National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan

He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA in 2011. He received his MS Mathematics from Georgia Tech in 2011 and MS Electrical Engineering from University of Stuttgart, Germany, in 2007. He was awarded BE Electrical Engineering (highest honors) from National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, in 2004. His broader area of research is signal processing for communications. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), NUST, where he is heading the Information Processing and Transmissions (IPT) research group, which focuses on various aspects of theoretical communications. Prior to joining SEECS, he worked as a research associate at Cisco Systems Inc., CA, USA. Dr. Hassan is a senior member of IEEE and IEEE Communications society, author/co-author of more than 100 papers and a reviewer for many IEEE journals and transactions. He has organized special sessions at IEEE IWCMC 2015, CROWNCOM 2015, PIRMC 2017, ISWCS 2016 etc and has chaired several sessions in international conferences and served as a TPC member for IEEE Globecom 2014, IEEE PIMRC 2013-2017, IEEE VTC 2013-2017, WCSP 2014, MILCOM 2014-17, IWCMC 2013-2017 among others.

National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia

He received the Ph. D. degree in Electronics, Electrical, and Communications Engineering in 2014, from the University College Dublin, Ireland. He received his MSc degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey in 2010 (under the University full graduate scholarship) and ranked as the first merit position holder of the department, and B. E. electronics engineering degree (with first-class honours) from Pakistan in 2009 and was ranked as the merit position holder of the University (under PTAP Scholarship.). From 2014 - 2016, he was a Postdoc Research  Fellow at the Institute of computer science,  University of Tartu, Estonia and Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway. From summer 2016, he is a Professor at the Department of Software Engineering, Institute of Cybernetics, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Russia, where he also serves as the Director of Tomsk Infocomm Lab. Dr.  Jayakody is a Member of IEEE and he has served as session chair or technical program committee member for various international conferences, such as IEEE PIMRC  2013/2014, IEEE WCNC 2014/2016, IEEE  VTC 2015 etc.  He currently serves as a lead guest editor for the Elsevier Physical Communications Journal and MDPI Information journal.

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

He received the Ph.D. degree from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001 and the Habilitation in Telecommunications from Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia (FCT), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL), in 2010. From 2001 to 2008 he was a Professor at IST. Currently he is an associated professor at FCT-UNL. During 2003 he was an invited professor at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He was a researcher at CAPS (Centro de Análise e Processamento de Sinal), IST, from 1992 to 2005 and a researcher at ISR (Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica) from 2005 to 2008. Since 2009 he is a researcher at IT (Instituto de Telecomunicações).  Rui Dinis is an IEEE Senior Member and editor at IEEE Transactions on Communications (Transmission Systems - Frequency-Domain Processing and Equalization), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Elsevier Physical Communication and Hindawi ISRN Communications and Networking. He was also a guest editor for Elsevier Physical Communication (Special Issue on Broadband Single-Carrier Transmission Techniques) and is currently a guest editor for Hindawi Mobile Information systems (Special Issue on Iterative Detection Schemes for MIMO Systems).

He was part of the IEEE ICT’2014 Organizing Committee (TCP co-chair) and is or was TPC member for some of the major IEEE conferences (ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, WCNC, PIMRC, etc.). He is also a member of several technical committees of IEEE Communications Society (SPCE, RCC, WC and CT).  Rui Dinis has been actively involved in several international research projects in the broadband wireless communications area (RACE project MBS, ACTS project SAMBA and IST projects B-BONE and C-MOBILE) and many national projects, most of them as nuclear researcher and/or in charge of his research center in multi-institutional projects. He has 20 PhD students (current and past), published 4 books, over 100 journal papers and book chapters and over 300 conference papers (of which 5 received best papers’ awards), and has 10 patents (attributed or pending). He was involved in pioneer projects on the use of mm-waves for broadband wireless communications (international projects MBS and SAMBA) and his main research activities are on modulation and transmitter design, nonlinear effects on digital communications and receiver design (detection, equalization, channel estimation and carrier synchronization), with emphasis on frequency-domain implementations, namely for MIMO systems and/or OFDM and SC-FDE modulations. He is also working on cross-layer design and optimization involving PHY, MAC and LLC issues, as well as indoor positioning techniques.