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Aleksandr Ometov is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at TAU involved in the A-WEAR project as Project and Training Manager. He received D.Sc. (2018) and M.Sc. (2016) degrees from Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. His research interest are wireless communications, information security, blockchain and wearable applications.

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Dr. Alexandru RUSU-CASANDRA, is an expert in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). He has received his PhD. Diploma from UPB in 2013 with the thesis entitled ‘’Digital signal processing in GNSS’’, co-supervised with the Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Finland. He has an extensive research experience in the design and development of GNSS receiver baseband algorithms and has done research stages at the Signal Processing for Wireless Positioning Group within the Department of Communications Engineering of TUT and Signal Processing for Communications and Navigation Group from the Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has received his Engineer Diploma in Electronics and Telecomm. from UPB in 2009.

Since 2013, he is a Lecturer at the Telecomm. Department of UPB, with expertise in: Digital radio techniques of multiple access and broadcasting, Communications systems, Measurements in Telecomm.

He is also an ESA EGEP research contract responsible involving the design of a Software defined Galileo receiver. In 2018 he coordinated an ESA study regarding GOVSATCOM in Romania. Mr. Rusu has attended in 2014 the ESA training workshop for writing proposals and will use the managerial skills that he has obtained there to coordinate the parteners of the consortium and the activities of the project. In May 2012, Dr. Rusu has graduated the GNSS PhD training, organised by Ecole Nationale d‘Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France. In December 2011 he has participated at the The Fifth European Workshop on GNSS Signals and Signal Processing, organised by Ecole Nationale d‘Aviation Civile, Toulouse, France and by the European Space Agency (ESA). In September 2010 he has graduated the ESA International Summer School on GNSS, held by the Danish GPS Center, Aalborg University, Denmark. Also Dr. Rusu has participated in numerous space-related scientific events organised by ROSA and ESA in Bucharest, e.g. Romanian space days 2014.

Dr. Rusu participates since 2012 as key-expert in a research project funded by the Romanian Space Technology and Advanced Research Programme, organized by ROSA and ANCS. The purpose of the project is to offer technical support to the representatives of Romania to the ESA committees, in the domain of Earth observation, Navigation and Satellite Communications.

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Antonella Molinaro is an associate professor of telecommunications at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy, and a professor at CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Saclay, France. Previously, she was an assistant professor with the University of Messina (1998–2001) and the University of Calabria (2001–2004), and a research fellow at the Polytechnic of Milano (1997–1998). She was with Telesoft, Rome (1992–1993) and Siemens, Munich, Germany (1994–1995) as a CEC Fellow in the RACE-II program. Her current research activity mainly focuses on wireless and mobile networking, vehicular networks, 5G, and future Internet architectures.

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Antonio Iera graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy, and received a Master Diploma in Information Technology from CEFRIEL/Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Calabria. From 1994 to 1995 he has been with Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, and since 1997 with the University of Reggio Calabria, where he is currently a professor of Telecommunications and director of the Laboratory for Advanced Research into Telecommunication Systems (www.arts.unirc.it). His research interests include wireless and mobile 5G networks, RFID systems, and Internet of Things. He has published more than 300 papers in high-quality journals and conferences and has given several tutorials and invited speeches during international events on the topics of IoT, Social-IoT, and 5G networks.

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Dr. Bogdan Cramariuc is co-founder and director of the IT Center for Science and Technology (CITST), located in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. CITST is an innovation driven SME which focuses on research in two main areas: IT and robotics; electrotechnologies. Dr. Cramariuc has obtained his PhD in 2005 from Tampere University of Technology (currently TAU), Finland, with the doctoral thesis “Image Analysis and Understanding Techniques with Application to Content Bases Image Manipulation”. He is currently holding a scientific degree of CS-I, equivalent to professor in academia. Dr. Cramariuc has been involved as both partner and project coordinator in more than 30 national and European projects. He is author and co-author of 13 journal articles, over 40 conference articles and 2 patent applications. His previous managerial experience includes also acting as CTO at SuiSoft Oy, an IT Finnish company established in 2000 in Tampere, Finland.

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Carlos Granell is holding a Ramón y Cajal post-doctoral fellowship at UJI, Spain. My research interests lie in multi-disciplinary application of GIS (Science/Systems), spatial analysis & visualization of streams of sensor- and/or user-generated geographic content, reproducibility research practices, and finding synergies between citizen science projects, education and dissemination of science.

