Geoffrey Ye Li has been a Chair Professor at Imperial College London since 2020. Before moving to Imperial, he was with Georgia Institute of Technology as a Professor for 20 years and with AT&T Labs - Research in New Jersey, USA, as a Principal Technical Staff Member for five years. His general research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning for wireless communications. In these areas, he has published over 600 referred journal and conference papers in addition to over 40 granted patents. His publications have been cited over 50,000 times with H-index of over 100 and he has been listed as the World's Most Influential Scientific Mind, also known as a Highly-Cited Researcher, by Thomson Reuters almost every year since 2001. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2006 and an IET Fellow since 2021. He received several prestigious awards from IEEE Communications Society, IEEE VTS, and IEEE SPS, including 2019 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award.

Rodrigo Martins, of Portuguese nationality, was born in Nova Lisboa, Angola. He got in 1974 the Honours degree in Electronics Engineering, Telecommunications and applied Electronics by U. Luanda, Angola/ PT. In 1977 he got the MSc degree in Semiconductor Materials, by the University of Dundee, Scotland. Thesis title: "Photoconductivity in P Doped and Undoped Amorphous Germanium." Supervisor W. Spear, 1977 Euro physicist award. In 1982, the Ph.D. in Energy conversion and Semiconductors, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis title: "a-Si:H solar cells processing and characterization". In 1988 he got the Habitation in Semiconductor Materials and Microelectronics, by New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Lesson title: "Density of states in disordered semiconductors". Full Professor at FCT-NOVA since 2002 in the area of Materials Engineering, speciality Materials for Energy, Microelectronics, and Nanotechnologies.

Joao Gama is a Full Professor at the School of Economics, University of Porto, Portugal. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Porto in 2000. He is a EurIA Fellow, IEEE Fellow, and member of the board of directors of the LIAAD, a group belonging to INESC Porto. His h-index at Google Scholar is 58. He is an Editor of several top-level Machine Learning and Data Mining journals. He has been ACM Distinguish Speaker. He served as Program Chair of ECMLPKDD 2005, DS09, ADMA09, EPIA 2017, DSAA 2017, served as Conference Chair of IDA 2011, ECMLPKDD 2015, DSAA'2021, and a series of Workshops on KDDS and Knowledge Discovery from Sensor Data with ACM SIGKDD. His main research interests are in knowledge discovery from data streams, evolving data, probabilistic reasoning, and causality. He published more than 300 reviewed papers in journals and major conferences. He has an extensive list of publications in data stream learning.

Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks Professor in the Holcombe Dept. of Electrical and Comp. Eng. and Automotive Eng. at Clemson University (CU). He is also the Executive Director of the Electrification of Transportation minority program. With proven success in operations, project/program leadership, R&D, product/process commercialization, and start-ups, he is a leading technologist. He is a fellow of IEEE, SPIE, ASM, and AAAS. Dr. Singh has received a number of international awards. In 2014, he was honored by US President Barack Obama as a White House "Champion of Change for Solar Deployment" for his leadership in advancing solar energy with photovoltaic technology. In 2019, he received the Hind Rattan (Jewel of India) Award presented by Bibek Debroy, chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Erich Gornik received his Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1972. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, USA, from 1975 to1977. In 1979, he has been appointed Professor for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck. In 1988, he became Professor for Semiconductor Physics and Director at the Walter Schottky Institute of the Technical University Munich. From 1993 until 2012, he was Full Professor for Semiconductor Electronics and Director of the Micro-and Nanostructure Center (ZMNS) at the Technical University of Vienna and since then he is emeritus Professor. From 2003 to 2008 he was managing director of the Austrian Research Centers. He has spent several Research Professorships at numerous international research institutions and has received various awards; among others, he is Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1995. In 1997 he received the "Wittgenstein Preis" of the Austrian Government and in 2000 the "Erwin Schrodinger Preis" of the Austrian Academy of Science. He has supervised more than 150 Master and PhD students. Further achievements are 540-refereed publications, 90 invited and plenary lectures at international conferences.

