Klara Nahrstedt is the Ralph and Catherine Fisher Professor in the Computer Science Department, and Director of Coordinated Science Laboratory in the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests are directed toward Internet-of-Things systems, tele-immersive systems, end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) and resource management in large scale distributed systems and networks, and real-time security and privacy in cyber-physical systems such as power grid. She is the co-author of multimedia books `Multimedia: Computing, Communications and Applications' published by Prentice Hall, and ‘Multimedia Systems’ published by Springer Verlag. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, University Scholar, Humboldt Research Award, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award, TU Darmstadt Piloty Prize, the Grainger College of Engineering Drucker Award, and the former chair of the ACM Special Interest Group in Multimedia. She was the general co-chair and TPC co-chair of many international conferences including ACM Multimedia, IEEE Percom, IEEE IOTDI and others. Klara Nahrstedt received her Diploma in Mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany in 1985. In 1995 she received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Computer and Information Science. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina Society).

Tarek ElGamal received the B.Sc. degree from Cairo University, Giza, Egypt, in 2011.,He is currently a Software Engineer with the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Doha, Qatar. Prior to joining QCRI, he was a Software Engineer with the Microsoft Advanced Technology Labs (ATLC), Cairo, Egypt. His research interests include cloud computing, distributed systems, and big data analytics.

Hung-Kuo received his B.S. degree in Computer Science and Information Engineering (CSIE) in 2003 from National Cheng-Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan. He continued to pursue a Ph.D degree in 2004 and completed the degree in 2010. During his Ph.D course, Hung-Kuo visited Hong Kong University Of Science And Technology (HKUST) in 2007 and Chinese University Of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2009 under the guidance of Chiew-Lan Tai and Tien-Tsin Wong, respectively. Hung-Kuo also visited Indian Institute Of Technology (IIT) in 2008 and King Abdullah University Of Science And Technology (KAUST) in 2009 for two cooperative research projects both under the supervision of Niloy J. Mitra.

After the graduation, Hung-Kuo was recruited in a summer visiting internship of Yahoo! Inc. Research Lab under the supervision of Belle Tseng and Shyam Mittur.

Hung-Kuo’s major research interest is Computer Graphics including specific topics like Shape Analysis, Smart Manipulation, Video Image Processing, Human Computer Interaction and Visual Perception.

Min-Chun Hu is also known as Min-Chun Tien and Ming-Chun Tien. She received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science and information engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 2004 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2011. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, from 2011 to 2012. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. Her research interests include digital signal processing, multimedia content analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, computer graphics, virtual reality, and augmented reality. She was a recipient of the Exploration Research Award from Pan Wen Yuan Foundation and the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computer Society of the Republic Of China in 2015 and 2017, respectively.

Wan-Lun Tsai received the B.S. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2016, where she is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Multimedia Information System Laboratory. Her research interests include computer graphics, virtual reality, and digital signal processing

Carsten Griwodz is professor at the University of Oslo and co-founder of ForzaSys AS, a video system startup with a focus on sports. His research interest is the performance of multimedia systems. His goal is to understand how users can become sufficiently immersed in an experience depending on their goals and context. He explores research advances in fields ranging from operating system and networks to computer vision to understand and reach the point of sufficient immersion. He received his Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Paderborn, Germany, in 1993. From 1993 to 1997, he worked at the IBM European Networking Center in Heidelberg, Germany. In 1997 he joined the Multimedia Communications Lab at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany, where he obtained his doctoral degree in 2000. He joined the University of Oslo in 2000. He worked at Simula Research Laboratory from 2005 to 2018. He is member of ACM since 1996 and IEEE since 2011. He is a Mercator Fellow affiliated with the MAKI project at Darmstadt University of Technology.

Géraldine Morin is a Professor at ENSEEIHT, one of the French Engineering Schools of the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse of the University of Toulouse. She currently serves as Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Telecommunications. Géraldine Morin is also heading the French national Geometric Modeling research group. Before moving to Toulouse, she graduated from ENSIMAG (engineering degree) and Joseph Fourier University (Master in applied mathematics) --and followed in parallel a bachelor in pure maths. She got a Ph.D. in Geometric Modeling in the United States at Rice University (on "Analytic Functions for Computer Aided Geometric Design”) under the supervision of Ron Goldman. After, a one-year postdoc in algorithmic geometry at the Free University of Berlin, she got a position as an Associate Professor in Toulouse in a Computer Vision and Multimedia group. Her research interest brightened to Multimedia applications using 3D content. In 2014, she passed her habilitation (“3D Models for…”) and got a professor position in 2018 at University of Toulouse. Her current research interest are analyzing geometry in media content, and provide the tools the democratisation of 3D content : easy capture and generation of models, diffusion through multimedia applications.

