Dr. Muhammad Ali Jamshed has been with the University of Glasgow since 2021. He is currently affiliated as a Researcher with the Machine Learning and Communications Lab at Stanford University, USA and a Visiting Research Professor at KNU, South Korea. He also serves as Chief Technical Advisor at TEQ-IT Ltd. He was a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Sussex from 2022 to 2024 and worked as a Wireless Technical Consultant with Briteyellow Ltd, between 2022 and 2023. He is endorsed by the Royal Academy of Engineering under the Exceptional Talent category and was nominated for the Departmental Prize for Excellence in Research in both 2019 and 2020 at the University of Surrey. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and a Member of the EURASIP Academy. He serves as an Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, and IEEE Communications Standards Magazine. He is the Founding/Lead Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Special Interest Group on AI for Integrated Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (AITNTN) and has served as General Chair for over 20 workshops at leading IEEE international conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, and IEEE INFOCOM.Â
Prof. Aryan Kaushik is a Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at RakFort, Ireland, since 2025. He has been an Associate Professor at Manchester Met, UK, from 2024-25, as Assistant Professor (Senior Grade) at the University of Sussex, UK (2021- 24), Research Fellow at the University College London, UK (2020-21), and also associated with University of Edinburgh, UK (2015-19), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (2014-15). He has held Visiting/Adjunct Professor/Researcher appointments at the IIITD, India (2025-27), University of Bologna, Italy (2024), Athena RC, Greece (2021), Imperial College London, UK (2019-20), University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (2018), and Beihang University, China (2017-19 and 2022). He has been External Assessor (Academic Promotion) at University of Hertfordshire, UK (2025), External PhD Examiner internationally such as at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2025), NITJ, India (2025), and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain (2023). He has been an Invited Panel Member at the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) ICT Prioritisation Panel in 2023, UK EPSRC Proposals Reviewer since 2023, French National Research Agency (ANR) Proposal Reviewer in 2025, Core Member of the IEEE P1955 Standard on 6G-Empowering Robotics, Chair of the IEEE ComSoc ETI on ESIT, Co-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc SIG on AITNTN, Vice Chair of one6G WG3, Founding Member of the IEEE ComSoc SIG on FAS, Elections Committee Member for the IEEE ComSoc UK & Ireland Chapter, Editor of 5 books by Elsevier and Wiley on variety of topics such as ISAC, NTN, ESIT, Intelligent Metasurfaces and Digital Twins/Imaging, and several journals such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEECommunications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Best Editor Award 2024 and 2023), IEEE Communications Letters (Exemplary Editor 2024 and 2023), IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (Top Editor Award 2024), IEEE CTN, and several special issues such as in IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Network, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, etc. He is also the founder and host of the IEEE Communications Society Technology News (CTN) Podcasts Series, since 2023. He has been invited/keynote and tutorial speaker for 130+ academic and industry events, and conferences globally such as at IEEE ICC 2024-25, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023-25, etc., and chairing in Organizing and Technical Program Committees of 15+ flagship IEEE conferences such as IEEE ICC 2024-26, IEEE GLOBECOM 2026 etc., and has been General Chair of 30+ workshops & special sessions such as at IEEE ICC 2024-25, IEEE GLOBECOM 2023-25, etc.