Yang Yue received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and optics from Nankai University, China, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California, USA, in 2012. He is a Professor with the School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China. Dr. Yue's current research interest is intelligent photonics, including optical communications, optical perception, and optical chip. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal papers (including Science) and conference proceedings with >9,000 citations, five edited books, two book chapters, >50 issued or pending patents, >170 invited presentations (including 1 tutorial, >20 plenary and >30 keynote talks). Dr. Yue is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE). He is an Associate Editor for IEEE Access, and an Editor Board Member for three other scientific journals. He also served as Guest Editor for ten journal special issues, Chair or Committee Member for >80 international conferences, Reviewer for >60 prestigious journals.

Mikael Ostling received his MSc and the PhD degrees from Uppsala University, Sweden. He holds a position as professor in solid state electronics at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is the deputy president of KTH since 2017. He was the dean of the School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH, between 2004-12. Ostling was a senior visiting Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, and a visiting professor with the University of Florida, Gainesville. In 2005 he co-founded the company TranSiC, acquired in full by Fairchild Semiconductor 2011. He was awarded the first ERC grant for advanced investigators. His research interests are nanoscaled Si and Ge device technologies and emerging 2D materials, as well as device technology for wide bandgap semiconductors for high power / high temperature applications. He has supervised 47 PhD theses work and co-authored 500+ scientific papers published in international journals and conferences. Mikael Ostling was an editor of the IEEE Electron Device Letters 2005-2014 and appointed vice president of EDS 2014-15. He was editor in chief of the IEEE J-EDS 2016-19. Ostling is a Fellow of the IEEE.

David J. Moss is the Director of the Optical Sciences Centre at the Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, since 2016. He was with RMIT University in Melbourne, 2014-16, the University of Sydney 2004 - 14, and was a senior manager and scientist with JDS Uniphase in Ottawa Canada from 1998-2003. From 1994-98 he was a Senior Research Fellow with the Optical Fiber Technology Centre at Sydney University prior to which he was a visiting Scientist with Hitachi Central Research Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan,1992-94. From 1988-92 was with the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in Physics and BSc from the University of Waterloo. He won the 2011 Australian Museum Eureka Science Prize and Google Australia Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Photonics Society, the OSA (now the Optica Society), and the SPIE (International Photonics Society). His research interests include optical micro combs, integrated nonlinear optics, quantum optics, microwave photonics, optical neural networks, optical networks and transmission, 2D materials including graphene oxide for nonlinear optics, optical signal processing, nanophotonics, biomedical photonics for cancer diagnosis and therapy, and other areas.

Vasudevan Pillai Biju studied chemistry at CSIR-RRL and the University of Kerala and obtained his PhD in 2000. After postdoctoral research in Japan and the USA, he was a scientist in AIST, Japan. In parallel, he was a visiting scientist at the University of Texas at Austin and a JST PRESTO Researcher. Since February 2016, he has been a Professor at Hokkaido University. His research interests include semiconductor quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gennai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association and the Chemical Society of Japan. Since 2011 he has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Dr. Daoud is Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the University of Technology Graz, Austria, with a Dipl-Ing degree (BS and MS) in Chemical Engineering and received his PhD in flexible bilayer photovoltaic cells from the University of Sheffield, UK. Dr Daoud's current research is mainly focused on the areas of energy harvesting and smart wearable technologies. His group is developing approaches for harvesting free or waste energy, such as light and kinetic energies. Being intermittent sources, it is equally important to find storage solutions for this form of energy. Therefore, the group is interested in the modelling and design of compatible flow batteries. He has received international renown and several awards for his pioneering research on wearable solar and kinetic energy harvesting technologies. His research has featured in Nature (2004) and Science (2008) and broadcasted through interviews by major international media, such as Reuters (2014), BBC (2015) and SCMP (2017). He has been invited to present Plenary and Keynote lectures at international conferences and is currently serving as the Chief Editor of Wearable Electronics, Frontiers in Electronics and Editorial Board member of the Journal of Power Sources Advances.

