Emmanouil Fountoulakis received his master’s degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering at the Technical University of Crete in 2016 and obtained his doctorate in Wireless Networks at the Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University in 2021. He was a postdoctoral researcher within the Communication Systems Department, Eurecom, in 2022. He is now a system engineer in Ericsson, Sweden. His research interests include the semantics of wireless communications, the age of information, low-latency communications, optimization, and reinforcement learning.

Marian Codreanu received the M.Sc. degree from the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, in 1998, and the Ph.D. degree from University of Oulu, Finland, in 2007. His thesis was awarded as the best doctoral thesis within the area of all technical sciences in Finland in 2007. In 2008, he was a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. In 2013, the Academy of Finland awarded him a five-year Academy Research Fellow position. In 2019, Dr. Codreanu received a Marie SkłodowskaCurie Individual Fellowship and joined the Linkoping University, where ¨ he is currently an associate professor. Dr. Codreanu published over 150 journal and conference papers in the areas of wireless communications and networking, statistical signal processing, mathematical optimization, and information theory. His current research focus is on age of information, semantic communication, machine learning for wireless networking, and sparse signal processing.

Anthony Ephremides received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 1971. He has been with the University of Maryland Since 1971. He holds the Cynthia Kim Professorship of Information Technology with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Maryland in College Park, where he is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus and has a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research, of which he was among the founding members in 1986. He is the author of several hundred papers, conference presentations, and patents, and his research interests lie in the areas of communication systems and networks and all related disciplines, such as information theory, control and optimization, satellite systems, queueing models, and signal processing. He is especially interested in wireless networks, energy efficient systems, and the new notion of age of information.

Nikolaos Pappas is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Linkoping University, Campus Valla, Sweden. He has served as the Symposium Co-Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications in 2022 and the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2022. He is an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MACHINE LEARNING IN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, the IEEE/KICS JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS, Area Editor of the IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY and an Expert Editor for invited papers of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS.