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Dr. Peiying Zhu (Fellow, IEEE), Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, is a Huawei Fellow and IEEE Fellow. She is currently leading 5G and beyond wireless research in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced wireless access technologies with more than 200 granted patents. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G vision, enabling technologies and standards. She served as the guest editor for IEEE Signal processing magazine special issue on the 5G revolution and IEEE JSAC on Deployment Issues and Performance Challenges for 5G. She co-chaired various 5G workshops in IEEE GLOBECOM. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She is currently a WiFi Alliance Board member.
Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab. She led the team and pioneered research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and Multi-hop relay. Many of these technologies developed by the team have been adopted into LTE standards and 4G products.
Prof. Giuseppe Caire (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Torino, in 1965. He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, in 1990, the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree from the Politecnico di Torino, in 1994.,He has been a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the European Space Agency (ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands), from 1994 to 1995, an Assistant Professor in Telecommunications with the Politecnico di Torino, an Associate Professor with the University of Parma, Italy, a Professor with the Department of Mobile Communications, Eurecom Institute, Sophia-Antipolis, France, a Professor of Electrical Engineering with the Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Professor with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Technical University of Berlin, Germany. His main research interests include the field of communications theory, information theory, channel, and source coding with particular focus on wireless communications. He received the Jack Neubauer Best System Paper Award from the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society in 2003, the IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award in 2004 and in 2011, the Okawa Research Award in 2006, the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in 2014, the Vodafone Innovation Prize in 2015, an ERC Advanced Grant in 2018, the Leonard G. Abraham Prize for Best IEEE JSAC Paper in 2019, and the IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award in 2020. He was a recipient of the 2021 Leibinz Prize of the German National Science Foundation (DFG). He has served in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 2004 to 2007, and as Officer from 2008 to 2013. He was the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2011.
Prof. Yonina C. Eldar (Fellow, IEEE) is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. She was previously a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she held the Edwards Chair in Engineering. She is also a Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University, and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an IEEE Fellow, and a EURASIP Fellow. She has received many awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award (2013), the IEEE/AESS Fred Nathanson Memorial Radar Award (2014), and the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award (2016). She was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion and an Alon Fellow. She received the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences, the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research (twice), the Hershel Rich Innovation Award (three times), the Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship, the Career Development Chair at the Technion, the Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Technion’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (two times). She received several best paper awards and best demo awards together with her research students and colleagues, was selected as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel, and was a member of the Israel Committee for Higher Education. She is the Editor in Chief of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and a member of several IEEE Technical Committees and Award Committees.
Prof. Athina P. Petropulu (Fellow, IEEE) is Distinguished Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers, having served as chair of the department during 2010-2016. Her research interests span the area of statistical signal processing, wireless communications, signal processing in networking, physical layer security, and radar signal processing. Dr. Petropulu is Fellow of IEEE and AAAS and recipient of the 1995 Presidential Faculty Fellow Award given by NSF and the White House. She is President-Elect for the IEEE Signal Processing Society for 2020-2021, and General Chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2020 and 2021 PROGRESS Workshops. In the past, she has served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2009-2011) and IEEE Signal Processing Society Vice President-Conferences (2006-2008). She was the General Chair of the 2005 International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP-05), Philadelphia PA, and is General Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC). She was Distinguished Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society for 2017-2018, and is currently Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society. She is recipient of the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Best Paper Award, the 2012 IEEE Signal Processing Society Meritorious Service Award, is co-author (with B. Li) of the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award and co-recipient (with B. Li) of the 2021 Barry Carlton Best Paper Award by IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society.
Prof. Gerhard Fettweis (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree under supervision of Prof. H. Meyr's from RWTH Aachen in 1990. He has been the Vodafone Chair Professor with TU Dresden since 1994 and the Head of the Barkhausen Institute since 2018. After one year with IBM Research, San Jose, CA, USA, he moved to TCSI Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA. He coordinates the 5G Lab Germany, and has coordinated two German Science Foundation (DFG) centers at TU Dresden, namely cfaed and HAEC. In Dresden, his team has spun-out seventeen startups, and setup funded projects in volume of close to EUR 1/2 billion. In 2019, he was elected into the DFG Senate. His research focuses on wireless transmission and chip design for wireless/IoT platforms, with 20 companies from Asia/Europe/U.S. sponsoring his research. He also serves on the board of National Instruments Corp, and advises other companies. He is a Co-Chair of the IEEE 5G/Future Networks Initiative, and has helped organizing IEEE conferences, most notably as a TPC Chair of ICC 2009 and TTM 2012, and as a General Chair of VTC Spring 2013 and DATE 2014. He is a member of the German Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina), the German Academy of Engineering (acatech), and received multiple IEEE recognitions as well has the VDE ring of honor.
