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Bio: Martin Haardt has been a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and Head of the Communications Research Laboratory at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany, since 2001. 

After studying electrical engineering at the  Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and at  Purdue University, USA, he received his Diplom-Ingenieur (M.S.) degree from the  Ruhr-University Bochum in 1991 and his  Doktor-Ingenieur (Ph.D.) degree from Munich University of Technology in 1996.

From 1989 to 1990 he was a visiting scholar at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, sponsored by a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From 1991 to 1993 he worked for  Siemens,  Corporate Research and Development, in Munich, Germany, conducting research in the areas of image processing and biomedical signal processing. From 1993 to 1996 he was a research associate with the  Institute of Circuit Theory and Signal Processing at Munich University of Technology (TUM), Germany, where his research was focused on smart antennas.

In 1997 he joined Siemens Mobile Networks in Munich, Germany, where he was responsible for strategic research for third generation mobile radio systems. From 1998 to 2001 he was the Director for International Projects and University Cooperation in the mobile infrastructure business of Siemens in Munich, Germany, where his work focused on mobile communications beyond the third generation. He was appointed to a think tank of experts within the IST project WSI (Wireless Strategic Initiative). During his time at Siemens, he also taught in the international Master of Science in Communications Engineering program at Munich University of Technology (TUM).

Martin Haardt is a Fellow of the IEEE (2018) and a Fellow of EURASIP (2024) "for contributions to multi-user MIMO communications and tensor-based signal processing."  He has received the  2009 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the  Vodafone (formerly Mannesmann Mobilfunk) Innovations-Award  for outstanding research in mobile communications in 1998, the ITG best paper award from the Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology  (VDE) in 1998, and the Rohde & Schwarz Outstanding  Dissertation Award in 1997. He has participated in the European research projects FRAMES, WSI, WINNER, SAPHYRE, and EMPhAtiC as well as in the European Network of Excellence NEWCOM.

His doctoral students have won several international and national recognitions for their doctoral dissertations, e.g., the EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing) Best Ph.D. Thesis Award for Florian Roemer in 2016, the ITG Best Doctoral Thesis Award from the Association of Electrical Engineering, Electronics, and Information Technology (VDE) for Jens Steinwandt in 2019, the Dr. Wilhelmy-VDE-Award for an outstanding dissertation in electrical engineering (for female doctoral students) for Liana Khamidullina in 2024, and five times the best doctoral thesis award at TU Ilmenau.

In the fall of 2006 and the fall of 2007, he was a visiting professor at the University of Nice in Sophia-Antipolis, France, and at the University of York, UK, respectively. From 2012 to 2017, he also served as an Honorary Visiting Professor in the Department of Electronics at the University of York, UK, and in 2019 as an Invited Professor at the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France.

His research interests include wireless communications, array signal processing, high-resolution parameter estimation, as well as tensor-based signal processing. These tensor-based algorithms have applications in many inter-disciplinary areas such as wireless communications, array signal processing, biomedical signal processing, image processing, and data science.

Prof. Haardt has served as an Associate Editor for the  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2002 - 2006 and 2011 - 2015), the  IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2006 - 2010), the Research Letters in Signal Processing (2007 - 2009), the  Hindawi Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (since 2009), the  EURASIP Signal Processing Journal (2011 - 2014), as a senior editor for the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (J-STSP, since 2019) and as a guest editor for the EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking as well as the IEEE J-STSP. Moreover, Prof. Haardt has been instrumental in establishing and coordinating the international  Master of Science in Communications and Signal Processing program at TU Ilmenau since 2009. Since 2024, he has also coordinated the new dual-degree Master of Science in CSP program with the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, within the Franco-German University.

From 2011 to 2019 he was an elected member of the  Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, where he served as the Vice Chair (2015 – 2016), Chair (2017 – 2018), and Past Chair (2019). Since 2020, he has been an elected member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Since 2023, he also serves as an elected member of the Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Area Committee (TAC) of EURASIP (European Association for Signal Processing). Furthermore, he has served on the Awards Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2009 - 2010), the Fellow Evaluation Committee (FEC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2024), and as the counsellor of the IEEE Student Branch at Technische Universität Ilmenau (since 2008).

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Bio: Dr. Yimin D. Zhang graduated from the Northwest Telecommunications Engineering Institute (now Xidian University), Xi'an, China, in 1982, and received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 1985 and 1988, respectively.

Dr. Zhang joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, in August 2015, where he is a Professor and the director of the Advanced Signal Processing (ASP) Lab. He joined the faculty of the Department of Radio Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 1988. From 1995 to 1997, he was a Senior Technical Manager at the Communications Laboratory Japan, Kawasaki, Japan. From 1997 to 1998 he was a Researcher at the ATR Adaptive Communications Research Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan. From 1998 to 2015, he was with the Villanova University, Villanova, PA, where he was a Research Professor at the Center for Advanced Communications and directed the Wireless Communications and Positioning Lab and the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Lab.

Dr. Zhang's research interests are in the areas of statistical signal and array processing, compressive sensing, machine learning, information theory, convex optimization, computational imaging, and time-frequency analysis, applied to radar, wireless communications, satellite navigation, and radio astronomy. His publications include one edited book Information-Theoretic Radar Signal Processing, 140+ journal papers, 18 book chapters, and 300+ peer-reviewed conference papers. He holds a US patent and a Japanese patent.

Dr. Zhang is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee, and a past member of the Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee. He is a member of EURASIP Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Area Committee. He was a founding member of the Integrated Sensing and Communication Emerging Technology Initiative of the IEEE Communications Society and an inaugural member of the IEEE Integrated Sensing and Communication Technical Working Group of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and an Editor for the Signal Processing (Elsevier) journal. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Journal of the Franklin Institute. He serves in a number of Technical Committees and Technical Program Committees for international conferences. He was a Technical Co-Chair of the 2018 IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (SAM) Workshop, a Technical Area Chair (Array Processing and Multisensor Systems) of the 2019 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, and a Track Co-Chair (Radar Detection and Estimation Theory) of the 2020 IEEE Radar Conference. Dr. Zhang is selected as an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguisher Lecturer serving for the term from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025.

Dr. Zhang is a Principal Investigator and a Co-Principal Investigator of more than $7M grants and contracts from National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Office of Naval Research (ONR), and the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). His publications received the 2018 and 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Young Author Best Paper Awards, the 2016 IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Premium Award, the 2017 IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Mimno Award, the 2019 IET Communications Premium Award, and the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award for Signal Processing.