Prof. Ivan Ganchev is an IEEE Senior Member, a URSI Senior Member, an ITU-T Invited Expert, and an IET Invited Lecturer. He was involved in 40+ international and national research projects. Prof. Ganchev has served on the Technical Program Committee of 350+ prestigious international conferences, symposia, and workshops. He has (co)authored 1 monographic book, 3 textbooks, 4 edited books, and 300+ research papers in refereed international journals, books, and conference proceedings. Prof. Ganchev is an Area Editor of the Elsevier Computer Networks, an Editorial Board Member of the Hindawi Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, MDPI Electronics, MDPI Mathematics, and Wiley Internet Technology Letters, and a Regional Editor (Europe) of the International Journal on Trust Management in Computing and Communications. He also seats on the Editorial Board of and has served as a Guest Editor for multiple other international journals

Prof Yao Chun Shen received his PhD degree from Nanjing University in 1992. After that he held various positions at Southeast University (China), Heidelberg University (Germany), Heriot-Watt University (UK), Cambridge University (UK) and TeraView Ltd (UK). Currently he is a Chair Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, the University of Liverpool, UK. Professor Shen has many year's experiences in the development and application of novel cross-sectional imaging technologies based on terahertz imaging and optical coherence tomography. He has been awarded 7 patents and published 5 book chapters and over 200 conference & journal papers with over 7216 citations and an h-index of 46 (Google Scholar). His current research interests include the development of innovative THz and optical imaging technologies with a focus on the exploitation of their practical real-world applications in industry and healthcare.

Yong-Ling Ban obtained bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees in school of Mathematics of Shandong University, School of information science and technology of Peking University and School of electronic engineering of University of Electronic Science and technology of China (UESTC), in June 2000, June 2003 and June 2006 respectively. From July 2006 to November 2006, he worked as a microwave antenna engineer in the No.212 Research Institute of China Ordnance Industry Group. From January 2007 to August 2010, he worked as a terminal antenna RF Engineer in Huawei Terminal Co., Ltd., engaged in the research and development of 3G/4G terminal antennas. In September 2010, he joined UESTC as an associate professor and was promoted to Professor in 2016. In 2020, he was selected into UESTC's 100 Talents Program and also selected into Elsevier 2020 Most Cited Chinese Researchers. From May 2014 to April 2015, he visited Queen Mary University of London as a scholar visitor. The current research fields are 5G/6G microwave/millimetre wave antenna and array, phased meta surface antenna array, lens antenna. Since 2012, he has published more than 100 SCI journal papers, including 5 ESI highly cited papers. He has won two second prizes at the provincial and ministerial level.

Dr. Wenlong Ming (WM) has been a Senior Lecturer of Power Electronics at Cardiff University since August 2020. He was awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sheffield in March 2016 and was funded by EPSRC as an exchange scholar to visit the Centre for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) in Virginia Tech USA, for four months in 2012. He conducts fundamental and applied research into future electronic circuits and systems. A paradigm shift of semiconductor technology from silicon to compound semiconductors (CS) brings an exciting opportunity to significantly improve the efficiency, reliability, and power density of such electronic circuits and systems and to enable new applications that silicon cannot support. The high-level objective of his research is to investigate how to solve research and innovation challenges behind this paradigm shift through the seamless and holistic integration of control, power electronics, radio-frequency electronics, semiconductor physics, and materials.

Omkalthoum Hamed, of Sudanese nationality and living in UAE since 1993. She is an Engineer and Educator since 2002. She got the BSc degree and MSc degree in Electrical Engineering from UAE University, Al Ain, UAE with Academic Distinction in 2002 and 2011 respectively. She was working as Academic Assistant in the period from 2002 to 2011 in UAE University, UAE. She immediately joined Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi, UAE as a Lab Engineer in Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2011. Her main research specialization is Cognitive Radio. She has some publications in cognitive radio and Spectrum Sensing techniques Area. Her Theses title is "Opportunistic Spectrum Access Networks". She is involved in projects and Lab Experiments in areas of Engineering Design, Computer programming, Computer Networks and Embedded Systems. She volunteers as an Expert in Mobile Applications Competitions in Emirates Skills, UAE for 4 years. She is a member in IEEE since 2008.

Over twelve years of progressive experience in Digital Signal Processing, Algorithms Architectures and Explorations, Digital Filtering, Audio and Speech Processing, Low-Power and Real-Time Systems, Communication Systems, Image Processing, Parallel Processing and Massively Parallel Processing environment, Blind Equalization, Time-frequency Analysis, Array Signal Processing, Parallel Computing and project management. Detailed work has included experience with methods of signal processing including Fourier analysis (FFT, IFFT, DFT, Z-Transform), advanced digital and analog filtering, linear de-convolution, and buried signal extraction. Software work has included embedded-processor Fast Fourier Transform and interpolation software for the FMCW radar, Airborne CFAR radar, off-line FFT processing software for test signals downloaded from the FMCW radar and Airborne CFAR radar. Detailed work has included experience with methods of signal processing in vibration analysis for machines fault detection.