Prof. Robert W. Heath, Jr (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, in 1996 and 1997 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 2002, all in electrical engineering.,From 1998 to 2001, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff, then a Senior Consultant with Iospan Wireless Inc., San Jose, CA, USA, where he worked on the design and implementation of the physical and link layers of the first commercial MIMO-OFDM communication system. From 2002 to 2020, he was with The University of Texas at Austin, most recently as the Cockrell Family Regents Chair in Engineering and the Director of UT SAVES. He is currently a Distinguished Professor with North Carolina State University. He is also the President and the CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He has authored Introduction to Wireless Digital Communication (Prentice Hall, 2017) and Digital Wireless Communication: Physical Layer Exploration Lab Using the NI USRP (National Technology and Science Press, 2012), and coauthored Millimeter Wave Wireless Communications (Prentice Hall, 2014) and Foundations of MIMO Communication (Cambridge University Press, 2018)., Dr. Heath, Jr., was selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, in 2017. He has been a coauthor of a number award winning conference papers and journal articles, including recently the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2016 IEEE Communications and Information Theory Societies Joint Paper Award, the 2017 Marconi Prize Paper Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Prize. He received the 2017 EURASIP Technical Achievement Award and the 2019 IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He was a Distinguished Lecturer and a member of the Board of Governors in the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is also a licensed Amateur Radio Operator, a Private Pilot, and a registered Professional Engineer in Texas.
Prof. J. Andrew Zhang is an associate professor at the School of Electrical and Data Engineering and the director of the Radio Sensing and Pattern Analysis (RaSPA) laboratory, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia. He received the B.Sc. degree from Xi’an JiaoTong University, China, the M.Sc. degree from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, and the Ph.D. degree from the Australian National University, Australia. He was a researcher with Data61, CSIRO, Australia from 2010 to 2016, the Networked Systems, NICTA, Australia from 2004 to 2010, and ZTE Corp., Nanjing, China from 1999 to 2001.
Prof. Zhang is passionate about research innovation and is a world-renowned researcher in wireless communications and sensing. Prof. Zhang has published more than 210 papers in leading international journals and conference proceedings and hold 6 patents. He has won 5 best paper awards for his work, including the best paper award in ICC 2013. He is a recipient of CSIRO top award, CSIRO Chairman’s Medal and the Australian Engineering Innovation Award in 2012 for exceptional research achievements in multi-gigabit wireless communications. He is serving as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Prof. Zhang is one of the leading researchers on joint communication and radio/radar sensing (JCAS, aka, ISAC) and perceptive mobile networks, with the publications of 16 papers in top journals. Prof. Zhang initiated the concept of perceptive mobile network, by defining its system framework and demonstrating its feasibility in a set of papers back to 2017. In addition to academic research, Prof. Zhang is also working with the industry to make JCAS a reality. He has been leading four industrial projects of applying JCAS technologies in cellular, WiFi, and UAV communication networks.
Prof. Yimin D. Zhang is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University. He graduated from Xidian University, China, and received his Ph.D. degree from University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests lie in the areas of statistical signal processing, array processing, information theory, machine learning, compressive sensing, convex optimization, and time-frequency analysis with applications in radar, wireless communications, satellite navigation, and radio astronomy. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and for Signal Processing, and served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing. He is a member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods Technical Committee and was a member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Technical Committee, both of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He received the 2017 IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Award for article “Signaling strategies for dual-function radar communications: An overview” published in IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine, and his publications on sparse array design and sparsity-based direction-of-arrival estimation received the 2018 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2019 IET Communications Premium Award, the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award for Signal Processing. He is a fellow of IEEE and a fellow of SPIE.
Christos Masouros (SMIEEE, MIET) received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2004, and MSc by research and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in 2006 and 2009 respectively. In 2008 he was a research intern at Philips Research Labs, UK. Between 2009-2010 he was a Research Associate in the University of Manchester and between 2010-2012 a Research Fellow in Queen's University Belfast. In 2012 he joined University College London as a Lecturer. He has held a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship between 2011-2016.
