About Alan V. Oppenheim

Al Oppenheim received a ScD degree in 1964 at MIT and is also the recipient of an honorary doctorate from Tel Aviv University. During his career, he has been a member of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and closely affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research interests are in the general area of signal processing algorithms, systems, and applications. He is co-author of the widely used textbooks “Digital Signal Processing,” “Discrete-Time Signal Processing” (currently in its third edition), “Signals and Systems” (currently in its second edition), and most recently “Signals, Systems & Interference,” published in 2016. He is also the author of several video courses available online. He is editor of several advanced books on signal processing. Throughout his career he has published extensively in research journals and conference proceedings.

Oppenheim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an IEEE Life Fellow, and has been a  Guggenheim Fellow in France and a Sackler Fellow in Israel. He has received a number of IEEE awards for outstanding research, teaching, and mentoring, including the IEEE Kilby Medal; the IEEE Education Medal; the IEEE Centennial Award; the IEEE Third Millennium Medal; the Norbert Wiener Society award; and the Society, Technical Achievement, and Senior Awards of the IEEE Society on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing; as well as a number of research, teaching, and mentoring awards at MIT.

About Aylin Yener

Aylin Yener is the Roy and Lois Chope Chair Professor at The Ohio State University at the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Integrated Systems Engineering since 2020. Prior to her present post, she was a Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean’s Fellow at Penn State where she started as an assistant professor in 2002. Her expertise is in wireless communications, information theory and learning, with recent focus on various pillars of 6G including new advances in physical layer designs, edge learning/computing, system design for confluence of sensing, communications, computing and learning, energy conscious networked systems, and security and privacy. Having worked on wireless communications research extensively, Yener received several technical recognitions including the IEEE Communication Theory Technical Achievement Award, and a IEEE Marconi Paper Award. She is a fellow of AAAS, the IEEE, AAIA, and is an elected member of The Science Academy of Turkey.

Yener is presently on the IEEE board of directors as the director of Division IX. She previously served as the president of the IEEE Information Theory Society. She is the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking.

About Burak Göktürk

About Hitay Özbay

Hitay Özbay is a Professor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Bilkent University, Ankara Turkey. He received the B.Sc., M.Eng. and PhD degrees from Middle East Technical University (1985), McGill University (1987), and University of Minnesota (1989), respectively. His prior academic affiliations include University of Rhode Island (1989-1990), and The Ohio State University (1991—2006) where he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering prior to joining Bilkent University. He also held a visiting position at INRIA, France (2009-2010). Professor Özbay was a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (elected for the term 2017-2019) and an assembly member of the European Control Association (EUCA), representing Turkey, 2013-2019. He served as Associate Editor for many journals, including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1997-1999), SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (2011-2014), and Automatica (2001-2007, 2012 - 2019). He was a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Networked Control Systems (2005-2011); and currently is a Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee on Linear Control Systems (2017-2023). He is a Fellow of IEEE.