Xavier Fernando is a Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), Toronto, Canada. He has (co)authored over 200 research articles, three books (one translated to Mandarin) and holds three patents. He is the Director of TMU Intelligent Communications and Computing Lab that has received total research funding of over $5 Million since 2008 from industry and government. His research interests are in optical and wireless communications. He is a senior member of IEEE, and he was an Associate Editor for the IEEE IOT Journal. He was an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer and delivered over 80 invited talks. He has chaired the IEEE Toronto Section (2012-13) and IEEE Canada Central Area (2016-17) serving the IEEE Region-7 Board. Currently he serves as the IEEE Canada (Region-7) Vitality Coordinator. His work has won 30 awards and prizes so far including, number of IEEE awards, Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003 and CCECE best paper prize in 2001. TMU nominated him for the Top 25 Canadian Immigrants award in 2012 in which was a finalist. He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was the General Chair for the IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC) 2017 and IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) 2014. He was a Member of Board of Governors of TMU (formerly Ryerson University) during 2011- 12. He is a program evaluator for ABET (USA). He was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT), UK in 2008 and MAPNET Fellow visiting Aston University, UK in 2014.

Hasan Farahneh is a professor at the department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan since 2004. He has (co)authored over 30 research articles and two books. His research interests are in optical wireless communications. He is a senior member of IEEE. He has been in the organizing/steering/technical program committees of numerous conferences and journals. He was a visiting scholar at many European Institutes through the Erasmus program of visible light communication.