WICE/N2Women Joint Workshop

Baek-Young Choi is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She published three books on network monitoring, storage systems, and cloud computing. She has been a faculty fellow of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP) and Korea Telecom’s - Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT). She has served as an associate editor for a number of journals, including IEEE Internet-of-Things Journal, Elsevier Journal Computer Networks, Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Her research interests generally lie in the broad area of networking and communications, with specific emphasis on Internet-of-Things, software-defined networking, cybersecurity, and smart city technologies. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and a Chair of Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) in the IEEE Communications Society.

Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor and Chair of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. She is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the University of Rome ``La Sapienza'', Imperial College of London, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests include wireless ad hoc, sensor, underwater, vehicular, and social networks, edge/cloud computing, smart cities, smart grids, IoT-enabled healthcare and augmented reality, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent honors include the NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR), the UCF Research Incentive Award, and the UCF Women of Distinction Award. Since 2019, she serves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair where she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supporting female researchers in the fields of networking and communications. She is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member, the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Social Networks, and the Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Computer Communications (TCCC).

Angela Yingjun Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She joined the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005, where she is now a professor.

Prof. Zhang is now a Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, and IEEE SmartgridComm Conference. Previously, she served as a member of IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and many years on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC special issues, IEEE IoT Journal special issues, and IEEE Communications Magazine special issues. Prof. Zhang has served on the Organizing Committees of many top conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, SmartgridComm, etc. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Smart Grid Communications.

Prof. Zhang is a co-recipient of 2021 and 2014 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards, 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. As the only winner from engineering science, Prof. Zhang won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institute of Science.

Dr. Israat Haque is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie University, where she leads the Programmable and Intelligent Networking (PINet) Lab. She works in the areas of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) focused on the performance, security, reliability, and sustainability aspects of wired and wireless networked and distributed systems. She is also interested in applying data-driven approaches to solve practical and relevant systems problems. Dr. Haque received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Subsequently, she held an NSERC post-doctoral position at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside, before joining Dalhousie University. She served as an Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and is currently an Editor of the Internet of Things Series of IEEE Communications Magazine. She is also an active organizer and TPC member of conferences like IEEE ICNP, IEEE CloudNet, IFIP Networking, IEEE NetSoft, IEEE CNSM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE GLOBECOM. Dr. Haque was recognized as an ACM/IEEE N2Women Rising Star in 2021 for research and leadership contributions. She received the Digital Nova Scotia's Thinking Forward Award 2022 for training the next generation of tech talents.

Bige Deniz Unluturk is currently an assistant professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Michigan State University, and she is also working with the Institute of Quantitative Health Science and Engineering at MSU. Her research interests are biological and molecular communication and the Internet of Bio-NanoThings. She has been an active member of IEEE WICE and ACM N2Women and served on the board of ACM N2Women between 2020-2021.

Yessica Saez Barrios is an electronics and telecommunications engineer, graduated from the Technological University of Panama and a specialist in higher education from the University of the Isthmus of Panama. She holds an MEng and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA. She currently works as a researcher professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Technological University of Panama, whe she serves as the Research Coordinator of the Azuero Region Branch. She is the coordinator of the Research Group on Telecommunications Engineering and Intelligent Systems Applied to Society (ITSIAS), where she collaborates in several research projects financed by different institutions.

She has several publications in national and international high impact scientific journals, has participated and presented scientific articles in various national and international congresses and also holds invention patents. She is a member of the National Research System (SNI) of Panama, director of outreach of the Panamanian Association for the Advancement of Science (APANAC), active member of the Movement Science in Panama. Dr. Sáez is the Chair of the Communications Society (COMSOC) of the IEEE – Panama Section and is a member of the board of directors of the Communications Society (COMSOC) of IEEE Latin America.

Dr Paulina Chan is a global citizen. She is Principal/CEO of GMC, an international think-tank on innovative tech-biz development. She has been Managing Director of AT&T/LucentTechologies, Exxon/Mobil Corporation, and ICO Global Communications. Paulina is a strong advocate for young professionals and women in STEM.

Paulina is: Chair, IEEE Public Visibility Committee; Appointed Representative for MGA on IEEE Diversity & Inclusion Committee; General Chair,TENCON’22; Immediate Past Chair, IEEE Hong Kong Section; ExCom member of WIE ILC (International Leadership Conferences); and Voting Member, Standards Association. She has been: Chair, WIEHK; Member, Humanitarian Activities Committee; ExCom at ComSoc (ICC, Globecom, InfoComm); and Speakers of more than 100 conferences/webinars worldwide.

