M. Shahid Anwar

Department of AI and Software, Gachon University South Korea

Muhammad Shahid Anwar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of AI & Software at Gachon University, Seongnam, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2021 and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Technology from Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 2012. Dr. Shahid has authored and co-authored more than 90 publications top journals, and flagship conference. Also published seven book chapters in reputed publisher. He has been honored with the “Outstanding Scholar of the Year 2020 Award" from the CSC Scholarship Council and “Excellent Student of the Year 2020 Award" from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He has been serving as an editorial board member and guest editor in several Journals. His research interests include AI Healthcare, immersive Technology (VR/AR/XR), Metaverse, and Quality of Experience (QoE) evaluations of VR application in different domains such as healthcare and education.  

Jaroslav Frnda

University of Zilina, Zilina, Slovakia

Jaroslav Frnda (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Slovakia, in 1989. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Telecommunications, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the University of Žilina, Slovakia. He has authored or coauthored more than 85 journal articles in Web of Science. His research interests include the machine learning algorithms, AI healthcare, quality of multimedia services in IP networks, and data analysis. In 2022, he was the Finalist of the Category Outstanding Scientist in Slovakia under the age of 35-ESET Science Award, in 2022. 

Mimonah Alqathrady

Najran University, Saudi Arabia

Mimonah Al Qathrady earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (CE) from the University of Florida (UF), Gainesville, USA, in 2020. Prior to this, she completed her MSc in CE at UF in 2013, and received B.S. of Information Systems from King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia, in 2007. Since 2020, she has been working as an assistant professor at the Computer Science and Information Systems College at Najran University. Her research interest is on data-driven systems integrating machine and deep learning. She is also interested in AI Healthcare, IoT data analysis and modeling, with applications in mobility, encounter and infection tracing, and security.  She worked on several projects, such as MobiBench, as well as being the lead investigator in a multitude of projects, such as i-Hospital and AI in IoT. She was the coordinator of NOMADS lab at UF, and she is a member of ACM and IEEE.