Davide Dardari is currently a Full Professor with the University of Bologna, Italy. He has been a Research Affiliate with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. He has published more than 250 technical articles and played several important roles in various national and European projects. His research interests are in wireless communications, smart radio environments, localization techniques, and distributed signal processing. He received the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society’s M. Barry Carlton Award in 2011 and the IEEE Communications Society’s Fred W. Ellersick Prize in 2012. He was the Chair of the Radio Communications Committee and a Distinguished Lecturer (2018–2019) of the IEEE Communications Society. He was also the Co-General Chair of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband. He was also the TPC Chair of IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2018), the TPC Co-Chair of the Wireless Communications Symposium of the 2007/2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, and TPC Co-Chair of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband. Currently, he is a Senior Member of the Editorial Board of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He served as an Editor for IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS from 2006 to 2012 and as a guest editor for several journals.
Petar Djuric received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island. Following the completion of his Ph.D., he joined Stony Brook University, where he currently holds the position of SUNY Distinguished Professor and serves as the Savitri Devi Bangaru Professor in artificial intelligence. He also held the role of Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2016 to 2023. His research has predominantly focused on machine learning and signal and information processing. In 2012, he received the EURASIP Technical Achievement Award whereas in 2008, he was appointed Chair of Excellence of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid-Banco de Santander. He has actively participated in various committees of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and served on committees for numerous professional conferences and workshops. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL AND INFORMATION PROCESSING OVER NETWORKS. In 2022, he was elected as a Foreign Member of Serbian Academy of Engineering Sciences. Furthermore, he holds the distinction of being a fellow of EURASIP and a Fellow of AAIA (Asia Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association).​
Anna Guerra is a Researcher at the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. She earned a Ph.D. in electronics, telecommunications, and information technologies from the University of Bologna in 2016. 
Her research interests include radio localization and mapping, smart radio environments, and distributed signal processing for autonomous agent networks.  
From 2016 to 2021, she was awarded a global Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellowship for the H2020 AirSens project. As part of this fellowship, she visited Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, NY, USA). In 2023, she obtained an ERC Starting Grant fellowship for the CUE-GO project.
She received the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE ICUWB 2014 (Paris, France) and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE RFID-TA 2019 (Pisa, Italy), and at the IEEE ICAS 2021 (Montreal, QC, Canada).
She is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communications Letters.
Francesco Guidi received his M.S. degree (summa cum laude) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2009, and his joint Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from both École Polytechnique, Paris, France, and the University of Bologna in 2013.
He is currently a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), within the Institute of Electronics, Computer, and Telecommunication Engineering (IEIIT), and serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna.
From 2015 to 2017, he held a research position funded by an individual European Marie-Curie Fellowship at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), LETI, in Grenoble, France. 
He received the Best Student Paper Award at the International Conference on UltrawideBand (Paris, France) in 2014, and the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Autonomous Systems (Montreal, Canada) in 2021. In 2022 and 2023, he was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer for IEEE Communications Letters.
He has chaired workshops and special sessions at ICC'23, ICC'24, ICASSP'23, ICASSP'24, VTC-Spring'22, EUSIPCO'22, VTC-Fall'22, and EUCNC'21, and he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters and IEEE Transactions on Communications, and as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Internet of Things Journal and IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems.
Pau Closas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, since 2016. He received his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) in 2003 and 2009, respectively. He also holds a MS degree in Advanced Mathematics and Mathematical Engineering from UPC since 2014. In 2003, he joined the Department of Signal Theory and Communications, UPC, as a Research Assistant. In 2008 he was Research Visitor at the Stony Brook University (SBU), NY, USA. In 2009 he joined the CTTC, where he was Senior Researcher and Head of the Statistical Inference for Communications and Positioning Department. His primary areas of interest include statistical and array signal processing, estimation and detection theory, stochastic filtering, robust statistics, and game theory, with primary applications in positioning systems, target tracking and wireless communications.
He is the recipient of the EURASIP Best PhD Thesis Award 2014, the 9th Duran Farell Award for Technology Research, the 2016 ION Early Achievement Award, or the 2023 Harry Rowe Mimno Award, in recognition to his contributions to navigation systems and signal processing fields. He served in the organization committees of flagship conferences, for instance, as Publications Chair of the IEEE SSP 2016 and the IEEE ICASSP 2020 conferences. He is also Guest Editor of special issues in the IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technologies, the Proceedings of the IEEE, and the IEEE Sig. Proc. Magazine. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine.
Siwei Zhang received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, China, in 2009, his M.Sc. in communication engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2011, and his Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.) in electrical engineering from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 2020. In 2012, he joined the Institute of Communications and Navigation of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as a research staff member. His research interests lie in statistical signal processing in wireless communication and navigation, particularly in multiagent joint communication, navigation and sensing. He is a recipient of the 2021 DLR Science Award.