Néstor Becerra Yoma was born in Santiago, Chile. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. He is a full professor at the University of Chile. He started the Speech Processing and Transmission Laboratory, where he has investigated artificial intelligence and signal processing applied to multidisciplinary topics.

Dr. Celia Cintas is a Research Scientist at IBM Research Africa - Nairobi. She is a member of the AI Science team at the Kenya Lab. Her current research focuses on the improvement of ML techniques to address challenges on Global Health in developing countries and exploring subset scanning for anomaly detection under generative models.

Dr. Lina J. Karam is an Emerita Professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University and Director of the R&D Image, Video & Usability (IVU) Lab. She is currently Chief Technical Advisor at AIAEC and expert consultant for various industries and firms in the areas of signal processing, computer vision, AI/machine learning, image and video processing and compression.

Midia Yousefi is a distinguished Senior Research Scientist within the Cloud and AI division at Microsoft, where she is actively engaged in a spectrum of research initiatives pertaining to audio and speech technologies.

Mehrnaz Shokrollahi is passionate about technology and AI, with a special focus on championing women in these fields. Currently, she serves as the Director of Data Science & Advanced Analytics at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). 

Laure Blanc-Féraud received her Ph.D. degree and habilitation to conduct research in inverse problems in image processing from University Côte d’Azur in 1989 and 2000, respectively. She is a researcher with Informatique Signaux et Systèmes at Sophia Antipolis (I3S) Lab, the University Côte d’Azur, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Sophia Antipolis, France.

Pierre Comon is currently Emeritus Research Director with CNRS. He received the Doctorate degree in 1985 from the University of Grenoble, and the Habilitation to Lead Researches in 1995, from the University of Nice, France. 

Professor Konstantinos N (Kostas) Plataniotis is the Bell Canada Endowed Chair in Multimedia and a professor with The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto (UofT) in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he directs the Multimedia Laboratory.

Dr. Arpan Pal has more than 30 years of experience in the area of Intelligent Sensing, Signal Processing &AI, Edge Computing and Affective Computing. Currently, he serves as a Distinguished Chief Scientist and Research Area Head, Embedded Devices and Intelligent Systems, TCS Research. He is working in the areas of Connected Health, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Retail and Remote Sensing.

Dr. Yang Lei is a Principal Research Engineer and Tech Lead at HP, leading the efforts of developing computer vision solutions for computing products. Her work has been applied to various domains, including video conferencing, life science, digital manufacturing, education, etc.