF front-ends, 3-D circuits and sensors in LTCC, applied computational electromagnetics and antenna arrays, and radio-wave propagation modeling.
He has extensive collaboration
with industry in Canada and
has successfully completed multiple technology transfers to
companies. His research work has led directly to the creation of four start-ups (ABBK Physics Works, EMWorks, ISRTechnologies and AmpliX) and has in addition netted over 300 publications as well as 8 granted patents, with one licensed.
Dr. Kouki is a co-founder and the current president of the non-profit North American Tunisian Engineering Group
(NATEG
)

Pierre J. Magistretti, received his MD in 1979 from the University of Geneva and his Ph.D. in Biology in 1982 from UCSD. He is Distinguished Professor at the Division at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KAUST where he has been Dean from 2012 to 2020.

He is also Professor Emeritus at the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and at the Departments of Psychiatry at UNIL/CHUV and UNIGE. Since January 2020 he is the Director of KAUST Smart-Health Initiative.

Pierre J. Magistretti’s laboratory has discovered some of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie the coupling between neuronal activity and energy consumption by revealing the key role that glial cells, in particular astrocytes, play in this physiological process. These findings are particularly relevant for understanding the origin of the signals detected by functional brain imaging, and are revealing a role of astrocytes in neuronal plasticity and neuroprotection.

He is the author of over 250 publications in international peer-reviewed journals; he is on the Clarivate list of highly cited scientists, with an h-index of 103 and > 45’000 citations (8/2021). He has given over 70 invited lectures during the past five years. He has recently been elected Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, one of the oldest science academies of the Western world, founded in 1603. He has been elected at the International Chair 2007-2008 of the Collège de France, Paris. He is member of Academia Europae and of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences.

Stefano MACI is a Professor at the University of Siena (UNISI). Since 2000, he has been P.I. of 10
research projects funded by the European Union (EU) and by the European Space Agency (ESA).
He is a Fellow of IEEE since 2004.
In 2004 he founded the European School of Antennas (ESoA), a PhD school that presently comprises 35 courses on Antennas, Propagation, and Electromagnetic Theory, and 200 teachers, among them 20 IEEE Fellow. He has been advisor of forty PhD students. He has been former member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) AdCom, the Chair
of the Award Committee of the IEEE AP-S, member of the AP Executive Board of IET (UK), Distinguished Lecturer of
IEEE and of EurAAP. He was recipient of several prizes and awards, among which the EurAAP Award 2014, the Chen-To Tai Distinguished Educator award 2016, of the Shelkunoff Transaction Prize in 2015
, and of the URSI Dellinger Gold
Medal in 2020. He is presently Director of ESoA.
He has been TPC Chair of the METAMATERIAL 2020 and and
General Chair of EuCAP
2023.. In the last ten years he has been invited 60 times as keynote speaker in international
conferences. His research activity is documented in 220 papers published in international journals, 10 book chapters, and
about 500 papers in proceedings of international conferences.
He is the President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation
Society 2023.

Hussein T. MOUFTAH is an internationally-acclaimed scholar who has made significant
contributions to the understanding and knowledge of telecommunication networks, particularly in regard to
high-speed networks, optical networks, network switching architectures, wireless cellular
as well as ad hoc and sensor networks, smart grid, connected and autonomous electric vehicles, among other technical areas related to the next-generation Internet – the so called Internet of Things. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he
received the BSc in Electrical Engineering and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Alexandria,
Egypt, in 1969 and 1972, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from Laval University, Canada, in 1975. He joined the School of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (was School of Information Technology and Engineering) of the University of Ottawa in 2002 as a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair rofessor, where he became a Distinguished University Professor in 2006. He was with the ECE Department, Queen’s University (1979–2002), where he was prior to his departure a Full Professor and the Department Associate Head. He has six
years of industrial experience mainly at Be ll Northern Research of Ottawa (Nortel Networks). He is the author or coauthor of 13 books, 78 book chapters and more than 1800 technical papers, 17 patents, 5
invention disclosures, and 148 industrial reports. Dr. Mouftah served as the Editor in Chief of
the IEEE Communications Magazine (1995–1997) and IEEE ComSoc Director of Magazines (1998–1999), Chair of the Awards Committee (2002–2003), Director of Education (2006–2007), and a Member of the Board of Governors (1997–1999 and 2006
–2007). He was a Disting
uished Speaker of the IEEE Communications Society (2000–2007). He is a Fellow of the IEEE (1990), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (2003), the Engineering Institute of Canada (2005), and the Royal Society of Canada RSC Academy of Science
(2008). He is the joint holder of 26 Best/Outstanding Paper Awards. He has received numerous prestigious awards, such as the 2017 Gotlieb Medal in Computer Engineering and Science, the 2016 R.A. Fessenden
Medal in Telecommunications Engineering of IEEE Canada,
the 2016 Distinguished Technical
Achievement Award in Communications Switching and Routing of IEEE ComSoc
Communications Switching and Routing Technical Committee,
the 2015 IEEE Ottawa Section Outstanding Educator Award,
the 2014 Engineering Institute of Canada K. Y. Lo Medal, the 2014 Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, the 2007 Royal Society of Canada Thomas W. Eadie Medal, the 2007–2008 University of Ottawa Award for Excellence
in Research, the 2008 ORION Leadership Award of Merit, the 2006 IEEE Canada McNaughton
Gold Medal, the 2006 EIC Julian Smith Medal, the 2004 IEEE ComSoc Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award, the 2004 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research of the University of Ottawa Faculty of Engineering, the 1989 Engineering Medal for Research and Development of the
Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario, and the Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award of the
Ontario Innovation Trust.

