Baris Aksanli is joining the Department Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Science and Engineering department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He received his PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from UCSD in 2015 and 2012, respectively, and two BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from Bogazici University, Turkey in 2010. His research interests include energy efficient cyber physical systems, human behavior modeling in the Internet of Things, big data for energy efficient embedded systems. He won two best paper awards in 2011 and 2013, Internet2 IDEA Award in 2011, Intel’s Spontaneous Recognition Award in 2012 and UCSD Campus Sustainability Award in 2016. He previously worked in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 2011 and Intel in 2012. He has also been actively collaborating with several companies including Google, Microsoft, Panasonic, Oracle, and working in projects funded by SRC, NSF and California Energy Commission.

Dr. Nguyen is joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. He received the B.Eng. degree in Telecommunications and Internet Technologies with First Class Honors from Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Vic, Australia in 2005, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, in 2009, and the PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, in 2013. His current research interests include resource allocation in wireless networks, signal processing for communications, and wireless access technologies for 5G networks. From 2013 to 2015, Dr. Nguyen held a joint appointment as an FRQNT Postdoctoral Research Fellow at INRS-EMT, Université du Québec and a Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University. In 2015, he was a Research Assistant at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston. Since Dec 2015, he has been an NSERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Wireless Networking and Communications Group, The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Nguyen has served as a Technical Program Committee member at major IEEE conferences including ICC, GLOBECOM, VTC, WCNC, and PIMRC. He has been a regular reviewer of IEEE TCOM, IEEE TWC, IEEE JSAC, IEEE TVT, IEEE Access, IEEE CL, IEEE WCL, EURASIP Journals, and IET Journals.

Dr. Ying-Khai Teh is joining the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2016. Before relocating to San Diego, he is a post-doctoral research associate at the Integrated Power Electronics Laboratory (IPEL), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). His research interest is analog, power management and mixed signal integrated circuit design for self-powered electronics. He received the B.Eng. and the M.Eng.Sc. degrees from the Multimedia University (formerly University Telekom Malaysia), Cyberjaya, Malaysia, in 2005 and 2009, and the PhD degree from the HKUST, Hong Kong, in 2015. He is a recipient of Telekom Malaysia Undergraduate Scholarship, Canada Commonwealth Graduate Exchange Scholarship and Hong Kong PhD Fellowship. He also received the Excellent Student Paper award in the 2009 IEEE International Conference on ASIC (ASICON), Changsha, China and the Best Student Paper award in the 2014 IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), College Station, Texas, USA.