IEEE Access Editorial Board

Derek Abbott (M’85–SM’99–F’05) was born in South Kensington, London, U.K. He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in physics (1982) from Loughborough University, Leicestershire, U.K. and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (1995) from The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia. From 1978 to 1986, he was a Research Engineer with the GEC Hirst Research Centre, London, U.K. From 1986 to 1987, he was a VLSI Design Engineer with Austek Microsystems, Australia. Since 1987, he has been with The University of Adelaide, where he is currently a full Professor with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. His research interests include multidisciplinary physics and electronic engineering applied to complex systems, networks, game theory, energy policy, stochastics, and biophotonics. He co-edited Quantum Aspects of Life (Imperial College Press, 2008), and co-authored Stochastic Resonance (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008) and Terahertz Imaging for Biomedical Applications (Springer-Verlag, 2012). He has served as Guest Editor for IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits (1999) and Associate Editor for IEEE Photonics (2009–2014). He has served on the Editorial Board of Proceedings of the IEEE (2009–2014), the Editorial Board of IEEE Access (2015–Present), and he currently serves on the IEEE Publications Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB). Prof. Abbott has received a number of awards, including an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2012), the David Dewhurst Medal (2015) for biomedical engineering, the Barry Inglis Medal (2018) for measurement science, and the M. A. Sargent Medal (2019) for eminence in engineering.

Jun Cai received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2004. From June 2004 to April 2006, he was with McMaster University, Canada, as a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellow. From July 2006 to December 2018, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada, where he was a full Professor and the NSERC Industrial Research Chair. Since January 2019, he has joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Canada, as a full Professor and the PERFORM Centre Research Chair.

Zhipeng Cai is a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia State University and the Director of the INSPIRE Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Information Systems at the Robinson College of Business and leads the Innovative Computing and Networking (ICN) group. Dr. Cai's research focuses on resource management, high-performance computing, cybersecurity, privacy, networking, and big data. His work, supported by sponsors such as the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of State, has resulted in over 100 publications in top-tier journals and conferences, with more than 17,000 citations, including 90+ IEEE/ACM Transactions papers. Recognized as one of the World's Top 2% Scientists (2020–2024) by Stanford University, Dr. Cai serves as Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier High-Confidence Computing Journal and as an editor for several leading journals, including IEEE TKDE, TVT, TWC, and TCSS. He is also a Steering Committee Co-Chair for WASA and has chaired numerous international conferences such as ICDCS and SocialCom. Dr. Cai has supervised over 24 PhD students, 15 of whom have become tenure-track faculty in U.S. institutions. A Fellow of IEEE and recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Dr. Cai is committed to education and community impact, notably through his contributions to Eureka Labs, a cybersecurity education platform with over 64,000 views and downloads globally.

Kun-Shan Chen (Fellow, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Arlington in 1990. Between 1992 and 2023, he held a professorship at various prestigious institutions, including the National Central University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Starting in 2024, he has been affiliated with the Institute of Space Earth Science at Nanjing University, China. Dr. Chen authored and co-authored over 200 journal articles, ten book chapters, and several authored or co-authored books, including “Microwave Scattering and Emission Models for Users” (with A. K. Fung, Artech House, 2010), “Principles of Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: A System Simulation Approach” (CRC Press, 2015), “Radar Scattering and Imaging of Rough Surfaces: Modeling and Applications With MATLAB” (CRC Press, 2020), and and Moon-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar: A Signal Processing Prospect (with Zhen Xu, CRC Press, 2024). His research interests include microwave remote sensing theory, modeling, systems, measurements, and electromagnetic sensing techniques. He has been a member of Academia Europaea, serving on the IEEE GRSS Adcom from 2010 to 2014, and receiving the prestigious 2021 IEEE GRSS Fawwaz Ulaby Distinguished Achievement Award. He was also instrumental in founding the GRSS Taipei Chapter and played key roles in organizing various technical committees and editorial boards within IEEE, including deputy editor-in-chief for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience. His contributions extend to guest editorships for notable IEEE publications and serving on editorial boards for Proceedings of the IEEE and IEEE Access.

Yixin Chen is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis, which he joined in 2005. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization. He received the Best Paper Award at the IDEAL Conference (2016), Distinguished Paper Award at the AMIA Conference (2015), Best Student Paper Runner-up Award at the ACM SIGKDD Conference (2014), Best Paper Award at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2010), and the IEEE International Conference on Tools for AI (2005). He also received Best Paper Award nominations at ACM CHI (2018), IEEE ICDM (2013), IEEE RTAS (2012), and KDD (2009). His work on planning has won First Prizes in the International Planning Competitions (2004 & 2006). He received an Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the Department of Energy (2006) and a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship (2007). His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He served as a Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2021), and an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, ACM Transactions of Intelligent Systems and Technology, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. He was admitted by the Special Class for Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1995, at age 15. He earned a bachelor’s in computer science from USTC in 1999 and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Fellow of AAIA and IEEE.

