Siavash Alamouti is the Executive Chairman of the Board at mimik. He was the EVP of R&D at Wells Fargo from March 2020 until December 2021. Prior to that, he was the President & CEO of mimik from January 2014 until January 2020. Prior to mimik he was the Group R&D Director for Vodafone in London, UK where he managed R&D, corporate venture and IPR for the entire group. Before Vodafone, he was an Intel Fellow and CTO of The Mobile Wireless Group in Santa Clara, California. Prior to Intel he was the CTO at the start-up company Vivato (the first smart antenna Wi-Fi company) and before Vivato, he worked in various capacities at Cadence Design Systems, AT&T Wireless, and MPR Teltech.

He has been awarded the prestigious 2022 Marconi Prize in recognition of his contribution to global wireless device accessibility. He is most well known as the inventor of the Alamouti Code, adopted in almost all wireless standards globally and included in billions of wireless devices. He has received more than 20.000 citations for his scientific work and has received multiple industry awards. Siavash’s 1998 paper in IEEE JSAC Publication was selected by IEEE Communication Society for publication in, “The Best of the Best: Fifty Years of Communications and Networking Research.” and was the most quoted publication in the Journal.

Siavash has been the leading champion for ground-breaking and highly impactful technologies such as Hybrid Edge Cloud (HEC), OFDM/MIMO, 4G, 5G cellular communications, WiFi and WiGig. He has contributed extensively to global telecommunication and internet standards, and has participated in lobbying for spectrum reform globally. Since 2014, he has been focused on edge cloud computing, cloud decentralisation and open internet. Siavash has a reputation for passionately pushing the industry to new limits of the technology for the benefit of mankind.
Siavash received B.A.Sc and the M.A.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, in 1989 and 1991, respectively.

Mohammed H. AlSharif is a research scientist at the Aramco Research Center (ARC). He received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in 2021. In 2020, he was a Visiting Scholar at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. His research interests include signal processing, signal design, and machine learning, with applications in indoor localization, motion tracking and hand gesture recognition.

Erdal Arikan is a professor at the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1985. His main research interests are in error correction coding. For his work on polar coding, he was awarded the 2010 IEEE Information Theory Society Best Paper Award, the 2013 IEEE W. R. G. Baker Award, the 2018 IEEE Hamming Medal, and the 2019 Shannon Speaker award. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences.

Fay Arjomandi is the Founder and CEO of the pioneering edge cloud company mimik. From 2016-2018, she was the executive chairman of H2 Wellness, a software company based in Los Angeles. Between Aug 2014 to Oct 2016, she was the CEO of digital health company NantMobile and WiGig fabless semiconductor company, Tensorcom. Prior to NantMobile, Fay was the CEO of Vodafone xone. Her role also included Vodafone Ventures, Board member at Vodafone Americas Enterprise and President & Chair at Vodafone Americas Foundation. Prior to Vodafone, Fay was the co-founder and CEO of three technology startups L3 Technology), Mobidia, and Disternet (now mimik).

In 2022, she received Canada's Top 20 Tech Titans Award and in 2020, she was named the Edge Woman of the year by the Linux Foundation. In 2018, she was the Alumni of the Year at Concordia University in Montreal. In 2014, she was named as one of the most influential woman business leaders in Silicon Valley by San Francisco Business Week, and in 2006, received the distinguished Business in Vancouver’s “Top 40 Under 40″ award. She is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and advises many startup companies and is a Board Advisor to American Tower.

Fay holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Concordia University. She has international experience and has lived and worked in many countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Tarig Ballal received the Ph.D. degree from University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, in 2011. From April 2011 to July 2012, he worked as a Research Engineer with BiancaMed Ltd, Dublin Ireland. Since September 2012, he has been with the KAUST Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and currently as a Research Scientist. His current research focuses on signal processing, localization, and GNSS positioning and attitude determination.

John M. Cioffi – Illinois-BSEE: 1978, Stanford-PhDEE: 1984; Prof. EE, Stanford, 1986-present, now recalled emeritus. Bell Labs 1978-84; IBM Research 84-86. Founder Amati 1991 (1997 purchased by TI); Chairman and CEO ASSIA Inc. Cioffi's specific interests are in the area of high-performance digital transmission. Awards include IEEE AG Bell (2010), Kirchmayer (2014) and Millennium Medals; Member Internet (2014) and Consumer-Electronics (2018) Halls of Fame; Marconi Fellow (2006); Member, US National (2001) and UK Royal (2009) Engineering Academies. Has served over a dozen boards of directors, presently PhyTunes (Chairman), Marconi Society (Vice-Chairman), & Tinoq. 800+ papers and 150+ heavily licensed patents.

