Contributor Biographies

Raed A. Abd-Alhameed is Professor of Electromagnetic and Radio Frequency Engineering at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He has many years' research experience in the areas of radio frequency, signal processing, propagations, antennas and electromagnetic computational techniques, and has published over 400 academic journal and conference papers, in addition to three books and several book chapters. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Chartered Engineer.

Abdulkareem S. Abdullah is associate professor at the Electrical Engineering department of the College of Engineering, Basrah University, Iraq. He has worked in this department since 1986 and was the head of the department for over seven years. He was appointed as a research visitor at Bradford University in November 2013, working on DRA antennas. He has published over 40 journals and conference papers and his current research interests include smart antenna design and analysis, microwaves technology and radio waves propagation.

Olayinka Adigun is a researcher at Kingston University, London. He holds a BSc in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (2004), an MSc in Networking and Data Communication with Management Studies and a PhD in Wireless Communications from Kingston University (2008 and 2013, respectively). Prior to his research activities, he has worked in different capacities in the field of Information and Communication Technology and as a Telecommunication Engineer at Zain Telecoms. His research interests include 5G and future wireless networks, cognitive radio and spectrum management, emergency communications, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, green communication and energy efficiency in wireless networks, cross-layer design and performance measurements. Olayinka has a good number of publications in top conferences and journals and he is a member of the IEEE society.

Rui L. Aguiar received a PhD degree in electrical engineering in 2001 from the University of Aveiro. He is currently a professor at the University of Aveiro and has previously been an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University. He is leading a research team at ITAV on next-generation network architectures and protocols. His current research interests are centred on the implementation of advanced wireless networks and systems, with special emphasis on QoS and mobility aspects for the Future Internet. He has more than 400 published papers in those areas. He has served as technical and general chair of several conferences, such as (recently) Monami 2012, NTMS 2014, ISCC 2014 and MobiArch 2014, and is regularly invited for keynotes on 5G networks. He has extensive participation in national and international projects, and was Chief Architect of the IST Daidalos project. He is currently on the Steering Board of the 5G PPP Association.

Bo Ai received his MSc and PhD degrees from Xidian University in China. He graduated from Tsinghua University with the honor of Excellent Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in 2007. He is now working in the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety at Beijing Jiaotong University as a full professor and PhD candidate advisor. He is the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety and the Deputy Director of the Modern Telecommunication Institute. He is one of the main people responsible for Beijing's 'Urban rail operation control system' International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and the backbone member of the Innovative Engineering Base jointly granted by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He has authored/co-authored six books and published over 160 academic research papers in his research area. He has held 13 national invention patents and one US patent. He has been the research team leader for 21 national projects and has won some important scientific research prizes. He has been notified by the Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) that, based on the Scopus database, he has been listed as one of the top 1% of authors in his field all over the world. Professor Bo Ai has also been featured interviewed by IET Electronics Letters. His interests include the research and applications of channel measurement and channel modelling, and dedicated mobile communications for rail traffic. Professor Bo Ai is a Fellow of The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) and a senior member of IEEE. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics and an Editorial Committee Member of the Wireless Personal Communications journal. He has received many awards, such as the Qiushi Outstanding Youth Award by the Hong Kong Qiushi Foundation, the New Century Talents award by the Chinese Ministry of Education, the Zhan Tianyou Railway Science and Technology Award by the Chinese Ministry of Railways, and the Science and Technology New Star by the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission.

Selim Akl holds a PhD degree from McGill University, Canada. He is a professor of computing at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where he currently serves as director of the Queen's School of Computing. His research interests are in parallel and unconventional computation, including quantum and biomolecular computers, and non-standard computational problems. He is the author of Parallel Sorting Algorithms (Academic Press, 1985), The Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms (Prentice Hall, 1989), and Parallel Computation: Models and Methods (Prentice Hall, 1997), and a co-author of Parallel Computational Geometry (Prentice Hall, 1992) and Adaptive Cryptographic Access Control (Springer, 2010). He is a former editor of the Journal of Cryptology, Information Processing Letters, and Parallel Algorithms and Applications. At present he is Editor-in-Chief of Parallel Processing Letters and Unconventional Computation and an Area Editor for Scalable Computing and Communications. He also currently serves on the editorial boards of Computational Geometry, Communications in Applied Geometry, the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems, the International Journal of Unconventional Computing, and the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking.

Luis Alonso received his PhD in the Department of Signal Theory and Communications of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2001. He currently belongs to and is co-founder (2009) of the Wireless Communications and Technologies Research Group (WiComTec). Since January 2014, he has been the Dean of the Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering School of Castelldefels at UPC-BarcelonaTECH. He participates in several research programmes, networks of excellence, Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) actions and integrated projects funded by the European Union and the Spanish government, while he is external audit expert for TUV Rheinland. He is currently the Project Coordinator of two European Projects (Marie Curie ITN and IAPP) and he has been the Project Coordinator of another three European projects. He is author of more than 40 research papers in international journals and magazines, one book, 12 chapters of books, and more than a hundred papers in international congresses and symposiums. His current research interests are still within the field of medium access protocols, radio resource management, cross-layer optimisation, cooperative transmissions, cognitive radio, network coding and QoS features for all kinds of wireless communications systems.

Angelos Antonopoulos received his PhD degree (cum laude) from the Signal Theory and Communications (TSC) Department of the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in December 2012, while he holds an MEng degree from the Information and Communication Systems Engineering Department of the University of the Aegean (2007). His main research interests include cooperative communications, MAC protocols, network coding and energy-efficient network planning. He has participated in several European and Spanish national projects (e.g. GREENET, Green-T, CO2GREEN, etc.) and has served as an expert evaluator of research projects funded by the Romanian government through the National Council for Scientific Research. He has been granted three annual scholarships by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and, recently, he has been awarded the First Polytechnic Graduates Prize by the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TGC).

Lisa Blumensaadt is an attorney whose experience includes telecom federal regulatory law, writing portions of regulation and monitoring policy while at the Federal Communications Commission. She was also a government relations analyst at the global government relations headquarters of Nortel Networks, tracking and analyzing federal telecom policy and international trade, representing Nortel in industry working groups, with various government agencies and Congress. Before law school, she was a regional recruiter for a mid-sized business technology company. While earning her J.D. she was selected for publication in law journal, and then held senior positions both at law journal and moot court. Her undergraduate studies were in Biology and Neuroscience. She currently sits on the board of a school nationally ranked in the top 100 in the U.S.

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