J.-C. Chiao is the Mary and Richard Templeton Centennial Chair professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Southern Methodist University (SMU). He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology. He was a Research Scientist in the Optical Networking Systems and Testbeds Group at Bell Communications Research; Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Hawaii, Manoa; and Product Line Manager and Senior Technology Advisor with Chorum Technologies. Dr. Chiao was Janet and Mike Greene endowed Professor and Jenkins Garrett Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas – Arlington from 2002 to 2018. Dr. Chiao has been chair for several international conferences including 2018 IEEE International Microwave Biomedical Conference and 2022 IEEE Sensors Conference. He was the chair of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee “Biological Effect and Medical Applications of RF and Microwave”, technical program chair of 2019 IEEE International Wireless Symposium and 2021 Wireless Power Transfer Conference. He has been an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques; the founding Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. He is currently a Track Editor for IEEE Journal of Microwaves and Senior Editor of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Sensors; and with the Editorial Board of IEEE Access. Dr. Chiao has published and edited numerous peer-reviewed technical journal and conference papers, book chapters, proceedings and books. He holds 23 awarded and 4 pending patents. His research works have been covered by media extensively including Forbes, National Geographic magazine, National Public Radio and CBS Henry Ford Innovation Nation. Dr. Chiao was the recipient of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award; Tech Titans Technology Innovator Award; Research in Medicine award in the Heroes of Healthcare; IEEE Region 5 Outstanding Engineering Educator award; IEEE Region 5 Excellent Performance award; 2012-2014 IEEE MTT Distinguished Microwave Lecturer; 2017-2019 IEEE Sensors Council Distinguished Lecturer; Pan Wen-Yuan Foundation Excellence in Research award, and the Edith and Peter O'Donnell Award in Engineering by The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. Dr. Chiao is Fellow of IEEE, IET, SPIE and AIMBE.

Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D., a distinguished academic, currently holds the positions of Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, and Chair of the Bioengineering Department at the University of Louisville, Kentucky. His academic journey commenced with the completion of his bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He further pursued his educational goals, successfully obtaining his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Louisville in 2006. Dr. El-Baz's illustrious career has been marked by numerous accolades and recognitions. It began in 2009 when he was bestowed with the title of Coulter Fellow in recognition of his substantial contributions to biomedical translational research. His remarkable achievements continued to gain prominence, leading to his appointment as an American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) Fellow in 2018, celebrating his exceptional accomplishments in the realm of medical imaging and his exemplary leadership in education, scholarship, and service within the field of bioengineering. In 2020, Dr. El-Baz earned the prestigious distinction of being named a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow, the first from the Middle East, in acknowledgment of his groundbreaking work in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Medical Imaging (MI). The year 2022 witnessed his recognition as a Biomedical Engineering Society Fellow, honoring his invaluable contributions to the field of Biomedical Engineering and his inspirational leadership within the Biomedical Engineering Society. Further solidifying his reputation, Dr. El-Baz achieved the esteemed title of IEEE Fellow in 2023 for his profound contributions to artificial intelligence in medicine and his enduring leadership within the Biomedical Engineering Society. Notably, in 2017, the Biomedical Engineering Society entrusted Dr. El-Baz with the role of an ABET program evaluator, reflecting his standing as an authority in the field. Dr. El-Baz boasts an impressive 23 years of hands-on experience in the areas of bio-imaging modeling, big data, artificial intelligence, and non-invasive computer-assisted diagnosis systems. As a Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-Investigator (Co-I), he has successfully secured 50 grants totaling $29.0 million from esteemed sponsors such as NIH, DOD, NSF, and the American Cancer Society. His scholarly contributions are equally prolific, with 50 books, 250 papers in prestigious high-impact journals, 300 papers in extremely selective peer-reviewed conferences within his field, 300 abstracts, 50 patents, 2 software licensing technologies, 7 software copyrights, 2 tutorials, and 50 invited talks to his credit. Dr. El-Baz's scholarly impact is evident through his impressive citation count of around 21,000, alongside a remarkable H-index of 70. His dedication to mentoring and advising is apparent, having guided and nurtured 29 students, culminating in the successful completion of 15 Ph.D. dissertations and 14 master's theses. His mentorship has yielded substantial recognition, with seven of his Ph.D. advisees earning the prestigious John M. Houchens dissertation awards. Additionally, Dr. El-Baz's research group has amassed a notable 189 national and international awards and travel scholarships, further underscoring his profound influence in the academic community.

Luigi Fortuna (Life Fellow, IEEE) is a Full Professor of System Theory since 1994. He was Dean of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Catania Italy (2005-2012) and Director of the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the same University (2002-2005). He is also an IEICE Fellow. Since 1982, he has taught 80 courses covering all the disciplines regarding automation, control, robotics, operative research and bioengineering. He is author of twenty books from international publishers and has also contributed as the co-author of 12 industrial patents. As of November 2024, he is the author of 742 Scopus Indexed papers. Dr. Fortuna’s main activity today regards linear and nonlinear circuit control theory and applications and he is truly interested in educational programs regarding quantum mechanics and control theory topics.

Maya Gokhale is Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA. Her career spans research conducted in academia, industry, and National Laboratories. Maya received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Pennsylvania. Her current research interests include data intensive heterogeneous architectures and reconfigurable computing. Maya is co-recipient of an R&D 100 award for a C-to-FPGA compiler, co-recipient of four patents related to memory architectures for embedded processors, reconfigurable computing architectures, and cybersecurity, and co-author of more than one hundred forty technical publications. Maya was on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the IEEE and is an associate editor of IEEE Micro. She is a co-recipient of the National Intelligence Community Award, is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and is an IEEE Fellow.