Paulina received PhD, DIC in EEE at Imperial College, and MBA at University of London. Paulina is recipient of IEEE MGA Leadership Award 2021.

Ana Garcia Armada received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in February 1998. She is currently a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she has occupied a variety of management positions (Head of Signal Theory and Communications Department, Vice-dean of Electrical Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of International Relations, among others). She is leading the Communications Research Group at this university. She has been visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She has participated (and coordinated most of them) in more than 30 national and 10 international research projects as well as 20 contracts with the industry, all of them related to wireless communications. She is the co-author of eight book chapters on wireless communications and signal processing. She has published around 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds four patents. She has contributed to international standards organizations, such as ITU and ETSI, is member of the expert group of the European 5G PPP and member of the advisory committee 5JAC of the ESA as expert appointed by Spain on 5G. She has served on the editorial boards of Physical Communication (2008-2017), IET Communications (2014-2017). She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters since 2016 (Editor until Feb 2019 - Exemplary Editor Award 2017 and 2018 - Senior Editor Mar 2019–July 2019, Area Editor from Aug 2019), IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2019 and IEEE Open Journal for the Communications Society (Area Editor) since 2019. She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she has been/is part of the organizing committee of IEEE Globecom 2019 and 2021 (General Chair), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2018, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2018 and 2019, IEEE 5G Summit 2017, International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET) 2017, IEEE Third Women´s Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2015, and the International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight) 2010. She was the Newsletter Editor of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Committee (2017-2018) and is now the Secretary of this committee (since 2019). She was Secretary (2016-2017) and Chair (2018-2019) of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee. She has received the Young Researchers Excellence Award, the Award to Outstanding achievement in research, teaching and management and the Award to Best Practices in Teaching, all from University Carlos III of Madrid, She was awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of information and communications technology, and the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE ComSoc SPCE technical committee in 2019. Her main interests are multi-carrier and multi-antenna techniques and signal processing applied to wireless communications.

Sinem Coleri is Professor in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL). Her research interests are in wireless communications and networking with applications in machine-to-machine communication, sensor networks and intelligent transportation systems.

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.

Dr. Coleri has more than 180 peer-reviewed publications with citations over 8900 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020, College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award at Koc University and IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award as Area Editor in 2019, Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) in 2015.

Dr. Coleri has been Area Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society since 2019, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017 and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2016. She is an IEEE Fellow.

Soumaya Cherkaoui is a Full Professor at Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Her research interests are in wireless networks. Particularly, she works on Machine learning empowered next generation networks (B5G/6G), distributed edge intelligence, and communication networks for verticals such as connected and autonomous vehicles, IoT, and Industrial IoT. She leads a research group which conducts research funded both by government and industry. Before joining academia as a professor in 1999, she worked for industry as a project leader on projects targeted at the Aerospace Industry. Cherkaoui has held invited positions at leading institutions including the University of California at Berkeley. Bell Laboratories, Monash University, and the University of Toronto, as well as an adjunct position at Lulea University, in Sweden. Pr. Cherkaoui avails of a long research experience in the wireless networking. Her work resulted in technology transfer to companies and to patented technology. She has delivered several keynote addresses and invited talks in the area. Pr. Cherkaoui has published over 200 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has been a guest editor and a member of the editorial board of several IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier Journals including IEEE JSAC, IEEE Network, IEEE Systems and Computer Networks. Her work was awarded with recognitions and best paper awards including a best paper award at the IEEE Communications Society Flagship conference IEEE ICC in 2017. She has chaired prestigious conferences such as IEEE LCN 2019 and has served as a symposium co-chair for flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEE ICC 2014, and IEEE PIMRC 2011. She was also Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on IoT-Ad hoc and Sensor Networks in 2020-2021. She is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Deputy Chair Publicity, IEEE Comsoc WICE
IEEE TAB Committee Young Professionals Representative, IEEE Education Society
IEEE STEM CHAMPION & IEEE MGA VOLT Graduate in 2023
Block Chain Developer, Tech Mahindra
Research Scholar, Vardhaman College of Engineering.

