Prof. Sofie Pollin received the Ph.D. degree (Hons.) from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, in 2006. From 2006 to 2008, she continued her research on wireless communication, energy-efficient networks, cross-layer design, coexistence, and cognitive radio with the University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. In 2008, she joined the Green Radio Team, Imec, as a Principal Scientist. She is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering Department, KU Leuven. Her research interests include networked systems that require networks that are ever more dense, heterogeneous, battery-powered, and spectrum constrained. She is a BAEF and Marie Curie Fellow.

Dr. Özlem Tuğfe Demir received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2012, 2014, and 2018, respectively. She was a Post-Doctoral researcher with Linköping University, Sweden, from 2019 to 2020, and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, from 2021 to 2022. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Ankara. She has authored the textbooks Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO (2021) and Introduction to Multiple Antenna Communications and Reconfigurable Surfaces (2024). Her research interests include signal processing and optimization in wireless communications, massive MIMO, cell-free massive MIMO, beyond 5G multiple antenna technologies, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, machine learning for communications, and green mobile networks.

Dr. Anna Guerra received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electronics and telecommunications engineering at the University of Bologna (UNIBO, Bologna, Italy) in 2009 and 2011, respectively. In 2016, she received a Ph.D. degree in electronics, telecommunications, and information technologies from UNIBO. In 2012, she was a Research Assistant in a collaboration project between the Italian National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications and the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA LETI), Grenoble, France. From 2014 to 2015, she spent a visiting period at CEA-LETI. From 2016 to 2021, she has been a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Bologna. During these years (from 2018 to 2020), she received a global Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship for the H2020 AirSens project, and she spent the project’s outgoing phase at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA. Since 2021, she has been a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. In addition, she is an adjunct professor at the University of Ferrara. In 2023, she received the ERC Starting Grant for the project CUE-GO. She received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband held in Paris, France, and the Best Paper Awards at the 2019 IEEE RFID-TA Conference, Pisa, and the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Systems, Montreal, QC, Canada. She is a reviewer for numerous IEEE journals and international conferences. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. She received the IEEE Communications Letters Exemplary Editor Award in 2022.

Dr. Derya Malak received the B.S. Degree at Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in Jun 2010, and the M.S. Degree at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey, in Feb 2013 where she was advised by Prof. Ozgur B. Akan, both in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. She also have a minor in Physics from METU. She received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in Aug 2017, where she was affiliated with the Wireless Networking & Communications Group (WNCG), her Ph.D. advisor was Prof. Jeffrey G. Andrews. Then, she was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from Sep 2017 to Aug 2019, working with Prof. Muriel Médard. She was also a visiting scholar at Northeastern University, hosted by Prof. Edmund Yeh. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at EURECOM and also has an adjunct position in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.