Hoay Gooi received his PhD degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus (1983). He was Assistant Professor with Lafayette College, Easton (1983-85) and Senior Engineer/Team Leader with EMPROS (now Siemens), Minneapolis (1985-91), where he was responsible for the design, testing and coordination of domestic and international energy management system projects. In 1991, he joined School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore as Senior Lecturer and has been an Associate Professor (1999-2023). He was Deputy Head of Power Engineering Division, EEE, NTU (2008-14), EE Standards Committee Member of Singapore Standards Council (2014-21), Chairman of Fundamentals of Engineering Examination (Electrical) Sub-Committee for Professional Engineers Board Singapore (2015-21), and Co-Director, Singapore Power (SP) Group-NTU Joint Lab (2020-23). He served as Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Systems and Editor of IEEE Power Engineering Letters (2016-21). In 2021, he won Outstanding Associate Editor Award, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems. He is a Life Fellow of IEEE, a registered professional engineer in Pennsylvania and Singapore, and a member of Energy Technical Committee, Institution of Engineers Singapore. He taught Energy Management System courses for dispatchers, engineers, managers and directors at Power System Control Centre in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. His current research interests include energy transition, renewable energy resources, peer-to-peer trading, and digitalizing energy. In 2023, his project team won the award from the Carbon Emission Reduction contest organized by OPAL-RT, https://www.opal-rt.com/co2-reduction-rt23/.

Giuseppe Iannaccone is Professor of Electronics at the University of Pisa, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Fellow of the American Physical Society. His interests include quantum transport and noise in nanoelectronic and mesoscopic devices, development of device modelling tools, new device concepts and circuits beyond CMOS technology for artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, implantable biomedical sensors, and the internet of things. Giuseppe Iannaccone has coordinated several European and National Projects involving multiple partners and has acted as principal investigator in several research projects funded by public agencies at the European and National level, and by private organizations. He is also active in academic entrepreneurship through Quantavis s.r.l. and other technology transfer initiatives. Giuseppe Iannaccone has authored and co-authored more than 270 papers published in peer- reviewed journals and more than 160 papers in proceedings of international conferences, gathering more than 10K citations on the Scopus database. Prof. Iannaccone received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from the University of Pisa in 1992 and 1996.

Atif Iqbal (Fellow, IEEE) received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India, in 1991 and 1996, respectively, and Ph.D. degree from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, U.K., in 2006. He received the D.Sc. degree (Habilitation) in control, informatics, and electrical engineering from the Gdansk University of Technology, Gdansk, Poland in 2019. He is a Full Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar, and a former Full Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering, AMU, Aligarh, India. Prof. Iqbal is Honorary Adjunct Professor at M.A. American University, Nigeria, and Bharath University, India. He is also Adjunct Faculty at the Community College, Doha, Qatar. Prof. Iqbal has been listed in top 2% highly cited scientists of the world (Stanford University, USA) since 2019. Dr. Iqbal is also Fellow of IET (UK), IE (India), AIAA (Asia Pacific), and AIIA (Asia). He has published widely in international journals and conferences on his research findings related to power electronics, variable speed drives, e-mobility, smart grid, complex energy transition, micro and nano grids and renewable energy sources. He has authored or coauthored more than 600 research articles, 8 patents, four books and several chapters in edited books. He has supervised several large research and development projects worth several million USD. He has supervised 21 PhDs. He was also a recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Merit Award for the year 2014–2015 and the Research Excellence Awards at Qatar University, in 2015, and 2022. He received the Research Excellence Award from the College of Engineering, Qatar University in 2019. He received several best research papers awards in top International Conferences. He serves as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Qatar Section. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Industrial Electronics, Senior Editor IEEE Access and an Editorial Board Member of IEEE Access.

Yumi Iwashita (S’04-M’07-SM2020) is a Robotics Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California and an adjunct associate professor at Kyushu University, Japan, since 2016. She received her M.S. degree and her Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University in 2004 and 2007 respectively. In 2007, she was a postdoctoral scholar at Imperial College London under Professor Maria Petrou. From 2007 to 2014, she was an assistant professor at Kyushu University. From 2011 to 2013, she was a visiting scientist at NASA JPL. From 2014 to 2016, she was an associate professor at Kyushu University. She has over 14 years of engineering experience in performing and leading research in computer vision and machine learning. Before 2020 she led six projects funded by the Japan government, six JPL sponsored projects, and three projects funded by a commercial company. Research topics include motion capture system, gait-based person recognition for CCTV cameras, terrain classification for future Mars rovers, localization of underwater vehicles, and forecast of Earth-based resource production.

Abbas Jamalipour is the Professor of Ubiquitous Mobile Networking at the University of Sydney, Australia, and holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Nagoya University, Japan 1996. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2007), Institute of Electrical, Information, and Communication Engineers (IEICE 2010), and the Institution of Engineers Australia (2004), an ACM Professional Member, and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.

