Jaime Bustillo is Director of Technology at Vodafone Spain since January 2006. He obtained the MsC degree in Telecommuications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Madrid. He starts his career in 1978 at Telettra Spain, where he becomes Manager of the Mobile Communications Engineering Department. In 1992, he joins Airtouch Spain as Technical Director. In 1994, he is part of the team that prepares the bid for Airtel to obtain the GSM license in Spain. In 1995, he joins the newly established Airtel and occupies various leading posts: Director of Radio Frequency, Regional Technical Director, Director of the Core Network, Director of Products R&D, Director of Clients Management, and currently Director of Technology.

Steve Pusey joined Vodafone Group Plc on 1st September 2006 as Global Chief Technology Officer. Steve is responsible for all aspects of Vodafone's networks, IT capability and supply chain management.

Prior to joining Vodafone, Steve was one of the most senior executives at Nortel and held the position of Executive Vice President, and President, Nortel EMEA. He joined Nortel 1982 and gained a wealth of international experience across both the wireline and wireless industries and in enterprise applications and solutions. During his time as President of Europe from 2001 to 2005, he managed far-reaching change programmes that led the region back to significant growth.

Steve Pusey gained telecoms and microelectronics qualifications prior to spending several years with British Telecom and is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University.

Serge has been with Qualcomm since 1995, initially contributing to the IS-95 and cdma2000 system design and enhancements. Since 1997, Serge has led the design and specification of a number of UMTS radio features and has been a key participant in the 3GPP radio access network committees. Serge has been instrumental in establishing and expanding Qualcomm’s commitment to UMTS and LTE systems, products, and standardization. He has had overall responsibility for Qualcomm’s participation and contribution to 3GPP from 1998 to 2008 and continues to actively support and develop various 3GPP related initiatives within Qualcomm. Serge holds a Master in Telecommunication Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (1995).

Chaobin Yang, president of Sweden R&D Center, took his M.Sc in telecommunication at University of science and technology of China. After graduation in 1998, he joined Huawei and started with R&D activities in UMTS. In 2000 he became Head of wireless research which has contributed to the evolution of WCDMA/HSPA/LTE,CDMA2000 and Wimax. In 2006 he was responsible for the technology strategy and Innovation in Radio access BU. Now he is the president of Huawei Sweden R&D center.

Jan Färjh, Vice President Head of Ericsson Research, took his M.Sc in telecommunication at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, 1985. After his graduation he developed signal processing algorithms for airborne radar systems. In 1990 he joined Ericsson and started to work with radio access technologies. He was part of Ericsson's first activities in WCDMA and became manager of the unit responsible for radio access research in 1996. The research performed in this unit has contributed to the evolution of WCDMA, HSPA and 3G LTE. In 2007 he became Head of Ericsson Research.

Mischa Dohler is now Senior Researcher with CTTC in Barcelona. Prior to this, from June 2005 to February 2008, he has been Senior Research Expert in the R&D division of France Telecom working on cooperative communication systems, cognitive radios and wireless sensor networks. From September 2003 to June 2005, he has been lecturer at King's College London, Centre for Telecommunications Research. He obtained his PhD in Telecommunications from King's College London, UK, in 2003, his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Dresden University of Technology, Germany, in 2000, and his MSc degree in Telecommunications from King's College London, UK, in 1999. Prior to Telecommunications, he studied Physics in Moscow. He has won various competitions in Mathematics and Physics, and participated in the 3rd round of the International Physics Olympics for Germany. In the framework of the Mobile VCE, he has pioneered research on distributed cooperative space-time encoded communication systems, dating back to December 1999. He has published more than 110 technical journal and conference papers at a citation h-index of 15 and citation g-index of 32, holds several patents, co-edited and contributed to several books, has given numerous international short-courses, and participated in standardisation activities. He has been TPC member and co-chair of various conferences, such as technical chair of IEEE PIMRC 2008 held in Cannes, France. He is editor for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE journals and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Reinaldo A. Valenzuela: Obtained his B.Sc. at the University of Chile, and his Ph.D. from Imperial College of Sc. and Tech., U. of London, England. At Bell Laboratories, he carried out indoor microwave propagation measurements and developed statistical models. He also worked on packet reservation multiple access for wireless systems and optical WDM networks. He became Manager, Voice Research Dept., at Motorola Codex, involved in the implementation integrated voice and data packet systems. On returning to Bell Laboratories he was involved in propagation measurements and ray tracing propagation prediction. He received the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff award and is Director of the Wireless Communications Research Department. He is currently engaged in MIMO / space time systems achieving high capacities using transmit and receive antenna arrays. He has published over one hundred papers and has twelve patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He has been editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications and the IEEE Transactions on Wireless

