Dr. Yulei Wu is a Senior Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computing and Mathematics and B.Sc. (1st Class Hons.) degree in Computer Science from the University of Bradford, United Kingdom, in 2010 and 2006, respectively. His expertise is on intelligent networking, and his main research interests include computer networks, networked systems, software defined networks and systems, network management, and network security and privacy. His research has been supported by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, London Mathematical Society, National Natural Science Foundation of China, University's Innovation Platform (Link Fund) and industry. Dr. Wu serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, and IEEE Access, as well as an Area Editor of Computer Networks (Elsevier). He also serves as a Guest Editor for many international journals, including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the ACM, and a Fellow of the HEA.
Sukhdeep Singh received his Integrated Dual Degree (Bachelors and Masters degree) in Computer Science from GVU Jaipur India in 2013. He received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea in 2016 along with the Superior Research Award´ for publishing the maximum number of SCI(E) research papers during Ph.D. in 2016 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He also received the SKKU bright student scholarship award´. He was part of Brain Korea (BK21) and National Research Foundation of Korea project during his Ph.D. He worked in diverse fields during his Ph.D., viz. eMBMS scheduling, video delivery architecture for 5G, integrating sociology with Next Generation Mobile Networks, D2D communications. Sukhdeep Singh is currently working with Samsung R&D India Bangalore in 5G RAN System design where he is responsible for research and design of O-RAN and Networks Slicing features for 5G Networks. Apart from this he is also heading the research task force of Access R&D group (with 200+ employees) of Network R&D team at Samsung R&D India-Bangalore. He received Samsung Best Paper Award conferred by CEO & President of Samsung Electronics and has also received Samsung Citizen Award (quarterly awards) for four times conferred by MD of Samsung R&D India-Bangalore. He has published more than 25 research articles in his career. He has served as Guest editor in Taylor and Francis IETE journal, General Chair in workshops hosted/will be hosted in IEEE WCNC 2020 and IEEE Globecom 2020. He also served as Technical Program Chair member for IEEE iNIS 2016, IEEE iNIS 2017, ISRO-ACM ICSE 2017, IEEE iSES 2018, IEEE iSES 2019, IEEE iSES 2020 and IEEE iSES 2021. He has been invited as a guest lecturer by University of Toronto, IITs, IIMs and IIITs and keynote speaker at Springers ICIMMI 2019 and IEEE Virtual Talk Series 2020. He edited the world's first book on 6G.
Tarik Taleb received the B.E. degree (with Distinction) in information engineering and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in information sciences from Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, in 2001, 2003, and 2005, respectively. He is currently a Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. He is the Founder and the Director of the MOSA!C Lab, Espoo, Finland. He is a part-time Professor with the Center of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He was an Assistant Professor with the Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, in a laboratory fully funded by KDDI until 2009. He was a Senior Researcher and a 3GPP Standards Expert with NEC Europe Ltd., Heidelberg, Germany. He was then leading the NEC Europe Labs Team, involved with research and development projects on carrier cloud platforms, an important vision of 5G systems. From 2005 to 2006, he was a Research Fellow with the Intelligent Cosmos Research Institute, Sendai. He has also been directly engaged in the development and standardization of the Evolved Packet System as a member of the 3GPP System Architecture Working Group. His current research interests include architectural enhancements to mobile core networks (particularly, 3GPP´s), network softwarization and slicing, mobile cloud networking, network function virtualization, software-defined networking, mobile multimedia streaming, inter vehicular communications, and social media networking.