Fabrizio Granelli (Senior Member, IEEE) is Full Professor at the Dept. of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento (Italy). He received the «Laurea» (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degree from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He was visiting professor at the State University of Campinas (Brasil) and at the University of Tokyo (Japan). He was IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the period 2012-15 and 2021-23 (4 terms), ComSoc Director for Online Content in 2016-17, Delegate for Education at DISI in 2015-2017, IEEE ComSoc Director for Educational Services (2018-19) and IEEE ComSoc Director for Conference Development (2022-23). Prof. Granelli was General Chair or TPC Chair of several prestigious IEEE conferences, such as IEEE Globecom (TPC Chair, 2022), IEEE NFV-SDN (TPC Chair, 2018-2019), IEEE LATINCOM (General Chair, 2020-2021), IEEE CAMAD, and chaired several symposia at IEEE ICC and Globecom. He is author or co-author of more than 250 papers published in international journals, books and conferences.
Cristina Emilia Costa (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2005, with a thesis on video transmission over wireless links. She joined the Internet Services Group, Telecom Italia Lab, Turin, Italy, as a Researcher, providing technology transfer and scientific support to operational Telecom Italia divisions. She worked as a Researcher with the CREATE-NET Research Center, Trento, from 2004 to 2019. After she joined the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, and in 2021 she was appointed Head of the Smart Networks and Services (SENSE) Research Unit. In 2023 she joined the National Laboratory on Smart and Secure Networks at CNIT, the National, Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications. During her career, she was involved in several research projects both at the national and international level, gaining experience both as a researcher and as project coordinator, in the fields of wireless and mobile networks, multimedia communications, interfaces and interaction, 5G, and edge computing. She served as a Member in the organizing committees of various conferences, in particular of European Wireless (2020), Intetain (2011), UCMedia (2009, 2010), and SecureComm (2005). She is founder member of the IEEE Women In Engineering AG Italy Section, where she acted as secretary from 2017 to 2021.
Kostas Trichias is an electrical Engineer holding a Master’s degree from the University of Twente, The Netherlands, with specialization in wireless telecommunications, having professional experience in research, consultancy and project management. He is currently Senior Researcher/Project Manager at 6G Smart Networks and Services Industry Association. He got his PhD from National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and was Senior Solutions Architect at WINGS ICT Solutions.
Akihiro Nakao is Full Professor at The University of Tokyo, Japan. Akihiro NAKAO received B.S.(1991) in Physics, M.E.(1994) in Information Engineering from the University of Tokyo. He was at IBM Yamato Laboratory/at Tokyo Research Laboratory at IBM Texas Austin from 1994 till 2005. He received M.S.(2001) and Ph.D.(2005) in Computer Science from Princeton University. He has been teaching as an Associate Professor in Applied Computer Science, at Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo since 2005. He has also been an expert visiting scholar/a project leader at National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) since 2007.
