Aline Carneiro Viana
Research Director
INRIA, France
Aline Carneiro Viana is a Senior Research Director (DR1) at Inria Saclay, where she leads the TRiBE research team. She received the French Scientific Excellence Award for six years and was awarded the 2021 Medal of Honor by the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, for her distinguished societal contributions. She has published over 120 papers in top-tier conferences and peer-reviewed journals and has supervised 17 Ph.D. students, 7 postdoctoral fellows, and 11 interns. She has served on major conferences’ organizing and technical program committees, including ACM Mobicom, IEEE Infocom, IEEE LCN, and ACM SenSys. She is an Area Editor for the ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR) and an Associate Editor for EPJ Data Science. She has coordinated several international projects, including the EU CHIST-ERA MACACO, STIC AmSud UCOOL (with Latin American partners), and the Inria Associate Team EMBRACE (with Brazilian institutions). She was also a member of the Advisory Board of the EU-funded project PrepDSpace4Mobility, supporting the development of a European Data Space for Mobility. She coordinates the Mob Sci-Dat Factory Project (PEPR MOBIDEC) and the ANR PRC MITIK project. From 2017 to 2021, she was a member of the Direction Advisory Board at Inria Saclay and served as President of its Scientific Advisory Board from 2017 to 2019, having been a member since 2014. She also started and co-coordinated the mentoring program at Inria Saclay from 2019 to 2024.
Leana Golubchik
Professor, University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Leana Golubchik is the Stephen and Etta Varra Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (with a joint appointment in Computer Science) at USC. She also serves as the Director of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) program. Prior to that, she was on the faculty at the University of Maryland and Columbia University. Leana received her PhD from UCLA. Her research interests are broadly in the design and evaluation of large scale distributed systems, including hybrid clouds and data centers and their applications in data analytics, machine learning, and privacy. Leana is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems (ToMPECS). She received several awards, including the IBM Faculty Award, the NSF CAREER Award, and the Okawa Foundation Award; she is a member of the IFIP WG 7.3 and a Fellow of AAAS.
Ting He
Associate Professor
Penn State University
Pennsylvania, USA
Ting He joined Pennsylvania State University in August 2016 as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering. Before that, she worked for 9 years as a Research Staff Member in the Network Analytics Research Group at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. She received the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, in 2007 and the B.S. degree in Computer Science from Beijing University, China, in 2003.
At Penn State, Ting leads the Network Sciences Research Group (NSRG) funded by a number of grants from NSF and ARL, and is affiliated with the Institute for Networking and Security Research (INSR) and the Center for Artificial Intelligence Foundations and Engineered Systems (CAFE). At IBM, Ting worked as a task lead under the International Technology Alliance (ITA) program funded by US ARL and UK MoD from 2008 to 2016, and many other research projects on network science and technologies. Previously at Cornell (2003-2007), Ting was a member of the Adaptive Communications & Signal Processing (ACSP) group under the supervision of Prof. Lang Tong.
Ting is a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. She is an Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2017-present) and IEEE Transactions on Communications (2017-2020). She has served as General Co-Chair for IEEE RTCSA (2023), TPC Co-Chair for IEEE ICCCN (2022), Area TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM (2021), and various roles in the Organization Committee and the TPC for many networking/distributed computing conferences such as SIGMETRICS, MobiHoc, INFOCOM, ICDCS, ICNP, IWQoS, WiOpt, Networking, and SECON.
Ting has produced over 150 publications including 2 books and 14 patents. Her works received the 2021 IEEE Communications Society Leonard G. Abraham Prize, the Kenneth C. Sevcik Outstanding Student Paper Award at SIGMETRICS’15, the Best Paper Award at ICDCS’13, the Best Student Paper Award at ICASSP’05, and Best Paper Nominations at SmartGridComm’20 and IMC’13. She also received multiple PI awards from the International Technology Alliance (ITA) in 2021 and 2015, the IBM Research Division Award in 2016, and multiple Outstanding Contributor Awards and Invention Achievement Awards from IBM in 2007-2016, as well as 4 Distinguished TPC Member Awards from INFOCOM during 2016-2024.
Yun Hee Kim
Professor, Kyung Hee University
Korea
Yun Hee Kim received her B.S.E. (summa cum laude), M.S.E., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea, in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively. She was with the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea, as a Senior Research Staff member from 2000 to 2004, where she contributed to the development of mobile communication systems based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing. In 2004, she joined Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, where she is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering. In 2000 and 2011, she was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), La Jolla, CA, USA. Her research has focused on communication theory, signal processing, and optimization for wireless communication. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and an Executive Director of the Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences (KICS). She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, Journal of Communications and Networks, and ICT Express.
Senior Digital Technology Architect
Canada
A highly accomplished and internationally known leader in digital transformation, AI/ML in action, and applications in networking, applied science, and industry. She has a unique combination of proven technology innovation, industry-leading and prize-winning achievements, practical experience developing new ideas for digital experiences, including data and AI, and outstanding communication skills. Repeatedly, she has had her new ideas put into successful projects, products, and services. Academic and entrepreneurial mindset to lead university/industry consortia to achieve joint goals.