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Claudia Campolo is an assistant professor of telecommunications at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. She received an M.Sc. degree in telecom­munications engineering (2007) and a Ph.D. degree (2011) from the same university. She was a visiting Ph.D. student at Politecnico di Torino (2008) and a DAAD fellow at the University of Pad­erborn, Germany (2015). Her main research interests are in the field of vehicular networking, edge computing, future Internet architectures.

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Dragoș Niculescu has obtained a PhD in Computer Science from Rutgers University (New Jersey) in 2004, with a thesis on sensor networks routing and positioning. He spent five years as a researcher at NEC Laboratories America in Princeton, NJ, working on simulation and implementation of mesh networks, VoIP, and WiFi related protocols. At Politehnica University of Bucharest he is currently teaching courses in Mobile Computing and Services for Mobile Networking; also researching mobile protocols, MPTCP, crosslayer optimization, and 802.11 networking. His past research work obtained a test of time award at the INFOCOM 2015 conference, and has been cited 10000 times, as counted by Google Scholar.

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Prof. E.S. Lohan received an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnics University of Bucharest (1997), a D.E.A. degree in Econometrics at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris (1998), and a Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications from Tampere University of Technology (2003). She is now a Professor at Electrical Engineering unit at Tampere University (former Tampere University of Technology) and a Visiting Professor at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain. She is leading a research group on Signal processing for wireless positioning. She is a co-editor of the first book on Galileo satellite system (Springer “Galileo Positioning technology”), co-editor of a Springer book on “Multi-technology positioning”, and author or co-author in more than 185 international peer-reviewed publications, 6 patents and inventions. She has supervised more than 40 BSc/MSc students and more than 13 PhD students, 10 of which completed their PhD. In the past 4 years, she has been a Principal Investigator in 5 national projects and 4 EU projects. She is also an associate Editor for RIN Journal of Navigation and for IET  Journal on Radar, Sonar, and Navigation.

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Dr. Eng. Ec. George Suciu is a senior scientific researcher 3rd degree, with more than 15 years of experience in R&D projects. He graduated from the Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, where he received also his M.Sc. He holds a PhD in cloud communications from the same university. Also, he holds a MBA in Informatics Project Management and IPR from the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics of the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest, and currently, his post-doc research work is focused on the field of cloud communications, blockchain, big data and IoT/M2M. George has experience as coordinator and WP leader for over 30 R&D projects  (FP7, H2020, Eureka / Eurostars, etc.) and is involved currently in over 10 international and 5 national projects. He is the author or co-author of over 150 journal articles and scientific papers presented at various international conferences, holding over 5 patents. He is R&D and Innovation Manager at BEIA Consult International since 2008, having previously worked as ICT Solutions Manager since 1998.

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Giuseppe Araniti (S’03, M’05, SM’15) received the Laurea (2000) and the Ph.D. degree (2004) in Electronic Engineering from the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy. Since November 2005 he is an Assistant Professor on Telecommunications at University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, where he is a member of the Laboratory for Advanced Researches into Telecommunication Systems (ARTS). His researches activities are conducted by cooperating with several national and international research groups, from academia and industries, and the results of such researches are reported in more than 140 scientific publications. His major area of research is on 5G networks and it includes personal communications systems, enhanced wireless and satellite systems, traffic and radio resource management, multicast and broadcast services, device-to-device (D2D) and machine-type communications (M2M/MTC). Dr. Araniti is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and of IEEE Access Journal, is Vice-Chair of the IEEE BTS Italian Chapter and of the Special Interest Group on Social Behaviour Driven Cognitive Radio Networks – IEEE Comsoc. Since 2003 he is involved in several teaching activities, mainly at the University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, where he is currently teaching Wireless Systems Planning and Radio Mobile Networks.

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Giuseppe Ruggeri received the master degree in electronics engineering in 1998 From University of Catania, Italy. In 2002 he received the Ph.D. in electronics, computer science and telecommunications engineering from University of Palermo (Italy). He is currently Assistant Professor at the Department of ICT, Infrastructures, and Sustainable Energy (DIIES) at the University “Mediterranea” of Reggio Calabria (Italy). His research interests focus on wireless networking, self organizing networks, and Social Internet of Things.

