Al Bovik (LF ‘23) is currently he is a visiting professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering and the ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado Boulder and the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor at The University of Texas at Austin. 

Mathews Jacob is a professor in the Department of ECE at the University of Virginia. His research interests include computational medical imaging. He received a B.Tech from National Institute of Technology Calicut, M.E from the Indian Institute of Science, and Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Dr. Shoko Araki is a Senior Research Scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan, where she is currently leading the Signal Processing Research Group.

Chanwoo Kim is a professor at the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Korea University. Till 2023, he has been a corporate Executive Vice President (EVP) at Samsung Research, leading the Language and Voice Team (LVT).

Dr. Roula Nassif  received the Dipl.-Ing. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and industrial control in 2013 from Lebanese University, Beirut, and Compiègne University of Technology, France, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2016 from the University of Côte d’Azur, Nice, France. 

Mérouane Debbah is  Professor at  Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi and founding Director of the KU 6G Research Center. He is a frequent keynote speaker at international events in the field of telecommunication and AI. 

Dr. Yan Ye is currently the Head of Video Technology Lab of Alibaba’s Damo Academy in Sunnyvale California. Prior to Alibaba, she held various technical and management and positions at InterDigital, Dolby Laboratories, and Qualcomm.

Dr. Letícia Rittner is an Associate Professor (with tenure) at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. She is the co-founder and currently Director of the Medical Image Computing Laboratory, and also part of the Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN). 

Mário Figueiredo received his MSc (1990), PhD (1994), and habilitation (agregação) degrees, all in Electrical and  Computer Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), the school of engineering of the University of Lisbon, where he has been a professor since 1994.