Bin Lin
Professor, Dalian Maritime University
China
Bin Lin received the BEng and MEng degrees from Dalian Maritime University, China in 1999 and 2003, respectively, and the PhD degree from Broadband Communications Research Group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), University of Waterloo, Canada in 2009. She is currently a full professor and the Department Dean of Communication Engineering at College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, China. She was a visiting scholar at George Washington University, USA from 2015 to 2016. Her current research interests include wireless communications, network dimensioning and optimization, resource allocation, artificial intelligence, maritime communication networks, edge/cloud computing, wireless sensor networks, and Internet of Things (IoTs). She is an associate editor of IEEE Transaction on Vehicular Technology and IET Communications.
Kaoru Ota
Professor, Muroran Institute of Technology
Japan
Kaoru Ota (Member, IEEE) was born in Aizuwakamatsu, Japan. She received the B.S. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Aizu, Aizuwakamatsu, in 2006, the M.S. degree in computer science from Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the University of Aizu in 2012.,She is currently an Associate Professor and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Excellent Young Researcher with the Department of Sciences and Informatics, Muroran Institute of Technology, Muroran, Japan. From March 2010 to March 2011, she was a Visiting Scholar with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada. Also, she was a Japan Society of the Promotion of Science Research Fellow with Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, from April 2012 to April 2013.,Dr. Ota is the recipient of the IEEE TCSC Early Career Award in 2017, the 13th IEEE ComSoc Asia–Pacific Young Researcher Award in 2018, the 2020 N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications, the 2020 KDDI Foundation Encouragement Award, and the 2021 IEEE Sapporo Young Professionals Best Researcher Award. She is a Clarivate Analytics 2019, 2021 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), and is selected as a JST-PRESTO Researcher in 2021.
Elif Uysal
Professor, Middle East Technical University
Turkey
Elif Uysal is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Middle East Technical University (METU), in Ankara, Turkey. She received the Ph.D. degree in EE from Stanford University in 2003, the S.M. degree in EECS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1999 and the B.S. degree from METU in 1997. From 2003-05 she was a lecturer at MIT, and from 2005-06 she was an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University (OSU). Since 2006, she has been with METU, and held visiting positions at OSU and MIT during 2014-2016. Her research interests are at the junction of communication and networking theories, with particular application to energy-efficient wireless networking. Dr. Uysal was elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2022 for “pioneering contributions to energy-efficient and low-latency communications”. She is a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and of the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance, a recipient of the ERC Advanced Grant 2024, TUBITAK BIDEB National Pioneer Researcher Grant 2020, 2014 Young Scientist Award from the Science Academy of Turkey, an IBM Faculty Award (2010), the Turkish National Science Foundation Career Award (2006), an NSF Foundations on Communication research grant (2006-2010), the MIT Vinton Hayes Fellowship, and the Stanford Graduate Fellowship. She has been serving as the Chair of the Executive Board and the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the METU Parlar Foundation for Education and Research, and assistant director of METU YTM-MATPUM, since 2022. In 2022, she founded FRESHDATA Technology.
Minlan Yu
Professor, Harvard University, USA
Minlan Yu is a Gordon McKay professor at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science. She’s the assistant director of the SRC/DARPA JUMP 2.0 ACE Center for Evolvable Computing. She received her B.A. in computer science and mathematics from Peking University and her M.A. and PhD in computer science from Princeton University. She has actively collaborated with companies such as Google, AT&T, Microsoft, Facebook, and Intel. Her research interests include data networking, distributed systems, enterprise and data center networks, and software-defined networking. She received the ACM-W rising star award, NSF CAREER award, and ACM SIGCOMM doctoral dissertation award. She served as PC co-chair for SIGCOMM, NSDI, HotNets, and several other conferences and workshops.
Lian Zhao
Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
Canada
Wireless communication expert Lian Zhao’s CV speaks for itself. Her achievements – journal and conference papers, awards, thousands of citations and multiple editorships at top-tier publications – are too many to list. And yet, when she speaks about her early beginnings as a professor, her humility all but dominates the conversation. It’s hard to imagine, but at one time, Zhao, who took a brief pause in her academic career for five years in the civil aviation industry, wondered if she measured up to her PhD peers. In fact, if it weren’t for the dot-com burst of the early 2000s, steering Zhao away from industry, along with the encouragement of her PhD supervisor, Zhao may never have applied for the Ryerson faculty position she’s held since 2003.
Now with a solid research output under her belt, Zhao’s work on radio resource management and vehicular networks is paving the way for widespread implementation of autonomous vehicles and the Internet of Things (IoT). For Zhao, advancing research is most fulfilling. “Everybody talks about 5G, IoT. My research is to explore these cutting-edge technologies. That makes people very excited. It makes me excited as well.”
