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Prof. Rui L. Aguiar is currently a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, responsible by the area of Networks and Systems. He has been previously an adjunct professor at the INI, Carnegie Mellon University, a Visiting Research Scholar at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Brazil and an advisor for the Portuguese Government under the Secretaria de Estado das Comunicações. He is currently co-coordinating a research line in Instituto de Telecomunicações, on the area of Networks and Services. He is also the current Steering Board Chair of Networld Europe. He has been an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for topics associated with novel communication systems.  He has more than 500 papers published in journals and conferences across different scientific domains. He was involved in multiple groups of R&D and in the evaluation of networks and computation programmes in multiple countries. He has participated in more than two dozens of R&D european projects, in the areas of networks and distributed computing.

Ruiqi (Richie) Liu (Senior Member, IEEE) is a master researcher in the Wireless and Computing Research Institute of ZTE Corporation, responsible for long-term research as well as standardization. His main research interests include reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, integrated sensing and communication and 6G requirements. He is the author or co-author of several books and book chapters. He has made significant contributions to standardization of 5G / 5G-advanced in 3GPP by authoring and submitting more than 500 technical documents with over 100 approved, and serving as a rapporteur. He served as the chair of multiple correspondence and drafting groups in ITU-R WP5D towards 6G. He currently serves as the Vice Chair of ISG RIS in the ETSI. He is involved in organizing committees of international conferences and is invited to give multiple talks, including the keynote speech at IEEE Globecom 2024. He takes multiple leadership roles in the committees and boards in IEEE ComSoc and VTS, including the voting member of the ComSoc industry communities board. He served as the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IET Quantum Communication, the Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, the Editor of ITU Journal of Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET) and Guest Editor or Lead Guest Editor for a series of special issues. His recent awards include the 2022 SPCC-TC Outstanding Service Award, the Beijing Science and Technology Invention Award (Second Prize, 2023) and Best Paper Award from the Intelligent and Converged Networks (2025).

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Dr. Reinaldo A. Valenzuela: Member National Academy of Engineering, Fellow IEEE.  IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award. Bell Labs Fellow. WWRF Fellow, 2014 IEEE CTTC Technical Achievement Award, 2015 IEEE VTS Avant Garde Award. B.Sc. U. of Chile, Ph.D. Imperial College. Director, Communication Theory Department, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Laboratories. Engaged in propagation measurements and models, MIMO/space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays, HetNets, small cells and next generation air interface techniques and architectures. He has published over 250 papers and 44 patents. He has over 36,000 Google Scholar citations and is a 'Highly Cited Author' In Thomson ISI and a Fulbright Senior Specialist. 

Dr. Hao Xu is the Vice President of Engineering, Head of Qualcomm Research China and IEEE Fellow. Since 2003, he has been working at Qualcomm R&D, where he has led many research and standardization projects from 3G to 5G. His current research focus is 6G, AI and robotics. Prior to Qualcomm, he worked at Bell Lab’s Wireless Communication Research Lab. In 2003, he received the Bell-Labs President Gold Metal Award for his contributions to MIMO technology, including the early near field MIMO research.  Dr. Xu has 870+ US issued patents, numerous journal publications and over 20000 citations. In 2018, he received the Top Ten 5G Leading Figures Awards in China. He also won numerous industry awards for various 5G trials. He currently serves on IEEE Communications Society Awards Standing Committee, Industry Communities Board, Emerging Technologies Standing Committee, and the technical advisory board for HKUST ECE department. Dr. Xu received his B.S and M.S. from Moscow Power Engineering Institute and Technical University, Russia, in 1994 and 1996. He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2000. During his Ph.D., he pioneered the millimeter-wave propagation research at 38 GHz and 60 GHz with Dr. Rappaport. In 1999, he received the IEEE Communications Society Steve Rice Award.

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