Dr. Gurtej Sandhu, is IEEE Fellow and Senior Fellow of Micron Technologies Inc., Idaho, USA. He holds over 1,300 US patents and is recognized as one of the top inventors in the world. He is Ph.D. from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA. He is recognized as all-time seventh most prolific inventor measured by number of US patents and has more patents than Thomas Edison. He has pioneered several process technologies currently employed in mainstream semiconductor chip manufacturing especially silicon CMOS process technology that enables DRAM and NAND memory chip scaling.

In 2018, he received the IEEE Andrew S. Grove Award for outstanding contributions to silicon CMOS process technology that enables DRAM and NAND memory chip scaling.

Prof. Mohamed Slim Alouini is Professor in Electrical Engineering and also Associate Dean, Computer, Electrical & Mathematical Science and Engineering.

He is ​​​​​​​​​​​Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, United States, 1998, M.S. Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, United States, 1995, Diplome d'Etudes Approfondies (D.E.A.) in Electronics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 1993 and Diplome d'Ingenieur, École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (Télécom Paris Tech), Paris, France, 1993.

Prof. Alouini current research interests include design and performance analysis of diversity combining techniques, MIMO techniques, multi-hop/cooperative communications systems, optical wireless communication systems, cognitive radio systems, and multi-resolution, hierarchical and adaptive modulation schemes. He has published several papers on the above subjects and he is co-author of the textbook Digital Communication over Fading Channels.

He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE),IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society, Thomson ISI Web of Knowledge list of Highly Cited Researchers, Shanghai Ranking/Elsevier list of Most Cited Researchers.

Prof. George K. Karagiannidis is Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. and Director of Digital Telecommunications Systems and Networks Laboratory at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where he is currently. He is also Honorary Professor at South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interests are in the broad area of Digital Communications Systems and Signal processing, with emphasis on Wireless Communications, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Applications, Molecular and Nanoscale Communications, Stochastic Processes in Biology and Wireless Security. He is the author or co-author of more than 450 technical papers published in scientific journals and presented at international conferences. He is also author of the Greek edition of a book on “Telecommunications Systems” and co-author of the book “Advanced Optical Wireless Communications Systems”, Cambridge Publications, 2012.

Prof. Karagiannidis has been involved as General Chair, Technical Program Chair and member of Technical Program Committees in several IEEE and non-IEEE conferences. In the past, he was Editor in IEEE Transactions on Communications, Senior Editor of IEEE Communications Letters, Editor of the EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communications & Networks and several times Guest Editor in IEEE Selected Areas in Communications. From 2012 to 2015 he was the Editor-in Chief of IEEE Communications Letters. Dr. Karagiannidis is an IEEE Fellow and one of the highly-cited authors across all areas of Electrical Engineering, recognized as 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Thomson-Reuters Highly-Cited Researcher

Dr. Dipankar Dasgupta joined the University of Memphis as an assistant professor in 1997 and became a full professor in 2004. He is the recipient of the 2011-2012 Willard R. Sparks Eminent Faculty Award, the highest distinction and most prestigious honor given to a faculty member by the University of Memphis.

Prof. Dasgupta is one of the founding fathers of the field of artificial immune systems, making major contributions in applying bio-inspired approaches to intrusion detection, spam detection, and building survivable systems . His latest book, Immunological Computation, is a graduate-level textbook published by CRC Press in 2008. He has also edited a Springer-Verlag book on artificial immune systems and another book on genetic algorithms.

In addition to Prof. Dasgupta's research and creative activities, he spearheads the University of Memphis' education, training, and outreach activities on Information Assurance. He is the founding Director of the Center for Information Assurance, which is a nationally designated Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research. He developed the University of Memphis' Graduate Certificate Program in Information Assurance and has established research collaborations with Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Dr. Ashok Chandra, an Indian Engineering Services officer of 1976 batch. Dr. Chandra joined the Ministry of Communications, Government of India. He is PhD in Electronics and Doctorate of Science (D.Sc.) in Radio Mobile Communications. Currently, he is an International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Expert on “Radio Spectrum Management”. Dr. Chandra superannuated from the post of Wireless Adviser to the Government of India.

In his responsibility as Wireless Adviser, he was associated with spectrum management activities, including in spectrum planning and engineering, frequency assignment, frequency coordination, spectrum monitoring, policy regarding regulatory affairs for new technologies and related research; development activities, etc. He was Project Director of a prestigious World Bank Project on “National Radio Spectrum Management and Monitoring System (NRSMMS)”. He has served as a Vice- Chairman, Study Group 5 of International Telecommunications Union (ITU)-Radio Sector. He has represented India to a large number of ITU meetings including World Radio Conferences (WRC). He served as Councillor from Indian Administration in the ITU Council.

Prof. S. N. Singh is Chair Professor in Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

He is ​​​​​​​​​​​Ph.D. in Electrical (Power Systems) Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on the topic of Voltage Security and Loss Minimization Studies in Electric Power Systems. He completed his M. Tech in Electrical (Power Systems) Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on the topic of Performance Study of GTO Inverter in HVDC Link.

Prof. S. N. Singh current research interests include Power System Restructuring/ Deregulation, HVDC Transmission & FACTS Technology, Wind & Solar Forecasting Power, Power System Dynamics, Operation & Control, Distributed Generations & Smart Grid, and AI Application in Power Systems. He has published several papers on the above subjects and has supervised several projects and thesis.

He is the Chairman, India Council of IEEE UP Section.