Christopher R. Anderson
United States Naval Academy, United States

Christopher R. Anderson received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1999, 2002, and 2006, respectively. He joined the United States Naval Academy (USNA), Annapolis, MD, as an Assistant Professor in 2007. In 2013, he was promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. From 2016-2018 he served as a Visiting Researcher at the National Telecommunications Informationa Administration (NTIA) Institute for Telecommunication Sciences in Boulder, CO where he focused on propagation modeling in cluttered environments.
Dr. Anderson is the Founder and Director of the USNA Wireless Measurements Group, a focused research group that specializes in spectrum, propagation, and field strength measurements in diverse environments and at frequencies ranging from 300 MHz to 28 GHz. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Office of Naval Research, NASA, the Defense Spectrum Organization, and the Federal Railroad Administration.
His research has resulted in over 60 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of radiowave propagation measurements and modeling, embedded software-defined radios, dynamic spectrum sharing, and ultrawideband communications. Dr. Anderson is a former Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and was a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal On Selected Areas In Signal Processing Special Issue on Non-Cooperative Localization Networks.

Carlo Riva
Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Carlo G. Riva received the Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering and the PhD degree in Electronic and Communication Engineering, from Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, in 1990 and 1995, respectively. In 1999, he joined the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano, where, since 2006, he has been an Associate Professor of electromagnetic fields.
His main research activities are in the field of the tropospheric effects (attenuation, scintillation and depolarization) in satellite microwave links (GEO, MEO, LEO, Deep Space) and their statistical and physical modelling, the propagation impairment mitigation techniques and satellite communication adaptive systems.
He was involved in Intelsat, ASI (Italian Space Agency) and ESA (European Space Agency) research projects focused on advanced satellite communication systems operating in the Ku, Q/V and W frequency bands, as well as in collaborative European research projects (Actions COST255, COST280 and COSTIC0802 and Network of Experts SatNEx). He participated in the Olympus, Italsat and (the running) Alphasat Aldo Paraboni propagation measurement campaigns, for which he has been appointed Principal Investigator of the Alphasat Aldo Paraboni propagation experiment by ASI.
Ha has been director of the 49° Course “Radiowave Propagation” in the frame of the ‘International School of Quantum Electronics’ at Erice, 2010, and Technical Programme Committee Co-Chair of European Conference on Antennas and Propagation 2016 (EuCAP2016). Between 2012 and 2018, he was member of the board of the Propagation Working Group of EurAAP (European Association on Antennas and Propagation). Since 2016, he is member of the Technical Committee of the Ka and Broadband Communications Conference.
He supports the ITU-R Study Groups activities and he is Chairman of WP 3J of SG3 (‘Propagation fundamentals’). 
He is IEEE Senior Member and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation. He is member of the EurAAP and of the Italian Society of Electromagnetism. 
He is the author of more than 50 paper international scientific journals and more than 160 contributions to international conferences. 

Durham University, United Kingdom

Professor Salous holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut, MSc and PhD from Birmingham University, UK. She started her academic career as an Assistant Professor at Yarmouk University, Jordan. In 1989 she joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). In 2003 she moved to Durham University where she currently holds the Chair in Communication Engineering and is the Director of the Centre for Communication Systems, https://www.dur.ac.uk/ccs/.
Professor Salous radio propagation research covers ionospheric propagation in the HF band for long range communication, UHF for mobile communications and the millimeter wave band for 5G fixed and mobile links.
She is a member of the UK delegation to Study Group 3 (SG3) of the ITU and over the years has made contributions to several of the ITU recommendations and chaired a Correspondence Group on measurement systems.
She is an active member of the International Union of radio Science, URSI, and Chaired Commission C on Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing 2014-2017. She has been editor of the journal Radio Science, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, and from January 2019, she will act as Editor in Chief.​
She is an active member of various COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) actions, where currently she is co-chair of the working group DWG1 on Radio Channels in IRACON (Inclusive Radio Communications). She is also member of the IET Antennas and Propagation Committee.
She has authored numerous papers on radio propagation, channel sounders, and radar systems and the book on ‘Radio Propagation Measurement and Channel Modelling’ Wiley, in 2013. 

China Research Institute of Radio Wave Propagation​, China

Zhen-Wei Zhao was born in Tangxian, China, in 1965. He received the B.S. degrees in electromagnetism engineering from Xidian University, China, in 1983 and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electromagnetic fields and microwave technology from the CRIRP and Xidian University, in 1989, 2001, respectively.
In July 1983, he joined CRIRP, Qingdao, China, where he is currently the chief engineer. He has hosted many research projects in the field of radio wave propagation, including one project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, three first prizes and four second and third prizes on provincial and ministerial level, and 30 invention patents. He has received a government subsidy from the State Council. He has won honors such as young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from Shandong Province and Shandong Youth Science and Technology Award. He published more than two hundred papers on English journals of IEEE/IET/ JGR /others and many Chinese journals. He is currently a lead expert of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization, a member of the Aircraft Control Committee of the China Aerospace Society, a member of the Radio Wave Propagation Branch of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, a member of the editorial board of Chinese Journal of Radio Science, and a member of the editorial Board of Journal of Spacecraft TT&C Technology. 
 He has been actively participated in the activities of ITU-R study group 3(SG3) and currently is one of the vice chairmen of SG3, submitting more than 70 contributions to ITU-R SG3, addressing agenda items and presenting proposals, revising about ten ITU-R Recommendations and one Question.