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Inmaculada Remolar Quintana has a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Jaume I in 2005 and a degree in Computer Science from the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 1995. She joined the Universitat Jaume I in 1995, where she currently is Associate Professor in the Computer Languages and Systems Department at the Universitat Jaume I. Currently, she is the director of the Institute of New Imaging Technologies.  She is  also member of the research group “Interactive Visualization” integrated within the institute. Her research interests include geometric modeling, interactive visualization and game technology. In reference to these subjects, she has participated in numerous research projects, being IP of some of them, and has recognized two terms of  research. She has also participated in numerous projects with companies, where she has been involved in the application of the research to these companies. Her teaching has been mainly focused on the Bachelor’s degrees related to the Computer Science and on the Bachelor’s degree of Industrial Design and Product Development and on Bachelor’s degree of Design and Game Development, having also taught at Agricultural Engineering, Bachelor of Labour Relations, Bachelor of Law, Bachelor of Tourism and Technical Engineering in Industrial Design.

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Prof. Ion MARGHESCU, Ph.D, is professor since 1995 at the Telecommunication Department of “Politehnica” University of Bucharest and Director of the Center for Research in Communications and Signal Processing of the same university. The main fields of expertise of Dr. Marghescu are: mobile communications networks, radio communications systems and circuits, analog and digital signal processing for communications, modulation techniques, multiple access techniques, and satellite communications.  Dr. Marghescu was/is involved as coordinator or as a member of the research team, in more than 30 national and international research projects between 1970 and 2012, in the field of telecommunications and signal processing. He was the director of 5 research projects supported by CNCSIS, a project supported by ANSTI, a project supported by MEC and World Bank, a project supported by the Romanian Academy, a project in the PNII IDEI frame, a project in the PNII Partnership frame. He also worked as a key expert or member of the research team in 7 national or European Projects (e.g. key expert in the EONAVCOM team of the ROSA STAR project).

Dr. Marghescu occupies the following positions: president of  “Electronica 2000” foundation; Referent for presentations of PhD degree thesis in Romania and abroad; Co-chair of numerous national and international Conferences; President of CT 267 Standardization Technical  Committee. He also acts as scientific advisor of Bachelor or Master thesis and scientific advisor of PhD students. Dr Marghescu has received the Traian Vuia Prize from the Romanian Academy and the AGIR Prize for his monography on GSM technology.

Dr. Marghescu has received in 1979 his PhD degree in Radio Communications from the Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty of The Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. In 1967 he received his Engineer Diploma in Radiotechniques Specialization from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest, Electronics and Telecommunications Faculty. Below are selected  some recent scientific papers published by Mr. Marghescu.

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Assoc. Prof. Jan Hajny, Ph.D. is the head of the Advanced Cybersecurity group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, member of the Faculty’s Scientific Committee, principal investigator of many national and international projects (including Horizon 2020), currently advisor of 3 Ph.D. students and researcher in cryptologic protocol design and privacy-enhancing technologies.

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D.Sc.(Tech) Jari Nurmi works as a Professor at Tampere University, Finland since 1999. He is working on embedded computing systems, System-on-Chip, wireless localization, positioning receiver prototyping, and software-defined radio and -networks. He held various research, education and management positions at Tampere University of Technology since 1987, and was the Vice President of the SME VLSI Solution Oy 1995-1998. Since 2013 he is also a partner and co-founder of Ekin Labs Oy, a research spin-off company, now headquartered in Silicon Valley as Radiomaze, Inc. He has supervised 25 PhD and about 140 MSc theses, and been the opponent or reviewer of 40 PhD theses for other universities worldwide. He has edited five Springer books, and has published over 350 international conference and journal articles and book chapters. He is the director of national DELTA doctoral training network and the head of A-WEAR European joint PhD degree program.

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Dr. Jiri Hosek is an Associate Professor and Deputy Vice-Head for R&D and International Relations at Department of Telecommunications, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic. Jiri is also coordinating the WISLAB research group (http://wislab.cz), where he deals mostly with industry-oriented R&D projects in the area of future mobile networks, Internet of Things and home automation services. Jiri (co-) authored more than 80 research works on networking technologies, wireless communications, quality of service, quality of experience and IoT applications including those published in the IEEE Communications Magazine. Jiri is an experienced speaker regularly participating and actively presenting his research work on premier international conferences and workshops.

