Mr. Mukesh D. Ambani is the Chairman & Managing Director of Reliance Industries Limited. During his tenure of over 30+ years, Mr. Ambani has successfully led a diversified portfolio spanning across Energy (E&P, Petrochemicals, and Refining), Retail, Telecommunications/ Digital Services and Textiles to make Reliance India’s largest private sector enterprise.

Mr. Ambani is also associated with various organizations. He is a member of The World Economic Forum Foundation Board, Foreign member at United States National Academy of Engineers (NAE). Mr. Ambani is also a member of the Indo-US CEOs Forum, Chair of The British Asian Trust's India Advisory Council, International Advisory Council of The Brookings, McKinsey & