Fabrizio Granelli (Senior Member, IEEE) is Full Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy). He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil) and at the University of Tokyo (Japan). He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2012-15 and 2021-23 (4 terms), ComSoc Director for Online Content in 2016-17, Delegate for Education at DISI in 2015-2017, IEEE ComSoc Director for Educational Services (2018-19) and IEEE ComSoc Director for Conference Development (2022-23). Prof. Granelli was General Chair or TPC Chair of several prestigious IEEE conferences, such as IEEE Globecom (TPC Chair, 2022), IEEE NFV-SDN (TPC Chair, 2018-2019), IEEE LATINCOM (General Chair, 2020-2021), IEEE CAMAD, and chaired several symposia at IEEE ICC and Globecom. He is author or co-author of more than 250 papers published in international journals, books and conferences.
Cristina Emilia Costa (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2005, with a thesis on video transmission over wireless links. She joined the Internet Services Group, Telecom Italia Lab, Turin, Italy, as a Researcher, providing technology transfer and scientific support to operational Telecom Italia divisions. She worked as a Researcher with the CREATE-NET Research Center, Trento, from 2004 to 2019. After she joined the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, and in 2021 she was appointed Head of the Smart Networks and Services (SENSE) Research Unit. In 2023 she joined the National Laboratory on Smart and Secure Networks at CNIT, the National, Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications. During her career, she was involved in several research projects both at the national and international level, gaining experience both as a researcher and as project coordinator, in the fields of wireless and mobile networks, multimedia communications, interfaces and interaction, 5G, and edge computing. She served as a Member in the organizing committees of various conferences, in particular of European Wireless (2020), Intetain (2011), UCMedia (2009, 2010), and SecureComm (2005). She is founder member of the IEEE Women In Engineering AG Italy Section, where she acted as secretary from 2017 to 2021.
Christos Verikoukis (Senior Member, IEEE) is a collaborating Faculty member with ATHENA/ISI and Associate Professor, Tenure Track at CEID in University of Patras. He received his PhD from the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in 2000. Dr. Christos h-index is 47 and his publications achieved a total of 9500 citations. He has published more 165 journal papers and over 240 conference papers. He is also the co-author of 4 books, 20 chapters of different books and of 5 patents. He is currently serving as the General Chair of the IEEE CAMAD 2024, while he was the General Chair/Co-Chair for conferences like IEEE CAMAD 2022, inaugural IEEE MeditCom 2021, and TPC vice-chair in flagship conference like IEEE Globecom 2022. He also served several times as a co-chair in different ICC and Globecom symposia. He has delivered 14 tutorials in prestigious conferences such as IEEE ICC, IEEE Globecom and IEEE WCNC and more than 30 invited talks. Dr. Verikoukis has participated in more than 40 competitive projects while he has served as Principal investigator in national projects in Greece and in Spain. Prof. Christos Verikoukis is currently coordinating nine research Projects on 6G, 6 of them under by the SNS-JU european program, while he served as the Project coordinator of other 4 projects in the beyond 5G and 6G area.
Emilio Calvanese Strinati obtained his Engineering Master degree in 2001 from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ and his Ph.D in Engineering Science in 2005 from Paris Telecom. He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002. Then, in 2006 he joined CEA LETI as a research engineer. From 2007, he becomes a PhD supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, he has been the co-chair of the wireless working group in GreenTouch Initiative, which deals with design of future energy efficient communication networks. From 2011 to 2016 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications strategic programs Director, then, until January 2020 he was the Smart Devices & Telecommunications Scientific and Innovation Director. Since February 2020 he is the Nanotechnologies and Wireless for 6G (New-6G) Program Director focusing on future 6G technologies. He has published around 250 papers in journals, international conferences, and books chapters, and he has given more than 250 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor of more than 90 patents. He has also a successful experience in leading and coordinating research activities as coordinator of successful projects such as 5G-CHAMPIONS, 5GAllstar, RISE-6G, 6G-GOALS, 6G-DISAC and 6G-ARROW. CEA has also coordinated other FP7/H2020 and national projects, and/or serving regularly as project’s Technical Manager, Work Package and Task leader in more than 40 European projects.
Luis Miguel Contreras (lmcontreras.com) holds an M.Sc. in Telecommunications from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1997), an M. Sc. in Telematics jointly from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Universitat Politèctina de Catalunya (2010), and a Ph.D. cum laude in Telematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (2021). In 1997 he joined Alcatel Spain taking several positions in both wireless and fixed network fields. In 2006 he joined the network planning department of Orange in Spain taking responsibilities for the IP backbone planning. Between 2002 and 2010 he was also adjunct lecturer at the Telematics department of the Universidad Carlos III. Since August 2011 he is part of Telefónica Innovación Digitital / Telefónica CTIO, working on scalable networks and their interaction with cloud and distributed services, and participating in several Spanish and European projects (currently involved in SNS PREDICT-6G, DESIRE6G and 6GREEN, and Horizon Europe CODECO and NEMO). He is an active contributor to different SDOs, such as O-RAN, ETSI, and IETF, where he is co-chair of the Common Control and Measurement Plane (CCAMP) working group. He has been co-organizer of the series of workshops on Advances in Slicing for Softwarized Infrastructures (S4SI) co-located with IEEE NetSoft, during the period 2019 – 2021, Business Models and Techno-Economics of 5G Networks and Beyond, co-located with the 25th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN’22), and Network Application Integration (NAI) co-located with ACM SIGCOMM during the period 2020-2022.
Marcos Katz is a professor at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, since Dec. 2009. He received the BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina in 1987, and the MS and Dr. Tech. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1995 and 2002, respectively. He worked in different R&D positions at Nokia, Finland between 1987 and 2001. In 2001–2002 he was a Research Scientist at the Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu. In years 2003–2005 Dr. Katz was the Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics, Advanced Research Lab., Telecommunications R&D Center, Suwon, Korea. From 2006 to 2009 he worked as a Chief Research Scientist at VTT, the Technical Research Centre of Finland. Prof. Katz is a member of the 6G Flagship research program, and his current research interests include optical wireless communications, sustainable connectivity approaches for 6G as well as open 6G architectures.