Since 2008, he is a Professor in the Department of Information & Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in Barcelona, Spain. Also, since 2005, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City, NY. He received his Ph.D. in 1998 from Stanford University. Between 1999 and 2007, and was a researcher at Bell Labs (Alcatel-Lucent) in Holmdel, NJ. His is a senior member of the IEEE, an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, and an active participant in the organization of special issues, conferences, and technical activities. For 2009, he is in the organizing committee for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC'09 Spring) and the Int'l Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP'09). He is also a guest editors for an upcoming Eurasip special issue on the 3GPP Long-Term Evolution system. His research interests lie at the crossroads of communication theory, information theory, wireless communication, and signal processing. A focal point of my work has been MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication, at both the fundamental and practical levels. He participated in the MIMO standardization efforts at the 3GPP and IEEE 802.20 fora and co-authored the tutorial MIMO systems for wireless communication offered on-line by the IEEE Communications Society. In addition to MIMO, he has conducted research on dynamic resource allocation, interference management, link adaptation, equalization, channel estimation, ARQ, and multicasting, among other themes.

He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. His research expertise is at the intersection of wireless communication, signal processing, applied math, and communication theory. He has an active research program in all aspects of MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) communication focusing on next generation cellular technologies, limited feedback, multiuser MIMO, multihop MIMO, antenna design, and MIMO ad hoc networks. In addition, he is pursing a variety of problems in related areas like vector quantization, joint source-channel coding, and ad hoc networking. He is part of the DARPA ITMANET team developing a Non-Equillibrium Information Theory. His current research interests include 60GHz communication, cognitive radio, and body area networks. He is a guest editor for the EURASIP Special Issue on Multiuser MIMO Transmission with Limited Feedback, Cooperation, and Coordination. He was the lead editor for a JSAC special issue: Exploiting Limited Feedback in Tomorrow's Wireless Communication Networks. He is also a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee. He is co-organizing the 2009 Signal Processing for Wireless Communications conference in Perugia, Italy. Previously, he was an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communication and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He is the local arrangements co-chair for CAMSAP 2009 in Aruba and a Technical Co-Chair ISIT 2010 in Austin, TX.

Constantinos B. Papadias received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1991 and the Doctorate degree in Signal Processing (highest honors) from ENST, Paris, in 1995. From 1992 to 1995, he was Teaching and Research Assistant at Eurécom, France. In 1995, he joined the Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University. In November 1997 he joined the Wireless Research Laboratory of Bell Labs, and was later promoted to Technical Manager. From 2004 to 2005 he was an adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. In 2006 he joined Athens Information Technology in Greece, as an Associate Professor and was later promoted to Professor. He is also currently an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Networking Institute (INI). His research interests range from baseband wireless communications and smart antenna systems to scheduling and system-level optimization of wireless systems to cognitive radio and multihop wireless sensor networks. He has authored over 100 papers and book chapters on these topics. His distinctions include the 2002 Bell Labs President’s Award, the 2003 IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Young Author Best Paper Award and ESI’s “most cited paper of the decade” citation in the area of wireless networks in 2006. He has also made standards contributions (co-inventor of the Space-Time Spreading (STS) technique that was adopted by cdma2000) and holds 9 patents. He is currently the Technical Coordinator of the FP7 FET project CROWN, in the area of cognitive radio networks. He served on the steering board of the WWRF from 2002-2006. He was a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing for Communications Technical Committee from 2002-2008, and is currently an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and the Journal of Communications and Networks. From 2007-2009 he was a National Representative of Greece in the FP7 program “IDEAS.”