IEEE Fellow
Prof.
Sharad Mehrotra
Director of the Center for
Emergency Response Technologies (CERT)
Director and PI of the RESCUE project (Responding to Crisis and
Unexpected Events)
University of California, Irvine, USA
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Bio sketch:
Sharad
Mehrotra received the PhD degree in computer science from
the University of Texas, Austin, in 1993. He is currently a
professor in the Department of Computer Science, University
of California, Irvine. Previously, he was a professor with
the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He has
received numerous awards and honors, including the 2011
SIGMOD Best Paper Award, 2007 DASFAA Best Paper Award,
SIGMOD test of time award, 2012, DASFAA ten year best paper
awards for 2013 and 2014, ACM ICMR best paper award for
2013, IEEE NCA Best paper award for 2019, Dean’s Award for
Research 2016, and CAREER Award in 1998 from the US National
Science Foundation (NSF). He is a fellow of the IEEE. His
primary research interests include areas of database
management, distributed systems, secure databases, privacy,
and Internet of Things.
IEEE Fellow, IET
Fellow, 
Prof. Bo Ai
IEEE VTS Beijing Chapter Vice Chair IEEE BTS Xi'an Chapter Chair
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Bio sketch: Prof. Bo Ai is now working as a full Professor and Ph.D. supervisor at Beijing Jiaotong University, where he is a deputy director of State Key Lab. of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, and a deputy director of Research Institute of Modern Telecommunications. He is one of the main responsible people for Beijing "Urban rail operation control system" International Science and Technology Cooperation Base, and the backbone member of the Innovative Engineering Based jointly granted by Chinese Ministry of Education and the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs. He was a visiting professor at EE department, Standard University during March and September, 2015. During his visiting period, he has been invited by Stanford International Developing Center, UC Berkeley, University of South California, Harvard, University of Maryland, Georgia Tech. for academic presentations. He has authored 6 books and published over 300 scientific research papers in his research area. He has hold 26 invention patents. He is serving as an associate editor for IEEE transactions on Consumer Electronics and an editorial member of Wireless Personal Communications. He has been notified by Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) that, based on Scopus database, Prof. Ai Bo has been listed as one of the Top 1% authors in his field all over the world. Prof. Ai Bo has also been Feature Interviewed by IET electronics Letters. Recently, he has coauthored a book with European Union and North American scholars invited by Wiley John & Sons for a 5G book: Fundamentals for 5G Mobile Networks. Prof. Bo Ai was elected as IEEE fellow for contributions to channel modeling and wireless communications in high-speed railways.