Bio: Prof. Takis Mathiopoulos is Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He once served as Director of the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, and acted as Guest Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University and Global Guest Professor at Keio University. His main research interests include terrestrial‑satellite wireless communication systems, remote sensing and LiDAR technologies, as well as blockchain‑related information technologies. He has presided over more than 40 R&D projects funded by Greece, EU and Canadian agencies. He has published over 300 journal and conference papers including numerous IEEE journal articles, edited one book and contributed five book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of multiple international journals, has received several international academic honors, and supervised a number of master and doctoral students.

Bio: Prof. Devinder Kumar Yadav is Professor of Aerospace at the School of Aerospace, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham Ningbo China. He holds an aircraft engineer license and pilot license with extensive experience in both aviation industry and academia. His main research directions are aviation safety and human factors, aircraft airworthiness, aerospace system engineering and aviation accident investigation. He has presided over many international industry-university-research projects. He has published over 100 academic papers including more than 40 SCI/EI indexed papers, and owns a number of intellectual property rights in aviation fields. He participated in the discussion of aviation industry standards, received multiple international professional awards in aviation, and supervised many master and doctoral students.