Ala Al-Fuqaha is the interim Provost and Associate Provost for Teaching and Learning at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He is a professor at the Information and Computing Technology division, college of Science and Engineering, HBKU. His research interests include the use of machine learning in general and deep learning in particular in support of the data-driven and self-driven management of large-scale deployments of IoT and smart city infrastructure and services, ethical aspects of AI deployments, Wireless Vehicular Networks (VANETs), cooperation and spectrum access etiquette in cognitive radio networks, management and planning of software-defined networks (SDN), and engineering education. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of the ACM, and an ABET Program Evaluator (PEV) and commissioner. He served on editorial boards of multiple journals, including IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Network Magazine, and Springer AJSE. He also served as chair, co-chair, and technical program committee member of multiple international conferences, including IEEE VTC, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, and IWCMC.

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