Professor
Institute of Computing at the State University of Campinas,
Campinas, Brazil
Bio
Nelson Fonseca received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California in 1994. He is a full professor at the Institute of Computing at the State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil. He has been affiliated with the Institute of Computing since 1995. He was a Visiting Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Trento and the University of Pisa. He held Lecturer positions at Pontifical Catholic University (1985 - 1987) and worked in the Computer Communications group at IBM Rio Scientific Center (1989). His current research interests are 6G/5G networks, Cellular IoT, Artificial intelligence applied to Networks and Distributed Systems, Optical Networks, Fog Computing, and Edge intelligence. Nelson has also worked in Video services, Scheduling, Grid and Cloud Computing, Traffic Control and Traffic Modeling. Nelson Fonseca has published over 400 refereed papers. He received the IEEE ComSoc Transmission, Access Optical Systems Technical Committee Best Paper Award (2014 and 2020), the IEEE Globecom 2012 Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Latincom 2011 Best Paper Award. He supervised over 80 graduate theses and dissertations, and his graduate students received fifteen awards in Brazilian and Latin American thesis and Dissertation contests. He served as an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer. He received the IEEE Communications Society Education Award, IEEE Communications Society Harold Sobol Award for Exemplary Services to Meetings and Conferences, the IEEE Communications Society Joseph LoCicero Award for Exemplary Service to Publications, the IEEE Communications Society Latin America Region Distinguished Service Award, the Medal of the Chancellor of the University of Pisa (2007), the 2018 and 2003 State University of Campinas Zeferino Vaz award for academic productivity in Computer Science, the Elsevier Computer Network Journal Editor of the Year 2001 award. As a student, he also received the 1994 University of Southern California International Book Award and the Brazilian Computer Society First Thesis and Dissertations Award. He was Keynote Speaker for the conferences IEEE ICC 2022 YOUNG ENGINEERS & SCIENTISTS (I-YES), IEEE CAMAD (2020), IEEE ANTS Workshops (2020), TopNet 2020, ITC-27, LANOMS 2019, UNSA/IEEE ICOMM 2019,, IEEE ColCom 2016, IEEE Cloudnet 2015, IEEE NOMS 2014, IEEE LATINCOM 2013, IEEE ANDESCOM 2006, IWT 2007, Wperfromance, SBRT 2003. He also delivered courses in the IEEE ComSoc First Summer School (Trento, 2015), IEEE ComSoc Third Summer School (Albuquerque, 2017), 1st IEEE Summer School on Smart Cities (Natal, 2017), and IET Digital Summer School (Bologna, 2019). He delivered tutorials at several major international conferences, such as IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM. Nelson serves as ComSoc President-Elect and chair of the ComSoc Strategic Planning Committee. He served as the IEEE ComSoc Vice President for Conferences (2022-2023), IEEE ComSoc Vice President Technical and Education Activities (2018-2019), Vice President Publications (2016-2017), Vice President for Member Relations (2012-2013) and as elected Member at Large of the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors (2009-2011). He served as IEEE ComSoc Director for Conference Development (2020-2021 and 2014-2015), Director for Latin America (2008-2009), Director for On-Line Services (2002-2003), and Chair of the IEEE ComSoC Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee (2005-2007), and Chair of IEEE Comsoc Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (2006-2008). He is Senior Technical Editor for the IEEE Systems Journal and served as Senior Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He was EiC for IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2008-2012). He served as EiC of the IEEE Communications Society Electronic Newsletter (2004-2007), Associate EiC of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (2006), Editor of the Global Communications Newsletter (1999-2002) and Senior Technical Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine. He is on the editorial board of Computer Networks, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, the IEEE Systems Journal, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, Optical Switching and Networking and the Journal of Internet Services and Applications. Dr. Fonseca created the IEEE Networking Letters, the IEEE Communications Society Student Competition, the NFV-SDN Conference, the IEEE Latin America Conference on Communications as well as the Multimedia Communications Series of Symposium in IEEE Globecom and IEEE ICC. He was the General Chair of IEEE Globecom 2022. He was TPC Co-Chair for IEEE WCNC 2019 and IEEE ICC 2016. He co-chaired the QoS, Reliability and Performance Modeling Symposium (IEEE ICC2010, ICC2009, ICC 2008, ICC 2007, IEEE ICC 2006, IEEE ICC 2004, IEEE ICC 2003) , IEEE ICC 2005 Next Generation Networks for Universal Services and IEEE GLOBECOM 2004 General Symposium. He was the Technical Chair of the 2008 Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and the chair of the 2003 Brazilian Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Communications Systems. He was Vice-Technical Chairman of the International Teletraffic Congress 17 (2001), chairman of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling Design and Analysis of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'98), vice-chair of CAMAD2000, vice-chair of IEEE Globecom'99 Multimedia Technology and Services Symposium.
President's Chair Professor
College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS)
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Bio
Dusit Niyato is currently a President's Chair Professor in the College of Computing & Data Science (CCDS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Dusit's research interests are in the areas of mobile generative AI, edge intelligence, quantum computing and networking, and incentive mechanism design. Dusit won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award. Dusit won the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society Stuart Meyer Memorial Award. Currently, Dusit is serving as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (impact factor of 34.4 for 2023) and will serve as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE) from 2025. He is also an area editor of IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), topical editor of IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ), lead series editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (TWC), IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Dusit is the Members-at-Large to the Board of Governors of IEEE Communications Society for 2024-2026. He was named the 2017-2024 highly cited researcher in computer science. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of IET.
Distinguished University Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
Saudi Arabia
Bio
Prof. Daniel B. da Costa received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications from the Military Institute of Engineering (IME), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 2003, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering, Area: Telecommunications, from the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil, in 2006 and 2008, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Electrical Engineering by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (CAPES) at the 2009 CAPES Thesis Contest. Prof. Daniel B. da Costa is currently Distinguished University Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum $\&$ Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Communications Letters and Specialty Chief Editor of the Frontiers in Communications and Networks - Wireless Communications Section. He has been recognized as World’s Top 2% Scientist by Stanford University (2021-2024) and has been ranked among 1% Top Scientists in the world in the broad field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering (2022-2023). He is the recipient of six conference paper awards, and he is a Distinguished Speaker of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society.