Dr. Abubakr Muhammad is an associate professorof electrical engineering, the founding director of the Center for WaterInformatics& Technology (WIT), and the lead for NCRA AgriculturalRobotics Lab at LUMS, Pakistan. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA winning an institute-wide best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Followingpostdoctoral fellowshipsat the University of Pennsylvania and McGill Universityhe joined LUMS in 2008, where his group does research in agricultural robotics, human-water systems and climate analytics.He has heldvisitingpositionsat other top institutes including theUniversity of Oxford, ICTP,andKAUST.He serves on various advisory panels to government agencies and industry on the use of emerging digital technologiesfor tackling issues related to climate change, disaster management, water management and food security.

Boon S. Ooi (Fellow of NAI, IEEE, OSA, SPIE and InstP)is a Founding Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST.He was Director of KACST-Technology Innovation Center at KAUST from 2013-2021. His research interests include high-speed optoelectronics, optical wireless communications and distributed optical fiber sensors. He has trained a total of 37PhD students and 17 postdocs, and placed them in top places in academia, industry, and government. He is an inventor/co-inventor of 39issuesUS Patents. He received the following selected awards and honors: Khalifa International Award (UAE, 2023); PIFI Distinguished Scientist Award (CAS-China, 2021); Nokia Open Innovation Challenge (Finland, 2019). He served as Associate Editor then Senior Editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal, and Associate Editor of the Optics Express; served as Chair/Co-chair and/or on the technical program committee of CLEO, IPC, Photonics West, ISLC, and IEDM. Presently, he is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters.

Dr. Anh T. Pham received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronics engineering from the Hanoi University of Technology, Vietnam, in 1997 and 2000, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in information and mathematical sciences from Saitama University, Japan, in 2005. From 1998 to 2002, he was with NTT Corporation, Vietnam. Since 2005, he has been a Faculty Member with The University of Aizu, where
he is currently a Professor and the Head of the Computer
Communications Laboratory. His research interests are in
the broad areas of communication theory and networking with a particular emphasis on modeling, design, and performance evaluation of wired/wireless communication
systems and networks. He has authored/co-authored over
200 peer-reviewed papers on these topics. Dr. Pham is
senior member of IEEE. He is also member of IEICE and OSA.

Maya Prince is an Education Programme Specialist at UNESCO. Over the past 15 years she has served on multiple teams including at the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (Montréal) and Headquarters (Paris), and currently is the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chair Programme Manager - a network of 1000 universities which leverages collective intelligence to advance ideas in Education, Culture, Science and Communication & Information through collaborative research and community engagement.
She is passionate about generating data to tell stories and produce sound evidence for policy-making. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she led UNESCO’s global initiative on tracking school closures.

Ali H. Sayed is Dean of Engineering at EPFL, Switzerland, where he also leads the Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has also served as Distinguished Professor and Chairman of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. He is recognized as a Highly Cited Researcher and is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. He is also a member of the World Academy of Sciences and served as President of the IEEE Signal Processing Society during 2018 and 2019.
Dr. Sayed is an author/co-author of over 570 scholarly publications and six books. His research involves several areasincluding adaptation and learning theories, data and network sciences, statistical inference, and multiagent systems.
His work has been recognized with several major awards including the 2022 IEEE Fourier Award, the 2020 Norbert Wiener Society Award and the 2015 Education Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2014 Papoulis Award from the European Association for Signal Processing, the 2013 Meritorious Service Award and the 2012 Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2005 Terman Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, the 2005 Distinguished Lecturer from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2003 Kuwait Prize, and the 1996 IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize. His publications have been awarded several Best Paper Awards from the IEEE (2002, 2005, 2012, 2014) and EURASIP (2015). He is a Fellow of IEEE, EURASIP, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); the publisher of the journal Science.

Professor Setti received his Ph.D. ('97) in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Bologna, Italy. From 1997 to 2017, he was an Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Circuit Theory and Analog Electronics at the University of Ferrara, Italy.

