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Professor Harald Haas received the Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh in 2001. He joint Siemens in 2001 where he led an international research project on the 4th generation (4G) cellular networks. From 2002 to 2007, he was an Associate Professor at Jacobs University Bremen. He joined the University of Edinburgh in 2007 where he held the chair of Mobile Communications until 2020. He is now a Distinguished Professor of Mobile Communications at The University of Strathclyde/Glasgow, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh as well as the Director of the LiFi Research and Development Centre at the University of Strathclyde. Prof Haas set up and co-founded pureLiFi in 2012. He currently is their Chief Scientific Officer. Prof. Haas has co-authored more than 630 conference and journal papers and holds more than 40 patents. He has been listed a highly cited researcher by Clarivate/Web of Science since 2017. He gave two TED Global talks in 2011 and 2015 which have attracted more than 5 million views. Prof has delivered more than 120 invited talks and keynotes. In 2016, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the International Solid State Lighting Alliance. He was recipient of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Vehicular Society James Evans Avant Garde Award in 2019. In 2017 he received a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award. Professor Haas received the LpS Digital Lecture Award for the best scientific lecture in 2021. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

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Mohamed-Slim Alouini was born in Tunis, Tunisia. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) where he is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Alouini is a Fellow of the IEEE and OPTICA. He is currently particularly interested in addressing the technical challenges associated with the uneven distribution and access to information and communication technologies in rural, hard-to-reach, and/or low-income areas.

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Petar Popovski is a Professor at Aalborg University, where he heads the section on Connectivity and a Visiting Excellence Chair at the University of Bremen. He received his Dipl.-Ing (1997) and M. Sc. (2000) degrees in communication engineering from the University of Sts. Cyril and Methodius in Skopje and the Ph.D. degree (2005) from Aalborg University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He received an ERC Consolidator Grant (2015), the Danish Elite Researcher award (2016), IEEE Fred W. Ellersick prize (2016), IEEE Stephen O. Rice prize (2018), Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Smart Grid Communications (2019), the Danish Telecommunication Prize (2020) and Villum Investigator Grant (2021). He is currently an Editor-in-Chief of IEEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, Vice-Chair of the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Committee and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING. He was a Member at Large at the Board of Governors in IEEE Communication Society, as well as the General Chair for IEEE SmartGridComm 2018 and IEEE Communication Theory Workshop 2019. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication and communication theory. He authored the book ``Wireless Connectivity: An Intuitive and Fundamental Guide'', published by Wiley in 2020.

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Muhammad Ali Imran is a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of IET, Senior Member IEEE, Senior Fellow HEA. He is serving as Dean University of Glasgow UESTC collaboration and as a Professor of Wireless Communication Systems and Head of Autonomous Systems and Connectivity Division and Communications, Sensing and Imaging (CSI) research group at University of Glasgow. He is an Affiliate Professor at the University of Oklahoma, USA; Adjunct Research Professor at Ajman University, UAE and a visiting Professor at 5G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK. He is founder and principal investigator for Scotland 5G Centre’s urban testbed and an advisory board member of UK5G forum.

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Mohsen Guizani (M’89–SM’99–F’09) received the BS (with distinction), MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA in 1985, 1987 and 1990, respectively. He is currently a Professor of Machine Learning and the Associate Provost at Mohamed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Previously, he worked in different institutions in the USA. His research interests include applied machine learning and artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent autonomous systems, smart city, and cybersecurity. He was elevated to the IEEE Fellow in 2009 and was listed as a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher in Computer Science in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Dr. Guizani has won several research awards including the “2015 IEEE Communications Society Best Survey Paper Award”, the Best ComSoc Journal Paper Award in 2021 as well five Best Paper Awards from ICC and Globecom Conferences. He is the author of ten books and more than 800 publications. He is also the recipient of the 2017 IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee (WTC) Recognition Award, the 2018 AdHoc Technical Committee Recognition Award, and the 2019 IEEE Communications and Information Security Technical Recognition (CISTC) Award. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Network and is currently serving on the Editorial Boards of many IEEE Transactions and Magazines. He was the Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Wireless Technical Committee and the Chair of the TAOS Technical Committee. He served as the IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Speaker and is currently the IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.