Ashok Jhunjhunwala is an Indian academic and innovator. He received his B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology,Kanpur and PhD from the University of Maine. He has been a faculty member at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras since 1981. He is the President of IIT Madras Research Park and Chairman of International Institute of Information Technology,Hyderabad. During his career,he has contributed extensively to technology innovation and adoption in the Indian context.
Arogyaswami J. Paulraj is an Indian-American electrical engineer,academic. He is a Professor Emeritus (Research) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology is a Private university research university located in Thuwal,Saudi Arabia. Founded in 2009,the university provides research and graduate training programs in English as the official language of instruction. It is named after King Abdullah bin Abdulalziz,the ruler of Saudi Arabia from 2005 until 2015.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and formerly the Founding Provost and Executive Vice President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and R. Jamieson and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
David E. Keyes is a Senior Associate to the President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and the Director of the Extreme Computing Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He was the inaugural Dean of the Division of Computer,Electrical,and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) at KAUST and remains an adjunct professor in Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics at Columbia University and an affiliate of several laboratories of the U.S. Department of Energy. With backgrounds in engineering,applied mathematics,and computer science,he works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations,across a spectrum of aerodynamic,geophysical,and chemically reacting flows.
The IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award is a Technical Field Award established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2001. It is an institute level award,not a society level award. It is presented for outstanding early to mid-career contributions to technologies holding the promise of innovative applications. The prize is sponsored by Dr. Kiyo Tomiyasu,the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society,and the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT).
V Ramgopal Rao is an Indian Academic serving as the Vice Chancellor of Birla Institute of Technology and Science,Pilani from February 2023 onwards. He was previously the director of IIT,Delhi for six years during 2016-2021.
Theodore (Ted) Scott Rappaport is an American electrical engineer and the David Lee/Ernst Weber Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University Tandon School of Engineering and founding director of NYU WIRELESS.
Elza Erkip is a Turkish-American electrical and computer engineer,professor and wireless technology researcher at New York University.
Robert W. Heath Jr. is an American electrical engineer,researcher,educator,wireless technology expert,and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California,San Diego. He is also the president and CEO of MIMO Wireless Inc. He was the founding director of the Situation Aware Vehicular Engineering Systems initiative.
Mérouane Debbah is a researcher,educator and technology entrepreneur. He has founded several public and industrial research centers,start-ups and held executive positions in ICT companies. He is professor at Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi,United Arab Emirates and founding director of the Khalifa University 6G Research Center. His research has been at the interface of fundamental mathematics,algorithms,statistics,information and communication sciences with a special focus on random matrix theory and learning algorithms. In the communication field,he has been at the heart of the development of small cells (4G),massive MIMO (5G) and large intelligent surfaces (6G) technologies. In the AI field,he is known for his work on large language models,distributed AI systems for networks and semantic communications. He received more than 40 IEEE best-paper awards for his contributions to both fields and according to research.com is ranked as the best scientist in France in the field of electronics and electrical engineering.
Ranjan Kumar Mallik is an Indian electrical and communications engineer and a professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Indian Institute of Technology,Delhi. He held the Jai Gupta Chair at IIT Delhi from 2007 to 2012 and the Brigadier Bhopinder Singh Chair from 2012 to 2017. He is known for his researches on multiple-input multi-output systems and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. Indian Academy of Sciences,Indian National Science Academy,and The National Academy of Sciences,India. He is also an elected fellow of The World Academy of Sciences,Indian National Academy of Engineering,and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,Inc.
Raouf Boutaba is an Algerian Canadian computer scientist. His research interests are in resource,network and service management in wired and wireless networked systems. His work focuses on network virtualization,network softwarization,cloud computing,and network security.
Yihong Qi is an engineer,professor,entrepreneur,and inventor. His work focuses on networking science and technology. Qi is currently an adjunct professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology. He is a Fellow of The Canadian Academy of Engineering and of the National Academy of Inventors. Qi's research has led to the founding of five independent companies.
Giuseppe Caire is an Italian telecommunications engineer.
Dinh Thuy Phan Huy,is a research engineer specializing in wireless networks. Her specific research interests include wireless communications and beamforming,spatial modulation,predictor antenna,backscattering and intelligent reflecting surfaces.
Bilal Akin is an electrical engineer and faculty member of The University of Texas at Dallas. He is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and is a fellow of the IEEE.
Boon S. Ooi is a Malaysian–American academic researcher and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. He was faculty member at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) from 1996 to 2000 and at Lehigh University from 2003 to 2009. He served as Director of KACST-Technology Innovation Center at KAUST from 2012 to 2020.
Khaled B. Letaief is an academic who is the New Bright Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor at the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST),Hong Kong. His research lies in the general area of wireless communications and networks,with research interests in AI and machine learning,mobile cloud and edge computing,tactile internet,and 6G systems. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2003,and an international member of the United States National Academy of Engineering (NAE) since 2021.
