Advisory Board

Ana García Armada (IEEE Fellow) is a Professor at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain, where she is leading the Communications Research Group. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Bell Labs and University of Southampton. She has published more than 250 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and she holds seven granted patents. She is serving on the editorial board of IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Associate Editor in Chief since 2024) and ITU Journal on Future and Evolving. She has been a member of the organizing committee of IEEE MeditCom 2024 (General Chair), IEEE MeditCom 2023, IEEE WNCN 2024, IEEE Globecom 2022, IEEE Globecom 2021 (General Chair), IEEE Globecom 2019, among others. She has received the Young Researchers Excellence Award from University Carlos III of Madrid. She was awarded the third place Bell Labs Prize 2014 for shaping the future of information and communications technology. She received the Outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Signal Processing and Communications Electronics technical committee in 2019 and the Outstanding service award from the IEEE ComSoc Women in Communications Engineering Standing Committee in 2020. She received the IEEE ComSoc/KICS Exemplary Global Service Award in 2022.

B. Ortega (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. degree in Physics in 1995 from the Universidad de Valencia, and the Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering in 1999 from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She currently works at the Departamento de Comunicaciones from the Universitat Politècnica de València, where she holds a Full Professorship since 2009 and collaborates as a group leader in the Photonics Research Labs in the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications. She has published more than 200 papers and conference contributions in fibre Bragg gratings, microwave photonics and optical networks. She has got several patents and was also a co-founder of EPHOOX company. She has participated in a large number of European Networks of Excellence and R&D projects and other national ones. Her main research is currently focused on optical devices, optical networks, wireless communications and microwave photonic systems and applications.

Steve Hranilovic received the B.A.Sc. degree with honours in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 1997 and M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto, Canada in 1999 and 2003 respectively.
He is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) where he currently serves as the Vice-Provost and Dean of Graduate Studies. During 2010-2011 he spent his research leave as Senior Member, Technical Staff in Advanced Technology for Research in Motion, Waterloo, Canada. His research interests are in the areas of free-space and optical wireless communications, digital communication algorithms, and electronic and photonic implementation of coding and communication algorithms. He is the author of the book Wireless Optical Communication Systems (New York:Springer, 2004).
Dr. Hranilovic is a Fellow of the IEEE and of Optica, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario. In 2016 the title of University Scholar was conferred upon him by McMaster University. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Optical Communications and Networking and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications in the area of Optical Wireless Communications.

Ana Pérez-Neira is full professor at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in the Signal Theory and Communication department. Currently, she is the Director of Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Spain. Her research is in signal processing for communications, focused on satellite communications. She has been the leader of over 35 projects and has participated in over 50. She is the author of over 80 journal papers and more than 400 conference papers. She is co-author of 7 books and 13 chapters, and 8 patents, all contributing to the advancement of signal processing and communications. She has been speaker at 70+ invited talks, guest editor for 10 special issues. She was Vicerector for Research at UPC (2010-13). She created UPC Doctoral School (2011). She is a recipient for the 2018 EURASIP Society Award. She is IEEE Fellow, EURASIP Fellow, member of the Real Academy of Science and Arts of Barcelona, and of the Real Academy of Engineering. She is awarded the ICREA Academia and has the Narcis Monturiol award by the Catalan government due to her research trajectory. She has been recognized in 2025 the Salvà Campillo Award for Outstanding Personality of the 30th Night of Telecommunications and IT.