George C. Alexandropoulos received the Engineering Diploma (Integrated M.S.c), M.A.Sc.,and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece in 2003, 2005, and 2010, respectively. He has held senior research positions at various Greek universities and research institutes, and he was a Senior Research Engineer and a Principal Researcher at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab, Paris Research Center, Huawei Technologies France, and at the Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, School of Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece and an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic design and performance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi- antenna transceiver hardware architectures, full duplex MIMO, active and passive RISs, ISAC, millimeter wave and THz communications, as well as distributed machine learning algorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Frontiers in Communications and Networks, and the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications, Signal Processing, Vehicular Technology, and Information Theory Societies, the Chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking, as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. From 2022 to 2024, he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically managed more than 15 European Union, international, and Greek research, innovation, and development projects, including the H2020 RISE‑6G, SNS JU TERRAMETA, SNS JU 6G-DISAC, and ESA PRISM projects dealing with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments, THz RISs, distributed ISAC, and RIS demonstration for localization and mapping, respectively. He was the recipient of the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010, IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professionalin Industry Award 2018, EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 202 1, IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021, Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, IEEE Communications Society Fred Ellersick Prizes 2023 and 2024, IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize 2024, and NKUA’s Research Excellence Award for the academic year 2023-2024. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.info.

Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Dr. 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. He then started working at Motorola Labs in Paris in 2002. Then in 2006 he joint CEA/LETI as a research engineer. From 2007, he becomes a PhD supervisor. From 2010 to 2012, Dr. Calvanese Strinati 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 European collaborative strategic programs Director. Between December 2016 and January 2020 is 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. In December 2013 he has been elected as one of the five representative of academia and research center in the Net!Works 5G PPP ETP. From 2017 to 2018 he was one of the three moderators of the 5G future network expert group. Between 2016 and 2018 he was the coordinator of the H2020 joint Europe and South Korea 5GCHAMPION project that showcased at the 2018 winter Olympic Games, 5G technologies in realistic operational environments. Since July 2018 he is the coordinator of the H2020 joint Europe and South Korea 5G-AllStar project. Since 2018 he holds the French Research Director Habilitation (HDR). In 2021 he started the coordination of the H2020 European project RISE-6G, focusing on the design and operation of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in future high frequency 6G networks. Since February 2021 he is also the director of the New-6G (Nano Electronic & Wireless for 6G) initiative , dedicated to the required convergence between microelectronic & telecom, hardware & software, network & equipment for upcoming 6G technologies. E. Calvanese Strinati has published around 150 papers in international conferences, journals and books chapters, given more than 200 international invited talks, keynotes and tutorials. He is the main inventor or co-inventor of more than 65 patents. He has organized more than 100 international conferences, workshops, panels and special sessions on green communications, heterogeneous networks and cloud computing hosted in international conferences as IEEE GLOBCOM, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, EuCnC, IFIP, EUCNC and European Wireless. He is the general chair of EUCNC 2022.

Paolo Di Lorenzo is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, at Sapienza University of Rome. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees (magna cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering in 2008 and 2012, respectively, both from Sapienza University of Rome. From September 2010 to April 2011, he held a research appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California at Los Angeles. From May 2015 to February 2018, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering, University of Perugia, Italy. From March 2018 to February 2021, he was a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. His primary research interests lie in the areas of signal processing theory and methods, adaptation and learning, distributed optimization, (beyond)graph signal processing, wireless edge intelligence, goal-oriented and semantic communications. He has actively participated in several FP7 and H2020 European projects as WP leader, and he is principal investigator of the research unit (Sapienza – CNIT) for the H2020 European project entitled: RISE-6G, Reconfigurable Intelligent Sustainable Environments for 6G Wireless Networks. He is recipient of the 2022 EURASIP Early Career Award, with citation “for contributions to the field of distributed signal processing, optimization, and learning over networks”. He has received three best student conference paper awards, which were sponsored by the IEEE signal processing society and the  European association for signal processing (EURASIP).  He was also recipient of the 2012 GTTI award for the best doctoral thesis in information and communication technologies. He serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and, previously, for the IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks and for the  EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. He is an IEEE senior member. He is a member of the IEEE signal processing society and of EURASIP.

Marco Di Renzo (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of L’Aquila, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University Paris-Sud (currently Paris-Saclay University), France, in 2013. Currently, he is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group in the Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) at Paris-Saclay University – CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France. Also, he is an elected member of the L2S Board Council and a member of the L2S Management Committee, and is a Member of the Admission and Evaluation Committee of the Ph.D. School on Information and Communication Technologies, Paris-Saclay University. He is a Founding Member and the Academic Vice Chair of the Industry Specification Group (ISG) on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), where he served as the Rapporteur for the work item on communication models, channel models, and evaluation methodologies. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, an Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. Also, he holds the 2023 France-Nokia Chair of Excellence in ICT at University of Oulu (Finland), he holds the Tan Chin Tuan Exchange Fellowship in Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and he was a Fulbright Fellow at City University of New York (USA), a Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor with Aalto University, Finland; and a Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellow with Queen's University Belfast, U.K. His recent research awards include the 2021 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE COMSOC Outstanding Paper Award, the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences, the 2023 EURASIP Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ICC Best Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Heinrich Hertz Award, the 2023 IEEE VTS James Evans Avant Garde Award, the 2023 IEEE COMSOC Technical Recognition Award from the Signal Processing and Computing for Communications Technical Committee, the 2024 IEEE COMSOC Fred W. Ellersick Prize, the 2024 Best Tutorial Paper Award, and the 2024 IEEE COMSOC Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters during the period 2019-2023, and he is now serving on the Advisory Board. He is currently serving as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee and as the Director of Journals of the IEEE Communications Society.