Since 2019 he is a Full Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications in the Information and Communication Engineering research group, Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and affiliated with the Institute for Communications and Connected Systems, University College London. His research interests lie in the field of wireless communications and signal processing with particular focus on Green Communications, Large Scale Antenna Systems, Integrated Sensing and Communications, interference mitigation techniques for MIMO and multicarrier communications. He was the co-recipient of the 2021 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award. He was the recipient of the Best Paper Awards in the IEEE GlobeCom 2015 and IEEE WCNC 2019 conferences, and has been recognised as an Exemplary Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, and as an Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and Editor-at-Large for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. He has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor for a number of IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications issues. He is a founding member and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on Integrated Sensing and Communications, Vice Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Integrated sensing and communications (ISAC), and Chair of the IEEE Special Interest Group on Energy Harvesting Communication Networks.
Wei Yu (S'97-M'02-SM'08-F’14) received the B.A.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1997 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Since 2002, he has been with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he is now Professor and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in Information Theory and Wireless Communications. His main research interests include information theory, optimization, wireless communications and broadband access networks.
Prof. Wei Yu was the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2021 and has served on its Board of Governors since 2015. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer (2015-16). He serves as an Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2017-now). He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2010-2013), as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications (2009-2011), as an Editor (2004-2007) for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and as a Guest Editor for a number of special issues for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He was a Technical Program co-chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop in 2014, a Technical Program Committee co-chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) in 2020, and Communication Theory Symposium of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2012 and Globecom in 2019. He was the Chair of the Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2017-18) and served as a member in 2008-2013. Prof. Wei Yu received the IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communication in 2019, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2019, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 2012, 2017 and 2008, the Journal of Communications and Networks Best Paper Award in 2017, an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2015, an IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2015, an IEEE ICC Best Paper Award in 2013, the McCharles Prize for Early Career Research Distinction in 2008, the Early Career Teaching Award from the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto in 2007, and an Early Researcher Award from Ontario in 2006.
Prof. Wei Yu is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario.
Visa Koivunen (IEEE Fellow, EURASIP Fellow) received his D.Sc. degree in electrical engineering with honors from the Univ of Oulu, Finland. He received the primus doctor award among the doctoral graduates in years 1989-1994. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu. He was a visiting researcher at the Univ of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 1991-1995. Since 1999 he has been a full Professor of Signal Processing at Aalto University (formerly Helsinki UT), Finland. He received the Academy professor position in 2010 and Aalto Distinguished professor in 2020. Years 2003-2006 he was also adjunct full professor at the Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA. During his sabbatical terms in 2006-2007 and 2013-2014 he was a visiting faculty at Princeton University. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Nokia Research (2006-2012). Since 2010 he has been part time visiting fellow and has spent mini-sabbaticals at Princeton University each year.
Dr. Koivunen's research interest include statistical signal processing, wireless comms, radar, multisensor systems and machine learning. He has published more than 450 papers in international scientific conferences and journals and holds 5 patents. He has co-authored multiple papers receiving the best paper award in IEEE and other conferences. He was awarded the IEEE SP Society best paper award for the year 2007 (with J. Eriksson) and 2017 (w Zoubir, Muma and Chakhchouk) . He was awarded the 2015 EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) Technical Achievement Award for fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing and its applications in wireless communications, radar and related fields. He is serving in the editorial board for Proceedings of the IEEE. He has served in the IEEE Fourier Award, Kilby Medal and Fellow Evaluation committees, SPS Award Board, IEEE AESS Radar Systems Panel and the Board of Governors for Asilomar conferences as well as IEEE SP Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2015-2016.
Ahmed Alkhateeb received the B.S. (Hons.) and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, in 2008 and 2012, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, USA, in August 2016. From September 2016 and December 2017, he was a Wireless Communications Researcher at the Connectivity Lab, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA, USA. In Spring 2018, he joined Arizona State University (ASU), where he is currently an Assistant Professor with the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering. He has held research and development internships at Futurewei Technologies, Chicago, IL, USA, and Samsung Research America (SRA), Dallas, TX, USA. His research interests include the broad areas of wireless communications, communication theory, signal processing, machine learning, and applied math. He was a 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 2021 NSF CAREER Award.
Jinhong Yuan received the B.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics engineering from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, in 1991 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. In 2000, he joined the School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, University of New South Wales, Sydney, where he is currently a Professor and the Head of the Telecommunication Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. He has published two books, five book chapters, over 300 articles in telecommunications journals and conference proceedings, and 50 industrial reports. He is a co-inventor of one patent on MIMO systems and two patents on low-density-parity-check codes. His current research interests include error control coding and information theory, communication theory, and wireless communications. He has coauthored four best paper awards and one best poster award, including the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Communications, Kansas City, USA, in 2018; the Best Paper Award from IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Cancun, Mexico, in 2011; and the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communications Systems, Trondheim, Norway, in 2007. He has served as the IEEE NSW Chapter Chair for Joint Communications/Signal Processions/Ocean Engineering Chapter during 2011–2014. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications during 2012–2017. He is serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.
