Deniz Gunduz is a Reader (Associate Professor) in information theory and communications within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department at Imperial College London, UK, where he leads the Information Processing and Communications Laboratory (IPC-Lab). He is also an Associate Researcher at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and held visiting positions at University of Padova and Princeton University. Dr. Gunduz is the Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications (Machine Learning and Communications area), and the IEEE JSAC Special Series on Machine Learning in Communications and Networks (Distributed/Federated Learning and Communications area), and also serves as an Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Information Theory Society (2020-21). He is the recipient of the IEEE Communications Society - Communication Theory Technical Committee (CTTC) Early Achievement Award in 2017, a Starting Grant of the European Research Council (ERC) in 2016, IEEE Communications Society Best Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa Region in 2014, Best Paper Award at the 2019 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) and the 2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), and the Best Student Paper Awards at the 2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) and the 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). He was the General Co-chair of the 2019 London Symposium on Information Theory, 2018 International ITG Workshop on Smart Antennas, and 2016 IEEE Information Theory Workshop.

H. Vincent Poor is the Michael Henry Strater University Professor at Princeton University, where his interests include information and signal processing, and their applications in wireless networks, energy systems, and related areas. He is a member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering and U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and also a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society and other national and international academies. Recent recognition of his work includes the 2017 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, the 2019 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, and honorary doctorates from Syracuse University in 2017 and the University of Waterloo in 2019.

Walid Saad (S’07, M’10, SM’15, F’19) received his Ph.D degree from the University of Oslo in 2010. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, where he leads the Network sciEnce, Wireless, and Security (NEWS) laboratory. His research interests include wireless networks, machine learning, game theory, security, unmanned aerial vehicles, cyber-physical systems, and network science. Dr. Saad is a Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER award in 2013 and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) in 2015. He was the author/co-author of eight conference best paper awards at WiOpt in 2009, ICIMP in 2010, IEEE WCNC in 2012, IEEE PIMRC in 2015, IEEE SmartGridComm in 2015, EuCNC in 2017, IEEE GLOBECOM in 2018, and IFIP NTMS in 2019. He is the recipient of the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, of the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional in Academia award, of the 2018 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award, and of the 2019 IEEE ComSoc Communication Theory Technical Committee. From 2015-2017, Dr. Saad was the Stephen O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech and, in 2017, he was named College of Engineering Faculty Fellow. He received the Dean's award for Research Excellence from Virginia Tech in 2019. He currently serves as an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He is an Editor-at-Large for the IEEE Transactions on Communications.