Biography:
Mallellu Sai Prashanth, is a block chain developer at Tech Mahindra and the Junior Research Scholar at Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad and Completed his Master of Technology Degree from Vardhaman College of Engineering(Affiliated to JNTUH), he is presently Volunteering as a Deputy Chair, Publicity of IEEE WICE Comsoc and YP Representative of IEEE Education Society and IEEE Collabratec Coordinator IEEE R10 SAC. He Volunteered as Webinar and Training Coordinator of IEEE R10 SAC and Technical Coordinator, IEEE R10 Webinar Series during 2021. He also Contributed as Vice-Chair, IEEE India Council Student Coordination Team 2021 and now holds the responsibility as Section Student Representative of IEEE Hyderabad Section and also being part of Student Network Team, IEEE Hyderabad Section(2019-2022). Chair - IEEE Vardhaman College of Engineering.

Receipt of Following Awards in 2021:

• Winner IEEE R10 SAC Outstanding Volunteer Award.
• Winner IEEE R10 Educational Activities Outstanding Volunteer Award.
• Winner IEEE R10 YP Revol 2021 Program Award Winner of IEEE Computer Society Richard E Merwin Scholarship Award.
• Winner of IEEE Education Society Student Leadership Award 2021.
• Winner of IEEE MGA Member Get a Member and Stood First in IEEE R10 and First at Section in Recruiting more members from 2020-2021 and with a cash prize of $500 USD.

Mona Jaber (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering and the M.E. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1996 and 2014, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, in 2017. Her Ph.D. research was on 5G backhaul innovations. She was a Telecommunication Consultant in various international firms with a focus on the radio design of cellular networks, including GSM, GPRS, 3G, and 4G. She led the IoT Research Group, at Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, from 2017 to 2019, where she researched IoT-driven solutions for the automotive industry. She is currently a Senior Lecturer on the Internet of Things (IoT) with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include zero-touch networks, the intersection of machine learning and IoT in the context of sustainable development goals, and IoT-driven digital twins. She is the founder and director of the Digital Twins for Sustainable Development Goals (DT4SDG) research laboratory at QMUL. Mona is a steering committee of the IEEE Woman in Engineering affinity group in the United Kingdom and Ireland. She was awarded the title of N2Women Rising Star in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022.

Gunes Karabulut-Kurt is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in New Frontiers in Space Communications and Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. She is also an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. Gunes  received the B.S. degree with high honors in electronics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye, in 2000 and the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She worked in different technology companies in Canada and Turkiye, between 2005 and 2010. From 2010 to 2021, she was a professor at Istanbul Technical University. Gunes is a Marie Curie Fellow and has received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist (TÜBA-GEBIP) Award in 2019. She is serving as the secretary of IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee,  the chair of the IEEE special interest group entitled “Satellite Mega-constellations: Communications and Networking” and also as an editor in 6 different IEEE journals. She is a member of the IEEE WCNC Steering Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of Vehicular Technology Society Class of 2022. Her research interests include multi-functional space networks, space security, and wireless testbeds.

Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and the government. Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks, a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several start-up companies, an assistant professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research interests include information assurance and network security, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks, wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid communication networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks, high-speed networks and the Internet. Prof. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a Senior member of IEEE. He was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee for Communications and Information Security from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society from July 2014 to June 2018. He is serving on the editorial boards for several international journals and magazines, including serving as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He is the Technical Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018. 

IEEE ComSoc MSB MVRC on Mentoring Co-Chair
Dr. Newman Wilson serves as PM for COSMOS, a Rutgers University WINLAB led project to design, develop, and deploy at-scale Platform for Advanced Wireless Research (PAWR) in New York, NY, USA. This involves Rutgers, Columbia, and NYU researchers; partners including NY City, CCNY, University of Arizona, Silicon Harlem, IBM; along with support by U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), PAWR Project Office (PPO), and 30-member industry consortium.

He has over two decades of professional accomplishments, in industry and academia, that span research and development in communication systems and networks involving key wireless, data, and optical technologies. He co-authored papers published in refereed Journals (e.g., IEEE, IEE, Bell Laboratories) and Conferences. His current interests include 5G and beyond, IoT, among others.

He is a senior member of IEEE and has held leadership positions in IEEE region, section, and chapter. At the board level, he has served in IEEE Region 1 and Communications Society including the committees on Awards, Nominations, Membership Development, Student Activities, and Mentoring

Baek-Young Choi is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC). She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She published three books on network monitoring, storage systems, and cloud computing. She has been a faculty fellow of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP) and Korea Telecom’s - Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT). She has served as an associate editor for a number of journals, including IEEE Internet-of-Things Journal, Elsevier Journal Computer Networks, Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Her research interests generally lie in the broad area of networking and communications, with specific emphasis on Internet-of-Things, software-defined networking, cybersecurity, and smart city technologies. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE, and a Chair of Women in Communications Engineering (WICE) in the IEEE Communications Society.