Prof. Bahram Javidi is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at University of Connecticut, the highest rank and honor bestowed on faculty by UConn, based on research, teaching, and service. His interests are in a broad range of transformative imaging approaches using optics and photonics, and he has made seminal contributions to passive and active multi-dimensional imaging from nano to micro and macro scales. Prof. Javidi’s research has been recognized by awards and prizes from major scientific societies. He has been awarded The Optica Society (a. k. a. OSA) Emmett Leith Medal, and C. E. K. Mees Medal (2019); The IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award (2019); The Optica Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize (2018); and the European Physical Society (EPS) Prize for Applied Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics (2015). He was awarded the IEEE Donald G. Fink Paper Prize (2008), chosen from among all, that is over 130 IEEE transactions, journals, and magazines; the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow Award (2008); the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Prize (2007); the SPIE Technology Achievement Award (2008); and the SPIE Dennis Gabor Award in Diffractive Wave Technologies (2005). He was named an IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2004 and 2005; and was the 2010 recipient of the George Washington University's Distinguished Alumni Scholar Award, the university’s highest honor for its alumni in all disciplines. He has been named Fellow of several societies, including IEEE, Optica (OSA), SPIE, American Inst. for Medical & Biological Eng, European Optical Society, National Academy of Inventors, and Institute of Physics. Prof. Javidi was selected in 2003 as one of the nation's top 160 engineers between the ages of 30-45 by the National Academy of Engineering to be an invited speaker at The Frontiers of Engineering Conference. He is an alumnus of the Frontiers of Engineering of National Academy of Engineering since 2003. Early in his career, the National Science Foundation (USA) named him a Presidential Young Investigator; and he received the Engineering Foundation and IEEE Faculty Initiation Awards.

Cecile Jung-Kubiak (Senior Member, IEEE) received her M.S degree in physics and materials chemistry from Polytech Montpellier, Montpellier, France (2006), and her Ph.D. degree in physics from Universite Paris-Sud XI, Orsay, France (2009). She was the recipient of a two-year NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship with the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 2010, and is currently the Technical Group Lead for the development of Advanced Microsensors and Microsystems at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. She has co-authored more than 100 papers in international journals and conferences and holds 9 patents. Her research interests include the development of silicon-based micro-instruments, the miniaturization of multipixel arrays at THz frequencies and micro-electrospray propulsion systems. Dr. Jung-Kubiak was the recipient of the 2020 NASA Early Career Public Achievement Medal, the 2018 JPL Lew Allen Award, the 2014 IEEE Terahertz Science and Technology Best Paper Award and the 2010 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Award in the field of technology, instrumentation, and engineering.

Hulya Kirkici is Professor and the Department Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of South Alabama. She received B.S. and M.S. in physics from Middle East Technical University (METU), Turkey; and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Polytechnic University (currently NYU), NY. Previously, Dr. Kirkici was a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Auburn University (1992-2016), visiting scholar/consultant and Summer Faculty Fellow at the Air Force Research Laboratory – Wright Patterson Air Force Base, (2014-2015), and visiting scientist/engineer at NASA, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL (1999-2000). Dr. Kirkici’s research interests span from electrical insulation and high-frequency dielectric breakdown in space and aerospace power systems to repetitive pulsed power. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles, authored numerous technical reports, and given plenary and invited talks nationally and internationally (USA, Turkey, Japan, S. Korea, Australia, and China). Dr. Kirkici is a Senior Editor of IEEE Access (2021 – present) and has served on the IEEE Access Editorial Board (2014 - 2019). She has been a member of PSPB Strategic Planning Committee (2021 – 2023) and served as a member of TAB/PSPB Product and Services Committee (2021 – 2022). Dr. Kirkici was Governor-at-Large of the IEEE-HKN Board (2021 – 2023), is a member of the IEEE-HKN Bridge Magazine Editorial Board (2020 - present), and was a member of IEEE N&A Committee and Chair of the PSPB N&A Committee (2020 – 2022). Dr. Kirkici was the IEEE Vice President – Publications, Chair of the IEEE of Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB), and an IEEE Director in 2019. She was the President of IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS) (2009-2010), Vice President of IEEE Sensors Council (2014-2015), Treasurer and Finance Chair of the Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB), a member of IEEE Finance Committee (2012-2014), and was the Chair of PSPB Publication Conduct Committee (2018), among other volunteer services.

Agnieszka Konczykowska (Life Fellow, IEEE) received her M.S. (1971) in Applied Mathematics and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1977) from Warsaw University of Technology. She worked with Warsaw University of Technology (1971-1981) on CAD tools and design methodologies, in particular using graph theory, symbolic analysis and artificial intelligence in analog circuit design. From 1981 to 1999 she was with CNET research Laboratory of France Telecom working on tools and methodologies of semiconductor device modeling combined with characterization of passive and active components of integrated circuits. During 1999-2005 she was with Alcatel R&D Laboratory and worked on circuit design (switched-capacitor circuits, microwave circuits, very high speed analog and digital circuits). From 2005 to 2018, she was in charge of microelectronic design activity at III-V Lab, joint laboratory of Nokia Bell Labs, Thales Research and Technology and CEA/Leti, France. She is presently with ADesign working for III-V Lab in the domain of components and circuits for telecommunication systems (optical and wireless).

