Hamed Ahmadi is a reader in digital engineering for future technologies at the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, UK. He is the associate editor in chief for IEEE Communications Standards magazine. He is a senior member of IEEE, fellow of UK Higher Education Academy, and Networks working group chair of COST Action CA20120 (INTERACT).

Trung Q. Duong is a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) and a full professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He is also the adjunct chair professor in telecommunications at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His current research interests include quantum communications, wireless communications, machine learning, and real-time optimisation.

Avishek Nag is an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland. His research interests include the application of optimization theory, AI, and blockchain in telecom networks. He is the outreach lead for Ireland for the IEEE UK & Ireland Blockchain Group and also a member of the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

Vishal Sharma is a lecturer in the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EEECS) at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), Northern Ireland, UK. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 journal/conference articles and book chapters and co-edited two books. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Communications Magazine, CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, IET Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IET Networks, ICT Express, and Section Editor-in-Chief of Drones journal.

Berk Canberk is a professor in the School of Computing, Engineering and The Built Environment at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is also an adjunct professor at the Artificial Intelligence Department at Istanbul Technical University and ECE Department at Northeastern University. He is an IEEE senior member, member of the ACM and member of the IET. He is an editor in IEEE Transactions in Vehicular Technology, and Elsevier's Computer Networks and Computer Communications journals.

Octavia A. Dobre is professor and Canada Research Chair Tier 1 in the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University, Canada. She was a Fulbright scholar, Royal Society scholar, and distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. She is a fellow of the IEEE, fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, and fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.