Yang (Cindy) Yi, is an ECE professor at Virginia Tech's Institute for Advanced Computing, Bradley Senior Faculty Fellow, MICRON & TEL UPWARDS Faculty Fellow, Virginia Tech Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Fellow, and College of Engineering Dean's Fellow 24'-25'. Her research interests focus on Brain-inspired Computing, AI Chip, Edge Devices, IoT, Spiking Neural Network, Neuromorphic Computing, & High Performance Computing and Communication.

Lingjia Liu, is an ECE professor at Virginia Tech's Institute for Advanced Computing, IEEE Fellow, College of Engineering Dean's Fellow 24'-25' and Andrew J. Young Professor. He directs Wireless@Virginia Tech, focusing on 5G/6G networks, Machine Learning in Wireless Tech, Open RAN, and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing.

Yaling Yang, is an ECE professor at Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing; she researches in network protocols, dynamic spectrum access networks, sensor networks, marine communications, and network security. 

David Simpson, is a professor of practice with over thirty years of experience in the operation, procurement and policy of advanced technology products and services. His teaching experience includes MBA-level courses in Leadership and Ethics and MIT/ACIS courses in Cybersecurity for Business Leaders.

Chang-Tien Lu, is a CS professor, ACM Distinguished Scientist and Virginia Tech College of Engineering faculty fellow. He is also the curriculum lead in the Institute for Advanced Computing, and Associate Director of the Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics at Virginia Tech. His research interests include spatial databases, data mining, urban computing, artificial intelligence, and intelligent transportation systems. 

Paul Ampadu, is an ECE professor at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing. He is an educator and the director of Embedded Integrated Systems-on-chip (EdISon) research group and the associate director of Advanced Research Institute (ARI). His research interests include reliable/secure/energy-efficient systems on chip (SoC), low-power VLSI, and loT reliability and security.

Haining Wang, is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech and IEEE Fellow. The main thrusts of Haining Wang's current and past research include security issues in domain name systems and content distributed networks, defense against use-after-free vulnerabilities in software, online reputation systems, energy/power attacks and countermeasures inside data centers, covert channel attacks and countermeasures in the cloud, behavioral biometric-based user authentication, automatic online bot detection, transparent anti-phishing, and countering distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Jim Egenrieder, is the Director of the Qualcomm-Virginia Tech Thinkabit Lab and a pioneer in STEM education with over 20 years of experience integrating science and technology. A faculty member in the Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability and President Emeritus of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he has coordinated outreach across all levels of government. Currently, he serves as a PI or Co-PI on several federal grants advancing research in computer science, data science, and engineering education.