Dr.Hamidou Tembine is a professor of machine intelligence at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivieres, Canada and the co- founder of Timadie, which is a platform of platforms that brings together companies, laboratories, and professional associations. It includes various platforms such as Guinaga for blockchain in agriculture, Grabal for livestock & poultry, SK1 Sogoloton for Distributed information, WETE for women's empowerment through entrepreneurship, the knitting and crocheting club, women drone pilots, and more. Since 2010, Tembine has been the founding director of the Learning & Game Theory Laboratory and, since 2020, one of the principal investigators of the Stability Research Center. He has published over 300 scientific publications and has received over 6500 citations and a h-index of 40 to date. Tembine has received more than 10 awards for best scientific articles. He is also the recipient of the Simons Prize in 2020, the Next Einstein Forum Fellow in 2018, and the Best Young Researcher Award in 2014 from the IEEE Communication Society. He has authored five books on game theory and learning, including his latest publication in 2021 by CRC Press, Taylor & Francis. He is a co-author of the book on Machine Intelligence in Africa in 20 questions, published in June 2023.

Faissal El Bouanani (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Nador, Morocco, in 1974. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in network and communication engineering from Mohammed V University-Souissi, Rabat, Morocco, in 2004 and 2009, respectively.,From 1997 to 2009, he was a Faculty Member with the University of Moulay Ismail, Meknes, Morocco. In 2009, he joined the National High School of IT/ENSIAS College of Engineering, Mohammed V University, Rabat, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He advised many Ph.D. and master’s students at Mohammed V University and the University of Moulay Ismail. He has authored or coauthored 120 papers in a wide variety of IEEE/ACM international conferences and journals. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Member in various conferences and IEEE journals. His current research interests include performance analysis and design of wireless communication systems.,Dr. El Bouanani was a TPC Chair of International Conference on Smart Digital Environment, a General Co-Chair of 2016 International Conference on Advanced Communication Systems and Information Security and 2018 International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), and a General Chair of the 2019–2023 CommNet conferences. His Ph.D. thesis was awarded the best one by Mohammed V University-Souissi in 2010. He is also an Associate Editor for IEEE Access and Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He is a Lead Guest Editor for the Physical Layer Security Special Issue in Frontiers in Communications and Networks