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Markus Rupp (Fellow, IEEE) received the Dipl.Ing. degree from the University of Saarbrücken, Germany, in 1988, and the Dr.Ing. degree from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, in 1993. Until 1995, he held a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. From 1995 to 2001, he was at the Wireless Technology Research Department, Nokia Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, USA. Since 2001, he has been a Full Professor of digital signal processing in mobile communications with TU Wien.

Zhangdui Zhong (Fellow, IEEE) is currently a Professor with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China. He is also a Chief Scientist of State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University. He is the Director of the Innovative Research Team of Ministry of Education, and Chief Scientist of Ministry of Railways in China. He is an Executive Council Member of Radio Association of China, and the Deputy Director of Radio Association of Beijing. fields, which include wireless communications for railways, control theory and techniques for railways, and GSM-R system. His research has been widely used in the railway engineering, including Qinghai-Xizang railway, Datong-Qinhuangdao Heavy Haul railway, and many high-speed railway lines of China. He was the recipient of the MaoYiSheng Scientific Award of China, ZhanTianYou Railway Honorary Award of China, and Top ten Science/Technology Achievements Award of Chinese Universities.

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Maziar Nekovee is a Professor of Telecoms and Mobile Technologies, Head of Centre for Advanced Communications, Mobile Technology and IoT and Dean of Sussex Zhejiang-Gongshang Joint AI Institute at University of Sussex. From February 2017 to February 2019, he was also Head of Department of Engineering and Design at Sussex during which period he oversaw a threefold increase in Department’s research funding, significant clime in league tables, successful introduction of two undergraduate programs in Robotics and two new Masters, including one in 5G Mobile Communications, and the establishment of new teaching and research collaborations with China, the Middle East and Africa. Maziar sits (as the only UK academic) at the EU’s 5G Infrastructure Association, where he advises the EC on 5G and beyond-5G Strategic Research Agenda. He is also on the steering board of the EPSRC-funded ComNet2 consortium in mobile technologies and the US National Academy of Science (NSF) funded research coordination network on 5G communications and networks and is Vice Chair of NetWorld 2020 European Technology Platform in Telecommunication Networks and Services, and a member of the Alliance for Internet of Things Innovation (AIIOT) and Telecom Infra Project (TIP).

Prior to joining University of Sussex, he was from 2013 to 2017 a Chief Engineer and Head of Samsung's European 5G Research. In this role he established, led and greatly expanded Samsung’s European and UK research operations in 5G mobile communication, with a focus on advanced technology development and IP generation (10 personal 5G standard patents and over 40 5G standard patents from his team), contributions to 5G industry standards in 3GPP, , industry collaborations and consensus building, as well as working closely with Samsung’s Network Business teams. While at Samsung he established and successfully led a large (19 partners) industry-led Horizon 2020 consortium (5G PPP mmMAGIC) which laid the technology foundations for mobile communications systems being able to operate in the extremely challenging millimetre-wave frequency bands (as part of the 5G global standards for IMT 2020, as developed by 3GPP). He also advised, as the elected member of 5G Infrastructure Association for the device sector, the European Commission on the development of 1.4 BN Euro 5G Public Private Partnership (5G PPP) Programme in Horizon 2020.

From 2001 to 2013, he was with British Telecom (BT) Research and Technology, as a senior scientist and subsequently a team leader. At BT Maziar led and carried out research in fixed and wireless communication technologies and services , including IP multicast, digital fountain, publish-subscribe, WiFi, M2M, cognitive radio and spectrum sharing , mobile backhaul complex network analytics, as well as advising BT's business and strategy units on wireless and wireline technology options and 4G spectrum auction strategy. From 2006 to 2010 he also held a Royal Society (UK Academy of Science) Industry Fellowship at University College London (UCL) while at BT, where he developed in collaboration with UCL’s computational scientists novel platforms for massively parallel simulations of vehicular communication networks, with applications to self-driving cars and intelligent transport systems.

Maziar has a PhD in Theoretical and Computational Physics (from University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and a MEng in electrical and electronic engineering (cum laude) (from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, with a highly successful one year research internship at Philips Research Laboratories). His PhD and subsequent postdoc's at Imperial College and Queen Mary College focused on theory and first-principle simulations of quantum an classical many-particle systems using density functional theory, quantum Monte Carlo simulations, lattice Boltzmann simulations combined with massively parallel computing. Maziar is the author of over 120 highly cited peer-reviewed papers, one best-selling book "Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks: Principle and Practice" and has 13 patents in telecommunication and mobile technologies.

