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I.F. AKYILDIZ is the Ken Byers Chair Professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Director of the Broadband Wireless Networking Laboratory and Chair of the Telecommunications Group. Dr. Akyildiz is also Megagrant winner in Russia. He is Megagrant lead researcher at the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Kharckevich Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia since January 2018. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Computer Networks (Elsevier) Journal since 2000 and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2003) both published by Elsevier. Dr. Akyildiz is an IEEE FELLOW (1996) and an ACM FELLOW (1997). He received numerous awards from IEEE and ACM. Due to Google scholar, his papers received over 103.5+K citations and his h-index is 115 as of October 2018. His current research interests are in 5G Wireless Systems, TeraHertz Band Communication, Internet of xThings.
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Arnaud Casteigts is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bordeaux and member of LaBRI. His research interests are in distributed algorithms, graph theory, and highly dynamic networks (drones, robots, etc.). In particular, his work aims to understand the impact of network dynamics onto the feasibility of basic distributed tasks like broadcasting, electing a leader, counting the nodes, and building spanning trees. He is also the main developer of the JBotSim library, a tool for fast prototyping of distributed algorithms in dynamic networks.
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Serge Fdida is a Professor with Sorbonne University. He has been leading many research projects in High Performance Networking in France and Europe, notably pioneering the European activity on federated Internet testbeds. Currently, he is leading the French National Research Instrument FIT and the OneLab facility, two large instruments on Future Internet technologies. Serge Fdida has also developed a strong experience related to innovation and industry transfer, – he was co-founder of the Qosmos company, – one of the active contributor to the creation of the Cap Digital cluster, The President of EIT Health French community… Serge Fdida has published many scientific papers and books, and is a Distinguished ACM Member. He also has a long experience of research management.
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Francesca Guerriero graduated with honours in Management Engineering in 1993 at University of Calabria (UNICAL), Italy. In 1997, she obtained the PhD in System Engineering and Computer Science at the same University. She was visiting research fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA.

Currently, she is Full Professor of Operation Research at the Dept. of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria. She is the Coordinator of the Management Engineering Graduate Program and the Vice-Dean of the Dept. of Mechanical, Energy and Management Engineering, University of Calabria. She is Vice-President of AIRO, the Italian Operations Research Society.

Her main research interests are the area of network optimization, logistics and distribution, revenue management, project management and optimization and big data. She is co-author of more than 100 papers published in prestigious journal in the Operations Research field. She has been and is member of the scientific committee of several International Conferences. She acts as referee for numerous international scientific journals and she supervises master and PhD research projects.>
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Emmanuel Hyon is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Nanterre University and member of LIP6 laboratory. His  current research interests are in the area of stochastic dynamic control and especially in the field of Markov Decision Processes and their application in network  or in queueing theory. Some problems considered are the minimization of the energy under QoS constraint in model of multi server queues as well as the service control in model with impatient customers.
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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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Alain Jean-Marie is senior researcher at Inria and head of the NEO team, devoted to Operations Research and Network Science. His research interests range from stochastic modeling, queueing theory, stochastic optimal control and game theory, to applications in networking, bio-informatics, physics and economics.
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Sandrine Vaton est professeure au département Informatique de l’IMT Atlantique à Brest. Son domaine de recherche concerne principalement l’analyse de données de réseaux télécom pour le management, la résilience et la sécurité des réseaux. Elle priviliégie l’utilisation d’approches stochastiques, avec un intérêt particulier pour les modèles markoviens. Elle s’intéresse également à la mise en œuvre de la métrologie réseaux dans des contextes opérationnels. Elle a reçu un doctorat en traitement du signal de Télécom Paristech et une habilitation à diriger les recherches en informatique de l’université de Rennes 1. Depuis le début de sa carrière elle a dirigé 13 thèses de doctorat dont 10 ont été soutenues et 3 sont en cours. Elle a participé à plusieurs projets européens (ETICS, DEMONS, EuroNGI), à divers projets ANR et a de nombreuses collaborations industrielles et académiques internationales. Elle est également en charge de l’égalité hommes/femmes à l’IMT Atlantique.
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