Farzaneh, Forouhar: - Forouhar Farzaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957. He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Shiraz, in 1980, Master degree from E.N.S.T., Paris in1981, DEA and Doctorate from University of Limoges, France in 1982 and 1985, respectively. He was with Tehran Polytechnic from 1985 to 1989. Since 1989 he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology where he is a Professor. He was the Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering, from 1992 till 1995. His main areas of interest are Nonlinear RF Circuits, Microwave and Millimeter wave systems, Antenna Arrays and Wireless Communications. He is the author of a book in the field of Communication Circuits in Persian, published by Sharif University Press. He has been a Senior Member of IEEE since 1997. He was a co-recipient of the Microwave Prize-European Microwave Conference in 1985, a recipient of the Maxwell Premium of IEE, U.K. in 2001, and co-recipient Mojtahedi Innovation Award (Sharif University of Technology) in 2010. He was also the recipient of the 2015 Hakkak award, in recognition of his tremendous life-time contribution to national development and propagation of research in Communications Engineering presented by IEEE-Iran Section.

Fotowat, Ali: - Ali Fotowat was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1958. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1980, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, in 1982 and 1991, respectively. He started his career at Philips Semiconductor in Sunnyvale, CA, USA, in 1987 where he developed several integrated circuits for mobile phones. In 1991 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. His research interests include advanced integrated circuits for energy savings and communication/positioning applications. Due to his interests in entrepreneurial engineering, he has been the co-founder of several companies, including KavoshCom Asia R&D Company, alongside advising his students in the field. Dr. Fotowat-Ahmady is a three times recipient of the Khwarizmi Science and Engineering Award for his work on low-power microelectronics and com- munication ICs. He is a member of the IEEE Solid-State Society and has been the adviser of the society's Sharif Electrical Engineering student chapter.

Kamarei, Mahmoud: - Mahmoud Kamarei received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Tehran in 1979, M.S. in Communications Engineering from E.N.S.T., Paris, France, in 1981, and Ph.D. degree in electronics from the Institute National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), Grenoble, France, in 1985. He was a Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Electromagnétisme Micro-ondes et Optoélectronique, INPG, from 1982 till 1985. He was a Master of Confer- ences at the J. Fourier University of Grenoble from 1985 till 1991. He has been with the University College of Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran since 1991, where he is currently a Profes- sor of Electrical Engineering. He was the Dean of the University College of Engineering, University of Tehran for 8 years, 2009-2017. He is also a faculty member at the Center of Excellence on Applied Electromagnetic Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran. His main research interest areas include RF CMOS IC Design, Design and Linearization of the RF Power amplifiers, Low-phase-noise oscillator design, PLLs and Injection Locked Oscillators.