Harald Haas received his PhD degree from The University of Edinburgh in 2001. He is the Van Eck Professor of Engineering and the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre (LRDC) at the University of Cambridge. Prof Haas initiated and co-founded pureLiFi Ltd. and currently holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer (CSO). He leads one of three new Telecoms Hubs on ‘Network of Networks’ in the UK, TITAN, which is a consortium of 15 universities. His main research interests are on optical wireless communications. He has been listed as highly cited researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science regularly since 2017. Prof. Haas has delivered two TED talks and one TEDx talk which have been watched online more than 5.5 million times. In 2016, he was the recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. Prof Haas was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2017. In 2019 he received the IEEE Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award and the Enginuity The Connect Places Innovation Award in 2021. He was the recipient of a Humboldt Research Award for his research achievements in 2022. Prof Haas was shortlisted for the European Patent Office Inventor Award in 2023.

Jakob Hoydis is a Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on the intersection of machine learning and wireless communications. Prior to this, he was Head of a research department at Nokia Bell Labs, France, and co-founder of the social network SPRAED. He obtained the diploma degree in electrical engineering from RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and the Ph.D. degree from Supéléc, France. From 2019-2021, he was chair of the IEEE COMSOC Emerging Technology Initiative on Machine Learning as well as Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is recipient of the 2019 VTG IDE Johann-Philipp-Reis Prize, the 2019 IEEE SEE Glavieux Prize, the 2018 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award, the 2015 IEEE Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the IEEE WCNC 2014 Best Paper Award, the 2013 VDE ITG Förderpreis Award, and the 2012 Publication Prize of the Supéléc Foundation. He has received the 2018 Nokia AI Innovation Award, as well as the 2018 and 2019 Nokia France Top Inventor Awards. He is a co-author of the textbook “Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency” (2017). He is a 2023 Distinguished Industry Speaker of the IEEE Signal Processing Society as well as an IEEE Fellow. He is one of the maintainers and core developers of Sionna, a GPU-accelerated open-source link-level simulator for next-generation communication systems.

Luca Sanguinetti (Fellow, IEEE) received the Laurea Telecommunications Engineering degree (cum laude) and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, in 2002 and 2005, respectively. From June 2007 to June 2008, he was a Postdoctoral Associate with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. From July 2013 to October 2017, he was with the Large Systems and Networks Group, Centrale Supelec, France. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa. He has coauthored two textbooks: Massive MIMO Networks: Spectral, Energy, and Hardware Efficiency (2017) and Foundations of User-Centric Cell-Free Massive MIMO (2021). His expertise and general interests include wireless communications and signal processing for communications.  Prof. Sanguinetti was the recipient of the 2018 and 2022 Marconi Prize Paper Awards in Wireless Communications and the 2023 Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Communications Society. He was an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, and IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS. He is currently the chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

Lorenzo Vangelista received the “Laurea” and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and telecommunication engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. He received a bachelor’s degree in “Law and Technology” from the School of Law of the University of Padova in 2024. He joined the Transmission and Optical Technology Department of CSELT in Turin, Italy. From December 1996 to January 2002, he was with Telit Mobile Terminals in Trieste, Italy. In May 2003, he was with Microcell A/S in Copenhagen, Denmark. In July 2006, he joined the Worldwide Organization, Infineon Technologies, as a Program Manager. From October 2006 to October 2021, he was an Associate Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, where he is currently a Full Professor. Lorenzo Vangelista co-founded 3 spinoff companies of the University of Padova, two of which are still active while for the first he made an exit in 2017, together with his co-founder. His research interests include signal theory, wireless (including underwater) communications, the Internet of Things connectivity with a special focus on low-power wide-area networks, and the broad area of standardization and regulation for ICT systems

Michele Zorzi, was born in 1966, and has been a Professor of Telecommunications at the School of Engineering of the University of Padova since 2003. He received the Laurea Degree and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1990 and 1994, respectively. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member at the Politecnico di Milano (1993-1996), a Research Scientist at the Center for Wireless Communications, University of California at San Diego (1995-1998), and an Associate Professor (1998-2000) and then Professor (2000-2003) at the University of Ferrara. He has many international contacts and collaborations, and has been PI or co-PI of numerous research projects, both in Europe and in the US, as well as more than 20 other projects funded by different funding agencies and industrial companies. His research is focused on the field of wireless communications and networking, and has resulted in more than 600 papers in refereed journals and international conferences (see Google Scholar). He received several best paper awards for his activities, including the prestigious IEEE Communications Society Best Tutorial Paper Award in 2008 and IEEE Communications Society Stephen O. Rice Best Paper Award in 2018, and has been invited several time as a keynote speaker or a panelist. He is coauthor of four patents and is co-founder of two start-up companies, one of which was successfully acquired. Since 1998 he has supervised more that 35 PhD students and post-docs. Students who graduated under his supervision have held or have been offered faculty/post-doc/staff positions at institutions/companies including the following: Stanford, USC, UCSD, University of Padova, University of Pisa, DLR (German Aerospace Center), Rohde-Schwartz, CTTC (Barcelona), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, UCLA, Qualcomm R&D, KTH, UC Irvine, Purdue, Huawei, u-blox.