Mohamed-Slim Alouini is a professor in the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia.

Mohamed-Slim Alouini, was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He earned his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998 before serving as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota and later at Texas A&M University at Qatar. In 2009, he became a founding faculty member at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), where he currently is the Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the holder of the UNESCO Chair on Education to Connect the Unconnected. Dr. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA and his research interests encompass a wide array of research topics in wireless and satellite communications. He is currently particularly focusing on addressing the technical challenges associated with information and communication technologies (ICT) in underserved regions and is committed to bridging the digital divide by tackling issues related to the uneven distribution, access to, and utilization of ICT in rural, low-income, disaster-prone, and hard-to-reach areas.

Micah Beck is an Associate Professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 

He received his master’s degree in computer science from Stanford University in 1980. He worked in advanced development of distributed operating systems at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ for several years. He received his doctorate in computer science from Cornell University in 1992 and joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee. Beck’s research focuses on universal deployment of digital services, data intensive wide area computing and the architecture of information infrastructure in the post-Internet era. His current work proposes an interoperable information infrastructure that can support a fully converges storage, networking and computation in both local and wide area environments.

Douglas E. Comer is a Distinguished Professor of CS and ECE (courtesy) at Purdue University. 

He formerly served as the inaugural VP of Research at Cisco Systems. Comer began working on the Internet project in the late 1970s, and was a member of the original IAB. He is internationally recognized as an authority on TCP/IP Internet protocols. Comer has written a series of 17 best-selling books on the Internet, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, and Cloud Computing. His 3-volume Internetworking series is cited as an authoritative work on Internet protocols and the scientific principles that underlie the Internet. Comer's books have been translated into 16 languages, and are used in industry and academia in many countries. A former editor-in-chief of the journal Software -- Practice and Experience, he is a Fellow of the ACM, the recipient of numerous teaching awards, and a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.

Anwer Al-Dulaimi is currently a Senior Strategy Manager at Veltris, Toronto, Canada, and Associate Professor at Zayed University, UAE. 

He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Brunel University, London, U.K., in 2012 after obtaining M.Sc. and B.Sc. honours degrees in communication engineering. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, sponsored by BlackBerry’s advanced research team. He is the chair of the IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed project working to develop a convergent testing platform for end-to-end network innovations. He is the chair of the IEEE 1932.1 ‘Standard for Licensed/Unlicensed Spectrum Interoperability in Wireless Mobile Network’. He has published many papers, edited books, and patents focusing on new generations of mobile networking technologies. He is the Editor of IEEE Future Networks Series on 6G published by IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, editor of Vehicular Networking Series in IEEE Communication Standards Magazine, and a guest editor of many other IEEE series issues. His research interests include 5G/6G networks, cloud computing, IoT, and cybersecurity. He is a Fellow of the British Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET), registered as a Chartered Engineer (CEng) by the British Engineering Council since 2010. He is a voting member of Mobile Communication Networks Standards Committee (MobiNet-SC), invited expert to ITU-T Focus Group on Testbeds Federations for IMT-2020 and beyond (FG-TBFxG), senior member of IEEE and IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.

Wael Jaafar (S’08, M’14, SM’20) is an Associate Professor at the Software and IT Engineering Department of École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada since September 2022. 

He holds Masters and PhD degrees from Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. Between 2019 and 2022, Dr. Jaafar was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton University. From 2014 to 2018, he pursued a career in the telecommunications industry where he has been involved in designing telecommunication solutions for projects across Canada and abroad. During his career, Dr. Jaafar was a visiting researcher at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2019, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 2013, and UQAM, Montreal, Canada in 2007. He received several prestigious grants including the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander-Graham Bell scholarship, the Fonds de recherche du Québec–Nature et technologies (FRQNT) scholarship, and best paper awards at IEEE ICC 2021 and ISCC 2023. His research interests include wireless communications, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, resource allocation, edge caching and computing, machine learning applications, and cybersecurity.

Chiara Lombardo received her Ph.D. in Electronics, Informatics, Robotics and Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2014. 

Chiara is currently working as a researcher at the University of Genoa, Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, and Naval Architecture (DITEN) and was previously with the CNIT S2N National Laboratory, where she is still involved in most of the research and technical activities. She is currently the Technical Coordinator of the HORIZON-JU-SNS-2022 Research and Innovation Action 6Green and has previously worked in several H2020 and FP7 projects, including MATILDA, INPUT and ECONET. She has co-authored over 50 papers in international journals, book chapters and international conference proceedings. Her current research interests cover green networking, 5/6G, and edge-cloud continuum.

Dr. Sameh Yamany is the Corporate Chief Technology Officer at VIAVI Solutions, entrusted with steering the company’s technological vision and strategic directions. 

Before joining he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Trendium, a cutting-edge company specializing in customer experience assurance. Before this, Dr. Yamany was the CTO of software applications at Tektronix Communications, overseeing the development of the Iris suite for comprehensive wireless and wireline monitoring solutions. In the academic arena, Dr. Yamany has held the position of Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University, Virginia. Dr. Yamany obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Louisville, USA. He is an esteemed author of various patents, scholarly articles, and book chapters, with his expertise spanning across artificial intelligence, telecommunications, and biomedical engineering.

Pamela Zave is a researcher with the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, having held previous positions at the University of Maryland, Bell Labs, and AT&T Labs. 

She is an ACM Fellow, an IFIP Fellow, an AT&T Fellow, and the 2017 recipient of the IEEE Harlan D. Mills Award for sustained contributions to the theory and practice of software engineering. At AT&T, she led a group that implemented the enhanced features for AT&T's first public voice-over-IP offering. 

Her book, "The Real Internet Architecture: Past, Present, and Future Evolution," has just been published by Princeton University Press.