Gitta Kutyniok (Fellow, IEEE) currently has a Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and is in addition affiliated with the DLR-German Aerospace Center and the University of Tromso. She received her Diploma in Mathematics and Computer Science as well as her Ph.D. degree from the Universität Paderborn in Germany, and her Habilitation in Mathematics in 2006 at the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen. From 2001 to 2008 she held visiting positions at several US institutions, including Princeton University, Stanford University, Yale University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Washington University in St. Louis. In 2008, she became a full professor of mathematics at the Universität Osnabrück, and moved to Berlin three years later, where she held an Einstein Chair in the Institute of Mathematics at the Technische Universität Berlin and a courtesy appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering until 2020. In 2023, together with colleagues she founded the start-up EcoLogic Computing GmbH. Gitta Kutyniok has received various awards for her research such an award from the Universität Paderborn in 2003, the Research Prize of the Justus-Liebig Universität Gießen and a Heisenberg-Fellowship in 2006, and the von Kaven Prize by the DFG in 2007. She was invited as the Noether Lecturer at the ÖMG-DMV Congress in 2013, a plenary lecturer at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics (8ECM) in 2021, and the lecturer of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) Invited Lecture Series in 2022. She was also honored by invited lectures at both the International Congress of Mathematicians 2022 (ICM 2022) and the International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2023). Moreover, she was elected as a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2017 and of the European Academy of Sciences in 2022, became a SIAM Fellow in 2019 and an IEEE Fellow in 2024, and served as Vice President-at-Large of SIAM from 2021 to 2023. She currently acts as LMU-Director of the Konrad Zuse School of Excellence in Reliable AI (relAI) in Munich and is spokesperson of the DFG-Priority Program "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning" and of the AI-HUB@LMU, which is the interdisciplinary platform for research, teaching, and transfer in AI and data science at LMU. Gitta Kutyniok's research work covers, in particular, the areas of applied and computational harmonic analysis, artificial intelligence, compressed sensing, deep learning, imaging sciences, inverse problems, and applications to life sciences, robotics, and telecommunication.

GERMANO LAMBERT-TORRES (S’87–M’90–SM’13–F’14) received the B.S. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering from the Federal University of Itajuba (UNIFEI), Itajuba, Brazil, the B.S. degree in economics from the South Minas Gerais Economic and Social Sciences Faculty, Itajuba, the B.S. degree in mathematics from the Itajuba Faculty of Sciences and Languages, Itajuba, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the École Polytechnique de Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, in 1990. From 1983 to 2012, he was a Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, UNIFEI. From 2000 to 2004, he was the Prorector of Research and Graduate Studies at UNIFEI. He also serves a member of two high committees in Brazil, one for Education: Member of National Final Exam for undergraduate electrical engineers (PROVAO), 1998-2003, and other for Research: Member of National Council for Research (CA-EE CNPq), 2004-2007. From 1995 to 1996, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Currently, he is Director of R&D at PS Solutions, Brazil, and Member of the Scientific-Technical Council at Gnarus Institute, Brazil. He was a member of the IEEE Fellow Committee in the Industry Application Society (IEEE IAS) and the Education Society (IEEE EdSoc). Also, he was a member of the IEEE Medal in Power Engineering Committee. He also serves as a consultant for many power industries in Brazil and South America, with more than 150 R&D developed projects for power companies. He is a member of several committees in Brazilian Governmental and Regulatory Agencies, such as The Ministry of Education (MEC), The Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), The National Electric Energy Agency (ANEEL), and The National Petroleum Agency (ANP). He has taught numerous IEEE and IFAC tutorials in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Dr. Lambert-Torres is a member of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems Applications to Power Systems (ISAP) international board. He serves on several committees related to intelligent systems, including IEEE and the International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRÉ). He served as the General Chair for ISAP in 1999 and 2009, as well as Vice-General Chair for ISAP in 2001 and the Congress on Logic Applied to Technology in 2003 and 2007.

Dr. Xiaoli Li is currently the Department Head of the Machine Intellection Department at the Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R), A*STAR, Singapore, which consists of over 100 AI and data scientists, making it the largest AI and data science group in Singapore. He also serves as a Senior Principal Scientist at I²R and as the Technical Director of the AI for Manufacturing Centre of Excellence, which is a national initiative funded by Ministry of Trade & Industry Singapore. Additionally, Xiaoli holds an adjunct professorship at Nanyang Technological University and previously held a similar position at the National University of Singapore for six years. He is an IEEE Fellow and a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). His research focuses on AI and deep learning, with a particular emphasis on time series data analytics, learning with limited training data, and domain adaptation. He has published over 360 peer-reviewed papers, with widely cited works in areas such as time series data analytics, positive unlabeled learning, and graph data analytics. Xiaoli frequently delivers keynote addresses, distinguished lectures, tutorials, and invited talks. His contributions have earned him numerous accolades, including 10 Best Paper Awards and recognition as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher. He has held numerous leadership roles in academic community, including serving as Chair and Area Chair for leading conferences in AI, data mining, and machine learning. Additionally, he serves as an editor for several high-impact journals. Xiaoli has extensive industry experience, leading research teams to address real-world challenges across various sectors. He has successfully spearheaded over 10 R&D projects in collaboration with industry partners, including leading organizations in aerospace, manufacturing, semiconductor, telecommunications, and insurance. His expertise in AI, data mining, and machine learning has enabled him to develop innovative solutions tailored to the needs of these industries.

