Julien SARRAZIN received his Master and PhD degrees from the University of Nantes in France, in 2005 and 2008 respectively. In 2009 and 2010, he worked with the BK Birla Institute of Technology of Pilani, India. In 2011 and 2012, he was a research engineer at Telecom ParisTech in Paris. Since September 2012, he is an Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université in Paris, where he is currently working in the GeePs research institute (Group of Electrical Engineering of Paris) in the field of antenna design, spatial data focusing, channel modeling and sensing.

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Yide Wang received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, Beijing, China, in 1984, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in signal processing and telecommunications from the University of Rennes, France, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

He is currently a Professor with the Ecole Polytechnique de l’Université de Nantes. His research interests include array signal processing, spectral analysis, mobile wireless communication systems, signal processing for fault detection and diagnosis in electrical machines.

Guido Valerio received the M.S. degree (cum laude and honorable mention) in Electronic Engineering in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in Electromagnetics in 2009, from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. From February to August 2008 he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston, TX, USA. From 2011 to 2014, he was a researcher at the Institute d’Electronique et de Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR), France. He Since September 2014 he is at Sorbonne Université, Paris, France where he is a Professor with the Laboratoire de Genie Electrique et Electronique de Paris.

His scientific interests involve antenna design and numerical methods for wave propagation and scattering in complex structures; namely, periodic Green’s function computation, modal properties of multilayered structures, full-wave methods for SIW, modeling and design of periodic structures.

In 2008 Dr. Valerio was the recipient of the “Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics.” In 2010 he was the recipient of the “Barzilai Prize” for the best paper at the National Italian Congress of Electromagnetism (XVIII RiNEm). In 2014, he was the recipient of the RMTG Award for junior researchers presented at the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Symposium, Memphis, TN. In 2018, 2020 and 2022 he was a co-author of the best papers at the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation. Dr. Valerio is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and the IEEE Access journals. He is the Main Chair of the COST Action SyMat on “Future communications with higher symmetric engineered artificial materials” and the coordinator of the MSCA Doctoral Network GENIUS "Glide-symmetric metamaterials for innovative radio-frequency communication and sensing".

Massimiliano Casaletti was born in Siena, Italy, in 1975. He received the Laurea degree in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Siena, Siena, Italy, in 2003 and 2007, respectively. From September 2003 to October 2005, he was with the Research Center MOTHESIM, Les Plessis Robinson, Paris, France, under EU grant RTN-AMPER (Application of Multiparameter Polarimetry). He has been a Research Associate with the University of Siena from November 2006 until October 2010, and a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Institut d’Electronique et des Télécommunications de Rennes (IETR), University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France, from November 2010 to August 2013. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. His research interests include numerical methods for electromagnetic (scattering, antennas, and microwave circuits), metasurface structures, field beam expansion methods, and electromagnetic band-gap structures).

Jean-François Diouris received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Rennes I, France, in 1991. He is currently a Full Professor with Poly- tech Nantes, University of Nantes, France, and the Adjunct Director with the Institut d’Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique (IETR). His current research interests include digital commu- nications, antenna processing, and energy efficient communications.

Tingxi Liang was born in Guangzhou, China in 1998. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2020 and is preparinghis M.S. degree in Wireless Communication from Sorbonne Université in Paris. His research interests are Angle-of-Arrival estimation, channel modeling, and digital processing for cognitive radio.

Arno De Haseleer was born in Brussels, Belgium in 2002. He received his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in 2022, and is currently pursuing the MSc degree of Electrical Engineering at Bruface. Bruface is a joint initiative between VUB and Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). In 2023, he completed an internship at the GeePs lab associated with the Sorbonne Université in Paris. 

Rida Maydani was born on February 18, 2000, in Nabatieh, Lebanon. He hold a master's degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering from the Lebanese University faculty of Technology. He completed Master 2 in Electronic Advanced Engineering at the University of Burgundy (Dijon). Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the IETR LAB (Institut d'Électronique et des Technologies du numéRique) focusing on the subject of Source Localization with a Leaky Wave Antenna using Subspace Methods.

Jean-Marc Conrat was born in Nancy, France, in 1968. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA), Lyon, France, in 1991. Since 1993, he has been with Orange labs in Belfort, France. He is involved in propagation channel measurements, modeling, and simulation. He started on wideband propagation channel studies for Land Mobile Satellite Systems (GLOBALSTAR), then worked for MIMO and cooperative terrestrial wireless communication systems.  His current research interest is the development of  real-time channel sounding system, the characterization of the directional wideband propagation channel for 5G/6G millimeter wave communications and the development of ray tracing simulation tools. He was involved in many French and European cooperative projects, the last one being Hexa-X where he supervised material characterization at sub-THz frequencies.

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