Prof. Purang Abolmaesumi received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering and his M.A.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Sharif University of Technology (SUT), in 1995 and 1997, respectively; and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of British Columbia(UBC), Vancouver, Canada in September 2002. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Canada.

Prof. Keyvan Hashtrudi-Zaad received his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran in February 1991; his M.A.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Concordia University, Montreal, Canada in December 1994; and his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada in November 2000. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Queen's University, Canada.

Amir M. Tahmasebi received his B.Sc. degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering of Sharif University of Technology (SUT), Tehran, Iran in August 2001 and his M.A.Sc. degree from School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada in September 2005. He is currently a Ph.D. student at School of Computing, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.