SHIWEN MAO is a professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar Chair, and Director of the Wireless Engineering Research and Education Center (WEREC) at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA. His research interest includes wireless networks, multimedia communications, and smart grid. He is a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Council of RFID, and is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking. He received the IEEE ComSoc TC-CSR Distinguished Technical Achievement Award in 2019 and NSF CAREER Award in 2010. He is a co-recipient of the 2021 Best Paper Award of Elsevier/KeAi Digital Communications and Networks Journal, the 2021 IEEE Internet of Things Journal Best Paper Award, the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Outstanding Paper Award, the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society 2020 Jack Neubauer Memorial Award, the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize in the Field of Communications Systems, and several ComSoc technical committee and conference best paper/demo awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

Dr. Swagatam Das earned his B.E. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, M.E. with a specialization in Control Engineering, and Ph.D.(Engineering) degrees from Jadavpur University, India, in the years 2003, 2005, and 2009, respectively. Currently a Professor at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata, India, he previously served as the Head of the Electronics and Communication Sciences Unit at ISI Kolkata from 2021 to 2023. Presently, he also holds the position of Professor and Deputy Director at the Institute for Advancing Intelligence (IAI), TCG CREST, Kolkata, India. His research interests encompass deep learning and non-convex optimization, and he published over 400 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. Dr. Das is the founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, an international journal by Elsevier. He has served or is currently serving as an Associate Editor for several prominent journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Pattern Recognition (Elsevier), Neurocomputing (Elsevier), Information Sciences (Elsevier), IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of Information Fusion (Elsevier), Progress in Artificial Intelligence (Springer), Applied Soft Computing (Elsevier), Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier), and so on. Dr. Das has received over 30,000 Google Scholar citations and an H-index of 82 till date. He has actively participated in the program committees and organizing committees of renowned international conferences such as NeurIPS, AAAI, AISTATS, ACM Multimedia, BMVC, IEEE CEC, GECCO, and more. He currently serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker. He is the recipient of the 2012 Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and the 2015 Thomson Reuters Research Excellence India Citation Award for being the highest-cited researcher in Engineering and Computer Science in India between 2010 and 2014.

Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma (M'16, SM'19) received Ph.D. degree in the field of Computer Vision and Machine Learning from Delhi Technological University, New Delhi, India, in 2016. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Information Technology, Delhi Technological University. His current research interests include Computer Vision, Deep/Machine Learning, Sentiment Analysis, Fake News Detection, Multimedia Data Analytics, and Crowd Behaviour Analysis. He received research excellence awards from Delhi Technological University in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits Systems for Video Technology. He is a reviewer of various journals/transactions of the ACM, IEEE, Elsevier, and Springer. He is a senior member of IEEE and a lifetime member of ISTE.