Shaohua Zhou (Student Member, IEEE) received the B.S. degree in microelectronics from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in microelectronics and solid-state electronics with Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. His research interests include microwave circuit design and modeling, performance degradations of RF circuits, terahertz detector, and modeling of interconnects.

Dr. Xingwen Liuisa professor in the School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Minzu University. He is also an adjunct professor at Hunan University and the University of Electronic Science & Technology of China. His research interest includes complex systems, robust control, and game theory. He obtained support from several talent programs: New Century Excellent Talent Program of Ministry of Education of China, Leading Talent Plan of China National Civil Commission, and Sichuan Youth Science &Technology Prominent Talent. He is the leader of Sichuan Youth Science & Technology Innovation Research Team and China National Civil Commission Innovation Research Team.

Ran Gao received the Ph.D. degree in electronic science and technology from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology. His research interests include fibre optical sensors, optical waveguide, and measurement instruments.

Associate Professor Xinsheng Wang was born in 1978. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Dalian University of Technology in 2003, his Master of Science degree from the Dalian University of Technology in 2006, and his doctorate from Harbin Institute of Technology in 2014. He is currently working at the School of Information Science and Engineering, Weihai Campus, Harbin Institute of Technology. Currently, his group focuses on AI chip design, VLSI circuit design based on RISC-V and high precision Analog Digital Converter design, etc.

Dr. Milad Dehghani Filabadi is a researcher in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University. Previously, he was a researcher at the University of Waterloo, Canada, specializing in robust optimization and uncertainty modeling with applications in power systems. He has worked on the theory of uncertainty modeling and proposed a new paradigm which has been awarded as one of the top 3 finalists in 2019 Best Student Paper Competition by Canadian Operational Research Society. The application of his theoretical research has been and is being demonstrated in several papers published by Milad and other researchers. Milad was also the recipient of Bonder Doctoral Fellowship during his Ph.D. studies.

Rongbo Wu received the B.S. degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics from University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China in 2017 and the Ph.D. degree in Optics from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, CAS, Shanghai, China, in 2022. He is currently a post doctor with the School of Physics and Electronic Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research interests include femtosecond laser micromachining, lithium niobate photonics integrated circuits and microwave photonics.

Ohood Saud Althobaiti (Graduate Student Member, IEEE) received the master's degree (Hons.) in computer science from the College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, in 2012. She received ABoLT Diploma, Scholarly teaching and learning in computing and engineering, (Sep 14 2013- May 14 2014), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden. She is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree (2017 - 2022) with the Centre for Telecommunications Research, Department of Engineering, King's College London, London, U.K. She is a Lecturer in the Computer Science Department, College of Computers and Information Technology, Taif University, Saudi Arabia. She has published articles in top peer-reviewed journals. She has received invitations to act as a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Access and the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and as an invited speaker at some international conferences to share and present her research findings. Her research interests include cybersecurity, quantum computing, computer networks, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence (AI), with a special focus on cybersecurity in the Internet of Things (IoT). She was awarded the Reward Scientific Publishing in ISI journals, the First-Class Honour Award from Taif University, in 2008, and the Scholarship for her Ph.D. degree.

Dr. Anil Kumar is currently working as Associate Professor at the College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, China. He works in the area of condition monitoring. His research area is defect identification/measurement, defect prognosis, machine Learning. He is the author/co-author of 31 SCI papers. He has been Guest Editor of SCI journals such as Measurement, Applied Acoustics, Shock and Vibration, Energy, and Mathematical Problems in Engineering.

Visiting scholar at the University of Leuven in Belgium and visiting professor at the University of Changwon in Korea. In recent years, he has presided over four National Natural Science Fund projects, two major national science and technology projects, one national support plan, one863 Project, one provincial fund, one international cooperation project, and more than 40 other school-enterprise cooperation projects. He has published more than 200 papers of the first author in the important academic journals at home and abroad, among which 170 papers are included in Sci/ei. There are 45 patents for invention and 38 patents for utility model.

