Bio: Victor Bahl is an American Technical Fellow and CTO of Azure for Operators at Microsoft. He started networking research at Microsoft. He is known for his research contributions to white space radio data networks, radio signal-strength based indoor positioning systems, multi-radio wireless systems, wireless network virtualization, edge computing, and for bringing wireless links into the datacenter. He is also known for his leadership of the mobile computing community as the co-founder of the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing (SIGMOBILE). He is the founder of international conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Conference (MobiSys), and the founder of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, a quarterly scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed technical papers, opinion columns, and news stories related to wireless communications and mobility. Bahl has received important awards; delivered dozens of keynotes and plenary talks at conferences and workshops; delivered over six dozen distinguished seminars at universities; written over hundred papers with more than 65,000 citations and awarded over 100 US and international patents. He is a Fellow of ACM, IEEE, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Bio: Satya's multi-decade research career has focused on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. In the course of this work, he has pioneered many advances in distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Most recently, his seminal 2009 publication “The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” and the ensuing research has led to the emergence of Edge Computing (also known as "Fog Computing"). Satya is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received the PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, after Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE. His research focuses on the challenges of performance, scalability, availability and trust in information systems that reach from the cloud to the mobile edge of the Internet. In the course of this work, his work has spanned the topics of distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT). His 2009 publication “The Case for VM-based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” has inspired many technical efforts worldwide at the intersection of mobile computing and cloud computing, and has led to the emergence of Edge Computing (also known as "Fog Computing").

Bio: Edward Knightly is the Sheafor–Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley and his B.S. from Auburn University. He is an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow, and a Sloan Fellow. He received the IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award, the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Award for Research on New Opportunities for Dynamic Spectrum Access, the George R. Brown School of Engineering Teaching + Research Excellence Award, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He received the 2025 ACM SIGMOBILE Test of Time paper award and eight best paper awards including ACM MobiCom, ACM MobiHoc, IEEE Communications and Network Security, and IEEE INFOCOM. He has given over thirty plenary keynote presentations at ACM and IEEE conferences. He serves as an editor-at-large for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and serves on the scientific council of IMDEA Networks in Madrid and the scientific advisory board of INESC TEC in Porto. He served as the Rice ECE department chair from 2014 to 2019.

Bio: KANG G. SHIN is the Kevin & Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His current research focuses on QoS-sensitive computing and networking as well as on embedded real-time and cyber-physical systems, such as autonomous vehicles. He has supervised the completion of 93 PhDs, and authored/coauthored close to 1,000 technical articles, a textbook and about 60 patents or invention disclosures, and received numerous awards, including 2023 IEEE TCCPS Technical Achievement Award, 2023 SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award, 2019 Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies, and the Best Paper Awards from 2023 VehicleSec, 2011 ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’11), the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing, the 2010 and 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conferences, as well as the 2003 IEEE Communications Society William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award and the 1987 Outstanding IEEE Transactions of Automatic Control Paper Award. He has also received several institutional awards, including the Research Excellence Award in 1989, Outstanding Achievement Award in 1999, Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award in 2001, and Stephen Attwood Award in 2004 from The University of Michigan (the highest honor bestowed to Michigan Engineering faculty); a Distinguished Alumni Award of the College of Engineering, Seoul National University in 2002; 2003 IEEE RTC Technical Achievement Award; and 2006 Ho-Am Prize in Engineering (the highest honor bestowed to Korean-origin engineers). He has chaired Michigan Computer Science and Engineering Division for 3 years starting 1991, and also several major conferences, including 2009 ACM MobiCom, 2008 IEEE SECON, 2005 ACM/USENIX MobiSys, 2000 IEEE RTAS, and 1987 IEEE RTSS. He is the fellow of both IEEE and ACM. He has also served or is serving on numerous government committees, such as the US NSF Cyber-Physical Systems Executive Committee and the Korean Government R&D Strategy Advisory Committee. He has also helped founding a couple of startups.

Bio: Suman Banerjee is currently the David J. DeWitt Professor of computer sciences with the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Founding Director of the WiNGS Laboratory, which broadly focuses on research in wireless and mobile networking systems. He has published more than 100 technical papers in leading conferences and journals. Banerjee was named an ACM Fellow in 2020 for his contributions to research in the area of wireless systems and an IEEE Fellow in 2022 for his contributions to the "development of tools to improve performance and usability of wireless systems". He has been cited more than 28,000 times (April 2021). He was an inaugural recipient of the ACM SIGMOBILE Rockstar Award and a recipient of the U.S. National Science Foundation Career Award. He served as the Chair for ACM SIGMOBILE from 2013 to 2017.

Bio: Kun Tan is Chief Expert of Central Software Institute, 2012 Labs, Huawei. Before joining Huawei in 2016, he was a Senior Researcher and Research Manager at Microsoft Research Asia in Beijing. Kun has worked in broad areas of computer networking and systems. His research interests include high-performance networking, serverless and mobile computing, and agentic AI systems. He has received the Best Paper Award at NSDI in 2009 and the USENIX Test-of-Time Award in 2019. In 2023, he also received China State Technological Invention Award for his contribution in cloud computing.

Bio: Heather Zheng is the Neubauer Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from University of Maryland, College Park. Prior to joining UChicago in 2017, she spent 6 years in industry labs (Bell-Labs and Microsoft Research Asia) and 12 years as a faculty at University of California at Santa Barbara. At UChicago, she co-directs the SAND Lab (Security, Algorithms, Networking and Data). She was one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35 in 2005 and her research on cognitive radios was featured by MIT Technology Review as one of the 10 Emerging Technologies in 2006. More recently, her work on protecting human artists against unethical data exploration received the USENIX Internet Defense Prize, the Chicago Innovation Award, a special mention in TIME Magazine Best Inventions of 2023, and the Community Impact Award from the Concept Art Association in 2024. She is a fellow of ACM and IEEE, and has served on several editorial boards and steering committees for journals and conferences. She also serves as a board member of the University of Chicago Laboratory School.