Nigel Lovell received the B.E. (Hons) and Ph.D. degrees from UNSW Sydney, Australia. He is currently at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering UNSW Sydney where he holds a position of Scientia Professor and Head of School. He is also the inaugural Director of a Tyree Institute of Health Engineering (IHealthE) supporting medical technology translation to meet unmet health needs. He has authored 750+ journal papers and conference proceedings, and been awarded over $USD 80 million in R&D funding. He has successfully spun-out medical device companies and taken telehealth technologies through regulatory approval pathways. Over his career he has mentored 100 PhD students and delivered more than a hundred keynote presentations. He is a Fellow of seven learned academies and societies throughout the world including the IEEE and AIMBE. His research work has covered areas of expertise ranging from cardiac and retinal modeling, medical informatics and data analytics especially related to telehealth technologies, biological signal processing, and implantable bionics including visual prosthesis design. For this work he was awarded an IEEE Millenium Medal in 2000 and an IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2015. For 2017 and 2018 he was the President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

Imran Mehdi (BSEE 1985, MSEE 1986 and Ph.D 1990, University of Michigan) is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. He joined JPL in 1990 and is currently a Group Supervisor leading research and development in submillimeter-wave applications in space. His responsibilities include developing THz components, technologies and subsystems for current and future NASA missions. These devices and components were implemented on the ozone-monitoring Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) instrument which is still operational as well as the (Microwave Instrument on Rosetta Orbiter) MIRO instrument which represents the first submillimeter-wave receiver operational in deep-space. From 1999 he led the effort of developing broadband solid-state sources from 200 to 2500 GHz for the Heterodyne Instrument for Far Infrared (HIFI) on the Herschel Space Observatory, a cornerstone European Space Agency mission. He is an IEEE Fellow and served as the Editor in Chief for the IEEE Transactions on THz Science and Technology from 2019-2022. He is recipient of a number of NASA awards including the NASA Exceptional Technology Achievement Medal for “outstanding innovation and expertise in development and implementation of the submillimeter-wave membrane-based Schottky diodes for the HIFI Spectrometer on Herschel.” He currently leads the Submillimeter-Wave Advanced Technology group at JPL which is focused on developing space instruments based on Schottky, Superconducting-insulating-superconducting (SIS) and Hot Eleectron Bolometer (HEB) technologies based on the desired application and science investigation. His group has also led the development of submillimeter-wave radars, ASIC based high-spead spectrometers and leaky-wave micro-lens in recent years. The group regularly implements submillimeter-wave instruments in air-borne platforms and high-altitude balloon platforms. Dr. Mehdi has over 100 publications and is an elected member of the IEEE-Microwave Theory and Techniques Administrative Committee (AdCom, 2023-2025). He serves on the Budget and MGA committees and will Chair the Publications Committee (2025-26). His current interests include millimeter and submillimeter-wave devices and technology, nanotechnology, high-frequency space instrumentation, 3D Submm-wave systems, and development of compact, low-power heterodyne receiver arrays for deep-space missions.

Michal Mrozowski received the M.Sc. degree in Radiocommunication Engineering and PhD in Electronic Engineering, both with first class honors, from the Gdansk University of Technology in 1983 and 1990, respectively. In 1986, he joined Department of Electronics, Gdansk University of Technology where he is now a Full Professor, the Head of the Department of Microwave and Antenna Engineering. His research interests are concerned with the theory of guided electromagnetic waves, computational electromagnetics and photonics and microwave engineering. His current work is focused on the development of new fast numerical techniques for solving Maxwell’s equations in 3D boundary using multicore architectures and graphics processing units, automated microwave filter design using full-wave numerical methods, microwave filter synthesis, optimization techniques, CAD/EDA of passive microwave circuits, reduced order models for mesh-based numerical techniques (e.g. FDTD and FEM), surrogate model construction, and SPICE model generation Prof. M. Mrozowski is a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy, and an elected corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is a past vice-dean for research of ETI Faculty, past chairman of the Polish AES/AP/MTT Chapter. Between 2015 and 2021 he served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE, and in 2004-2005 he was Associate Editor for the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters. He published one book and over 100 peer reviewed papers in IEEE journals and has developed several computational modules that were then integrated into commercial microwave CAD/EDA software. He was awarded almost 20 research grants from various agencies in Poland, European Union and the United States.

Toru Namerikawa received his B.E., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan, in 1991, 1993, and 1997, respectively. In 2009, he joined Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, where he is currently a Professor with the Department of System Design Engineering and a Director of the School of Integrated Design Engineering, Graduate School of Science and Technology. He has held visiting positions at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in 1998, University of California, Santa Barbara in 2001, University of Stuttgart in 2008 and Lund University in 2010. He is serving as an associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Control Systems Technology and IET Control Theory and Applications, and a Co Editor-in-Chief of Mechatronics. His main research interests are distributed and cooperative control, game theory, and their application to cyber-physical systems including mobility, security, and power networks. He received the 2014 Pioneer Technology Award from SICE Control Division and the 2017 Outstanding Paper Award from SICE.

Michele Nappi received the laurea degree (cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Salerno, Italy, in 1991, the M.SC. degree in Information and Communication Technology from I.I.A.S.S. "E.R. Caianiello," in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1997. He is currently a full professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno. Author of more than 200 papers in peer review international journals, international conferences and book chapters, He is co-editor of several international books. His research interests include pattern recognition, image processing, image compression and indexing, multimedia databases and biometrics, human computer interaction, vr\ar. Dr. Nappi serves as associate editor and managing guest editor for several international journals. He is also a TPC member of international conferences. He is team leader of the Biometric and Image Processing Lab (BIPLAB) and received several international awards for scientific and research activities. IEEE Senior Member, GIRPR/IAPR Member, He has been the President of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Biometrics Council. In 2014 He was one of the founders of the spin off BS3 (biometric system for security and safety).

