Dr. Sejun Song is joining us from the School of Computer & Cyber Sciences (SCCS) at Augusta University (AU), Georgia. His research focuses on Cybersecurity, Machine Learning, IoT, and Mobile and Wireless Communications, with AI-inspired applications in transportation, smart agriculture, smart cities and eHealth. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in 2001. Dr. Song has received numerous honors, including the Montague-CTE Scholar Award (TAMU System Level Teaching Award), Faculty Teaching Excellence Awards, NASA Summer Fellowship, AFRL summer fellowship, USAFA SFFP Awards, and several best research paper/video awards at CCNC 2019, ISC2 2018, Mobisys 2014, ICCCN 2014, and CIEC 2013. His work has been supported by NSF, DoD, ONR, AFOSR, Cisco Systems, ETRI, NIST, AFRL, NASA, NIH, CDC, TAMU, KT Research and MoDOT.

Dr. Baek-Young Choi is joining us from the School of Science and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). She received her PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her research interests generally lie in the broad area of networking, cybersecurity, and smart city technologies. She published published five books and over 150 research papers in reputed journals and conferences. She has been a faculty fellow of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Visiting Faculty Research Program (AFRL-VFRP) and Korea Telecom's-Advance Institute of Technology (KT-AIT), and has an invited position at Seoul National University. She has served as an associate editor for a number of journals, including IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Elsevier Journal Computer Networks, Springer Journal of Telecommunication Systems, and IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. Her works received multiple Best Paper awards as well as Best Video and Best Poster awards. She is a senior member of ACM and IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). Currently she is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Magazine, the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Sister & Related Societies Committee, and a member of IEEE ComSoc GLOBECOM/ICC Technical Content and Financial Committees.