Onel L. A. López (S'17-M'20) was born in Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba, in 1989. He received the B.Sc. (1st class honors, 2013), M.Sc. (2017) and D.Sc. (with distinction, 2020) degree in Electrical Engineering from the Central University of Las Villas (Cuba), the Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) and the University of Oulu (Finland), respectively. From 2013-2015 he served as a specialist in telematics at the Cuban telecommunications company (ETECSA). He is a collaborator to the 2016 Research Award given by the Cuban Academy of Sciences, a co-recipient of the 2019 IEEE European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC) Best Student Paper Award, and the recipient of the 2020 best doctoral thesis award granted by Academic Engineers and Architects in Finland TEK and Tekniska Föreningen i Finland TFiF in 2021. He is co-author of the book entitled “Wireless RF Energy Transfer in the massive IoT era: towards sustainable zero-energy networks”, Wiley, Dec 2021. He currently holds an Assistant Professorship (tenure track) in sustainable wireless communications engineering in the Centre for Wireless Communications (CWC), Oulu, Finland. His research interests include sustainable IoT, energy harvesting, wireless RF energy transfer, wireless connectivity, machine-type communications, and cellular-enabled positioning systems.

Harun Šiljak is an assistant professor in embedded systems, optimisation, and control in the School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin. His research interests lie at the intersection of complex systems science, unconventional computing and communication, control theory, and cyber-physical systems. He serves as an associate editor for EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and the science communication officer for Western Balkans Chapter of the Marie Curie Alumni Association and COST Action CA18232, MAT-DYN-NET. He writes fiction and non-fiction, and enjoys all kinds of art adjacent activities.