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Klara Nahrstedt is the Grainger Distinguished Chair of Engineering Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is the Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory. Her research interests are directed toward trustworthy multimedia distributed systems and networking, quality of service (QoS) and resource management in Internet and mobile systems, real-time security in wireless networks for trustworthy power grids, edge-cloud systems, cyber-physical system security for electric vehicles, health systems, 3D tele-immersive systems, and advanced edge-cloud-based cyber-infrastructures for scientific instruments. She is the recipient of the IEEE Communication Society Leonard Abraham Award for Research Achievements, the 2008 University Scholar Award, the 2009 Humboldt Research Award, the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and the 2014 ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (SIGMM) Technical Achievement Award, 2018 Robert Piloty Prize, and 2019, 2019 Tau Beta Pi Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Award in the College of Engineering, and 2020 Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering. She has been the editor-in-chief of the ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems journal; associate editor of the ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications; associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia; associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security; associate editor of IEEE Multimedia Magazine; general co-chair of ACM Multimedia 2006; IEEE PerCom 2009, ACM/IEEE IOTDI 2019, and IEEE Smartgridcomm 2020. She was the elected chair of the ACM SIGMM between 2007 and 2013. Nahrstedt received her Diploma in mathematics from Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, in 1985. In 1995, she received her Ph.D. from the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is ACM Fellow, IEEE Fellow, AAAS Fellow, member of the Leopoldina German National Academy of Sciences, and member of United States National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Sumio Morioka leads long-term technological R&D for satellite and rocket systems at Interstellar Technologies Inc., a leading
NewSpace company in Japan (https://www.istellartech.com/en). After receiving his degree in Computer Science from Osaka University in 1997, he conducted research on high-performance LSI design and security technologies at NTT, IBM, Sony, NEC's central research
labs, and Imperial College London. Notably, he contributed to the development and integration of security technologies in the
PlayStation Portable and PS3, earning the Sony MVP Award in 2004. Since joining his current organization in 2016, he has led
efforts to successfully launch the first privately developed rocket into space in Japan, earning recognition from the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Kutscher holds a PhD from The University of Bremen, Germany. He has held a full professor position for computer science and networking at the University of Applied Sciences Emden/Leer, Germany and researcher positions in both industry and academic research organizations. Previously he has been the CTO for Virtual Networking and IP at Huawei's German Research Center, the Chief Researcher for Networking at NEC Laboratories Europe, and a Visiting Researcher at KDDI R&D Laboratories in Japan. He is co-chairing two Research Groups in the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF) on Information-Centric Networking (ICNRG) and on Decentralized Internet Infrastructure (DINRG). Dirk has published several IETF RFCs, books, and research publications on Internet technologies and holds several international patents. Dirk has held leading positions in multiple international research projects and has recently been serving as the technical director for the Piccolo project, a new European research initiative on in-network computing. He has won many awards for best papers in international conference and excellent research work by NEC and Huawei. Dirk has been one of the key innovators in Information-Centric Networking and has recently proposed Compute-First Networking as a new way for integrating distributed computing and networking.