Professor Nekovee has very significant experience of developing and successfully leading large national and international research and innovation partnership with academia, industry and SMEs', and his research and innovation has attracted significant funding ( c.a 10M Pounds) from the EU, UK research councils, the Royal Society and industry. In 2018 he funded Quantrom Technologies Ltd a spin-off company specialising in strategic consultancy and R&D in mobile , IoT and AI technologies, with applications in healthcare, manufacturing, robotics and education sectors. His clients included tier-one telecom vendors, private equity firms, investment banks and some of the top technology consultancy firms. He speaks English, Dutch, Persian and is currently learning Mandarin.
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Professor Nekovee is a sought-after speaker at high-level industry events, C-level meetings with UK and European operators, policy makers and international conferences. He is an adviser to tech-funds and mobile industry on telecom technologies and investment. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including BT Innovation Award, Royal Society Industry Fellowship Award, Samsung R&D UK Best Research Project of the Year Award and Samsung Electronics Best Practice of Research Award. Prof. Nekovee's research, analysis and commentary are regularly covered in media, including New Scientist, Nature, BBC, Politico, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, FT, Politico , Fierce Wireless, Total Telecom, Mobile Europe etc.

Bo Ai (Fellow, IEEE) received the M.S. and Ph.D.degrees from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2007, he was with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he was an Excellent Postdoctoral Research Fellow. He is currently a Professor with Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, where he is also the dean of School of Electronics and Information Engineering and the Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety. He has authored or coauthored six books and 270 scientific research papers, and holds 26 invention patents in his research areas, which include research and applications of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing techniques, high-power amplifier linearization techniques, radio propagation and channel modeling, global systems for mobile communications for railway systems, and long-term evolution for railway systems.

Armando Carrillo Zanuy (M) is a railway expert with more than 15 years of experience in modelling railway systems, logistics systems and high-speed railway systems. He has a degree on Civil Engineering by the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Master of Science (railway logistics) by the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm and PhD on Railway Engineering by the TU Berlin.
He has been manager and core scientist of several railway research projects at the TU Berlin, Department of Track and Railway Operations. In 2012, the VEL-Wagon project coordinated by Dr. Carrillo received from the Swedish Traffic Administration Trafikverket, Swedish Maritime Administration and Vinnova the prize “Best Green Corridor Project”. Dr. Carrillo is the Secretary General of the European Rail Research Network of Excellence (EURNEX) and belongs to the Steering committee of the European Rail Research Advisory Council ERRAC as well as member to the Shift2Rail User Requirements and Implementation Working Group (UR-ID WG). He is coordinator of several projects dedicated to the development of European rail research roadmaps.

He is a senior scientist working at TU Wien, with a research focus on the performance aspects of mobile cellular technologies. He is currently examining the feasibility of using crowdsourcing to conduct performance measurements on 4G and 5G mobile networks. His research aims to establish a common framework for evaluating the performance of mobile networks, guaranteeing reliable and fair connectivity for end-users.

Ke Guan (Senior Member, IEEE) received B.E. degree and Ph.D. degree from Beijing Jiaotong University in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He is a Full Professor in State Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety & School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University. In 2016, he has been awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. He was a Visiting Scholar with Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain in 2009 and 2013. From 2011 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2018, he was a Research Scholar with the Institut für Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany. From February 2023 to July 2023, he was a Guest Professor at Technische Universität Wien, Austria. He has authored/coauthored two books and five book chapter, more than 200 journal and conference papers, and ten patents. His current research interests include measurement and modelling of wireless propagation channels, high-speed railway communications, ray-tracing and machine learning based digital twin of electromagnetic environments in various complex scenarios, such as vehicle-to-x communications, terahertz communication systems, integrated sensing and communications, and space-air-ground integrated networks. Dr. Guan is the pole leader of EURNEX (European Railway Research Network of Excellence). He was the recipient of a 2014 International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award. His papers received 14 Best Paper Awards, including IEEE vehicular technology society Neal Shepherd memorial best propagation paper award in 2019 and 2022. He is an Editor of IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine and IET Microwave, Antenna and Propagation, and a Guest Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and IEEE Communication Magazine. He serves as a Publicity Chair in PIMRC 2016, the Publicity Co-Chair in ITST 2018, the Track Co-Chair in EuCNC, the International Liaison of EUSIPCO 2019, the Session Convener of EuCAP 2015-2022, and a TPC Member for many IEEE conferences, such as Globecom, ICC and VTC. He has been a delegate in 3GPP and a member of the IC1004, CA15104, and CA20120 initiatives.

Presentation entitled “Application of RIS for High-Speed Train Communications”

Presentation entitled “Progress on FRMCS research in EU”

Presentation entitled “Position of EURNEX within ERRAC in 5G”

Presentation entitled “Reliable and Secure Communication using A Combination of Wireless Technologies (RITs)”

Presentation entitled “Efficient Reconstruction of Wireless Performance Maps using Sparse Gaussian Processes”

Presentation entitled “Key Technologies towards Digital Twin of Wireless Environment of Railway Communications”

Presentation entitled “Enabling Technologies for Virtual Coupling and other Innovative Operational Solutions”

Presentation entitled “Measuring the Impact of In-train Repeater Deployments in Real-Time”

Presentation entitled “New Paradigm of 5G Smart Metro”

Presentation entitled “Benchmarking Railroad Solutions for onboard Mobile Connectivity”

Presentation entitled “Reliable Wireless Communication Links for Time-sensitive Applications”