He obtained the national engineering degree from the University of Monastir- Tunisia in 2015. In 2019 he got his PhD degree at the University of Tunis EL Manar. Between 2015 and 2019 he held teaching positions at the University of Carthage, in parallel with his position as Project Manager at LEONI WS-Tunisia. Currently, in PostDoct at Sorbonne University- Paris since 2019. His research work focuses mainly on power electronics and analog electronics by developing control algorithms for multilevel inverters and hardware structures of energy converters.

Emanuel Carlos received from NOVA School of Science and Technology his Ph.D. degree in Nanotechnologies and Nanosciences in 2021. He has been working in solution-based metal oxide electronics since 2015, focusing on sustainable materials and technologies. Currently, his work involves the design, deposition, and characterization of solution-based metal oxide thin films, fabrication, and characterization of electronic devices (transistors, memristors, diodes). He published more than 16 peer-reviewed papers (h-index=10, 548 citations) in high-impact journals and 2 book chapters in this area. He has won several poster awards at prestigious conferences, and recently he won his first national project (Supreme-IT) as Co-PI and the 1st prize on the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge based on his Ph.D. thesis.

Dr. Dilbag Singh has received the Ph.D. degree in the field of Computer Science and Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, India in 2019. He has worked as an assistant professor in three well-known universities of India, i.e., Chandigarh University, Manipal University Jaipur, and Bennett University. His research area includes image processing, computer vision, deep learning, metaheuristic techniques, information security, etc. He has published more than 70 research papers in SCI/SCIE indexed journals. He has also submitted 5 patents, published 3 books, and 2 book chapters. His H-index is 29. He has also acted as a lead guest editor/editorial board member of many SCI/SCIE indexed journals such as Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, etc. He was in the top 2% list issues by "World Ranking of Top 2% Scientists" in 2021. He was part of the 11 Web of Science/Scopus indexed conferences.

Dr. Llamas-Garro is an expert in the field of device engineering and implementation from design to fabrication and testing, applied to wireless communications and sensors, including RF and microwave circuits, reconfigurable designs using micro-electromechanical systems and semiconductor diode-based components. Micro machined devices, 3D printing of microwave passive components, inkjet printing of planar circuits and sensors, and micro/Nano fabricated optical sensors for the detection of hazardous liquids and gases.

SAROSH AHMAD (Student Member, IEEE) completed his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Telecommunication with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology, Government College University Faisalabad (GCUF), Pakistan in 2021. Now, he is pursuing his Masters Studies in Advanced Communication Technology with the Department of Signal Theory and Communications at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Madrid, Spain. During his graduation, he received a fully funded PEEF Scholarship award from the prime minister of Pakistan as well as received a Silver Medal in his bachelor's degree program. During his volunteer ship, he contributed himself as a branch treasurer at IEEE GCUF, Faisalabad subsection for 2 years. He is also a member of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (APS). After graduation, he again received a fully funded Erasmus Grant Scholarship for his Master's Program in Madrid, Spain. During his graduation research period, he has participated in 4 international IEEE conferences over the world, where he has presented 10 articles mostly in oral presentations. He has presented his two articles at the International Turkish Conferences where he has got the best paper award and his one article in International Moroccan Conference Proceedings. He has published 10 conference articles, 5 high indexed international journals, and 4 book chapters by Springer. His research interests include radio-frequency (RF) circuit design, radio-frequency identification (RFID), signals and systems, wearable and flexible antennas, metamaterial-based antennas, implantable antennas, multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) antennas, mm-wave antennas, 5G antennas, antenna arrays, dielectric resonator antennas (DRAs), photonic antennas, fluidic antennas, antenna for the internet of things applications, ultra-wideband (UWB) antennas, wideband antennas, reconfigurable antennas, substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antennas, circularly polarized antennas, terahertz antennas, rectennas for energy harvesting applications, bandpass filters, half & full-wave filter antennas, active sensors, and IoT-based communication devices.

Fernando E. Serrano received his BEng from the Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana (UNITEC) in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in 2003 and M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University in Miami, FL, the USA in 2007. He is an author of some publications and presentations in journals, book chapters, and conferences and he is actually collaborating as a researcher with professors from Egypt, Spain, Honduras, India, Saudi Arabia, El Salvador, Mexico among others. His research field is the control of complex systems.

