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Mohamed-Slim Alouini (S'94, M'98, SM'03, F'09) was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1998. He served as a faculty member in the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA, then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar, Education City, Doha, Qatar before joining King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Makkah Province, Saudi Arabia as a Professor of Electrical Engineering in 2009. Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a member of the Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited Researchers and of the Elsevier/Shanghai Ranking list of Most Cited Researchers, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a recipient of the Recognition Award of the IEEE ComSoc Wireless Technical Committee in 2016 and a co-recipient of best paper awards in ten IEEE conferences (including ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, PIMRC, and DySPAN). His current research interests include the modeling, design, and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

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Walid Saad (Fellow, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Oslo, in 2010. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 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. He is a Fellow of an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He was a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, in 2013, the AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellowship, in 2014, and the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), in 2015. He was the author/coauthor 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 was a recipient of the 2015 Fred W. Ellersick Prize from the IEEE Communications Society, the 2017 IEEE ComSoc Best Young Professional in Academia Award, and the 2018 IEEE ComSoc Radio Communications Committee Early Achievement Award. From 2015 to 2017, he was named the Stephen O. Lane Junior Faculty Fellow at Virginia Tech and, in 2017, he was named the 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, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY. He is also an Editor-at-Large for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS.

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Nan Chi (M'03) received the B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. From July 2001 to December 2004, she was an Assistant Professor with the Research Center COM, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark. From January 2005 to April 2006, she was a Research Associate with the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. In June 2006, she joined Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, where she was a Full Professor. In June 2008, She was with the School of Information Science and Engineering, Fudan University. She is the author or co-author of more than 200 papers. She has been the Chair of the APOC 2007 OsRT workshop and ACP 2010. She was the Technical Program Committee Member of many conferences such as APOC 08, ICAIT09, ACP 2011, WOCC 2012, ACP 2013, and IWOO 2014. Her research interests include coherent optical transmission, visible light communication, and optical packet/burst switching. She was the recipient of the New Century Excellent Talents Awards from the Education Ministry of China, Shanghai Shu Guang scholarship, Japanese OKAWA intelligence Fund Award, Pujiang talent of Shanghai City, and Ten Outstanding IT Young Persons Awards of Shanghai City.

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Luca Chiaraviglio (SM’16) received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunication and electronics engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy.,He is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of the Networking Group with the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata. He has spent research periods abroad in several international institutions, including Boston University, USA, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand, and ETECSA S.A., Cuba. He is currently the Coordinator of the national project BRIGHT: Bringing 5G Connectivity in Rural and Low-Income Areas. During the last years, he has been involved in different European projects, such as H2020 5G-EVE, H2020 Superfluidity, FP7 Trend, FP7 EcoNet, and FP7 Bone. He has co-authored over 130 publications in international journals, books, and conferences.,Dr. Chiaraviglio was a recipient of the Best Paper Award in different conferences, including IEEE VTC and ICIN. Some of his papers are listed as Best Readings on Green Communications by IEEE. He has been recognized as an author in the top 1% most highly cited papers in the ICT field worldwide. His papers “Optimal Energy Savings in Cellular Access Networks” and “Reducing Power Consumption in Backbone Networks” are the most cited papers from all IEEE ICC conferences and IEEE ICC workshops from 2009 to 2018 (Source: Scopus). He has collaborated with over 200 co-authors. He participates in the TPC of top-leading conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, and IEEE GlobalSIP. He is in the Editorial Board of IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Access, and the IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. He is a Founding Member of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Subcommittee on Green Communications and Computing.

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Hina Tabassum (SM’17) received the Ph.D. degree in communications engineering from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, in 2013. She was a Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, Canada. Her research interests include 5G wireless networks with focus on their stochastic geometry-based performance modeling and optimization, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and machine learning applications. She was a recipient of two gold medals from the NED University of Engineering and Technology (NEDUET) and SIEMENS for securing the first position among all engineering universities of Karachi during her undergraduate studies and the Best Performance Award from Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), in 2009. She is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario, Canada. She has been recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer (Top 2% of all reviewers) by IEEE Transactions on Communications in 2015, 2016, and 2017. She is serving as an Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters and the IEEE Open Journal of Communications Society.