Mérouane Debbah is Chief Researcher at the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi. He is a Professor at Centralesupelec (France) and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Machine Learning at the Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence in Abu Dhabi. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France. He was with Motorola Labs, Saclay, France, from 1999 to 2002, and then with the Vienna Research Center for Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria, until 2003. From 2003 to 2007, he was an Assistant Professor with the Mobile Communications Department, Institut Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France. In 2007, he was appointed Full Professor at CentraleSupelec, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. From 2007 to 2014, he was the Director of the Alcatel-Lucent Chair on Flexible Radio. From 2014 to 2021, he was Vice-President of the Huawei France Research Center. He was jointly the director of the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab as well as the director of the Lagrange Mathematical and Computing Research Center. Since 2021, he is leading the AI & Digital Science Research centers at the Technology Innovation Institute. He has managed 8 EU projects and more than 24 national and international projects. His research interests lie in fundamental mathematics, algorithms, statistics, information, and communication sciences research. He holds more than 40 patents. He is an IEEE Fellow, a WWRF Fellow, a Eurasip Fellow, an AAIA Fellow, an Institut Louis Bachelier Fellow and a Membre émérite SEE. He was a recipient of the ERC Grant MORE (Advanced Mathematical Tools for Complex Network Engineering) from 2012 to 2017. He was a recipient of the Mario Boella Award in 2005, the IEEE Glavieux Prize Award in 2011, the Qualcomm Innovation Prize Award in 2012, the 2019 IEEE Radio Communications Committee Technical Recognition Award and the 2020 SEE Blondel Medal. He received more than 25 best paper awards, among which the 2007 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, the Wi-Opt 2009 Best Paper Award, the 2010 Newcom++ Best Paper Award, the WUN CogCom Best Paper 2012 and 2013 Award, the 2014 WCNC Best Paper Award, the 2015 ICC Best Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award, the 2016 European Wireless Best Paper Award, the 2017 Eurasip Best Paper Award, the 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award, the 2021 Eurasip Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the 2022 ICC Best paper Award, the 2022 IEEE GLOBECOM Best Paper Award, 2022 IEEE TAOS TC Best GCSN Paper Award as well as the Valuetools 2007, Valuetools 2008, CrownCom 2009, Valuetools 2012, SAM 2014, and 2017 IEEE Sweden VT-COM-IT Joint Chapter best student paper awards. He is an Associate Editor-in-Chief of the journal Random Matrix: Theory and Applications. He was an Associate Area Editor and Senior Area Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING from 2011 to 2013 and from 2013 to 2014, respectively. From 2021 to 2022, he served as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Industry Speaker

Zhiguo Ding (S’03-M’05-F’20) received his B.Eng from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000, and the Ph.D degree from Imperial College London in 2005. From Jul. 2005 to Apr. 2018, he was working in Queen’s University Belfast, Imperial College, Newcastle University and Lancaster University. Since Apr. 2018, he has been with the University of Manchester as a Professor in Communications. From Oct. 2012 to Sept. 2023, he has also been an academic visitor in Princeton University.

Dr Ding’ research interests are B5G networks, game theory, cooperative and energy harvesting networks and statistical signal processing. He is serving as an Area Editor for the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, and was an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communication Letters from 2013 to 2016. He recently received the EU Marie Curie Fellowship 2012-2014, the Top IEEE TVT Editor 2017, IEEE Heinrich Hertz Award 2018, IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award 2018, IEEE Best Signal Processing Letter Award 2018, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award 2020, and IEEE SPCC Technical Recognition Award 2021. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc, and a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in two categories 2021.

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. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) since 2005. At KAUST, he is the founder and director of the Communication and Computing Systems Laboratory (CCSL). 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 body area networks, low-power mobile systems, machine learning platforms, sensor networks, and critical infrastructure networks. He received a 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. Dr. 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 awards, 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. Acknowledging his contributions in the area of wireless communication technologies, Professor Eltawil received two certificates of recognition from the United States Congress.

