Robert C. Qiu
Tennessee Technological University
United States

Robert Caiming Qiu(IEEE S'93-M'96-SM'01) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from New York University(former Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY). He is currently Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Center for Manufacturing Research, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee, where he started as an Associate Professor in 2003 before he became a Full Professor in 2008. His current interest is in wireless communication and networking,  machine learning and the Smart Grid technologies. He was Founder-CEO and President of Wiscom Technologies, Inc., manufacturing and marketing WCDMA chipsets. Wiscom was sold to Intel in 2003. Prior to Wiscom, he worked for GTE Labs, Inc. (now Verizon), Waltham, MA, and Bell Labs, Lucent, Whippany, NJ. He has worked in wireless communications and network, machine learning, Smart Grid, digital signal processing, EM scattering, composite absorbing materials, RF microelectronics, UWB, underwater acoustics, and fiber optics. He holds over 5 patents in WCDMA and authored over 50 journal papers/book chapters. He contributed to 3GPP and IEEE standards bodies. In 1998 he developed the first three courses on 3G for Bell Labs researchers. He served as an adjunct professor in Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. Dr. Qiu serves as Associate Editor, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY and other international journals. He is a co-author of Cognitive Radio Communication and Networking: Principles and Practice (John Wiley), 2012. He is a Guest Book Editor for Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Wireless Communications (New York: Wiley, 2005), and three special issues on UWB including the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOLOGY and IEEE TRANSACTION ON SMART GRID. He serves as a Member of TPC for GLOBECOM, ICC, WCNC, MILCOM, ICUWB, etc. In addition, he served on the advisory board of the New Jersey Center for Wireless Telecommunications (NJCWT). He is included in Marquis Who’s Who in America.

Changchun Zhang
Tennessee Technological University
United States

(IEEE S'11) received his B.S and M.S degree from Nanjing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China in 2000 and 2003, respectively. He is currently perusing the Ph.D
degree in electrical engineering at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville.

He was working in Guandong Nortel R\&D center as a software engineer for GSM/UMTS/LTE core network development, from 2004 to 2009. After that
he joined Tektronix Communications R\&D center at China, working for the telecommunication network monitor as a software project leader until
the middle of 2010.

Zhen Hu
Tennessee Technological University
United States

Zhen Hu received the B.S. degree from Huazhong
University of Science and Technology, Wuhan,
China, in 2004, the M.S. degree from Southeast
University, Nanjing, China, in 2007, and the Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from Tennessee
Technological University, Cookeville, in 2010.

Michael C. Wicks
University of Dayton Research Institute
United States

Michael C. Wicks (FIEEE) received degree from Mohawk Valley Community College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Syracuse University. Dr. Wicks retired from the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory in 2011, and joined the University of Dayton Research Institute. His interest includes waveform diversity, radar signal processing, knowledge-based control, and radar systems engineering. He has published widely in these areas. Additionally, he participates in numerous panels, committees, and working groups, including the IEEE, NATO, and other multi-national organizations.