Damla Turgut is Charles Millican Professor and Chair of Computer Science at University of Central Florida. She is the co-director of the AI Things Laboratory. She held visiting researcher positions at the University of Rome ``La Sapienza'', Imperial College of London, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Her research interests include wireless ad hoc, sensor, underwater, vehicular, and social networks, edge/cloud computing, smart cities, smart grids, IoT-enabled healthcare and augmented reality, as well as considerations of privacy in the Internet of Things. Dr. Turgut serves on several editorial boards and program committees of prestigious ACM and IEEE journals and conferences. Her most recent honors include the NCWIT 2021 Mentoring Award for Undergraduate Research (MAUR), the UCF Research Incentive Award, and the UCF Women of Distinction Award. Since 2019, she serves as the N2Women Board Co-Chair where she co-leads the activities of the N2Women Board in supporting female researchers in the fields of networking and communications. She is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Senior Member, ACM Senior Member, the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Social Networks, and the Chair of the IEEE Technical Community on Computer Communications (TCCC).

Dr. Periklis Chatzimisios serves as a Professor in the Department of Information and Electronic Engineering at the International Hellenic University (Greece). Moreover, he has been awarded the title of Researcher Professor by the University of New Mexico (USA). He is also a Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Science & Technology, Bournemouth University (UK). Dr. Chatzimisios is/has been involved in several standardization and IEEE activities serving as a Member of Education Services Board, Standards Program Development Board, Industry Outreach Board and Online Content Board under the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc). He is currently the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals Standing Committee, Chair of the Communications Chapter & Professional Activities for the IEEE Greece Section and an active member of the IEEE Future Networks Initiative. In the past he served as the Chair of Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure and the Vice Chair of Technical Committee on Big Data.

Toktam Mahmoodi [S’06, M’09, SM’16] is a Professor of Communication Engineering and Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) in King’s College London. Previously, she was visiting research scientist at F5 Networks, research associate in Imperial College London, Mobile VCE researcher, and telecom R&D engineer. Toktam is and has been involved in number of European FP7 and H2020 projects on 5G mobile networks, vehicular communications, and Software-defined Networking. Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking, and includes ultra-low latency networking, network virtualization, mobility management, network modelling and optimization. She has contributed to the ETSI, IETF and 3GPP standards, and has played an active role within 5GPPP in defining 5G vision for vertical industries. She has also served on number of editorial boards, and the roles include the executive editor of Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, series guest editor of JSAC series on network softwarization, area editor of IEEE Communications Standard Magazine on management & orchestration, and editor of IEEE communication letters. Toktam served as general chair of ICT 2021, and has been technical committee chair and member of various IEEE ComSoc conferences.

Ana Garcia Armada received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnical University of Madrid in February 1998. She is currently a Professor at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she has occupied a variety of management positions (Head of Signal Theory and Communications Department, Vice-dean of Electrical Engineering, Deputy Vice-Chancellor of International Relations, among others). She is leading the Communications Research Group at this university. She has been visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She has participated (and coordinated most of them) in more than 30 national and 10 international research projects as well as 20 contracts with the industry, all of them related to wireless communications. She is the co-author of eight book chapters on wireless communications and signal processing. She has published around 150 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds four patents. She has contributed to international standards organizations, such as ITU and ETSI, is member of the expert group of the European 5G PPP and member of the advisory committee 5JAC of the ESA as expert appointed by Spain on 5G. She has served on the editorial boards of Physical Communication (2008-2017), IET Communications (2014-2017). She serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Letters since 2016 (Editor until Feb 2019 - Exemplary Editor Award 2017 and 2018 - Senior Editor Mar 2019–July 2019, Area Editor from Aug 2019), IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2019 and IEEE Open Journal for the Communications Society (Area Editor) since 2019. She has served on the TPC of more than 40 conferences and she has been/is part of the organizing committee of IEEE Globecom 2019 and 2021 (General Chair), IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Fall 2018, IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring 2018 and 2019, IEEE 5G Summit 2017, International Symposium on Ubiquitous Networking (UNET) 2017, IEEE Third Women´s Workshop on Communications and Signal Processing 2016, European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) 2015, and the International Conference on Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems (Mobilight) 2010. She was the Newsletter Editor of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Committee (2017-2018) and is now the Secretary of this committee (since 2019). She was Secretary (2016-2017) and Chair (2018-2019) of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee. She has received the Young Researchers Excellence Award, the Award to Outstanding achievement in research, teaching and management and the Award to Best Practices in Teaching, all from University Carlos III of Madrid, She was awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of information and communications technology, and the Outstanding Service Award from the IEEE ComSoc SPCE technical committee in 2019. Her main interests are multi-carrier and multi-antenna techniques and signal processing applied to wireless communications.