Shiro Fukumoto is the Director of Standardization Department at SoftBank Corp., responsible for spectrum-related international standardization activities in ITU-R, APT and 3GPP for both companies.
He has around 15 years experience in the telecommunications sector addressing regulatory and technology standardization aspects. He played a leading role in key discussions on HAPS at WRC-19, ITU-R and APT, making major contributions to the establishment of WRC-23 agenda item 1.4 (additional identifications of HAPS frequency bands) as an APT rapporteur, chairing the HAPS drafting group in ITU-R Working Party 5D to develop a new ITU-R document (the group was later incorporated into the newly established group responsible for WRC-23 agenda item 1.4) and developing a new APT report on technical and operation analysis for HAPS. He is also working for the vice-Chair of Telecommunications Working Group in HPAS Alliance.

With Satellite Engineering background, Laith is specialist in space commercial and infrastructure business
emerging, as well as developing government affairs advocacy, policies, and strategies. He covers regulatory
compliance, international affairs, government relations and market access; and he facilitates lawful
interception and maintain state security compliance.
Laith supports regulatory, commercial, and competitive intelligence on satellite telecommunications policies
and processes, and he works closely with governments to ensure services compliance with local rules and
regulations, as well as coordinating and securing landing rights, licenses and all sorts of telecom
authorizations and approvals.
Before devoting his work fulltime to OneWeb, Laith has worked as a consultant for major telecom players
providing advice and advocacy on global satellite, mobile, Internet, data and cloud regulations.
Laith has contributed to the implementation of international agreements affecting technology innovations
and best practices in national regulatory processes in the region. He assisted satellite operators to introduce
and manage their services by conducting a complete market research, engaging with national governments,
and influencing local policies and regulations.
Laith is active in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), he participates in its conferences and
events to help engage its practices internationally and in the region on issues related to telecom public
policies.

Zak Kassas is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University. He is the director of the Autonomous Systems Perception, Intelligence, and Navigation (ASPIN) Laboratory. He is also director of the U.S. Department of Transportation Center: CARMEN (Center for Automated Vehicle Research with Multimodal AssurEd Navigation), focusing on navigation resiliency and security of highly automated transportation systems. He received an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University and an M.S.E. in Aerospace Engineering and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He is a recipient of the 2018 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award, 2019 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Program (YIP) award, 2022 Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) YIP award, 2018 IEEE Walter Fried Award, 2018 Institute of Navigation (ION) Samuel Burka Award, and 2019 ION Col. Thomas Thurlow Award. His students have won several awards, including two Best Ph.D. Dissertation awards (from IEEE and ION); two US DOT Graduate Student of the Year awards; and 25+ best paper, student paper, and paper presentation awards.

He started his academic career in 2014 at the University of California, Riverside; then was an Associate Professor at University of California, Irvine; then was very early promoted to Full Professor and joined The Ohio State University in 2022. Since starting his academic career, his research has attracted more than $11 million in competitive federal grants from ONR, NSF, AFOSR, DOT, NIST, Sandia National Laboratories, among others. His research was featured in dozens of national and international media outlets (Science, BBC, Forbes, IEEE, ACM, Ars Technica, among others) and appeared on 5 magazine covers. He was a Plenary Speaker at 2018 European Navigation Conference, Sweden and a Keynote Speaker at 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Finland and 2022 International GNSS Conference, Australia. He is a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems and the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. His research interests include cyber-physical systems, estimation theory, navigation systems, autonomous vehicles, and intelligent transportation systems. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Fellow of ION.

Bhavesh Mistry is the Head of Taara in Africa and the Middle East. Taara is a project at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory that uses wireless optical communication to bring affordable high-speed internet to underserved communities around the world.

Bhavesh has nearly two decades of experience in telecommunications. Prior to joining Taara, Bhavesh co-founded and led Project Link, Google’s first fiber infrastructure project in Africa. Project Link was spun out into an independent company called CSquared, where Bhavesh was the CTO and interim CEO.

Bhavesh holds a BSC in Computing from the University of Greenwich, an MSC in Networks and Distributed Systems from the University of Kent and an MBA from the Edinburgh Business School.

Kihong Park received the joint M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, in 2011. He joined the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, in 2011, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. He is currently working as a Senior Research Scientist of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the Division of Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE), KAUST. He is an IEEE Senior Member. His research interests include communication theory and its application to the design and performance evaluation of wireless communication systems and networks. His research interests include the application to optical wireless communications, non-terrestrial communications, and physical layer secrecy.

Sofie Pollin is professor at KU Leuven focusing on wireless communication systems. Before that, she worked at imec and UC Berkeley. Her research centers around wireless networks that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery powered, and spectrum constrained. She built a 5G testbed for distributed Massive MIMO at KU Leuven, is involved in a spectrum sensing open data initiative, and is now leading the way towards 6G tests in multiple large EU projects.