He joins KAUST from his previous role as Professor of Electronics for Signal and Data Processing at Politecnico di Torino’s Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET).

Professor Gianluca's research interests include nonlinear circuits, statistical signal processing, electromagnetic compatibility, compressive sensing, biomedical circuits and systems, power electronics, design and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) nodes, and machine learning techniques for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance.

Dr. Setti received the 1998 Caianiello prize for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis on Neural Networks. He is also the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Meritorious Service Award and has been an IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer in 2004-2005 and 2015-2016.

In addition to publishing circa 320 scientific articles in journals, conference proceedings, and four books, he has received best paper awards in three different IEEE Transactions and six best paper awards or nominations at major conferences, such as the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems and the Design, Automation and Test in Europe.

Professor Setti is the first non-US Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the IEEE, the flagship journal of the Institute, a role he has held since 2019. Additionally, he served on IEEE's board of directors, where he addressed the impact of open access mandates on IEEE members.

Atif Shamim is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Principal Investigator of the Integrated Microwave Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology (IMPACT) lab. He is also an active member of the Sensor Initiative of KAUST. Professor Shamim's research focuses on applications like personal area network, automotive radars, wearable and implantable wireless sensors, wireless powering and renewable energy.

Shamim earned an M.Sc. Electrical Engineering in 2004 and aPh.D. 2009, Electrical Engineering, both from Carleton University, Canada.

Shamim's interests focus on cutting-edge research in innovative antenna designs, RF circuits, and sensors which are then realized and integrated through additive manufacturing techniques to demonstrate flexible, wearable and disposable wireless sensors targeting various biomedical, environmental and industrial applications.

Basem Shihada is an Associate & Founding Professor of Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering programs in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering (CEMSE) Division at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). His research covers a range of topics in energy and resource allocation in wired and wireless networks, software-defined networking, cloud/edge computing, the internet of things, data networks, and underwater networks. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. In 2009, he was appointed as visiting faculty in the Department of Computer Science, at Stanford University.

Basem’s work received several awards and honors, including two best paper awards in AFIN, and IEEE WiMob. He has co-authored more than 170 papers in the field of wireless networks. He serves as a Senior Editor for IEEE Communication Letters, Associate Editor for Frontiers in Communication and Networks, Editor of Photonic Network Journal, and served as track chair, organizing chair, publication chair, and technical program committee for several conferences such as VTC, InfoCom, Globecom, ICC, Mobiquitous, WCNC, and others. He is a senior member of IEEE and a professional member of ACM. His work on underwater networks, specifically Aqua-Fi, got the world's attention and resulted in wide international media coverage.

ELAINE WONG (IEEE S’99-M’03-SM’14, OSA Fellow 2020) is Associate Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Melbourne, Australia. Elaine received the BEng degree (Electrical Engineering) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Melbourne, Australia in 1997 and 2002, respectively. She has made numerous significant intellectual contributions in the field of optical fibre communications and optical networking, particularly in the areas of optical access network architectures and subsystem technologies, energy-efficient networking and subsystem technologies, converged/hybrid fibre-wireless networks and subsystem technologies, and more recently in low-latency human-to-machine communications to support Tactile Internet and 5G/6G networks.

Jianping Yao is a Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair in Microwave Photonics in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Canada. He was Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters (2017-2021), an elected member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Photonics Society (2018-2021), and a past chair the International Steering Committee for Microwave Photonics (2019-2020). Dr. Yao has published 700 papers including 400 in refereed journals and 300 in conference proceedings. He was an IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer 2013-2015 and was the recipient of the 2018 R.A. Fessenden Silver Medal from IEEE Canada. Dr. Yao is a Fellow of IEEE (2012), the Optica (formerly Optical Society of America) (2010), the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE) (2012), and the Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) (2018).

Jia Ye was born in Chongqing, China. She received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and
computer engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST),
Saudi Arabia, in 2022. Since January 2023, she has been with the School of Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing,China, as an Associate Professor.
Her research scope spans
diverse domains, including reconfigurable intelligent surface
assisted wireless communication,
non-terrestrial networks, and high-frequency communication.
Jia was awarded the 2022
IEEEAndrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award.

Moustafa Youssef is a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is the founder
& director of the Wireless Research Center of Excellence, Egypt. His research interests
include mobile wireless networks, mobile computing, location determination technologies,
pervasive computing, and quantum computing. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE TMC and
ACM TSAS, served as the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Computer Special Issue on Transformative Technologies and an Area Editor of ACM MC2R as well as on the organizing
and technical committees of numerous prestigious conferences. He is the recipient of the 2003 University of Maryland Invention of the Year award, the 2010 TWAS-AAS-Microsoft Award for Young Scientists, the 2013 and 2014 COMESA Innovation Award, multiple Google Research Awards, among many others. He is also an IEEE and ACM Fellow.