Dr Paulina Chan is a global citizen. She is Principal/CEO of GMC, an international think-tank on innovative tech-biz development. She has been Managing Director of AT&T/LucentTechologies, Exxon/Mobil Corporation, and ICO Global Communications. Paulina is a strong advocate for young professionals and women in STEM.

Paulina is: Chair, IEEE Public Visibility Committee; Appointed Representative for MGA on IEEE Diversity & Inclusion Committee; General Chair,TENCON’22; Immediate Past Chair, IEEE Hong Kong Section; ExCom member of WIE ILC (International Leadership Conferences); and Voting Member, Standards Association. She has been: Chair, WIEHK; Member, Humanitarian Activities Committee; ExCom at ComSoc (ICC, Globecom, InfoComm); and Speakers of more than 100 conferences/webinars worldwide.

Paulina received PhD, DIC in EEE at Imperial College, and MBA at University of London. Paulina is recipient of IEEE MGA Leadership Award 2021.

Soumaya Cherkaoui is a Full Professor at Department of Computer and Software Engineering at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. Her research interests are in wireless networks. Particularly, she works on Machine learning empowered next generation networks (B5G/6G), distributed edge intelligence, and communication networks for verticals such as connected and autonomous vehicles, IoT, and Industrial IoT. She leads a research group which conducts research funded both by government and industry. Before joining academia as a professor in 1999, she worked for industry as a project leader on projects targeted at the Aerospace Industry. Cherkaoui has held invited positions at leading institutions including the University of California at Berkeley. Bell Laboratories, Monash University, and the University of Toronto, as well as an adjunct position at Lulea University, in Sweden. Pr. Cherkaoui avails of a long research experience in the wireless networking. Her work resulted in technology transfer to companies and to patented technology. She has delivered several keynote addresses and invited talks in the area. Pr. Cherkaoui has published over 200 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has been a guest editor and a member of the editorial board of several IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier Journals including IEEE JSAC, IEEE Network, IEEE Systems and Computer Networks. Her work was awarded with recognitions and best paper awards including a best paper award at the IEEE Communications Society Flagship conference IEEE ICC in 2017. She has chaired prestigious conferences such as IEEE LCN 2019 and has served as a symposium co-chair for flagship conferences including IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE Globecom 2018, IEEE Globecom 2015, IEEE ICC 2014, and IEEE PIMRC 2011. She was also Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on IoT-Ad hoc and Sensor Networks in 2020-2021. She is an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer.

Sinem Coleri is Professor in the department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Koc University. She is also the founding director of Wireless Networks Laboratory (WNL). Her research interests are in wireless communications and networking with applications in machine-to-machine communication, sensor networks and intelligent transportation systems.

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.

Dr. Coleri has more than 180 peer-reviewed publications with citations over 8900 (Google scholar profile). She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) Incentive Award and IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Neal Shepherd Memorial Best Propagation Paper Award in 2020, College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award at Koc University and IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award as Area Editor in 2019, Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist (TUBA-GEBIP) in 2015.

Dr. Coleri has been Area Editor of IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society since 2019, Editor of IEEE Transactions on Communications since 2017 and Editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology since 2016. She is an IEEE Fellow.

Octavia A. Dobre received the Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Romania, in 1991 and 2000, respectively. She was the recipient of a Royal Society (UK) Scholarship in 2000 and a Fulbright Fellowship in 2001. Between 2002 and 2005, she was with the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest and New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA. In 2005, she joined Memorial University (MUN), Canada, where she is currently a Professor and Research Chair.

Dr. Dobre currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Letters, as well as Editor of the IEEE Systems and IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. She was an Editor and a Senior Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and a Guest Editor of other prestigious journals. She served as General, TPC and Tutorial Chair for numerous IEEE conferences. She is the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics Technical Committee, and served as Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering standing committee. Dr. Dobre is the recipient of the 2015 MUN President’s Award for Outstanding Research and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.

Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and chair of the communication networks group at Technische Universitat Dresden coordinating the 6G-life and the 5G Lab Germany. Currently he is also the speaker of the excellence cluster CeTI carrying out research in the field of tactile Internet. He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology - Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) - Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2011 he received the SAPERE AUDE research grant from the Danish government and in 2012 he received the Vodafone Innovation price. His current research interests are in the areas of wireless and mobile 5G/6G communication networks, network coding, Post-Shannon communication, and quantum communication.

Rose Qingyang Hu is Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Associate Dean for research of College of Engineering at Utah State University. She also directs Communications Network Innovation Lab at Utah State University. Besides decades of academia research experience, she has more than 10 years industrial R&D experience with Nortel, Blackberry, and Intel as a technical manager, a senior research scientist, and a senior wireless system architect, actively participating in industrial 3G/4G technology development, standardization, system level simulation and performance evaluation. Rose is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer 2015-2018, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Distinguished Lecturer 2020-2022, NIST Communication Technology Laboratory Innovator 2020. She is currently serving on the IEEE ComSoc GIMS standing committee as the site selection chair, IEEE ComSoc Conference Council, IEEE VTS Fellow evaluation committee, ASEE Engineering Research Council award committee. She is also serving on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless communications, IEEE transactions on vehicular technology, IEEE Wireless communication. She is the TPC co-chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2023 and was the TPC Co-Chair for IEEE ICC 2018. Rose is recipient of Best Paper Awards from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, the IEEE ICC 2015, the IEEE VTC Spring 2016, and the IEEE ICC 2016. She has published over 300 in leading IEEE journals and conferences and also holds numerous patents in her research areas. Her current research interests include next-generation wireless system design and optimization, Internet of Things, Cyber Physical system, Mobile Edge Computing, artificial intelligence in wireless networks. Rose received her B.S. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, M.S. degree from New York University, Ph.D. degree from the University of Kansas.

Mona Jaber (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering and the M.E. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, in 1996 and 2014, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, in 2017. Her Ph.D. research was on 5G backhaul innovations. She was a Telecommunication Consultant in various international firms with a focus on the radio design of cellular networks, including GSM, GPRS, 3G, and 4G. She led the IoT Research Group, at Fujitsu Laboratories of Europe, from 2017 to 2019, where she researched IoT-driven solutions for the automotive industry. She is currently a Senior Lecturer on the Internet of Things (IoT) with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include zero-touch networks, the intersection of machine learning and IoT in the context of sustainable development goals, and IoT-driven digital twins. She is the founder and director of the Digital Twins for Sustainable Development Goals (DT4SDG) research laboratory at QMUL. Mona is a steering committee of the IEEE Woman in Engineering affinity group in the United Kingdom and Ireland. She was awarded the title of N2Women Rising Star in Computer Networking and Communications in 2022.

Gunes Karabulut-Kurt is a Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) in New Frontiers in Space Communications and Associate Professor at Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada. She is also an adjunct research professor at Carleton University. Gunes  received the B.S. degree with high honors in electronics and electrical engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkiye, in 2000 and the M.A.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. She worked in different technology companies in Canada and Turkiye, between 2005 and 2010. From 2010 to 2021, she was a professor at Istanbul Technical University. Gunes is a Marie Curie Fellow and has received the Turkish Academy of Sciences Outstanding Young Scientist (TÜBA-GEBIP) Award in 2019. She is serving as the secretary of IEEE Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee,  the chair of the IEEE special interest group entitled “Satellite Mega-constellations: Communications and Networking” and also as an editor in 6 different IEEE journals. She is a member of the IEEE WCNC Steering Board and a Distinguished Lecturer of Vehicular Technology Society Class of 2022. Her research interests include multi-functional space networks, space security, and wireless testbeds.

Dr. Slawomir Pietrzyk is the Founder and CEO of IS-Wireless. Slawomir is an expert in wireless technologies and passionate entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Delft University of Technology and a postgraduate diploma in management from Warsaw School of Economics. Currently at IS-Wireless he is working on software-defined RAN infrastructure for 5G mobile networks.