Gonzalo Seco-Granados received the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, in 2000, and the MBA degree from the IESE Business School, Spain, in 2002. From 2002 to 2005, he was technical staff of the European Space Agency (The Netherlands), where he was involved in the design of the Galileo (the “European GPS”) system and receivers. In 2015, 2019 and 2022, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where he was Vice Dean of the Engineering School, from 2011 to 2019. His research interests include localization based on GNSS and cellular systems. In the case of cellular systems, he contributed to the seminal works on “5G positioning”. In the area of GPS, he has developed techniques to increase the robustness against of interference, multipath and spoofing attacks, and also to improve energy efficiency of GPS receivers. He is co-founder of Loctio, a start-up providing low-energy GNSS positioning solutions for IoT. He serves as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society - Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical Committee (SAM TC), and of the EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems Technical Committee, since 2018 and 2022, respectively. Since 2019, he is the President of the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He is a fellow of the IEEE.

Walid Saad (S’07, M’10, SM’15, F’19) received his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Network sciEnce, Wireless, and Security (NEWS) laboratory. He is also the Next-G Wireless research leader at Virginia Tech's Innovation Campus. His research interests include wireless networks (5G/6G/beyond), machine learning, game theory, security, unmanned aerial vehicles, semantic communications, cyber-physical systems, and network science. Dr. Saad is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013 and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 2015. He was the author/co-author of eleven conference best paper awards. He is the recipient of the 2015 and 2022 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society. He was also a co-author of the 2019 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper and of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning in Communications and Networking

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.

Mohamed Siala received his general engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, in 1988, his specialization engineering degree in telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 1990, and his Ph.D. in digital communications from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 1995. From 1990 to 1992, he was with Alcatel Radio-Telephones, Colombes, France, working on the implementation of the GSM physical layer. In 1995, he joined Wavecom, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, where he worked on advanced multicarrier communications and channel estimation for low-orbit mobile satellite communications. From 1997 to 2001, he worked at Orange Labs, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, on the assessment of the performance of the physical layer of 3G systems and participated actively in their standardization. In 2001, he joined SUP’COM, Tunis, Tunisia, where he is now a full Professor. His research interests are in the areas of digital and wireless communications with special emphasis on waveform design for advanced multicarrier systems and ARQ, channel estimation, synchronization, adaptive modulation and coding, MIMO systems, massive MIMO, space-time coding, relaying, cooperative networks, and cognitive radio. He holds respectively 43 and 221 papers in prestigious journals and conferences and 8 patents.

Elif Uysal is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. She received the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 2003, the S.M. degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999 and the B.S. degree from METU in 1997. From 2003-05 she was a lecturer at MIT, and from 2005-06 she was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (OSU). Since 2006, she has been with METU, and held visiting positions at OSU and MIT during 2014-2016. Her research interests are at the junction of communication and networking theories, with particular application to energy-efficient wireless networking. Dr. Uysal is a Fellow of IEEE, a recipient of the TUBITAK BIDEB National Pioneer Researcher Grant, 2014 Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy of Turkey, an IBM Faculty Award (2010), the Turkish National Science Foundation Career Award (2006), an NSF Foundations on Communication research grant (2006-2010), the MIT Vinton Hayes Fellowship, and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She has been serving as the Chair of the Executive Board and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the METU Parlar Foundation for Education and Research since 2022.

Dr. Uysal is currently a Lead Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Special Areas in Information Theory. She has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communication; as co-chair, IEEE ICC 2022 Communication Theory Symposium, general co-chair of the AoI Workshop under IEEE INFOCOM 2021,TPC Co-Chair, IEEE SIU 2021 and IEEE SIU 2022, the TPC co-chair of the First Workshop on the Age of Information (in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2018), track co-chair for IEEE PIMRC 2019, TPC co-chair of IEEE SIU 2021 and IEEE 2022, TPC co-chair of WiOpt 2021, and on the TPCs of various conferences.

Marco Zennaro received the M.Sc. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Trieste, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree from the KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, where he coordinates the Science, Technology and Innovation Unit. He is a Visiting Professor with KIC-Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan. His research interests include ICT4D, the use of ICT for development, and in particular he investigates the use of the IoT in developing countries. He has given lectures on wireless technologies in more than 30 countries. He co-authored the book Wireless Networking in the Developing World (http://www.wndw.net). The book has been translated in six languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Indonesian, Burmese) and has been down- loaded more than 3 million times.