Jie Wu is Laura H. Carnell Professor at Temple University and the Director of the Center for Networked Computing (CNC). He served as Chair of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences from the summer of 2009 to the summer of 2016 and Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs from the fall of 2015 to the summer of 2017. Prior to joining Temple University, he was a program director at the National Science Foundation and was a distinguished professor at Florida Atlantic University, where he received his Ph.D. in 1989. His current research interests include mobile computing and wireless networks, routing protocols, network trust and security, distributed algorithms, applied machine learning, and cloud computing. Dr. Wu regularly published in scholarly journals, conference proceedings, and books. He serves on several editorial boards, including IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Computer Science and Technology. Dr. Wu is/was general chair/co-chair for IEEE DCOSS’09, IEEE ICDCS’13, ICPP’16, IEEE CNS’16, WiOpt’21, ICDCN’22, IEEE IPDPS’23, ACM MobiHoc’23, and IEEE CCGrid 2024 as well as program chair/cochair for IEEE MASS’04, IEEE INFOCOM’11, CCF CNCC’13, and ICCCN’20. He was an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP). Dr. Wu is a Fellow of the AAAS and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the recipient of the 2011 China Computer Federation (CCF) Overseas Outstanding Achievement Award. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE).

Dr. Cao is the Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Professor in Data Science, the Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing and the director of Internet and Mobile Computing Lab in the Department of Computing at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He served the department head from 2011 to 2017. Dr. Cao is also the Dean of Graduate School, director of Research Institute for AIoT, and director of Research Facility in Big Data Analytics at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Cao’s research interests include edge computing and distributed systems, wireless sensing and networking, big data and AI. He published 6 co-authored and 9 co-edited books, and over 500 papers in major international journals and conference proceedings. He also obtained 13 patents. He received many awards for his outstanding research achievements. Dr. Cao served the Chair of the Technical Committee on Distributed Computing of IEEE Computer Society 2012-2014. He is a member of Academia Europaea, a fellow of HK Academy of Engineering Sciences, a fellow of IEEE, a fellow of CCF and a distinguished member of ACM. In 2017, he received the Overseas Outstanding Contribution Award from China Computer Federation.