Biography: Boris Bellalta (EE, 2002; PhD, 2007) is a Full Professor at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) since 2021. His research interests are in the area of adaptive systems and wireless networks. The results from his research have been published in more than 125 international journal and conference papers, including top journals/conferences. He has received several best-paper awards. He is currently involved in several research projects as principal investigator in the area of wireless networks, adaptive systems and machine learning. He has supervised 10 PhD students, with 5 more on-going. At UPF he is giving several courses on networking, queueing theory, wireless networks and machine learning. He was the coordinator of the interuniversity (UPF and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Master’s Programme in Wireless Communications (2013-2018). He is currently Deputy director of the DTIC, in charge of Research, Innovation/Technology Transfer and coordinator of the PhD program.

Biography: Dr. Ilker Demirkol, IEEE Senior Member, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mining, Industrial and ICT Systems Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, where his research currently has the focus on network algorithmics, Internet of Things and mobile networks. He received the BSc., MSc., and PhD. degrees in computer engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Over the years, he has worked in a number of research laboratories and industrial corporations in Europe and the USA. He has coauthored more than 75 ACM/IEEE journal and conference papers, including the recipients of the Best Paper Award in IEEE ICC’13 and the Best Demo Award in IEEE MASS 2019. He is currently a member of the IEEE COMMAG Editorial Board and has been actively participating in IEEE conferences, e.g., as IEEE INFOCOM 2019 FlexNets Workshop TPC Chair, IEEE WCNC 2018 FlexNets Workshop Chair, IEEE CCNC’17-GCCN TPC Chair, and IEEE CCNC’15 Demo Chair.

Biography: I received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador, in 2012; the M.Sc. degree in communications engineering and networks from The University of Birmingham, England, United Kingdom, in 2016; and the Ph.D. in electronic engineering (artificial intelligence for wireless networks) at Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea, in 2020.
From 2017 to 2020, I was a Research Assistant with KIT Future Communications and Systems Laboratory in Gumi-si, Republic of Korea. I've also worked as a Research Fellow at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Currently, I'm a full-time lecturer at Yachay Tech University, where I have been serving as the Coordinator of Research for the School of Mathematical and Computational Sciences, the advisor of the IEEE Computer Society Yachay Tech, and the Director of DeepARC Research.
Currently, I am interested in exploring artificial intelligence as a computational tool to optimize engineering processes such as predictive analysis, robotics, mobile and wireless networks, computer vision, autonomous driving, and cryptography.

Biography: Andrea P. Guevara obtained her BSc in Electronics and Telecommunications at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador in 2013. In 2015 she got her MSc in Telecommunications by Research, and she was awarded the prize for the best academic performance in the same program by King’s College London, U.K. In 2016 she was a full-time teacher at the University of Cuenca in Antenna Theory, Introduction to the IoT, Physics, Electricity and Magnetism. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree with KU Leuven. Her main interests are massive MIMO, infrastructure sharing, spectrum sharing and interference suppression.