Hai Lin received the B.E. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 1993, the M.E. degree from the University of Ryukyus, Nishihara, Japan, in 2000, and the Dr.Eng. degree from Osaka Prefecture University, Osaka, Japan, in 2005. Since 2000, he has been a Research Associate with the Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, where he is currently a Professor. His research interests are in signal processing for communications, wireless communications, and statistical signal processing. Prof. Lin was an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and is currently an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
Nuria González Prelcic received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2000 from the University of Vigo, Spain. She joined the faculty at NC State as an Associate Professor in 2020. She was previously an Associate Professor in the Signal Theory and Communications Department at the University of Vigo, Spain, and also held visiting positions at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of New Mexico. She was also the founding director of the Atlantic Research Center for Information and Communication Technologies (atlanTTic) at the University of Vigo (2008-2017). She is an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications. She is an elected member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee and the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications and Networking Technical Committee. She is a member of the IEEE SPS Integrated Sensing and Communication Technical Working Group. Her main research interests include signal processing theory and signal processing and machine learning for wireless communications: filter banks, compressive sampling and estimation, multicarrier modulation, massive MIMO, MIMO processing for millimeter-wave communication, including vehicle-to-everything (V2X), air-to-everything (A2X) and LEO satellite communication. She is also interested in joint localization and communication, joint radar and communication, and sensor assisted communication. She has published more than 120 papers in the topic of signal processing for millimeter-wave communications, including a highly cited tutorial published in the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing which has received the 2020 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award.
Henk Wymeersch obtained the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering/Applied Sciences in 2005 from Ghent University, Belgium. He is currently a Professor of Communication Systems with the Department of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He is also a Distinguished Research Associate with Eindhoven University of Technology. Prior to joining Chalmers, he was a postdoctoral researcher from 2005 until 2009 with the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prof. Wymeersch served as Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters (2009-2013), IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (since 2013), and IEEE Transactions on Communications (2016-2018) and is currently Senior Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Editorial Board. During 2019-2021, he was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer with the Vehicular Technology Society. His current research interests include the convergence of communication and sensing, in a 5G and Beyond 5G context.
Fabiola Colone received the laurea degree (B.S.+M.S.) in Telecommunications Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Remote Sensing from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She joined the DIET Dept. of Sapienza University of Rome as a Research Associate in January 2006. From December 2006 to June 2007, she was a Visiting Scientist at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Dept. of the University College London, London, UK. She is currently a Full Professor at the Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics of Sapienza University of Rome.
The majority of Dr. Colone’s research activity is devoted to radar systems and signal processing. She has been involved, with scientific responsibility roles, in research projects funded by the European Commission, the European Defence Agency, the Italian Space Agency, the Italian Ministry of Research, and many radar/ICT companies. Her research has been reported in over 160 publications in international technical journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. Dr. Colone is co-editor of the book “Radar Countermeasures for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles”, IET Publisher. She has been co-recipient of the 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation.
Since 2017, she is member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society (AESS) in which she has served as Vice-President for Member Services, and Editor in Chief for the IEEE AESS QEB Newsletters. She is IEEE Senior Member from 2017 and member of the IEEE AESS Radar System Panel from 2019. Dr. Colone was Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and is member of the Editorial Board of the Int. Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier). She served in the organizing committee and in the technical program committee of many international conferences. She was Technical co-Chair of the IEEE 2021 Radar Conference (Atlanta, USA) and is Technical Co-Chair of the European Radar Conference EuRAD 2022 (Milan, Italy).
Moeness Amin received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1984. Since 1985, he has been with Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA, where he became the Director of the Center for Advanced Communications in 2002.
Dr. Amin is a Life Fellow of the IEEE; Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering (SPIE); Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET); and a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). He is the Recipient of: the 2022-IEEE Dennis Picard Gold Medal in Radar Technologies and Applications; the 2017-Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Advanced Science and Technology; the 2016-Alexander von Humboldt Research Award; the 2016-IET Achievement Medal; the 2014-IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Achievement Award; the 2009-Technical Achievement Award from the European Association for Signal Processing; the 2015-IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society Warren D White Award for Excellence in Radar Engineering. He is also the Recipient of the IEEE Third Millennium Medal.
