Professor Pan Hui received his PhD from the Computer Laboratory at University of Cambridge, and both his Bachelor and MPhil degrees from the University of Hong Kong. He is the Nokia Chair Professor in Data Science and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. He is also the director of the HKUST-DT Systems and Media Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and was an adjunct Professor of social computing and networking at Aalto University. He was a senior research scientist and then a Distinguished Scientist for Telekom Innovation Laboratories (T-labs) Germany. His industrial profile also includes his research at Intel Research Cambridge and Thomson Research Paris. He has published more than 250 research papers and with over 17,000 citations. He has 30 granted and filed European and US patents in the areas of augmented reality, mobile computing, and data science. He has founded and chaired several IEEE/ACM conferences/workshops, and has served as track chair, senior program committee member, organising committee member, and program committee member of numerous top conferences including ACM WWW, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM Mobisys, ACM MobiCom, ACM CoNext, IEEE Infocom, IEEE ICNP, IEEE ICDCS, IJCAI, AAAI, and ICWSM. He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (since 2014) and was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2014 - 2018). He is an ACM Distinguished Scientist, an IEEE Fellow, and a member of Academia Europaea.

Wei Tsang Ooi received the BSc (Hon.) degree from the National University of Singapore in 1996, and the PhD degree in computer science from Cornell University, in 2001. He spent a year as postdoc at Berkeley Multimedia Research Center in U.C. Berkeley, before rejoining NUS in 2002, where he is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include interactive multimedia systems, including zoomable videos and networked graphics.

Shervin Shirmohammadi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada, where he is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is Director of the Distributed and Collaborative Virtual Environment Research Laboratory, doing research in measurement methods and Applied AI for multimedia systems and networks, specifically video systems, gaming systems, and multimedia-assisted healthcare systems. The results of his research, funded by more than $14 million from public and private sectors, have led to over 350 publications, 3 Best Paper awards, over 70 researchers trained at the postdoctoral, PhD, and Master’s levels, over 20 patents and technology transfers to the private sector, and a number of awards. He is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, and an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, having been numerously recognized as the “Associate Editor of the Year” by both of these and other journals. He was also the Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement magazine in 2014 and 2015, and is currently on its editorial board.

Dr. Shirmohammadi is an IEEE Fellow for contributions to multimedia systems and network measurements, winner of the 2019 George S. Glinski Award for Excellence in Research, a Lifetime Senior Member of the ACM, a University of Ottawa Gold Medalist, and a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario.