Robert Calderbank is Director of the Information Initiative at Duke University, where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics. He joined Duke in 2010, completed a 3 year term as Dean of Natural Sciences in August 2013, and also served as Interim Director of the Duke Initiative in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in 2012. Before joining Duke he was Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematics at Princeton University where he also directed the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics. Before joining Princeton University, Dr. Calderbank was Vice President for Research at AT&T. As Vice President for Research he managed AT&T intellectual property, and he was responsible for licensing revenue. AT&T Labs was the first of a new type of research lab where masses of data generated by network services became a giant sandbox in which fundamental discoveries in information science became a source of commercial advantage

At Duke, Dr. Calderbank works with researchers from the Duke Center for Autism and Brain Development, developing information technology that is able to capture a full spectrum of behavior in very young children. By supporting more consistent and cost-effective early diagnosis, the team is increasing the opportunity for early interventions that have proven very effective. At the start of his career at Bell Labs, Dr. Calderbank developed voiceband modem technology that was widely licensed and incorporated in over a billion devices. Voiceband means the signals are audible so these modems burped and squeaked as they connected to the internet. One of these products was the AT&T COMSPHERE® modem which was the fastest modem in the world in 1994 – at 33.6kb/s! Together with Peter Shor and colleagues at AT&T Labs Dr. Calderbank developed the group theoretic framework for quantum error correction. This framework changed the way physicists view quantum entanglement, and provided the foundation for fault tolerant quantum computation. Dr. Calderbank has also developed technology that improves the speed and reliability of wireless communication by correlating signals across several transmit antennas. Invented in 1996, this space-time coding technology has been incorporated in a broad range of 3G, 4G and 5G wireless standards. He served on the Technical Advisory Board of Flarion Technologies a wireless infrastructure company founded by Rajiv Laroia and acquired by Qualcomm for $1B in 2008.

Dr. Calderbank is an IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, and an AT&T Fellow, and he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2005. He received the 2013 IEEE Hamming Medal for contributions to coding theory and communications and the 2015 Shannon Award.

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Michael J. Carey received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979, 1981, and 1983, respectively. He is currently a Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and a Consulting Architect at Couchbase, Inc. Before joining UCI in 2008, Dr. Carey worked at BEA Systems for seven years and led the development of BEA's AquaLogic Data Services Platform product for virtual data integration. He also spent a dozen years teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, five years at the IBM Almaden Research Center working on object-relational databases, and a year and a half at e-commerce platform startup Propel Software during the infamous 2000-2001 Internet bubble. Dr. Carey is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the ACM SIGMOD E.F. Codd Innovations Award. His current interests all center around data-intensive computing and scalable data management (a.k.a. Big Data).

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Nick Bambos is R. Weiland Professor at Stanford University, having a joint appointment in the Electrical Engineering department and the Management Science & Engineering department, where he is currently the Fortinet Chairman of the department. He received his PhD in EECS at the University of California, Berkeley (1989) and his engineering diploma at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1984). He served on the electrical engineering faculty at UCLA, before joining Stanford in 1996. He has won several awards and "best paper" distinctions for his research, for example, the best ICC paper award in Green Communication and Computing in 2014. His main research contributions span the areas of wireless networks and large scale computing infrastructures for Internet services. His methodological research contributions are mainly in stochastic network control and queueing/scheduling dynamics of processing networks. His current research interests are in high-performance engineering of computer systems and networks, including issues related to system architecture and overlay services on the Internet, ranging from packet scheduling to power control and media-streaming.

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Jill M. Boyce is Intel Fellow and Chief Media Architect at Intel. She represents Intel at the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) and Joint Video Exploration Team (JVET) of ITU-T SG16 and ISO/IEC MPEG. She serves as Associate Rapporteur of ITU-T VCEG, and was an editor of the Scalability High Efficiency Video Coding extension (SHVC).

She received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1988 and an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University in 1990. She was formerly Director of Algorithms at Vidyo, Inc. where she led video and audio coding and processing algorithm development. She was formerly VP of Research and Innovation Princeton for Technicolor, formerly Thomson. She was formerly with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, and Hitachi America. She was Associate Editor from 2006 to 2010 of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. She is the inventor of 145 granted U.S. patents, and has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed conferences and journals.

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Dr. Lina Karam received the B.E. degree in computer and communications engineering from the American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, in 1989 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. She is currently a full professor in the School of Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering, Computer Engineering Director, and the Director of the R&D Image, Video, and Usability (IVU) Lab at Arizona State University. She is also the President of PICARIS, LLC, a consulting company on media processing, compression, understanding, and analytics. Dr. Karam is an IEEE Fellow, the highest grade level in IEEE which is conferred each year to no more than one-tenth of 1% of all IEEE voting members, for her contributions in the image and video processing, visual media compression and transmission, and digital filtering areas. Dr. Karam is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, NASA Technical Innovation Award, the Intel Outstanding Researcher Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Best Journal Paper Award, and the the IEEE Phoenix Section Outstanding Faculty Award. Her industrial experience includes image and video processing and compression development at AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill), multi-dimensional data processing and visualization at Schlumberger, and collaborations on computer vision, machine learning, image/video processing, compression, and transmission projects with various industries including Intel, Qualcomm, Google, NTT, Motorola, Freescale, General Dynamics, and NASA. She has over 200 technical publications and she is an inventor on several issued patents.

