Ammar Ahmed, Ph.D., is a Radar Signal Processing Engineer at Aptiv in Agoura Hills, CA, USA, where he contributes to the development of advanced mobility solutions, focusing on innovations in autonomous driving and safety systems. He earned his Ph.D. from Temple University, USA, in 2021. From 2011 to 2016, Dr. Ahmed worked as an electrical engineer for the National Tokamak Fusion Program in Pakistan, where he was responsible for developing embedded system design for spherical tokamaks. His research interests include signal processing, data analysis, optimization, and radar systems.

Joseph Picone, Ph.D., is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Temple University, where he directs the Institute for Signal and Information Processing (ISIP) and the Neural Engineering Data Consortium (NEDC). His primary expertise is in machine learning for applications in the health sciences. A common theme throughout his research career has been the development of big data resources that enable research on advanced statistical modeling paradigms. The data and resources developed by NEDC are used by over ten thousand researchers worldwide. The ISIP web site is one of the oldest web sites devoted to the development of open source resources. Dr. Picone has been an active researcher in various aspects of speech processing for over 40 years. His research has been funded by government agencies such as The National Science Foundation, The National Institutes of Health and DoD, as well as many industrial partners (Texas Instruments, Natus). He has published over 300 technical papers and holds eight patents.