Vojin G. Oklobdzija, is IEEE Life Fellow, Past President of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Technical Advisory Board Member2014-2016,. He served as Distinguished Lecturer of both, the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society and Circuits and Systems Society. He received Dipl. Ing. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade in 1971, and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982. While pursuing his PhD he worked at Microelectronic Division of Xerox Corporation where he was involved in chip development for the early Alto workstation. From 1982 to 1991 he was at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where he made contributions to the development of RISC processors, super-scalar and supercomputer design. From 1988 to 1990 he was IBM visiting faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, 1991-2006 professor at the University of California Davis, Distinguished Visiting Professor under Korea Information Technology Assessment Program, Seoul, Korea 2003, Ecole PolytecniqueFederale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, 2004, Computer Engineering Chair at Sydney University and Visiting Professor at University of Texas in Dallas, 2006-2010. Prof. Oklobdzija served as a consultant to: Sun Microsystems, Bell Laboratories, Texas Instruments, Hitachi, Fujitsu, SONY, Intel, Samsung and Siemens Corp. (where he was a principal architect for the Infineon TriCore processor). He is serving on the Editorial Board of IEEE MICRO, Journal of Low Power Electronics, and publishing board of Taylor-Francis. He served as the Associate Editor of IEEE Transaction on Computers from 2000-2006, IEEE Transactions on VLSI from 1995-2003, IEEE Transaction on Circuits and Systems II and Journal of VLSI Signal Processing. He was the the Technical Program Chair (2008) and General Chair for the International Symposium on Low-Power Design (2010), General Chair for the International Symposium on Computer Arithmetic: ARITH-20 (2011) and ARITH-13 (1997). He also served as the General Chair for DCAS-2008 and IASTED Conference on Circuits, Signals and Systems (2006), ISSCC program committee from 1996 to 2003, 2007, First Asian ASSCC, ICCD, PATMOS and numerous other conference committees. Prof. Oklobdzija and his students formed ACSEL laboratory (http://www. acsel-lab.com ) which is involved in digital circuits optimization for low power, ultra-low power and high-performance system design. He holds 15 U.S.A. patents and has published 170 refereed papers, 6 books and a dozen of book chapters in the areas of circuits and technology, computer arithmetic and computer architecture. His book “Computer Engineering” won Outstanding Academic Title award, out of 22,000 titles considered and is currently in second edition. Prof. Oklobdzija has given over 200 invited talks and short courses in the USA, Europe, Latin America, Australia, China and Japan.

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 Habilitation 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.

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.

Dr Y Jay Guo is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBDTC) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), and the Founding Technical Director of the New South Wales Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN), Australia. Prior to joining UTS in 2014, he served as a Research Director in CSIRO for over nine years. Before joining CSIRO, he held various senior technology leadership positions in Fujitsu, Siemens, and NEC in the U.K. His research interest includes B5G, 6G, mm-wave, and THz communications and sensing systems as well as big data technologies such as AI and digital twin. Prof Guo is currently the representative of the Australian Academy of Engineering and Technology in the Standards Australia IoT and Digital Twin Committee. He has published five books and over 600 research papers including over 300 transaction papers in top tier journals, and he holds 26 patents. Prof Guo is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of IET. He has won a number of the most prestigious Australian Engineering Excellence Awards and the CSIRO Chairman's Medal. He was named one of the most influential engineers in Australia in 2014 and 2015, and one of the top researchers across all fields in Australia in 2020 and 2021, respectively. He and his students have won numerous international best paper awards.

Prof Yaochun 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.

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.