Bio: Jie Liu is a Chair Professor and Dean of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute at Harbin Institute of Technology. Before joining HIT, he spent 18 years at Xerox PARC and Microsoft. He was a Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research. His research interests are sensor networks, AI for IoT, and energy efficient computing. He was the Steering Committee Chair for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week (CPS-IoT Week) and ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN). He received IEEE TCCPS Distinguished Leadership Award and 6 Best Paper Awards from top conferences. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Bio: Shyam Gollakota is a Washington Research Foundation endowed Professor at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering in the University of Washington. His work has been licensed by ResMed Inc, our startup Sound Life Sciences acquired by Google, and is in use by millions of users. He was also CEO of a startup where we obtained FDA 510(k) clearance for the technology developed in my lab. His lab also worked closely with the Washington Department of Agriculture to wirelessly track invasive "murder" hornets, which resulted in the destruction of the first nest in the United States. He is the recipient of the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award in 2020, a Moore Inventor Fellow in 2021 and more recently the InfoSys prize in 2024. He was also named in MIT Technology Review's 35 Innovators Under 35, Popular Science 'brilliant 10' and twice to the Forbes' 30 Under 30 list. His group's research has earned Best Paper awards at MOBICOM, SIGCOMM, UbiComp, SenSys, NSDI and CHI, appeared in interdisciplinary journals like Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Science Translational Medicine and Science Robotics as well as named as a MIT Technology Review Breakthrough technology of 2016 as well as Popular Science top innovations in 2015. He is an alumni of MIT (Ph.D., 2013, winner of ACM doctoral dissertation award) and IIT Madras.

Bio: Lili Qiu is an Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia and is mainly responsible for overseeing the research, as well as the collaboration with industries, universities, and research institutes, at Microsoft Research Asia – Shanghai. Dr. Lili Qiu obtained her MS and PhD degrees in computer science from Cornell University. Her current research interests include wireless communication, wireless/wearable sensing, machine learning, systems, and healthcare. She worked at Microsoft Research Redmond as a researcher in the System & Networking Group from 2001-2004. In 2005, she joined the University of Texas at Austin as an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, and later, in view of her outstanding achievements, she was promoted to a tenured professor. Dr. Qiu is an IEEE Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. She also served as the ACM SIGMOBILE chair. She was named an ACM Distinguished Scientist and was a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, among many other honors.

Bio: Qian Zhang is now the head of Division of Integrative System and Design (ISD) as well as Tencent Professor of Engineering and Chair Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). She is also serving as the Director of HKUST MOE/MSRA Information Technology Key Laboratory and the Director of Digital Life Research Center of HKUST. Before that, she was in Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, from July 1999, where she was the research manager of the Wireless and Networking Group. Dr. Zhang has published more than 400 refereed papers in international leading journals and key conferences. She is the inventor of more than 50 granted and 20 pending international patents. Her current research interests include Internet of Things, smart health, mobile computing and sensing, wireless networking, as well as cyber security. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering (HKAE). Dr. Zhang received Hong Kong RGC (Research Grant Council) Senior Research Fellow Award in 2024. Dr. Zhang has received MIT TR100 (MIT Technology Review) world’s top young innovator award. She also received the Best Asia Pacific (AP) Young Researcher Award elected by IEEE Communication Society in year 2004. She received the Best Paper Award in Multimedia Technical Committee (MMTC) of IEEE Communication Society in 2005 and Best Paper Award for QShine 2006, IEEE GlobeCom 2007, IEEE ICDCS 2008, IEEE ICC 2010, IEEE GlobeCom 2012, and IEEE ICC 2019. She received the Oversea Young Investigator Award from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) in 2006. She held the Cheung Kong Chair Professor in Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2012-2015). She has been elected as IEEE Communication Society Distinguished Lecture from Jan. 2010 to Dec. 2011.

Bio: Sung-Ju Lee received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2000. He spent 12.5 years at Hewlett-Packard Company as a Principal Research Scientist and Distinguished Mobility Architect. He was then a Principal Member of Technical Staff at the CTO Office of Narus, Inc. (now part of Symantec). In 2015, he joined KAIST, where he is a KAIST Endowed Chair Professor and leads the Networking & Mobile Systems Lab. Dr. Lee has published numerous technical papers in peer-reviewed top-tier journals and conferences. His papers are well-cited, with his publications receiving a total of nearly 18,000 citations, and his h-index is 60, according to Google Scholar. In addition, he has 51 granted US patents. He has published in top conference venues such as MobiCom, MobiSys, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, EMNLP, INFOCOM, CoNext, SenSys, UbiComp, CHI, UIST, CSCW, ICDCS, NDSS, ISSTA, and IMC. He won the HP CEO Innovation Award in 2010 as part of the mega-scale wireless sensor networking team. This award recognizes the people behind the most innovative products that HP has brought to market, and the winners are nominated by executives in HP businesses. He is also the winner of the test-of-time paper award at ACM WiNTECH 2016 and the best paper awards at ACM CHI 2025, ACM CSCW 2021, and IEEE ICDCS 2015. He was the General Chair of ACM MobiCom 2014 and co-TPC Chair of IEEE INFOCOM 2016 and ACM MobiCom 2021. He is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.