Athanasios V. Vasilakos is with the Center for AI Research, University of Agder(UiA),Norway, and with the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Dean of the Class VI-Engineering. His main research interests include Generative AI, Quantum Computing, Cybersecurity, Digital Biomedicine. He served or is serving as an Editor for many technical journals, such as the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AI, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT; IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION FORENSICS AND SECURITY, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DEPENDABLE AND SECURE COMPUTING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CYBERNETICS; IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NANOBIOSCIENCE; IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN BIOMEDICINE; ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems; the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS .He is WoS highly cited researcher, h-index=148. He was General Chair of the European Alliances for Innovation.

Art Graesser is a professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute of Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis, as well as Honorary Research Fellow at University of Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at San Diego. His research interests question asking and answering, tutoring, text comprehension, inference generation, conversation, reading, problem solving, memory, emotions, artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, and human-computer interaction. He served as editor of the journal Discourse Processes (1996–2005) and Journal of Educational Psychology (2009-2014), as well as presidents of 4 societies, including Society for Text and Discourse (2007-2010), the International Society for Artificial Intelligence in Education (2007-2009), and the Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (2012-13). He and his colleagues have developed and tested software in learning, language, and discourse technologies, including those that hold a conversation in natural language and interact with multimedia (such as AutoTutor) and those that analyze text on multiple levels of language and discourse (Coh-Metrix and Question Understanding Aid -- QUAID). He has served on five panels with the National Academy of Sciences and four OECD expert panels on problem solving, namely PIAAC 2011 Problem Solving in Technology Rich Environments, PISA 2012 Complex Problem Solving, PISA 2015 Collaborative Problem Solving (chair), and PIAAC Adaptive Problem Solving 2021. He has received lifetime achievement awards from three societies (Artificial Intelligence in Education, American Psychological Association, and Society for Text and Discourse) and a McGraw Prize in Education in the area of learning sciences.

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Haiying Shen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. During her 2024 sabbatical, she served as a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft in Redmond, WA, where she focused on LLM systems. Her research area is distributed systems, with a focus on ML/LLM systems, cloud computing, edge computing, and cyber-physical systems (CPS). Dr. Shen has made significant contributions to her field, with an H-index of 52 and over 380 publications in top conferences and journals such as SIGCOMM, OSDI, EuroSys, SoCC, ASPLOS, CoNext, Infocom, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), and IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). Her work has received the George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper Award (2021), best paper awards at CloudCom (2016) and NAS (2018), a best paper runner-up award at ICCCN (2015), best paper award nominations at ICPP (2021), MASS (2011), and CCGrid (2009), and a best-in- session presentation award at INFOCOM (2017). She has also received several prestigious awards, including the Microsoft Faculty Fellowship Award (2010), IEEE TCSC Mid-Career Award (2015), IBM Faculty Award (2015), NSF CAREER Award (2013), and Sigma Xi Clemson Chapter Young Investigator Award (2013). Dr. Shen serves as an Associate Editor for TON, TMC, and IEEE Networking Letters (NL). She also has served as program co-chair and general co-chair for several international conferences and has participated in the program committees of numerous leading conferences.