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Jiří Mišurec is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology (BUT), Czech Republic. He is also Head of Department of Telecommunications at the same university. He received his Ph.D. (1991) as well as Assoc. Prof. (2007) degrees from the BUT. Jiri has been the principal investigator of more than 20 projects in total amount of approximately 71.3 million CZK, and a co-investigator in 6 projects. He has authored or co-authored over 120 scientific papers in the field of telemetry, secure data transmissions for energetics, power line communication, non-filtering applications with modern microelectronic components and computer modelling. Jiri has been serving during his career as a member of many expert commissions, committees and editorial boards.

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Joaquín Huerta is an full professor at the Department of Information Systems from University Jaume I of Castellón in Spain, where he teaches several courses related to GIS and Internet Technologies. His current research interests are indoor locations, smart cities, sensors, mobile and web GIS applications, augmented reality and 3D GIS. He is the head of the GEOTEC Research Group, Director of the Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies degree program, run jointly with the universities of Münster (Germany) and Nova de Lisboa (Portugal)  funded by Erasmus Mundus program. He is also Director of the European Joint Doctoral Program in Geoinformatics. He is and has been principal investigator of several important research projects including EU projects as A-WEAR (H2020), GEO-C(H2020), EUROGEOSS(FP7) and other Spanish projects. In addition to academic activities Dr Huerta is founding member of some companies as UBIK Geospatial Solutions (http://ubikgs.com)

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Joaquín Torres-Sospedra holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (2003) and a PhD with distinction (2011), both from Universitat Jaume I. His main background is on Artificial Neural Networks and Ensemble Learning. In 2013, he joined GEOTEC where he is currently leading the indoor positioning and navigation research line. His current interests are on Smartphone-based indoor positioning, Wi-Fi fingerprinting and Bluetooth Low Energy deployment. He is currently chairing the IPIN-ISC and he is really active on evaluating Indoor Positioning systems through competitions in real-life environments.

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Michael Gould is professor of information systems, and expert in Geographic Information Systems. PhD from US National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at Buffalo.  Co-PI or researcher on several EU-funded projects (beginning 1996), and co-founder of Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Geospatial Technologies. Also tutor in the recent Marie-Curie funded ITN “Geoinformatics: Enabling open cities”. Research interests include smart cities, interoperability, locational privacy, and technology in developing regions. Co-founder of the Vespucci Initiative on GI Science. Since 2008 he has been part-time at UJI because he holds the position of Global Education Manager for Esri Inc., global leader in GIS software and services.

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Prof. Habil. Dr. Eng. Nirvana Popescu is full professor at University Politehnica of Bucharest (UPB), Computer Science Department, since 2014. She received her Bachelor of Engineering in 1998 at UPB, Computer Science Department, followed by M.Sc at the same department. In 2003, she became PhD in Computer Science with a thesis called “Self-organizing intelligent fuzzy systems”, at UPB. In the mean while she worked and studied as PhD guest student at the University of Bielefeld, Germany. Her main research interests are: fuzzy logic and control, neural networks, intelligent systems, eHealth systems, cognitive and autonomous robots, reconfigurable computers. She is author of 8 books and chapters and more than 70 scientific papers published at prestigious conferences and journals. She is member of Robotics Society of Romania and European Association for Cognitive Systems (EUCog). At UPB, she is the leader of the Laboratory L28 „Reconfigurable high-confidence medical devices”. Her interest in medical informatics has started by some projects related to neuro-fuzzy diagnosis of EKG, EEG and EMG. Thus, she received the MED INFO award for the results in this field. Currently she is involved in founding the Romanian Society for eHealth.

She coordinated national research projects in the field of Medical Rehabilitation Robotics. An example is the project called “Embedded systems of neural-prosthesis type for the recovery of handicapped people (SINPHA, 2007-2010)” where she developed control algorithms for neuro-prosthesis that were tested on the patients from the Rehabilitation Hospital of Iasi. Another example is the project “Intelligent Haptic Robot-Glove (IHRG) for the rehabilitation of the patients that suffered a cerebrovascular accident” (2012-2016).

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Radim Burget is an Assoc. Prof. at Brno University of Technology and is heading Signal processing program at SIX Research Centre. He has been involved in research of artificial intelligence for many years and in plenty of research projects which include projects funded on European level, national level or privately funded projects. Companies he is cooperating with include Honeywell, Mitsubishi Electric, Rapidminer, Konica-Minolta, Webnode and many others.

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Salla Kotakorva is a Financial Project Manager at Research & Innovation Services, Tampere University, Finland. She received Master of Social Sciences from University of Jyväskylä (2011). She has worked in project management after graduation. Her interests are discover social phenomena, reading biographies and 3D printing.

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Sergey Andreev is an associate professor of electrical engineering at Tampere University, Finland. Since 2018, he has also been a Visiting Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Telecommunications Research, King’s College London, UK. He received his Ph.D. (2012) from TUT as well as his Specialist (2006) and Cand.Sc. (2009) degrees from SUAI. He serves as editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (2016-) and as series editor of the IoT Series (2018-) for IEEE Communications Magazine. He (co-)authored more than 200 published research works on intelligent IoT, mobile communications, and heterogeneous networking.

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Sergi Trilles received his PhD in Integration of Geospatial Information from the Jaume I University in 2015. He obtained different individual fellowships as a Postdoc from different governments. He had the opportunity to do different financed international stays, such as in the Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit of the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) or in the NOVA Information Management School (NOVA IMS) of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Currently, he is a postdoc researcher at the GEOTEC group.

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Sven Casteleyn is holding a Ramon y Cajal post-doctoral fellowship at UJI, Spain. He previously held an individual European Marie Curie fellowship at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, and was a professor, post- and pre-doctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, from which he holds a PhD (2005) and master degree (1999) in computer science. He supervised 5 Phd theses and over 40 master theses. He acted as programme, track, workshop and demo chair of various international conferences, as PC member of most top conferences is his field, and he edited various books and journal special issues. He has participated in 10+ EU and national research and educational projects. Sven published over 90 scientific articles in the broad fields of the Web, mobile computing, geographical information science and technology and their application fields (e.g., smart cities, agriculture, mental health, etc.).

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Yevgeni Koucheryavy is a Full Professor (tenured) the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences of Tampere University (TAU), Finland. He received his PhD degree (2004) from the TAU. He has been teaching from 1996 for different target groups, students and professionals in Austria, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Ireland, Russia, Kazakhstan, Sweden, Spain, UK and USA. He has acted as a PhD evaluation committee member or examiner in >15 countries. He graduated 8 PhD students and over 70 MSc students. He has worked in a number of research and development projects within different frameworks, e.g., FP7, H2020, and companies including Nokia, Intel, Ericsson, Cisco, etc. Within last 6 years (2013 – 2018) Yevgeni attracted over 6 mln Euros as a research funding. He acts as an external reviewer for state funding agencies of several European countries and H2020. Yevgeni has authored or co-authored over 270 papers in the field of advanced wired and wireless networking and communications. His Scopus h-index is 29. He holds two US patent and two pending. His current research interests include various aspects in heterogeneous wireless communication networks and systems, network and services performance evaluation, the Internet of Things, and nano-scale communications. Yevgeni is an Associate Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine and Editor of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. Yevgeni is a Senior IEEE member. Yevgeni is a chairman of the board of YL-Verkot Oy and co-founder of Battery Intelligence Oy.

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Zdenek Smekal, is a full professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication, Brno University of Technology (FEEC BUT). Degrees: Eng. (1973), Ph.D. (1978), Assoc. Prof. (1986) in the field of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Prof. (2000) in the field of Theoretical Electrical Engineering. He is a chairman of the board for doctoral study programme of Teleinformatics at the Department of Telecommunications. He guarantees the subjects: Digital Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Analysis of Signals and Systems and participates in other subjects. Since 1998 he is a member of IEEE (Signal Processing), since 2006 as a Senior Member. He is a member of scientific council at FEEC BUT. He was involved in European COST research projects: OC 10 G6 Digital Audio Effects (1997-2001), OC 277 Nonlinear Signal Processing (2004-2006) and OC 2102 Cross-Modal Analysis of Verbal and Nonverbal Communication (2006-2010). During the past five years he has also led two projects focused on information technology in cooperation with companies. He is an author of five monographs and more than 150 papers published in the proceedings of international conferences and scientific journals.

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