Prof. Chedlia Ben Naila (S’08–M'20) received the Ph.D. degree from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. Previously, she was a Junior Lecturer at Iset'Com, Tunisia (2005–2008), and as an Adjunct Lecturer at Waseda University, Japan (2014–2019). She is a member of IEEE and OPTICA. She was the recipient of the 2011 Waseda University Ono Azusa Memorial Academic Award medal, the Best Paper Award of IIEEJ Journal (2012), the 26th Telecom System Technology award from the Japanese Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF) of Japan (2011), and the IEEE ITU-T Kaleidoscope Best Paper award (2011). Her current research interests include optical wireless communications, free-space optics (FSO) systems, optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS), and underwater communications.

Prof. Takaya Yamazato is a professor at the Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Nagoya University, Japan. He received a Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan 1993. From 1993 to 1998, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Electronics at Nagoya University, Japan. From 1997 to 1998, he was a visiting researcher at the Research Group for RF Communications, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. In 1998, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled “Introduction to CDMA ALOHA” at Globecom held in Sydney, Australia. Since then, he has been serving as a TPC member of Globecom and ICC. In 2006, he received the IEEE Communication Society’s Best Tutorial Paper Award. He served as the co-chair of the Wireless Communication Symposia of ICC 2009 and was the co-chair of the Selected Areas in Communication Symposia of ICC 2011. From 2008 to 2010, he served as the chair of the Satellite and Space Communication Technical Committee. In 2011, he gave a half-day tutorial entitled “Visible Light Communication” at ICC 2011, held in Kyoto, Japan.

Dr. Abdelmoula Bekkali (SM’15) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2007 and 2010, respectively. He is currently an R&D Manager with TOYO Electric Corporation, Japan, where he is leading the development of next-generation FSO systems for fixed and mobile platforms. Previously, he was a senior researcher with KDDI Research Inc. (2014–2019), an Adjunct Lecturer with Waseda University (2012–2019), a Research Scientist with Qatar Mobility Innovation Center (QMIC), Qatar (2011–2014), and a Researcher with NTT Labs, Tokyo, Japan (2010–2011). He holds ten granted Japanese patents in the field of optical and wireless communications. He was the recipient of the 2016 KDDI Excellent Research Award, the 2009 Waseda University Ono Azusa Memorial Gold Medal, the 26th Telecom System Technology Award from the Telecommunication Advancement Foundation (TAF) of Japan, and Best Paper Awards of IEICE Transactions (2009 and 2015), IIEEJ Journal (2012), and IEEE WCNC Conference (2014). His research interests include free-space optical communication, optical wireless communication, fiber-wireless systems, B5G/6G optical access networks, and radio-over-fiber (RoF). He was the Optical Networks and Systems Symposium co-chair of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2020.

Prof. Eduward Tangdiongga received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, in 1994 and 2001, respectively. In 1994, he joined COBRA Research Institute, currently named Eindhoven Hendrik Casimir Institute, working on ultrafast optical signal processing using optical fibres with high nonlinearity properties and quantum-well and quantum-dots semiconductor optical amplifiers. From 2001, he participated in various European Union and national research programs targeting optical signal processing for short and medium haul optical links employing photonic integrated circuits. He is currently an associate professor in TU/e working on advanced optical access and local area networks within Electro-Optical Communication System group. His research interests include passive optical networks, radio over (single mode, multimode, and plastic) fiber combined with smart antenna systems, and free-space optics/optical wireless communication.