Frank H. P. Fitzek is a Professor and head of the “Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks” at TU Dresden coordinating the 5G Lab Germany.

He received his diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Technology – Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) – Aachen, Germany, in 1997 and his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University Berlin, Germany in 2002 and became Adjunct Professor at the University of Ferrara, Italy in the same year. In 2003 he joined Aalborg University as Associate Professor and later became Professor.

He co-founded several start-up companies starting with acticom GmbH in Berlin in 1999. He has visited various research institutes including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), VTT, and Arizona State University. In 2005 he won the YRP award for the work on MIMO MDC and received the Young Elite Researcher Award of Denmark. He was selected to receive the NOKIA Champion Award s

Ingrid Moerman received her degree in Electrical Engineering (1987) and the Ph.D. degree (1992) from the Ghent University, where she became a part-time professor in 2000. She is a staff member at IDLab, a core research group of imec with research activities embedded in Ghent University and University of Antwerp. Ingrid Moerman is coordinating the research activities on mobile and wireless networking, and she is leading a research team of about 30 members at Ghent University. Her main research interests include: Internet of Things, Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN), High-density wireless access networks, collaborative and cooperative networks, intelligent cognitive radio networks, real-time software defined radio, flexible hardware/software architectures for radio/network control and management, and experimentally-supported research. Ingrid Moerman has a longstanding experience in running and coordinating national and EU research funded projects.

I am passionate about mobile and wireless communication. The Internet-of-Things promises ever more devices to be connected, so we need solutions that scale nicely with node density, are smart, self-learning, heterogeneous. The complex wireless scene consists of swarm networks, LTE cellular networks as well as future aerial mobile sensor networks. Many interesting challenges and opportunities combined!

Linda Doyle is the Director of CONNECT and is the Professor of Engineering & The Arts in Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland. CONNECT is the national research in future networks and communications, and is co-funded by Science Foundation Ireland and industry. Her expertise is in the fields of Internet-of-Things, cognitive radio, reconfigurable networks, spectrum management, digital markets, and creative arts practices. Linda is a member of the National Broadband Steering Committee in Ireland, and is a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board in the UK. She is on the advisory board of Wireless@KTH in Sweden. She is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin. She is on the Board of the Festival of Curiosity -­ a STEM outreach activity for children based on a city-centre yearly science festival. She is a judge in the BT Young Scientist, Ireland’s premier science competition for school children. She is on the Boards of the Douglas Hyde Gallery and Pallas Studios.

Luiz A. DaSilva holds the chair of Telecommunications at Trinity College Dublin, where he is a co-principal investigator of CONNECT, a telecommunications centre funded by the Science Foundation Ireland. Prior to joining Trinity College, Prof DaSilva was with the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech for 16 years. His research focuses on distributed and adaptive resource management in wireless networks, and in particular radio resource sharing and the application of game theory to wireless networks. Prof DaSilva is a principal investigator on research projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the Science Foundation Ireland, and the European Commission. Prof DaSilva is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the IEEE, for contributions to cognitive networks and to resource management in wireless networks.