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Youssef FAKHRI was born in Skhirat, Morocco January 2, 1979. He received his Bachelor's Degree (License és Sciences) in Electronic Physics in 2001 and his Master's Degree (DESA) in Computer and Telecommunication from the Faculty of Sciences, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco, in 2003 where he developed his Master's Project at the ICI company, Morocco. He received a PhD in 2007 from the University Mohammed V - Agdal, Rabat, Morocco in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain. He joined the Faculty of Sciences of Kénitra, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco, as an Associate Professor in Mars 2009, he is the Laboratory head at LARIT, Associate Researcher at the Laboratory for Research in Computing and Telecommunications (LRIT) in the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat, and Member of Pole of Competences STIC Morocco. His current research interests include QoS in wireless communication, WSN, wireless.

Mohamed Nabil Srifi received the Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and PhD in Telecommunication Systems Engineering, respectively, in 1999 from Ibn Tofail University and 2009 from Abdelmalek Essaadi University. Dr. M. Nabil Srifi is currently a Professor of Electrical Engineering at National School of Applied Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco. His research interests include active and passive microwave devices and circuits, antennas design, intelligent RF front-ends, computational electromagnetics, biomedical engineering, smart systems. Dr. Srifi is the President of Moroccan Institute for Sciences and Development (MISD), member of the IEEE, IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, European Microwave Association, and the Moroccan Association for Advanced Materials. Dr. Srifi holds two patents on antennas for ultra-wide band applications, and he is a recipient of national and international awards. He is the author and coauthor of several papers which appeared in refereed international journals and conferences. Prof. M. Nabil Srifi is the Founder and the General Chair of The International Symposium on Advanced Electrical and Communication technologies (ISAECT).

Joerg Widmer is Research Director as well as Research Professor at IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. His research focuses on wireless networks, ranging from extremely high frequency millimeter-wave communication and MAC layer design to mobile network architectures. From 2005 to 2010, he was manager of the Ubiquitous Networking Research Group at DOCOMO Euro-Labs in Munich, Germany, leading several projects in the area of mobile and cellular networks. Before, he worked as post-doctoral researcher at EPFL, Switzerland on ultra-wide band communication and network coding. He was a visiting researcher at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, USA, University College London, UK, and TU Darmstadt, Germany. Joerg Widmer authored more than 150 conference and journal papers and three IETF RFCs, and holds 13 patents. He serves on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Elsevier Computer Networks and the program committees of several major conferences. He was awarded an ERC consolidator grant, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Mercator Fellowship of the German Research Foundation, a Spanish Ramon y Cajal grant, as well as nine best paper awards. He is Fellow of the IEEE and Distinguished Member of the ACM.

Dr. A. Selcuk Uluagac is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Florida International University, where where he leads the Cyber-Physical Systems Security Lab (CSL). He has served as a member of the research faculty as a Senior Research Engineer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology and prior to Georgia Tech, he was a Senior Research Engineer at Symantec. Dr. Uluagac earned his Ph.D. with a concentration in security and networking from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. He also received a M.S. in Information Security from the School of Computer Science at The Georgia Institute of Technology and a M.S. in networking from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, respectively. The focus of his research is on cybersecurity and privacy with an emphasis on its practical and applied aspects. In 2015, he received a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and was selected to receive a fellowship from the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research (AFOSR)'s Summer Faculty Fellowship Program. In 2016, he received the Summer Faculty Fellowship from the University of Padova, Italy. In 2007, he received the "Outstanding ECE Graduate Teaching Assistant Award" from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also an active member of IEEE (senior grade), ACM, and ASEE and a regular contributor to national panels and leading journals and conferences in the field. Dr. Uluagac has served on the program committees of top-tier security conferences such as IEEE S&P, NDSS, ASIACCS, inter alia. He was the General Chair of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (ACM WiSec) in 2019. Currently, he serves on the editorial boards of Elsevier Computer Networks Journal, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), and the IEEE Communications and Surveys and Tutorials. He has been very active in external funding efforts during his tenure at FIU related to the security and privacy of Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems areas. Specifically, his research was funded by NSF, Department of Energy, Air Force Research Lab, Cyber Florida, Trend Micro, and Cisco.

Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu is a professor at the Technical University of Iasi, Romania. He is also an associate professor in the department of computer science of the University "Al.I. Cuza" of Iasi, Romania, where he teaches postgraduate classes. He served as a visiting or invited professor at University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl., US, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and University of Leon, Spain. He served as Director of the Institute of Computer Science of the Romanian Academy and is now Honorary Director of the same institute. His interests are diverse, comprising A.I. and applications, including speech technology and biomedical applications, chaos theory and applications, social networks dynamics, neuro-fuzzy systems and cellular automata, and mathematical aspects of the above. He holds two honorary doctorates (h.c.), about 25 patents, authored or co-authored more than 300 papers, and authored, co-authored or co-edited about 20 books with Springer, Kluwer, CRC-Taylor (Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Systems in Medicine, second edition 2017, CRC-Taylor; Improving Disaster Resilience and Mitigation - IT Means and Tools, Springer; Intelligent Systems and Interfaces, Kluwer-Springer etc.) and national publishers. He received several national and international honors and was recently nominated honorary citizen of his city (one of the largest in Romania) for his contribution to the local development and culture.