Dr. Karam has served on several journal editorial boards, several conference organization committees, and several IEEE technical committees. She served as the lead guest editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE, Special Issue on Perceptual-Based Media Processing. She served as the General Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Technical Program Chair of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, General Chair of the 2011 IEEE International DSP/SPE Workshops, and as the Lead Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Special Issue on Visual Quality Assessment. She has cofounded international technical workshops and conferences (VPQM and QoMEX). She is currently serving on the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Board of Governors and the IEEE Publications Board as the IEEE Women in Engineering Liaison. She is a member of the Foundation and Trends in Signal Processing Journal Editorial Board and of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Senior Editorial Board. She is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Image, Video & Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society’s DSP Technical Committee. She is a member of the Signal Processing, Circuits and Systems, and Communications societies of the IEEE.

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Dr. Zhen Liu is the CTO of Logitech, and is in charge of the technology strategies and their implementation for Logitech worldwide. Before joining Logitech in March 2017, Zhen was the head of Microsoft China Innovation Group. Prior to this experience, Zhen was with Nokia as the Head of Nokia Research Center (NRC) Beijing, and then became the Head of NRC Growth Economies Lab. Before joining Nokia, Zhen was with IBM T. J. Watson Research Center and served as the senior manager of the Next Generation Distributed Systems department. And before his IBM experience, Zhen was a Research Director at INRIA (the French national research center on information and automation).

Zhen is a fellow of IEEE. He has published over 200 papers and obtained over 100 granted patents from US Patent Office. Zhen Liu was the general chair of the ACM Sigmetrics 2008 Conference, co-chair of ACM HotMetrics 2008, program co-chair of the Joint Conference of ACM Sigmetrics and IFIP Performance 2004, technical program co-chair of Sensorcomm 2009, and area technical program committee chair for INFOCOM 2008 and INFOCOM 2009. Zhen is on the editorial boards of several journals including IEEE Transactions on Service Computing and the Journal of Performance Evaluation.

 

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Hikmet Sari is currently Professor at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT) and Chief Scientist at Sequans Communications. From 2003 to 2016, he was Professor and Head of the Telecommunications Department at Supelec. Previously, he held various research and management positions at Philips, SAT (SAGEM Group), Alcatel, Pacific Broadband Communications, and Juniper Networks. He received his Engineering Diploma and Ph.D. from the ENST, Paris, and the Habilitation degree from the University of Paris-Sud. His distinctions include the IEEE Fellow Grade and the Blondel Medal in 1995, the Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award in 2003, the Harold Sobol Award in 2012, and election to the European Academy and to the Science Academy of Turkey in 2012. Dr. Sari has served the IEEE Communications Society in numerous volunteer and leadership positions including Vice President - Conferences, Distinguished Lecturer, Member of the IEEE Fellow Evaluation Committee, Member of the Awards Committee, Chair of the GITC, Chair of the Communication Theory Symposium of ICC 2002, Technical Program Chair of ICC 2004, Executive Chair of ICC 2006, General Chair of PIMRC 2010, General Chair of WCNC 2012, Executive Chair of WCNC 2014, Executive Co-Chair of ICC 2016, Executive Chair of ICC 2017, Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters, and Guest Editor of IEEE JSAC. He also served as General Chair of ICUWB 2014, Technical Program Chair of EuCNC 2015, and General Co-Chair of ATC 2016.

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Keiji Yamada is Vice President of Central Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation since 2016. He is in charge of R&D strategy and social innovation creation by using advanced AI and IoT technology. In 1987, he received Ph.D. degree from Kyoto University and joined NEC Corporation. He also served as a visiting scholar of University of California at San Diego. In NEC, he was appointed as General Manager of Media and Information Research Laboratories, General Manager of C&C Innovation Research Laboratories, Vice President of Central Research Laboratories, and Head of NEC Laboratories Singapore. He hold prominent positions in parallel such as Board Member of Directors of IEICE, IPSJ, and Board Member of International Association of Pattern Recognition. Furthermore, he has been serving Japan Science and Technology Agency as a research area advisor and contributing to Research Centre for Computers, Communication and Social Innovation in La Trobe University in Australia as an executive committee member. Specialized in information theory, pattern information processing, human interface and social information system. Received IPSJ Sakai Special Researcher Award.

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Junshan Zhang received his Ph.D. degree from the School of ECE at Purdue University in 2000. He joined the School of ECEE at Arizona State University in August 2000, where he has been Fulton Chair Professor since 2015. His research interests fall in the general field of information networks and data science, including communication networks, Internet of Things (IoT), Fog Computing, social networks, smart grid. His current research focuses on fundamental problems in information networks and data science, including Fog Computing and its applications in IoT and 5G, IoT data privacy/security, optimization/control of mobile social networks, cognitive radio networks, stochastic modeling and optimization for smart grid.

Prof. Zhang is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award in 2005 and the NSF CAREER award in 2003. He received the IEEE Wireless Communication Technical Committee Recognition Award in 2016. His papers have won a few awards, including the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award of ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP Performance 2016, the Best Paper Runner-up Award of IEEE INFOCOM 2009 and IEEE INFOCOM 2014, and the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICC 2008 and ICC 2017. Building on his research findings, he co-founded Smartiply Inc in 2015, a Fog Computing startup company delivering boosted network connectivity and embedded artificial intelligence. Prof. Zhang was TPC co-chair for a number of major conferences in communication networks, including IEEE INFOCOM 2012 and ACM MOBIHOC 2015. He was the general chair for ACM/IEEE SEC 2017, WiOPT 2016, and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2007. He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He was an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an editor for the Computer Network journal, and an editor IEEE Wireless Communication Magazine. He is currently serving as an editor-at-large for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and an editor for IEEE Network Magazine.

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