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Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues (S’01, M’06, SM’06) is a professor and senior researcher at the National Institute of Telecommunications (Inatel), Brazil, senior researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal, and Senior Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil. He received the Academic Title of Aggregated Professor in informatics engineering from UBI, the Habilitation in computer science and engineering from the University of Haute Alsace, France, a PhD degree in informatics engineering and an MSc degree from the UBI, and a five-year BSc degree (licentiate) in informatics engineering from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. His main research interests include e-health, sensor networks and IoT, vehicular communications, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. Prof. Rodrigues is the leader of the Internet of Things research group (CNPq), Director for Conference Development - IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, the President of the scientific council at ParkUrbis – Covilhã Science and Technology Park, the Past-Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on eHealth, the Past-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee on Communications Software, Steering Committee member of the IEEE Life Sciences Technical Community and Publications co-Chair, and Member Representative of the IEEE Communications Society on the IEEE Biometrics Council. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on E-Health and Medical Communications and editorial board member of several high-reputed journals. He has been general chair and TPC Chair of many international conferences, including IEEE ICC, IEEE GLOBECOM, and IEEE HEALTHCOM. He is a member of many international TPCs and participated in several international conferences organization. He has authored or coauthored over 700 papers in refereed international journals and conferences, 3 books, and 2 patents. He had been awarded several Outstanding Leadership and Outstanding Service Awards by IEEE Communications Society and several best papers awards. Prof. Rodrigues is a licensed professional engineer (as senior member), member of the Internet Society, and a senior member ACM and IEEE.

Amjad Gawanmeh (Senior Member IEEE) is an assistant professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Khalifa University since 2010. He is also an affiliate Assistant professor, Concordia University Montreal, Canada since 2015. He received the M.S. and the Ph.D degrees from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 2003 and 2008. He worked as a researcher for the Hardware Verification Group at Concordia University between 2000 and 2008. He worked for Applied Science University in Jordan from 2008 until 2010 as an assistant professor. He has co-authored two edited books, 3 book chapters, more than 20 peer reviewed journal papers, and around 50 peer reviewed conference papers. He was visiting scholar at Syracuse University in June/July 2015, and University of Quebec in June/July 2017. His research interests are verification of hardware systems, security systems, and healthcare systems, modeling and analysis of complex systems such as CPS, performance analysis of complex systems, reliability of as medical system, and Energy efficient algorithms design in CPS. He is the Editor in Chief for the International Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems (IJCPS) IGI, an associate editor for IEEE Access Journal, and for Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences Journal, Springer. He acted as guest editor for several special issues. He is on the reviewer board for several journals in IEEE, Elsevier, Wiley, and many others. He is a member of the executive committee for IPCCC conference. He has co-chaired several conferences and chaired several workshops organized in key conferences including ICC, ICDCS, IPCCC, Healthcom, and WiMob. Has served on the TPC for key conference such as Globecom, ICC, PIMRC, ICCVE, WCNC, and Infocom workshops. He is a senior IEEE member since 2017.

Kashif Saleem is currently working as Assistant Professor at Center of Excellence in Information Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud University. He received his Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) and M.E. (Electrical Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunication) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2007 and 2011, respectively. P.G.D. (Computer Technology & Communication) from Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan in 2004 and B.Sc. (Computer Science) from Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2002. His research interests Includes Ubiquitous Computing, Mobile Computing, Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine (M2M) Communication, Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) & Mobile Adhoc Networks (MANETs), Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Information Security, Biological Inspired Optimization Algorithms. Dr. Kashif Saleem has authored several research publications and handling ICT related funded research projects in Saudi Arabia and EU.