Dr. Oya Aran received her PhD degree in Computer Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2008. Between 2009 and 2016, she worked at the Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland, first as a postdoctoral researcher, then as a research fellow. Between 2009 and 2011, she was a Marie Curie Intra-European Postdoctoral Fellow with the NOVICOM project (Automatic Analysis of Group Conversations via Visual Cues in Non-Verbal Communication). In 2011, she was awarded with Swiss National Science Foundation Ambizione Fellowship on Multimodal Computational Modeling of Nonverbal Social Behavior in Face to Face Interaction., Between 2018-2019, she was a full professor at the Software Technology Department at the College of Computer Studies at De La Salle University, Manila. She currently works at Procter and Gamble R&D leading the vision and multimodal AI group. She has published several papers in leading journals and conferences. She is a senior member of the IEEE.

Dr. Agoritsa Polyzou is an Assistant Professor at the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences in Florida International University (FIU), Miami. Before joining FIU, she was a postdoctoral Fritz family fellow in the Massive Data Institute (MDI) of McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota. She is involved in projects at the intersection of data mining, machine learning, ethics, and fairness. Her research interests include data mining, recommender systems, predictive models within educational contexts, and the fairness concerns that arise from their use. At the same time, she is interested in exploring the aspects of responsible machine learning and artificial intelligence. Through her research, teaching, and advising, she strives to promote diversity and ethical thinking in AI development and use.

Dr. Soon Ae Chun is a professor and director of the Information Systems and Informatics program at CUNY College of Staten Island (CSI), and a professor of Computer Science Ph.D Program and Data Science MS Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the director of the Information Security Research and Education Lab (iSecure Lab). Her research area includes AI and Machine Learning; Security, Privacy and Trust; Semantic Web; Social Media Data Analytics; and Service Integration, focusing on applied areas in Digital Government and Digital Health. She worked on IT Innovations, Emergency Management and Scientific and Environmental Data Management projects in collaboration with the New Jersey State Government, NJ Meadowlands Environmental Center, NY/NJ Port Authority, Newark City Government, NASA as well as SAP, and Panasonic. She received the CSI President’s Dolphin Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement, a Fulbright Scholarship, and a Distinguished Service Award by the Digital Government Society. She served as the President for the Digital Government Society. She is a founding Editors-in-Chief for the ACM Digital Government Research and Practice. She is a senior member of IEEE and ACM Computing Society, and a member of the Digital Government Society and the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor.

Dr. Anastassia Gharib (Member, IEEE) received the M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2018 and 2023, respectively. She has been awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement for her work entitled “Cluster-Based Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks Management for Enhanced User Security Satisfaction in the Internet of Things”. She has been a Research Assistant with the Internet of Things Laboratory at Carleton University, and a contract instructor at Carleton University and German-Jordanian University. Her research interests are in the field of the Internet of Things and include sensor networks and resource management, security-and-privacy-by-design, user security satisfaction, horizontal Internet of Things standards, platforms, and policies, spectrum sensing, and graph-powered optimization and machine learning techniques. Dr. Gharib is the first person to receive the IEEE WIEC Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award in 2021. Previously, she has been a Chair of IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Ottawa, which under her leadership received the global IEEE WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award, IEEE WIE Canada Group of the Year Award for Large Sections, and IEEE Ottawa Outstanding Affinity Group Award for the first time in the history, all in 2020. In 2019, she received the IEEE Canada WIE Prize and the Carleton University Student Association Teaching Excellence Award. She has been featured in the June 2022 issue of the IEEE WIE Magazine in an article titled “Myriad Applications: Gharib Finds Her Calling [Women to Watch].” Dr. Gharib is a Technical Activities Board Representative and a Voting Member on the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee (WIEC). She is a reviewer for multiple IEEE journals and magazines. Finally, Dr. Gharib is an Organizing Committee Member and a WIE Co-Chair for the 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC).