Dr. Ozan K. Tonguz is a tenured full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He currently leads substantial research efforts at CMU in the broad areas of telecommunications and networking. He has published about 300 papers in IEEE journals and conference proceedings in the areas of wireless networking, optical communications, and computer networks. He is the author (with G. Ferrari) of the book Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Communication-Theoretic Perspective (Wiley, 2006). His current research interests include vehicular adhoc networks, wireless adhoc and sensor networks, self-organizing networks, smart grid, bioinformatics, and security. He currently serves or has served as a consultant or expert for several companies, major law firms, and government agencies in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Michel Ferreira is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Porto and a researcher of the Porto Laboratory of the Instituto de Telecomunicaoes, where he leads the Geo-Networks group. He received his undergraduate degree in Computer Science from University of Porto in 1994, a Master in Computer Engineering from University of Minho in 1996, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from University of Porto in 2002. In 2005 he held a visiting position at University of New Mexico, where he spent a sabbatical leave. His research interests include intelligent transportation systems, spatio-deductive databases and computer simulation.

Dr. Damas has been a pioneer in programming languages principles for more than 30 years. His contributions cover both theoretical foundations, namely in type theory, as well as practical and implementation aspects in programming languages. He is the creator of one of the most widely used logic programming systems - the YAP Prolog compiler, and of the DIVERT traffic simulator. Dr. Damas was for more than 30 years a professor and researcher of University of Porto, where he created the Computer Science Department within the Faculty of Sciences. Dr. Damas is also co-founder and CTO of Geolink, Lda, a spin-off from University of Porto, specialized in vehicular dispatching systems.

Wantanee Viriyasitavat is a forth-year PhD student and a Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where she is a member of General Motors collaborative research lab and has been working on traffic mobility modeling, network connectivity analysis, routing, and transport frameworks for vehicular ad hoc wireless networks (VANET). In addition to GM research lab, Wantanee also collaborates several European research groups on various projects. Wantanee received both of her B.S. (with highest distinction) and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from CMU in 2006. In the year 2006, she worked as a lecturer in Computer Science Department, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand before she started her PhD study in July 2007. She has recently been nominated as one of the two candidates to represent Carnegie Mellon University in the prestigious 2011 Google Fellowship program in the area of mobile computing.

Hugo Conceição is a third-year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Porto, and Carnegie Mellon University, being co-advised by Professor Michel Ferreira, and Professor Ozan Tonguz. He is also a research assistant at the Instituto de Telecomunicações, in Porto, Portugal. From 2006 to 2008, he was teaching assistant in serveral courses at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), and research assistant in Laboratório de Inteligênca Artificial e Ciência de Computadores. In 2008, he received his Diploma in Computer Science from FCUP (with high honor). His current research interests are in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET), and Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems. Previous work includes simulation of VANET environments, and analysis of delay-tolerant networks.

Ricardo Fernandes is a Ph.D. Student in the MAP-Tele Doctoral Programme in Telecommunications at the University of Porto, Portugal. He is also a PhD researcher at the Instituto de Telecomunicações under the supervision of Professor Michel Ferreira. From 2006 to 2008, he was teaching assistant in several courses at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), and research assistant at Laboratório de Inteligência Artificial e Ciência de Computadores. In 2009, he received his M.Sc. Degree in Networks and Information Systems Engineering from FCUP. His current research interests are in the field of Vehicular Networks, with main emphasis in the design of realistic and scalable VANET simulation frameworks.