Ashutosh Singla, M.Sc. has been working as a PhD student in the Audiovisual Technology Group at TU Ilmenau since September 2016. His research interests include image and video coding/processing, deep learning and improve/provide QoE in immersive multimedia technologies. Currently, he is working on evaluation and improvement of QoE in head-mounted displays. He received his M.Sc degree in Communications Engineering from RWTH Aachen in May 2015, with a master’s thesis on HEVC video coding optimization (Prof. Jens Rainer Ohm), extending conventional intra prediction by using segmentation. From October 2014 until September 2015 he was working in Huawei Technologies, Düsseldorf, Germany, working as a radio network optimization engineer. From March 2016 to September 2016, he worked in the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (MMSPG, Prof. Touradj Ebrahimi) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, on a project for food image classification and recognition.

Tse-Hou Hung is a Ph.D. student at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. He received B.B.A. degrees from Chung Shan Medical University. He became an M.S student at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 2019, and transferred into the Ph.D. program in summer 2020. His research interests are in Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Multimedia Networking, and Immersive Video Streaming.

Nalini Venkatasubramanian is a Professor of Computer Science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. Born and raised in Bangalore, she received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1998. From 1991 to 1998, she was a member of technical staff and software designer engineer for Hewlett-Packard. In 1998, she joined UC Irvine as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science. Her research interests are Multimedia Computing, Networked and Distributed Systems, Internet technologies and Applications, Ubiquitous Computing and Urban Crisis Responses. Dr. Venkatasubramanian’s research focuses on enabling effective management and utilization of resources in the evolving global information infrastructure. She also addresses the problem of composing resource management services in distributed systems.

Tzu-Yi Fan is a M.S. student at National Tsing Hua University in HsinChu, Taiwan. She received her B.S. degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University. Her research interests are in machine learning, drone vision, Internet-of-Things (IoT) and multimedia system.

Fangqi Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in Networked Systems at the University of California, Irvine since 2017. She got her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Software Engineering at Jilin University in 2014 and 2017.

Her research interests include communications in the Internet of Things, drone-assisted applications, and the mobile wireless network.

Y.-W. Peter Hong received his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University in 1999, and his Ph.D. degree from Cornell University in 2005, both in electrical engineering. He joined the Institute of Communications Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, in Fall 2005, where he is now a Full Professor. His research interests include signal processing for sensor networks, UAV communications, distributed learning and optimization, physical layer secrecy, and multiuser wireless communications.

Hermann Hellwagner is currently a Full Professor with the Institute of Information Technology, Alpen-Adria-Universitat Klagenfurt, Austria, where he leads the Multimedia Communications Group. He has authored over 250 scientific papers on parallel computer architecture, parallel programming, multimedia communications and adaptation, and information-centric networking. His current research areas are distributed multimedia systems, multimedia communications, and information-centric networking. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the ACM. He was the Vice President of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

Chih-Fan Hsu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University in November 2019. His current research is in multimedia systems, such as real-time communication and VR systems, that people frequently use daily. He has solved several practical questions, such as “which subjective assessment method is better” and “how to establish eye contact in real-time communication” by adopting statistical analysis and deep neural network models.

Hadi Amirpour is currently working at ATHENA project in collaboration with Bitmovina. Previously, he was involved in the project EmergIMG, a Portuguese consortium on emerging imaging technologies, funded by the Portuguese Funding agency and H2020. His research interests are in video and image compression, quality of experience, adaptive video streaming, and machine learning.

Teemu Kämäräinen defended his dissertation involving cloud gaming and cloud-accelerated virtual reality in November 2019 in Aalto University, Finland. He is currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is also a co-founder of a recent startup company called Streamed Reality, which aims at commercializing the research efforts involving cloud-accelerated XR. His current research interests include distributed systems and utilizing AI to alleviate the latency in cloud-accelerated XR and gaming.