Dalma Novak is VP of Engineering at Octane Wireless where she develops high-performance RF-over-fiber technologies for commercial and defense wireless applications. She is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Dr. Novak has over 30 years of experience working in the optical and wireless communications fields. She has contributed several book chapters on the design of fiber-wireless communication systems and has more than 300 publications in these areas, including several book chapters and patents. Dr. Novak has extensive technical leadership and project management experience in both the industrial and academic sectors. Prior to co-founding Pharad in 2004, she spent 12 years as a Professor and Chair of Telecommunications in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Melbourne, Australia. From June 2001 – December 2003 she was a Technical Section Lead at the venture-backed Dorsál Networks, Inc. and later at Corvis Corporation where she led cross-disciplinary R&D teams developing hardware for long-haul transmission systems. In 2007 she was elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow for her contributions to enabling technologies for the implementation of fiber-radio systems. In 2018 she received the IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award. Dr. Novak was a member of the IEEE Board of Directors as Director of IEEE Division X during 2021– 2022. She received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (with First Class Honors) and Doctor of Philosophy from The University of Queensland, in 1987 and 1992, respectively.

Arnold (Neville) Pears (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. degrees from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He is currently Foundation Professor and Chair of the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Professor Pears leads KTH participation in several projects funded by the European Union and NordPlus, and coordinates KTH participation in two Swedish Research Council funded graduate schools. He has published over 40 journal articles and more than 150 refereed conference papers in highly ranked international conferences and journals. His research interests include engineering education, computing education, and computer networks and architecture. His IEEE profile includes serving on the Computer Society and Education Society Boards of Governors. He is IEEE Education Society President Elect, and will serve as 2025-2026 IEEE Education Society President.

Hugo Proença (SM’12), B.Sc. (2001), M.Sc. (2004) and Ph.D. (2007) is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior (Portugal) and has been researching mainly about biometrics in non-cooperative scenarios and visual-surveillance. He was the coordinating editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter and the area editor (ocular biometrics) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium Journal. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Image and Vision Computing, IEEE Access and International Journal of Biometrics.

Susanto Rahardja is a Professor of Infocomm Technology Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His research activities and interests are in multimedia, signal processing, wireless communications, discrete transforms, machine learning and signal processing algorithms and implementation. He contributed to the development of a series of audio compression technologies such as Audio Video Standards AVS-L, AVS-2 and ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006, ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006 in which some have been licensed worldwide. Dr Rahardja has published more than 300 papers and has been granted more than 70 patents worldwide out of which 15 are US patents. Professor Rahardja was past Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, past Senior Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and is currently serving as Associate Editors for the Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He was the Conference Chair of 5th ACM SIGGRAPHASIA in 2012 and APSIPA 2nd Summit and Conference in 2010 and 2018 as well as other conferences in ACM, SPIE and IEEE. Dr Rahardja is a recipient of several honors including the IEE Hartree Premium Award, the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors' Open Category Gold award, the Singapore National Technology Award, A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor Award, Finalist of the 2010 World Technology & Summit Award, the Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor Award, the ACM Recognition of Service Award and the Thousand Talent Plan of People’s Republic of China. Professor Rahardja graduated with a B.Eng from National University of Singapore, the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He attended the Stanford Executive Programme at the Graduate School of Business in Stanford University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore.

Gianluca Setti (Fellow, IEEE) received a Dr. Eng. degree (honors) and a Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Bologna, in 1992 and in 1997. From 1997 to 2017 he was with the School of Engineering, University of Ferrara (IT), from 2017 to 2022 he was with Politecnico di Torino (IT) and since November 2022 he is the Dean of the Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Faculty and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA. He was Visiting Professor/Scientist at EPFL (2002,2005), UCSD (2004), IBM (2004,2007) and at the University of Washington (2008,2010). He (co-)authored over 300 journal/conference papers. Dr. Setti is (co)recipient of the IEEE CASS Darlington Award (2004), Guillemin-Cauer Award (2013), Meritorious Service Award (2013), IEEE TBioCAS best paper award (2019), best (student) paper award at ECCTD2006, EMCZurich2005, IEEE ISCAS2011, IEEE EMCCOMPO2019 IEEE PRIME2019. He is/has been consulting for several companies including STMicroelectonics, National Semiconductors, TI and Analog Devices. He has also a considerable experience in research evaluation, having served as member/chair (2012-2013/2015-2016) of the Industrial and Information Engineering Panel of the Italian Research Evaluation Exercise (VQR).

Peter H. Siegel (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.A. degree in astronomy from Colgate University, in 1976, the M.S. degree in physics from Columbia University, in 1978, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering (EE) from Columbia University in 1983. He has held appointments as a Research Fellow and Engineering Staff with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York City, NY, USA, from 1975 to 1983, a Staff Scientist with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Central Development Labs, Charlottesville, VA, USA, from 1984 to 1986, a Technical Group Supervisor and Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Pasadena, CA, USA, from 1987 to 2014, and a Faculty Associate in electrical engineering and Senior Scientist in biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, USA, from 2002 to 2014. At JPL, he founded and led for 25 years, the Submillimeter Wave Advanced Technology (SWAT) Team, a group of over 20 scientists and engineers developing THz technology for NASA’s near and long-term space missions. This included delivering key components for four major satellite missions and leading more than 75 smaller research and development programs for NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense. At Caltech, he was involved in new biological and medical applications of THz, especially low-power effects on neurons and most recently millimeter-wave monitoring of blood chemistry. He was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and the Vice-Chair and Chair of the IEEE MTTS THz Technology Committee. He is currently an elected member of the MTTS AdCom. He has more than 300 articles on THz components and technology and has given more than 250 invited talks on this subject throughout his career of 45 years in THz. His current appointments include the CEO of THz Global, a small research and development company specializing in RF bio-applications, a Senior Scientist Emeritus of biology and electrical engineering with Caltech, and a Senior Research Scientist Emeritus and a Principal Engineer with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Siegel has been recognized with 75 NASA technology awards, ten NASA team awards, the NASA Space Act Award, three individual JPL awards for technical excellence, four JPL team awards, and the IEEE MTTS Applications Award in 2018. He is honored to continue the responsibilities in 2022, as the Founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JOURNAL OF MICROWAVES, which he hopes will continue to invigorate the microwave field. Among many other functions, he served as the Founding Editor-in-Chief for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON TERAHERTZ SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY, from 2010 to 2015, and he is the Founder, in 2009, Chair through 2011, and annually elected General Secretary (since 2012), of the International Society of Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), the world’s largest non-profit society devoted to THz science and technology.

Dr. Georgia Tourassi is the Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Concurrently, she holds appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at Duke University and as a joint UT-ORNL Professor of the Bredesen Center Data Science Program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Under her leadership, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility delivered Frontier in 2022, the world’s first exascale computing system dedicated to open science. Her scholarly work includes 13 US patents and innovation disclosures, 2 R&D 100 awards, and more than 260 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, editorials, and book chapters. She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Her research interests include high performance computing and artificial intelligence in biomedicine. For her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer initiative, she received the DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016. In 2017, she received the ORNL Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology and the UT-Battelle Distinguished Researcher Award. In 2020, Dr. Tourassi received the DOE’s Secretary Honors Award for contributing to the COVID-19 Insights Partnership Team and the COVID-19 HPC Resource Team. Tourassi holds a B.S. in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.

Keith A. Wear (Life Fellow, IEEE) received the B.A. degree in applied physics from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics, with a Ph.D. minor in electrical engineering, from Stanford University, Stanford, CA. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Physics Department, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA. He is currently a Research Physicist with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD, USA. Dr. Wear is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Acoustical Society of America, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM). He received the 2019 AIUM Joseph H. Holmes Basic Science Pioneer Award. He served as Associate Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control (IEEE-TUFFC) (2019-2021). He has served as Associate Editor of IEEE-TUFFC (2002-2021), Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2012-present), and Ultrasonic Imaging (2013-present). He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Access (2024-present). He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2008 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Beijing, China. He was the General Program Chair of the 2017 IEEE IUS, Washington, DC, USA. He has served as the Chair of the AIUM Technical Standards Committee (2014-2016), AIUM Bioeffects Committee (2021-2023), AIUM Basic Science and Instrumentation Community (2004-2006 and 2014-2016), and AIUM Therapeutic Ultrasound Community (2013-2015). He is the Chair of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 333 on Magnetic Resonance Guided Focused Ultrasound Quality Assurance. He served as an invited instructor in five short courses at the IEEE IUS (2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2023). He served on the IEEE UFFC Administrative Committee (2016-2018) and Ultrasonics Committee (2015-2019). His research interests include hydrophone measurement methodology, therapeutic ultrasound, photoacoustics, quantitative ultrasound, and wearable ultrasound.

Hengyong Yu is a Full Professor and the Director of the Imaging and Informatics Lab at UMass Lowell. He received his Bachelor degree in information science & technology (1998) and PhD degree in Information and Communication Engineering (2003) from Xi’an Jiaotong University. Currently, his research focuses on data-driven artificial intelligence methods for medical imaging and image processing, with an emphasis on computed tomography. He has authored/coauthored >200 peer-reviewed journal papers with an H-index of 50. As PI or key investigator, he has received >20 major grants with a total budget of >$25M. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of JSM Biomedical Imaging Data Papers, serves as an Editorial Board member or associate editor for IEEE TMI, IEEE Access, Medical Physics, Signal Processing, etc. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, AAPM, AIMBE, AAIA, and AIIA. In 2005, he received the first prize for a best natural science paper from the Association of Science & Technology of Zhejiang Province. In January 2012, he received an NSF CAREER award for development of CS-based interior tomography. In September 2022, he received the IEEE R1 Technological Innovation Award (Academic) for “pioneering contributions and international leadership in tomographic imaging, especially interior tomography and machine learning-based tomographic imaging”.

C. Patrick Yue (S’93–M’98–SM’05–F’15) received the B.S. degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (Highest Hons.) from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1994 and 1998, respectively. Based on his Ph.D. thesis work, he co-founded Atheros Communications in 1998 and contributed to the development and deployment of the world's first IEEE802.11a CMOS Wi-Fi transceiver system-on-chip (SoC). In 2002, he joined Aeluros to work on CMOS high-speed PHY/SerDes IC design and signal integrity issues in chip packaging. In 2003, he joined Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2006, he moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara and was promoted to full professor in 2010. Since 2011, he has been a Professor in ECE at HKUST. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the first Associate Provost for Knowledge Transfer at HKUST. Currently, he is the Director of the HKUST Integrated Circuit Design Center, the Optical Wireless Lab, and the HKUST-Qualcomm Lab. Prof. Yue is a Member of ACM and a Fellow of IEEE and OSA.