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Yue Gao is a Professor and Chair in Wireless Communications at Institute for Communication Systems, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey, UK. He received a PhD degree from the Queen Mary University of London, UK. He leads the Antennas and Signal Processing Lab developing fundamental research into practice in the interdisciplinary area of smart antennas, signal processing, spectrum sharing, millimetrewave and Internet of Things technologies in mobile and satellite systems. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, one book and five book chapters. He is an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Fellow from 2018 to 2023. He was a co-recipient of the EU Horizon Prize Award on Collaborative Spectrum Sharing in 2016.
Zihang Song received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Applied Physics from Beihang University, China. He started his PhD study in 2019 and is now with Prof. Yue Gao and Prof. Rahim Tafazolli in University of Surrey, UK. His current research interests include millimetre-wave spectrum sensing and sub-Nyquist signal processing.
Han Zhang received his PhD degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of California, Davis, Davis, California, USA, in 2019. He is currently working as a research assistant in the University of Surrey, UK. His research interests include utilizing data driven methods on telecommunication scenarios, such as transceiver design and compressive sensing.
Sean Fuller is a Senior Account Manager at NI, specialised in wireless communications, data acquisition, and data analytics. He focuses on fostering collaborative relationships between industry and academia, with the goal of accelerating innovation. He received his Batchelor of Engineering (Hons) from the University of Portsmouth, UK.
Andrew Lambert (CEng FIET MIoD, Founder and CEO of Electronic Media Services Ltd and Founder and COO of Fibre Ltd) is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering Technology. He is an experienced board-level executive with a proven record of developing new technology to solve business problems with extensive practical experience of working in Europe and Asia.
Zhinong Ying is a principle researcher of Antenna technology in the Network Technology Lab within the Research Centre, Sony Cooperation, Sweden, also as a distinguish engineer within the whole Sony group. He joined Ericsson AB in 1995 in Sweden. He became Senior Specialist in 1997 and Expert in 2003 in his engineer career at Ericsson. He also has been a part time professor in department of electronic system, Aalborg University, Denmark since 2021. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He was a member of scientific board of ACE program (Antenna Centre of Excellent in European 6th frame) from 2004 to 2007.
Petri Mähönen is currently a Full Professor and the Chair of Networked Systems with RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His current research interests include cognitive radio systems, embedded intelligence, and future wireless networks architectures, including millimeter-wave systems and technoeconomics especially from a regulatory perspective. He is also serving as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. He is also co-recipient of IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Award and received Telenor Research Prize for his work on spectrum related research.
Yonina Eldar is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, where the heads the center for biomedical engineering. She was previously a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion, where she held the Edwards Chair in Engineering. She is also a Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scientist at the Broad Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Duke University and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford. She is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, an IEEE Fellow and a EURASIP Fellow. She is the Chief Editor of Foundations and Trends in Signal Processing and a member of several IEEE Technical Committees and Award Committees.
Shuguang Cui received his PhD from Stanford in 2005. He is now a Chair Professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), China. His current research interest is data driven large-scale information analysis and system design. He was selected as the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher and listed in the Worlds’ Most Influential Scientific Minds by Sciencewatch in 2014. He was the recipient of the IEEE Signal Processing Society 2012 Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow and ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer.
Mark D. Plumbley is Professor of Signal Processing at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) and Head of School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey, in Guildford, UK. He is an expert on analysis and processing of audio, using a wide range of signal processing and machine learning methods. He led the first international data challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE 2013), and is a co-editor of the recent book on “Computational Analysis of Sound Scenes and Events” (Springer, 2018). He currently holds a 5-year EPSRC Fellowship on “AI for Sound”, aiming to bring sound recognition technology “out of the lab” for the benefit of society.
Clive Parini joined Queen Mary as Lecturer in 1977, promoted to Reader in 1990, promoted to Professor in 1999 and is currently Professor of Antenna Engineering and heads the Antenna & Electromagnetics Research Group. He has published over 400 papers on research topics including array mutual coupling, array beam forming, antenna metrology, microstrip antennas, millimetrewave compact antenna test ranges, millimetrewave integrated antennas, metamaterials and on-body communications. He is a Fellow of the IET and a past member and Chairman of the IET Antennas & Propagation Professional Network Executive Team. He is a past member of the editorial board and past Honorary Editor for the IET Journal Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation. In 2009 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Arumugam Nallanathan is Professor of Wireless Communications and the founding head of the Communication Systems Research (CSR) group in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London, UK since September 2017. He was with the Department of Informatics at King’s College London from December 2007 to August 2017, where he was Professor of Wireless Communications. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore from August 2000 to December 2007. He has been selected as a Web of Science (ISI) Highly Cited Researcher in 2016. He is an IEEE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer.
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Gao, Y., Song, Z., Zhang, H. et al. Sub-Nyquist spectrum sensing and learning challenge. Front. Comput. Sci. 15, 154504 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-021-1275-y
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