Ke-Lin Du received the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1998. He has been a Professor in School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangdong University of Science and Technology, Dongguan, China, since 2024. From 2011 to 2024, he served as an Affiliate Associate Professor and Affiliate Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, where he was also on the research staff from 2001 to 2010. Earlier, he held research and technical positions at Huawei Technologies, China Academy of Telecommunication Technology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Enjoyor Inc., and Xonlink Inc.Dr. Du has coauthored five books, including Neural Networks in a Softcomputing Framework (Springer, 2006), Wireless Communication Systems (Cambridge, 2010), Neural Networks and Statistical Learning (Springer, 2014; 2nd ed., 2019), and Search and Optimization by Metaheuristics (Springer, 2016), and co-edited 13 Springer volumes. He has published 60 papers, holds six U.S. and over 30 Chinese patents, co-supervised 16 graduate students, and examined more than 20 Ph.D. theses worldwide. His research interests include signal processing, wireless communications, and machine learning.A Senior Member of IEEE since 2009, Dr. Du is a member of the IEEE CTSoc MDA Technical Committee and has served on the editorial boards of IET Signal Processing, Circuits, Systems & Signal Processing, Mathematics, AI, IEEE Spectrum Chinese Edition, and Scientific Reports. He has chaired committees for over 150 international conferences and has been listed among Stanford’s World Top 2% Most Cited Scientists for eight consecutive years (2017–2024).M. N. S. Swamy received the B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics from University of Mysore, India, in 1954; the Diploma in Electrical Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, in 1957; and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Saskatchewan, Canada, in 1960 and 1963, respectively. He was appointed Honorary Professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 2009, and is currently a Research Professor in Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, where he was Founding Chair of Electrical Engineering (1970–1977) and Dean of Engineering and Computer Science (1977–1993). During his tenure, he transformed the Faculty into a research-oriented one. Since 2001, he has been the Concordia Chair (Tier I) in Signal Processing.Dr. Swamy has published extensively in number theory, circuits, systems, and signal processing, and holds five patents. He has coauthored nine books and five book chapters, supervised over 50 M.A.Sc. and 50 Ph.D. theses, mentored 50 postdocs, and examined 40+ Ph.D. theses worldwide. His honors include the IEEE Mac Van Valkenburg Award (2022), John Choma Education Award (2000), CAS Golden Jubilee Medal (2000), Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award (1986), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), Constantin Budeanu Prize (2006), IEEE Montreal Gold Medal (2021), Ram Lal Wadhwa Lifetime Achievement Award (2023), IEEE Canada McNaughton Award (2025), and University of Saskatchewan Lifetime Achievement Award (2023).He was a Founding Member and Concordia Coordinator of Micronet (1990–2004), a Canadian Network of Centers of Excellence. Since 1999, he has been Editor-in-Chief of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing (CSSP), for which the CSSP Best Paper Award was named in his honor (2013). He has served the IEEE CAS Society as President, General Chair, Vice-Chair, Program Chair, Board Member, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems.Dr. Swamy is a Fellow of IEEE, Canadian Academy of Engineering, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Institution of Engineering and Technology (U.K.), Engineering Institute of Canada, Institution of Engineers (India), and Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (India).