Lazhar Manai is an Associated Professor, received his HDR University accreditation, the PhD degree and the Advanced studies diploma in electrical systems in 2020, 2008 and 2003 respectively from the National Engineering School of Tunis. He held the position of director of studies and internships for the period 2016 to 2020, and currently he is the director of the Higher Institute of Information and Communication Technologies. Doctor Lazhar has many years of experience in the power electronics area, precisely in multilevel inverters control and its applications, active power filter, optimization algorithms for harmonics elimination and Machine Learning algorithm for Real time power converters control.

Raoult Teukam Dabou (Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in Computer Science, Electronic and Automation from Ngaoundere University, Cameroon, in 2012 and obtained his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering at Laval University, Canada, in 2022. His research interests power dynamic stability include and intelligent control in control and power systems. Doctor Raoult Teukam Dabou has many years experience in the development of machine learning and dictionary learning algorithms on MATLAB and Python for the supervised power systems.

MOHAMED K. ELMEZUGHI was born in Tripoli, Libya, in 1995. He received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (Hons.) from the University of Tripoli, Libya, in 2017. He received a master's degree in Electronic Engineering (Cum Laude) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Durban, South Africa, in 2020. Currently, he is working on a Ph.D. degree at the UKZN. The focus of his Ph.D. research is on Millimetre-Wave channel modelling for 5G mobile communication systems and beyond. He contributed to the body of knowledge by publishing several research papers in international journals and conferences and preparing lecture notes for undergraduate students. His research interests include artificial intelligence, millimetre-wave systems, wireless channel modelling, signal detection, antennas design, radio propagation, and channel parameters estimation.

Mohamed Saeed Darweesh (M'17, SM'20) received the Master's and Ph.D. degrees (with honors) in Wireless Communications Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) program at Nile University. He is a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at Zewail City (ZC) of Science and Technology. Also, he is a former Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology. Dr. Saeed has a research stay at Zewail City (ZC) of Science and Technology, American University in Cairo (AUC), Faculty of Engineering, and National Institute of Laser Enhanced Sciences, Cairo University. Dr. Saeed is the IEEE Egypt Young Professionals Chairman. Also, Dr. Saeed is a Senior Member of the IEEE and has served on the technical program committees of major IEEE conferences. Dr. Saeed is actively serving as a reviewer in several journals and conference publications including IEEE conferences and journals. He has a solid technical background with a strong interest in machine learning and artificial intelligence. His research interests focus on Wireless Communications, Self-Driving Car, Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) Systems, Narrow-Band IoT (NB-IoT), Biomedical Engineering (EEG Seizure Detection, Sleepiness Detection using EEG, Breast Cancer Classification, and Skin Cancer Prediction), Optimization Techniques, and Data Compression. He has authored/co-authored over 50 papers in international journals and conferences. He supervises 10 Master's students and 2 Ph.D. students. He received many research grants as Principal Investigator (PI), Co-PI, or Consultant from different national/international organizations. Also, he is a Research Associate in several research projects funded by different agencies like the Science and Technology Development Fund (STDF), National Telecom Regularity Authority (NTRA), Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), and Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT). He supervised over 40 graduation projects. His h-index is 9. Dr. Saeed is the former head of the Electrical Power and Machines department and the former manager of the information technology department at the Institute of Aviation Engineering and Technology. Dr. Saeed also worked and trained in many telecom operators and suppliers like (MobiNil, Alcatel. Lucent, and Geniprocess) and has a strong background in computer networks and security.

Ahmed A. Zaki Diab received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Power and Machines Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Minia, Egypt, in 2006 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Faculty of Mechatronics and Automation, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia, in 2015.He awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Electric Power Systems Department, Moscow Power Engineering Institute‎(MPEI), National Research University, ‎Moscow, Russian 2017/2018‎. He also awarded a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow ‎with the Green Power Electronics Circuits Laboratory, ‎Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan in 2019.‎Currently,Ahmed A. Zaki Diab is a Distinguished Associate Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, Egypt from Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities, Egypt‎. He received an Associate ‎ Professor Award for Scientific Excellence, Egyptian Supreme Council of Universities, Egypt, in February2020. He has published 5 books and book chapters and he has authored or co-authored more than 70 refereed journal articles and conference papers. He has supervised 8 of M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Access. His current research interests include renewable energy, smart grids, machine drives, power quality and heuristic optimization techniques.

