Chang Wen Chen is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. He was Allen Henry Endow Chair Professor at the Florida Institute of Technology from July 2003 to December 2007; on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Rochester from 1992 to 1996; and on the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 1996 to 2003.

Professor Chen has been the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Multimedia since January 2014. He has also served as the Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology from 2006 to 2009, and been an editor for several other major IEEE transactions and journals.

Professor Chen received a BS from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1983, an MSEE from the University of Southern California in 1986, and a PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He and his students have received eight Best Paper Awards or Best Student Paper Awards over the past two decades. He has also received several research and professional achievement awards, including the Sigma Xi Excellence in Graduate Research Mentoring Award in 2003, the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award in 2009, and the State University of New York at Buffalo Exceptional Scholar – Sustained Achievement Award in 2012. He is an IEEE Fellow and a SPIE Fellow.

Tasos Dagiuklas received his first degree from the University of Patras (Greece) in 1989, an MSc from the University of Manchester (UK) in 1991, and a PhD from the University of Essex (UK) in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering. He is Assistant Professor at the School of Science and Technology at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He currently leads the Converged Networks and Services (CONES) Research Group (http://cones.eap.gr), carrying out research in the areas of Future Internet Architectures, Media Optimization, and Cloud Infrastructures and Services. Dr. Dagiuklas is a Senior Member of the IEEE, the Chair for IEEE MMTC 3DIG WG, and an IEEE MMTC E-Board Member. He has served as Vice-Chair for IEEE MMTC QoE WG and a Key Member for IEEE MMTC MSIG and 3DIG WGs. He is Associate Technical Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine. He has served as guest editor for many scientific journals. He is a reviewer for journals such as IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Communication Letters, and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. His research interests include FTV, 3DV, media optimization across heterogeneous networks, QoE, and cloud infrastructures and services.

Luigi Atzori is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Cagliari (Italy) and Research Associate at the Multimedia Communications Laboratory of CNIT (Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni). His research interests are in multimedia communications and computer networking (wireless and wireline), with emphasis on multimedia QoE, multimedia streaming, NGN service management, service management in wireless sensor networks, architecture and services in the Internet of Things.

Professor Atzori is a Senior Member of the IEEE (since 2009), Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Multimedia Communications Committee (MMTC), and Co-Chair of the IEEE 1907.1 standard on “Network-Adaptive Quality of Experience (QoE) Management Scheme for Real-Time Mobile Video Communications”. He is the coordinator of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network on QoE for multimedia services, involving ten European institutions and one in South Korea.

Professor Atzori has been an Editor for Wireless Networks Journal and a Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, Monet Journal, and Signal Processing: Image Communications Journal. He is a member of the editorial board of IEEE Internet of Things Journal and Ad Hoc Networks. He has served as technical program chair for various international conferences and workshops. He has also served as a reviewer and panelist for many funding agencies, including FP7, Cost, the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR), and Regional.

Periklis Chatzimisios (SMIEEE) is Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics at Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki (Greece). Recently, he has been a Visiting Academic/Researcher at the University of Toronto (Canada) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA). Dr. Chatzimisios is involved in several standardization activities, serving as a Member of the Standards Development Board for the IEEE Communication Society (ComSoc) (2010–today), as Secretary of the IEEE 1907.1 Standardization Working Group, and lately as an active member of IEEE Research Groups on the Internet of Things, Communications & Networking Infrastructure, and Software Defined & Virtualized Wireless Access.

Dr. Chatzimisios has served as Organizing/TPC Committee Member for more than 150 conferences and Founder/Organizer/Co-Chair for many workshops co-allocated with flagship IEEE/ACM conferences. He also holds editorial board positions for several IEEE/non-IEEE journals and is the Director (Co-Director during 2012–2014) for the E-letter of the IEEE Technical Committee on Multimedia Communications (MMTC). He is the author/editor of eight books and more than 85 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on the topics of multimedia communications, performance evaluation, and standardization activities of mobile/wireless communications – with more than 1300 citations by other researchers. Dr. Chatzimisios received his PhD from Bournemouth University (UK) (2005) and his BSc from Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece (2000).