Zhanlin Ji
1.BioEngineering & Sensor Technology Research Center, University of Science & Technology Beijing, China 2.College of Information, Hebei United University
China

Zhanlin Ji received his MEng, M.Sc and PhD degree from Dublin City University, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, and University of Limerick in 2005, 2006 and 2010, respectively. Since 2010, he is a lecturer at the Hebei United University, China, a PostDoc Researcher in the University of Science and Technology Beijing, China, and a Research Fellow (External) of TRC, University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include UCWW, WBCs, Software Engineering, Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Information Retrieval and Management, Content awareness, Personalization, Multi-agents systems, Java EE architectures, Medical image analysis and processing, Machine Vision, Broadcasting.

Damien Meere
Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ireland

Damien Meere received his BSc degree in IT&T from University of Limerick, Ireland, in 2005. He is currently pursuing his PhD within the Telecommunications Research Centre at University of Limerick. His research is focused on the provision of contextualised and personalised mobile eLearning (mLearning) services across the University campus area, primarily facilitated through the use of intelligent mobile Agents.

Ivan Ganchev
Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ireland

Ivan Ganchev is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA. He received his engineering and doctoral degrees from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications in 1989 and 1994, respectively. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Plovdiv and an ITU-T Invited Expert. Currently he is lecturing in the University of Limerick (Ireland), where he also acts as a Deputy Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre. Previously he served as a member of the Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe (ANWIRE) and two European Science Foundation 'COoperation in the field of Science and Technology research' Actions: 'Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications', and "Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks", (COST 285 & 290). Currently he is a member of the COST Actions IC0906 "Wireless Networking for Moving Objects" (WiNeMO) and IC0905 "Techno-Economic Regulatory Framework for Radio Spectrum Access for Cognitive Radio/Software Defined Radio" (TERRA). His research interests include: simulation and modeling of complex telecommunication systems, new communications paradigms for wireless next generation networks (NGN), always best connected & best served (ABC&S), third-party authentication, authorization and accounting (3P-AAA) management, wireless billboard channels (WBC) and cognitive pilot channels (CPC), Internet tomography, mLearning. Dr Ganchev has served on the Technical Program Committees of a number of prestigious international conferences and workshops.

Máirtín O'Dróma
Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick, Ireland
Ireland

Máirtín O'Dróma received his BE and PhD degrees from the National University of Ireland in 1973 and 1978, respectively. He is a Senior Academic and Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He is an IEEE Subject Matter Expert, an ITU-T Invited Expert, a Fellow of the IET and Chair of Ireland's Royal Irish Academy's Communications and Radio Science Committee. His previous activities include: founding partner and steering committee member, TARGET -Top Amplifier Research Groups in a European Team-, the EU FP6 Network of Excellence IST-507893, 2004-2008, and section head of the RF power linearization and amplifier modeling research strand; founding partner and steering committee member, ANWIRE -Academic Network for Wireless Internet Research in Europe, the EU FP5 Thematic Network of Excellence IST-38835, 2002-2004; member of two European Science Foundation 'COoperation in the field of Science and Technology research' Actions: 'Modelling and Simulation Tools for Research in Emerging Multi-service Telecommunications', and "Traffic and QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks", (COST 285 & 290). Currently he is delegate (Ireland) to the COST Action IC0906, "Wireless Networking for Moving Objects" (WiNeMO). His research interests include: wireless NGN infrastructural innovations and new paradigms; complex wireless telecommunication systems simulation and behavioral modeling, linearization & efficiency techniques in multimode, multicarrier broadband nonlinear microwave and mm-wave transmit power amplifiers; smart antenna and MIMO channels. Dr O'Droma served on the Technical Program Committee of numerous IEEE and other international conferences and workshops.