Dr. Mrinal Bachute is Associate Professor and Industry Liaison Officer at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Pune, India. She has a master's degree in digital electronics and a Ph.D. in Study and Analysis of Adaptive Filters for Speech Enhancement Applications. She has teaching experience of 21 years and has guided many graduate & Post Graduate students for their projects. Her areas of specialization are Digital Signal Processing and Adaptive Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning. She has presented her work at many international workshops and conferences. Her research papers have been published in reputed Journals and conferences at National and International levels. She was one of the invited speakers at the seminar on "Artificial Intelligence Awareness Among Engineers and Students" jointly organized by IET-UK and Chartered Engineers Pacific (CEP) on January 18, 2020, at Langara College, Vancouver, Canada. She had also given a presentation on the "Role of Artificial Intelligence and Smart cities" to the engineers and technologists at ZE Power Engineering (a leading engineering services provider to BC Hydro) Richmond BC, Canada on January 17, 2020. She has also conducted a webinar on Artificial Intelligence for IET - Trinidad, and Tobago network in January 2021. She is actively associated with IETE, IE(I), IET, and other professional institutions. She has published her research work in reputed journals.

Dr. Gopi Ram (Member, IEEE, and IETE) was born in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh, India, in 1985. He passed B. E. Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, from Government Engineering College, Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, India in the year 2007. He received M. Tech and Ph. D degrees from National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, West Bengal, India in 2011 and 2016. He received the scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD), Government of India for the period 2009-2011 (M. Tech) and 2012-2016 (PhD). He joined NIT Warangal in April 2018 as Assistant Professor in the ECE department. His research interests include Antenna and Antenna Arrays Design; Analysis and Synthesis of Radiation pattern; Time-Modulated Antenna Array Structures; Design of antennas for Wireless Power Transfer; DOA Estimation and Beamforming; Frequency Diverse Array Antenna; Retrodirective Antennas; MIMO Antennas; 5G/6G Antennas; Wideband Antennas; Evolutionary Optimization Techniques; Soft Computing; Advanced Optimization /Soft Computing Techniques. He has published more than 70 research papers in peer-reviewed International Journals and Conferences. He has been an associated IEEE member actively since 2013 (9 Years of active membership). Currently, he is disseminating his research ideas through IEEE MTT SBC as a faculty advisor. He has made the most significant contribution in the fields of antenna and propagation, especially in recent and cutting-edge topic time modulated antenna arrays. He successfully completed one funded project sponsored by MHRD India from 2018-2020. His contributions reflect in the form of publication as he has published more than 36 Journal papers, 03 book chapters, more than 30 conferences (including more than 20 conferences in IEEE) in the last 5 years. His publications include journals of repute like IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE Access, IEEE Microwave Magazine, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications, International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies, International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering, International Journal of Numerical Modelling: Electronic Networks, Devices and Fields, Telecommunication System, IETE Technical Review, Ann. Telecomm., International Journal of Electronics and Communications, etc. He is guiding/ guided 5 PhD, 5 M. Tech, and 22 Undergraduate and 10 internship students in very recent and cutting edge technologies which may lead to significant development to the scientific community. He has received various 4 travel grants for disseminating his research work through the conference in India as well as abroad. He has also given 16 FDP lectures at various universities, Colleges, Forum, Colloquium, etc. He also has organized various FDPs and trained various participants from various universities, colleges, industries across the country. He has also received various Fellowship grants at various levels of research. He is currently serving as a reviewer at various reputed journals like IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IET Microwaves antennas & Propagation, Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Electronics Letters, IEEE Access, IEEE Communications Magazine, Reviewer of Physical Communication, etc.

Dr. Praveen Malik is a Professor in the School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. He received his Ph.D. in with a specialization in Wireless Communication and Antenna Design. He has authored or coauthored more than 50 technical research papers published in leading journals and conferences from the IEEE, Elsevier, Springer, Wiley, etc. Some of his research findings are published in top-cited journals. He has also published ten edited/authored books with International Publishers. He has guided many students leading to M.E./M.Tech and guiding students leading to Ph.D. He is an Associate Editor of different Journals. His current interest includes Microstrip Antenna Design, MIMO, Vehicular Communication, and IoT. He was invited as Guest Editors/Editorial Board Members of many International Journals, invited for keynote Speaker in many International Conferences held in Asia and invited as Program Chair, Publications Chair, Publicity Chair, and Session Chair in many International Conferences. He has been granted two design patents and a few are in pipelines.