Bruno Clerckx is a Professor, the Head of the Wireless Communications and Signal Processing Lab, and the Deputy Head of the Communications and Signal Processing Group, within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department, Imperial College London, London, U.K. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied science from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in 2000 and 2005, respectively. From 2006 to 2011, he was with Samsung Electronics, Suwon, South Korea, where he actively contributed to 4G (3GPP LTE/LTE-A and IEEE 802.16m) and acted as the Rapporteur for the 3GPP Coordinated Multi-Point (CoMP) Study Item. Since 2011, he has been with Imperial College London, first as a Lecturer from 2011 to 2015, Senior Lecturer from 2015 to 2017, Reader from 2017 to 2020, and now as Professor of Wireless Communications and Signal Processing. From 2014 to 2016, he also was an Associate Professor with Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He also held various long or short-term visiting research appointments at Stanford University, EURECOM, National University of Singapore, The University of Hong Kong, Princeton University, The University of Edinburgh, The University of New South Wales, and Tsinghua University.

He has authored two books, 200 peer-reviewed international research papers, and 150 standards contributions, and is the inventor of 80 issued or pending patents among which 15 have been adopted in the specifications of 4G standards and are used by billions of devices worldwide. His research area is communication theory and signal processing for wireless networks. He has been a TPC member, a symposium chair, or a TPC chair of many symposia on communication theory, signal processing for communication and wireless communication for several leading international IEEE conferences. He was an Elected Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society SPCOM Technical Committee. He served as an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. He has also been a (lead) guest editor for special issues of the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, IEEE ACCESS, the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS and the IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN SIGNAL PROCESSING. He was an Editor for the 3GPP LTE-Advanced Standard Technical Report on CoMP. 

Aydin Sezgin is a Professor of information systems and sciences with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He received the Dipl.Ing. (M.S.) degree in communications engineering from Technische Fachhochschule Berlin (TFH), Berlin, in 2000, and the Dr. Ing. (Ph.D.) degree in electrical engineering from TU Berlin, in 2005. From 2001 to 2006, he was with the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut, Berlin. From 2006 to 2008, he held a postdoctoral position, and was also a lecturer with the Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. From 2008 to 2009, he held a postdoctoral position with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. From 2009 to 2011, he was the Head of the Emmy-Noether- Research Group on Wireless Networks, Ulm University. In 2011, he joined TU Darmstadt, Germany, as a professor.

Aydin is interested in signal processing, communication, and information theory, with a focus on wireless networks. He has published several book chapters, more than 50 journal and 150 conference papers in these topics. He has coauthored a book on multi-way communications. Aydin is a winner of the ITG-Sponsorship Award, in 2006. He was the first recipient of the prestigious Emmy-Noether Grant by the German Research Foundation in communication engineering, in 2009. He has coauthored papers that received the Best Poster Award at the IEEE Communication Theory Workshop, in 2011, the Best Paper Award at ICCSPA, in 2015, and the Best Paper Award at ICC, in 2019. He has served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, from 2009 to 2014. 

Wonjae Shin is an Associate Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Seoul National University (SNU), South Korea, in 2017. He has been a Visiting Scholar and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, from 2016 to 2018. From 2007 to 2014, he was a Member of the Technical Staff at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., South Korea, where he contributed to next-generation wireless communication networks, especially for 3GPP LTE/LTE-advanced standardizations. Prior to joining Korea University, he was a Faculty Member at Pusan National University, Busan, and Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea. His research interests include the design and analysis of future wireless communication systems, such as interference-limited networks and machine learning for wireless networks.

Dr. Shin was the recipient of the Fred W. Ellersick Prize and the Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the IEEE Communications Society in 2020, the ICTC (International Conference on ICT Convergence) Best Workshop Paper Award in 2022, the Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (J-KICS) Best Paper Award in 2021, the Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award from SNU in 2017, Gold Prize from the IEEE Student Paper Contest (Seoul Section) in 2014, and the Award of the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea in IDIS-Electronic News ICT Paper Contest in 2017. He was a co-recipient of the SAIT Patent Award (2010), Samsung Journal of Innovative Technology Award (2010), Samsung Human Tech Paper Contest (2010), and Samsung CEO Award (2013). He was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS in 2014 and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS in 2019. He was also awarded several fellowships, including the Samsung Fellowship Program in 2014 and the SNU Long-Term Overseas Study Scholarship in 2016. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY.

Peiying Zhu, Senior Vice President of Wireless Research, is a Huawei Fellow, IEEE Fellow and Fellow of Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is currently leading 5G and beyond wireless research and standardization in Huawei. The focus of her research is advanced radio access technologies. She is actively involved in 3GPP and IEEE 802 standards development. She has been regularly giving talks and panel discussions on 5G vision and enabling technologies. She led the team to contribute significantly to 5G technologies.

Prior to joining Huawei in 2009, Peiying was a Nortel Fellow and Director of Advanced Wireless Access Technology in the Nortel Wireless Technology Lab. She led the team and pioneered research and prototyping on MIMO-OFDM and Multi-hop relay. Many of these technologies developed by the team have been adopted into LTE standards and 4G products. Dr. Zhu has more than 200 granted patents.  

Yijie (Lina) Mao is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China. She received the B.Eng. degree from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and the B.Eng. (Hons.) degree from the Queen Mary University of London (London, United Kingdom) in 2014. She received the Ph.D. degree in the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department from the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) in 2018. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) from Oct. 2018 to Jul. 2019 and a postdoctoral research associate with the Communications and Signal Processing Group (CSP), Department of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the Imperial College London (London, United Kingdom) from Aug. 2019 to Jul. 2021. Her research interests include the design of future wireless communications, such as MIMO communication networks, interference management, and rate-splitting multiple access. She has been a Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of many symposia on wireless communication for several leading international IEEE conferences, and she served as a workshop co-chair for 2021 IEEE ICC, 2021 IEEE WCNC, 2020 IEEE ICC and 2020 IEEE PIMRC on the workshops of rate-splitting multiple access. 

Anup Mishra received his B.Tech. (Bachelor of Technology) degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, India in 2016 and M.Sc. degree in Communications and Signal Processing at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, 2018. He was a recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship in 2017. He worked as a Wireless Research and Development Engineer in Qualcomm (2018-2019) and Tejas Networks (2016-17) and, is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Communications and Signal Processing Group, Department of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London. His research interests include wireless communications, rate-splitting multiple access, Massive MIMO, cell-free Massive MIMO and signal processing.