Aryan Kaushik is CEO and Director of OUF Innovative (UK). Previously, he served as an Associate Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK), an Assistant Professor at the University of Sussex (UK), and a Research Fellow at UCL (UK). He has also held visiting positions at leading institutions across the UK, Luxembourg, Italy, China, and other countries. Recognized among the Stanford/Elsevier World's Top Scientists, he serves as an international assessor, PhD examiner, and research funding evaluator. He chairs the IEEE ComSoc TWG-ESIT and SIG-AITNTN, serves as Vice-Chair of one6G WG3, has edited books, received IEEE Exemplary Editor Awards, and delivered invited talks worldwide while chairing flagship IEEE conferences.
Prof. Marco Di Renzo is Professor of Telecommunications Engineering, Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research, and Head of the Telecommunications Group at King’s College London, UK. He is also CNRS Research Director at IETR-CentraleSupélec, France. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, EURASIP, RSA, and AAIA; an Academician of AIIA; and an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Academia Europaea, and the Italian Academy of Technology and Engineering. He is an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation and a Highly Cited Researcher. He is Principal Investigator of an ERC Synergy Grant on metasurface-based information processing.