Bomin Mao is currently a full professor at the School of Cybersecurity, Northwestern Polytechnical University. He was an associate professor and an assistant professor at the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Japan, from 2020 to 2021 and from 2019 to 2020, respectively. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed papers in many high-quality publications, including prestigious IEEE journals and conferences. He received several conference Best Paper Awards, such as IEEE GLOBECOM’17, IEEE GLOBECOM’18, IEEE IC-NIDC’18, IEEE ICC’23, and WOCC’23. He was a recipient of the prestigious 2020 ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Paper Award, 2020 Niwa Yasujiro Outstanding Paper Award, and 2020 IEEE Computer Society Tokyo/Japan Joint Local Chapters Young Author Award. His research interests are involving Space-Air-Ground-Sea Integrated Networks, Internet of Things, edge computing, particularly with applications of AI.
Bomin Mao, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China (maobomin@nwpu.edu.cn)
Mostafa M. Fouda received the B.S. degree (as the valedictorian) and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Benha University, Egypt, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Information Sciences from Tohoku University, Japan, in 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Idaho State University, ID, USA. He also holds the position of a Full Professor at Benha University. He was an Assistant Professor at Tohoku University and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Tennessee Technological University, TN, USA. He has (co)authored more than 180 technical publications. His current research focuses on cybersecurity, communication networks, signal processing, wireless mobile communications, smart healthcare, smart grids, AI, and IoT. He has guest-edited a number of special issues covering various emerging topics in communications, networking, and health analytics. He currently serves on the editorial board of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), and IEEE Access. He has received several research grants, including NSF Japan-U.S. Network Opportunity 3 (JUNO3). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Mostafa Fouda, Idaho State University, US (mfouda@ieee.org)
Fengxiao Tang received the B.E. degree in measurement and control technology and instrument from the Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China, in 2012 and the M.S. degree in software engineering from the Central South University, Changsha, China, in 2015. He received the Ph.D. degrees from the Graduate School of Information Science, Tohoku University, Japan. Currently, He is a full professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Central South University. He has been an Assistant Professor from 2019 to 2020 and an Associate Professor from 2020 to 2021 at the Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS) of Tohoku University. His research interests are unmanned aerial vehicles system, IoT security, game theory optimization, network traffic control and machine learning algorithm. He was a recipient of the prestigious Dean's and President's Awards from Tohoku University in 2019, and several best paper awards at conferences including IC-NIDC 2018, GLOBECOM 2017/2018. He was also a recipient of the prestigious Funai Research Award in 2020, IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific (AP) Outstanding Paper Award in 2020 and IEEE ComSoc AP Outstanding Young Researcher Award in 2021.
Fengxiao Tang, Central South University, China (tangfengxiao@csu.edu.cn)