Robert Schober (S'98, M'01, SM'08, F'10) received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. From 2002 to 2011, he was a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. Robert received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier­ Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications, a 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize, a 2007 Wilhelm Friedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship, a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship, a 2017 Wireless Communications Recognition Award by the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee, and the 2022 IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart F. Meyer Memorial Award. Furthermore, he received numerous Best Paper Awards for his work including the 2022 ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize and the 2023 ComSoc Leonard G. Abraham Prize. Since 2017, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science. Robert is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and a Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, VP Publications of the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc), ComSoc Member at Large, and ComSoc Treasurer. Currently, he serves as Senior Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE and as ComSoc President-Elect.

Sumei Sun is acting Executive Director of Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. She is also holding a joint appointment with the Singapore Institute of Technology, and an adjunct appointment with the National University of Singapore, both as a full professor. Her current research interests are in next-generation wireless communications, joint sensing-communication-computing-control design, and industrial internet of things. She has published more than three hundred papers, and holds more than thirty patented technologies many of which have been licensed to industry. She is a member at large (MAL) with the IEEE Communications Society (2021-2023), a member of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (VTS) Board of Governors (2022-2024), and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology. She is a fellow of the IEEE, and recipient of the 2023 IEEE VTS Women’s Distinguished Career Award.

Yi Qian received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Clemson University. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Prior to joining UNL, he worked in the telecommunications industry, academia, and the government. Some of his previous professional positions include serving as a senior member of scientific staff and a technical advisor at Nortel Networks, a senior systems engineer and a technical advisor at several start-up companies, an assistant professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, and a senior researcher at National Institute of Standards and Technology. His research interests include information assurance and network security, network design, network modeling, simulation and performance analysis for next generation wireless networks, wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks, vehicular networks, smart grid communication networks, broadband satellite networks, optical networks, high-speed networks and the Internet. Prof. Yi Qian is a member of ACM and a Senior member of IEEE. He was the Chair of IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee for Communications and Information Security from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2015. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Vehicular Technology Society from July 2014 to June 2018. He is serving on the editorial boards for several international journals and magazines, including serving as the Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He is the Technical Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018. 

Chengshan Xiao received a Bachelor of Science degree from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, a Master of Science degree from Tsinghua University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from University of Sydney. Dr. Xiao is the Chandler Weaver Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Lehigh University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. Previously, he served as a Program Director with the Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems at the USA National Science Foundation. He was a senior member of scientific staff with Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada, a faculty member at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, the University of Missouri - Columbia, MO, and Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO. He also held visiting professor positions in Germany and Hong Kong. His research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and underwater acoustic communications. He is the holder of several patents granted in USA, Canada, China and Europe. His invented algorithms have been implemented into Nortel's base station radio products after successful technical field trials and network integration. Dr. Xiao is the Vice President for Publications of the IEEE Communications Society. Previously, he was the Awards Committee Chair, an elected Member-at-Large of Board of Governors, a member of Fellow Evaluation Committee, Director of Conference Publications, Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He served as the founding Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee. He received several distinguished awards including 2014 Humboldt Research Award, 2014 IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award, 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications Technical Committee Recognition Award, and 2017 IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award.

Wei Zhang is a Professor at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. Currently, he is Vice President of IEEE Communications Society (2022-2023, 2024-2025). Within ComSoc, he served in many leadership positions including Member-at-Large on the Board of Governors (2018-2020), Chair of Wireless Communications Technical Committee (2019-2020), Vice Director of Asia Pacific Board (2017-2021), Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2016-2019), Technical Program Committee Chair of APCC 2017 and ICCC 2019, Award Committee Chair of AP Board and Award Committee Chair of TCCN. He received the Ph.D. degree from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2015.

Angela Yingjun Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She joined the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005, where she is now a professor.

Prof. Zhang is now a Member-at-Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, a member of the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, and IEEE SmartgridComm Conference. Previously, she served as a member of IEEE ComSoc Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, the Chair of the Executive Editor Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and many years on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE JSAC special issues, IEEE IoT Journal special issues, and IEEE Communications Magazine special issues. Prof. Zhang has served on the Organizing Committees of many top conferences, such as IEEE GLOBECOM, ICC, VTC, SmartgridComm, etc. She was the Founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee of Smart Grid Communications.

Prof. Zhang is a co-recipient of 2021 and 2014 IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Paper Awards, 2013 IEEE SmartgridComm Best Paper Award, and 2011 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award on Wireless Communications. As the only winner from engineering science, Prof. Zhang won the Hong Kong Young Scientist Award 2006, conferred by the Hong Kong Institute of Science.