Plenary Speakers
Christos Masouros

Christos Masouros
IEEE Fellow, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer
Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications
Dept. Electronics & Electrical Engineering
University College London
United Kingdom
Christos Masouros (FIEEE, FIET) received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2004, and MSc by research and PhD in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Manchester, UK in 2006 and 2009 respectively. In 2008 he was a research intern at Philips Research Labs, UK, working on the LTE standards. Between 2009-2010 he was a Research Associate in the University of Manchester and between 2010-2012 a Research Fellow in Queen’s University Belfast. In 2012 he joined University College London as a Lecturer. He has held a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship between 2011-2016.
Since 2019 he is a Full Professor of Signal Processing and Wireless Communications in the Information and Communication Engineering research group, Dept. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and affiliated with the Institute for Communications and Connected Systems, University College London. His research interests lie in the field of wireless communications and signal processing with particular focus on Green Communications, Large Scale Antenna Systems, Integrated Sensing and Communications, interference mitigation techniques for MIMO and multicarrier communications. Between 2018-22 he was the Project Coordinator of the €4.2m EU H2020 ITN project PAINLESS, involving 12 EU partner universities and industries, towards energy-autonomous networks. Between 2024-28 he will be the Scientific Coordinator of the €2.7m EU H2020 DN project ISLANDS, involving 19 EU partner universities and industries, towards next generation vehicular networks. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the Insitute of Electronic Engineers (IET), the Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA) and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He was the recipient of the 2024 IEEE SPS Best Paper Award, the 2024 IEEE SPS Donald G. Fink Overview Paper Award, the 2023 IEEE ComSoc Stephen O. Rice Prize, co-recipient of the 2021 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award and the recipient of the Best Paper Awards in the IEEE GlobeCom 2015 and IEEE WCNC 2019 conferences. He is an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished lecturer 2024-2025, and his work on ISAC has been featured in the World Economic Forum’s report on the top 10 emerging technologies. He has been recognised as an Exemplary Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, and as an Exemplary Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is an Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and Editor-at-Large for IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. He has been an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, the IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters, and a Guest Editor for a number of IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing issues. He is a founding member and Vice-Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on Integrated Sensing and Communications (SAC), Chair of the IEEE SPS ISAC Technical Working Group, and Chair of the IEEE Green Communications & Computing Technical Committee, Special Interest Group on Green ISAC. He is a member of the IEEE Standards Association Working Group on ISAC performance metrics, and a founding member of the ETSI ISG on ISAC. He is the TPC chair for the IEEE ICC 2024 Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) Track on ISAC, Chair of the IEEE PIMRC2024 Track 1 on PHY and Fundamentals, Chair of the “Integrated Imaging and Communications” stream in IEEE CISA 2024, and TPC Co-Chair of IEEE VTC 2025.
Rafał Modrzewski

Rafał Modrzewski
CEO and Co-Founder
ICEYE
Rafal Modrzewski is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of ICEYE. ICEYE, the first company to successfully miniaturize a SAR satellite, is launching and operating a constellation of small radar imaging satellites, providing access to timely and reliable Earth observation data. ICEYE empowers commercial and government partners with unmatched persistent monitoring capabilities for any location on Earth. The company helps customers make informed, data-driven decisions to address time-critical challenges in various industries, to ensure infrastructure safety, and to protect the environment.
Since co-founding the project in 2012, which became the company in 2014, with Pekka Laurila, Modrzewski is responsible for overseeing the organization’s growth and implementing ICEYE’s overall vision. Modrzewski brings with him deep domain expertise in SAR engineering, and he has received the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 Technology award based on the world-first achievements of ICEYE.
Prior to co-founding ICEYE, Modrzewski researched innovative products at VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) in the RFID and wireless sensing group. He attended Warsaw University of Technology in Poland, where he studied Electrical Engineering and co-founded the Multimedia Technologies Science Group. Modrzewski continued his studies in Radio Science and Engineering at Aalto University where he led the on-board data handling team working on Aalto-1, Finland’s first nanosatellite.
Witold Krajewski

Witold Krajewski
PhD, NAE
Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
IIHR-Hydroscience & Engineering
College of Engineering
University of Iowa
United States
Dr. Witold F. Krajewski is the Rose & Joseph Summers Chair in Water Resources Engineering at the University of Iowa. He is also Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Research Engineer at IIHR—Hydroscience & Engineering. In 2009, he co-founded the Iowa Flood Center and served as its director until 2024.
Dr. Krajewski received MS (1976) and PhD (1980) degrees from Warsaw University of Technology, Poland, in environmental engineering and water resources systems. He was a Research Hydrologist at the Office of Hydrology of the National Weather Service until 1987, when he joined the University of Iowa.
Dr. Krajewski’s scientific interests concern measuring, modeling, and forecasting precipitation using radar and satellite remote sensing. His current research focuses on understanding the genesis and evolution of floods through field data and modeling, and the quantification of uncertainty in hydrologic prediction at a range of temporal and spatial scales. Dr. Krajewski has published over 270 papers in refereed journals on these topics.
Dr. Krajewski was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2021. The same year he was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society, and in 2018, he received the AMS Hydrologic Sciences Medal. He has served on numerous committees and panels of these and other professional organizations, and on the editorial boards of several journals. He was editor of Advances in Water Resources. In 2012, he was chair of the Board of Directors of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.
Since 2015, he has been a Distinguished Fellow of the Kosciuszko Foundation Collegium of Eminent Scientists and in 2021 he received the Tadeusz Sendzimir Applied Sciences Award from the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America. In 2010, Dr. Krajewski received the State of Iowa Regents Award for Faculty Excellence, and in 2012, he received the University of Iowa Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in Mathematical and Physical Sciences and Engineering. In 2019, he received the University of Iowa’s Michael J. Brody Award for Faculty Excellence in Service and in 2023 he delivered the University’s 40th Annual Presidential Lecture.
Joseph Tabrikian

Joseph Tabrikian
IEEE Fellow
Professor of Electrical Engineering
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Israel
Joseph Tabrikian received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1986, 1992, and 1997, respectively. From 1996 to 1998, he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Duke University, Durham, NC, as an Assistant Research Professor. In 1998, he joined the Department of ECE at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, where he served as department head from 2017 to 2019. In May 2019, he established the School of ECE and served as its head until August 2021. Dr. Tabrikian has held multiple editorial roles. He was an Associate Editor (AE) for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 2001 to 2004 and again from 2011 to 2015. He also served as an AE and later as a Senior Area Editor (SAE) for IEEE Signal Processing Letters from 2012 to 2018. He is currently a Senior Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing and a Subject Editor for Elsevier Signal Processing. In 2023, he served as a Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Special Section on Automotive Imaging and Super-Resolution Radar Systems.
He was a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee from 2010 to 2015 and was the Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE SAM 2010 workshop. From 2015 to 2021, he was a member of the Signal Processing for Multisensor Systems (SPMuS) Technical Committee of EURASIP, and from 2017 to 2022, he was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Theory and Methods (SPTM) Technical Committee.
Dr. Tabrikian is a coauthor of multiple award-winning papers, including those presented at IEEE Radar Conference (2005, 2006), ICASSP (2011, 2017), CAMSAP (2013), and SSP (2018). His research interests include estimation and detection theory, learning algorithms, and radar signal processing. He is a Fellow of IEEE and AAIA.