Dr. Amin served as Chair/Member of the Electrical Cluster of Franklin Institute Committee on Science and the Arts (2001-2016). He currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Dr. Amin is the editor of three books on radar.
Vikram Krishnamurthy is a professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Cornell. His research interests include statistical signal processing and stochastic control with applications in social networks andadaptive sensing. He is an IEEE fellow, served as distinguished lecturer forthe IEEE Signal Processing society, and editor in chief of IEEE JournalSelected Topics in Signal Processing. He is author of the book Partially Observed Markov Decision Processes published by Cambridge University Press.
He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Royal Institute of Technology Sweden in 2013, served as a Canada Research Chair Professor at University of British Columbia from 2002-2016, and was awarded the Jean Pierre Le Cadre best paper award from the International Society of Information Fusion in 2019.
Marco Lops (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees from Federico II University, Naples Italy. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Information Technology, University of Naples Federico II. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor with University of Naples Federico II. In March 2000, he moved to University of Cassino and Southern Latium, Cassino, Italy, as a Full Professor, and in 2018, he returned to Federico II. From 2009 to 2012, he was also with ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, first as Full Professor (on leave of absence from Italy) and then as visiting Professor. In fall 2008, he was a visiting Professor with the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, and in spring 2009, with Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA. Previously, he had also held visiting positions with the University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA, with Rice University, Houston, TX, USA, and with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. From 2009 to 2015, he served two terms in the Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Technical Committee. He was an Associate Editor for the Journal of Communications and Networks, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Area: Detection and Estimation), IEEE Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (two terms), and is currently a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was the co-recipient (with Ezio Biglieri) of the 2014 Best Paper Award from the ournal of Communications and Networks. During 2018–2020, he was selected as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Signal Processing Society. His main research interests lie on detection/estimation, with emphasis on radar Signal Processing.
Antonio De Maio (Fellow, IEEE) was born in Sorrento, Italy, on June 20, 1974. He received the Dr. Eng. degree (with honors) and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering, both from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. Currently, he is a Professor with the University of Naples Federico II. His research interest lies in the field of statistical signal processing, with emphasis on radar detection and optimization theory applied to radar signal processing. Dr. De Maio is a Fellow member of IEEE and the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Fred Nathanson Memorial Award as the young (less than 40 years of age) AESS Radar Engineer 2010 whose performance is particularly noteworthy as evidenced by contributions to the radar art over a period of several years, with the following citation for "robust CFAR detection, knowledge-based radar signal processing, and waveform design and diversity".
Daqing Zhang (Fellow, IEEE) is a Chair Professor with Peking University, China and IP Paris, France. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, mobile computing, big data analytics and AIoT. He has published more than 300 technical papers in leading conferences and journals, where his work on context model and WiFi-based sensing theory is widely accepted by pervasive computing, mobile computing and service computing communities. He is the winner of the Ten Years CoMoRea Impact Paper Award at IEEE PerCom 2013 and Ten Years Most Influential Paper Award at IEEE UIC 2019, the Best Paper Award Runner-up at ACM MobiCom 2022, the Distinguished Paper Award of IMWUT (UbiComp 2021), Honorable Mention Award at ACM UbiComp 2015 and 2016, etc.. He served as the general or program chair for more than a dozen of international conferences, and in the editorial board of IEEE Pervasive Computing and Proceeding of ACM IMWUT. Daqing Zhang is a Fellow of IEEE and Member of Academy of Europe.
Fan Liu is currently an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China. He received the Ph.D. and the BEng. degrees from Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), Beijing, China, in 2018 and 2013, respectively. He has previously held academic positions in the University College London (UCL), UK, first as a Visiting Researcher from 2016 to 2018, and then as a Marie Curie Research Fellow from 2018 to 2020. His research interests include the general area of signal processing and wireless communications, and in particular in the area of Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC). He is the Founding Academic Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ISAC Emerging Technology Initiative (ISAC-ETI), an Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications and IEEE Wireless Communications. He was also an organizer and Co-Chair for numerous workshops and special sessions in flagship IEEE/ACM conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, MobiCom, ICASSP, and SPAWC. He is the TPC Co-Chair of the 2nd and 3rd IEEE Joint Communication and Sensing Symposium (IEEE JC&S). He was listed in the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for citation impact in 2021 and 2022. He was the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award of 2021, and the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award of Chinese Institute of Electronics of 2019.
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