Md. Noor-A-Rahim is currently an Assistant Professor (Lecturer Above the Bar) at the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Ireland. Before this role, he was a Senior Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow within the same school. He also held the position of Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Dr. Rahim earned his Ph.D. from the School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of South Australia, Australia, in 2015. In recognition of his academic excellence, he was honored with the Michael Miller Medal for presenting the most outstanding Ph.D. thesis in 2015.
H. Vincent Poor received a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University in 1977. From 1977 until 1990, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 1990, he has been on the faculty at Princeton University, where he is currently the Michael Henry Strater University Professor. From 2006 to 2016, he served as the dean of Princeton’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and has also held visiting appointments at several other universities, including most recently at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Cambridge. His research interests include information theory, machine learning, and network science, as well as their applications in wireless networks, energy systems, and related fields. Among his publications in these areas is the book Machine Learning and Wireless Communications (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Dr. Poor is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences and is a foreign member of the Royal Society and other national and international academies. He received the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal in 2017.
Prof. Dirk Pesch received a Dipl.-Ing. (MEng) degree from RWTH Aachen University in 1993 and a Ph.D. from the University of Strathclyde in 1999, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at University College Cork in Ireland, where he leads several research initiatives in the area of future networked systems for the Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems. Additionally, he is the Director of the Science Foundation Ireland-funded Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies and a co-principal investigator and executive member of the SFI-funded CONNECT Centre for Future Networks. His research mainly focuses on the design, optimization, and evaluation of communication protocols, management techniques, and system architectures for the Internet of Things (IoT) and networked Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), and their applications to smart and connected communities, health and well-being, and smart manufacturing. Prior to joining academia, he was a design engineer with Nokia in Germany and the UK.
