Dr. Mohamed Seliem received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Information Technology from University College Cork (UCC), Ireland. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the CONNECT Centre, UCC, where he works on advanced research in time-sensitive networking (TSN), 5G, Wi-Fi 6/7, and industrial IoT systems. His doctoral and postdoctoral work focus on integrating deterministic communication technologies into industrial networks, with an emphasis on reliability, latency, and fault tolerance. He has contributed to the development of simulation frameworks, predictive redundancy mechanisms, and machine-learning-based fault anticipation models for smart factory applications. He has experience across network simulation (OMNeT++/INET and Simu5G), system-level modeling, and real-time performance analysis. Dr. Seliem continues to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations spanning wireless communication, edge computing, and real-time systems.

Utz Roedig received his Dr.-Ing. degree in computer science from the Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany, in 2002. He joined the School of Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), University College Cork (UCC), Cork, Ireland, in January 2019. Before moving to Cork, he was a Professor with Lancaster University, Lancaster, U.K., where he led the Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research (ACE-CSR). Prior to his work at Lancaster University, he held research positions at UCC and the Darmstadt University of Technology. His research interests are computer networks and security with a focus on the Internet of Things (IoT). His work looks at the IoT communication mechanisms, and the software used to construct the IoT systems with a particular focus on cybersecurity. He has published over 160 peer-reviewed articles in this field, and his research collaborations with industry partners have resulted in several patents. 

Cormac Sreenan received his PhD degree in computer science from Cambridge University. He is a full professor and head of computer science at the University College Cork (UCC) in Ireland. Prior to joining UCC in 1999, he was on the research staff at AT&T Labs - Research, Florham Park, New Jersey, and at Bell Labs, Murray Hill, New Jersey. At UCC, he directs the Mobile & Internet Systems Laboratory (MISL), which is a group of 15 research staff and students with research activity in multimedia and wireless networking and systems. His recent projects have focused on wireless sensor networks, heterogeneous mobile networks, and video streaming and have been funded by industry, the EU, and Irish state agencies, including Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). He is an SFI principal investigator and is a Co-PI on the CONNECT Research Centre on Future Networks & Communications involving 10 academic institutions and 37 sponsor companies. He is currently on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. In the past, he has served as guest editor of the Communications of the ACM, the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. He was elected a fellow of the British Computer Society in 2005. He is a member of the IEEE.

Dirk Pesch received his Dipl.-Ing. degree from RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany, in 1993, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, in 1999. He was the Head of the Nimbus Research Centre, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork, Ireland. He is currently a Professor with the School of Computer Science and Information Technology, University College Cork, Cork. He has over 25 years of research and development experience in both industry and academia and has (co)authored over 200 scientific articles and book chapters. He is also a Principle Investigator of the National Science Foundation Ireland-funded collaborative centers CONNECT (Future Networks), Ireland, and CONFIRM (Smart Manufacturing), Ireland, and the Director of the SFI Centre for Research Training in Advanced Networks for Sustainable Societies, Ireland. He has also been involved in a number of EU-funded research projects on smart and energy-efficient buildings and urban neighborhoods, including as a coordinator. His research interests focus on problems associated with architecture, design, algorithms, and performance evaluation of low power, dense and vehicular wireless/mobile networks and services for the Internet of Things and cyber–physical system’s applications in building management, smart connected communities, independent living, and smart manufacturing.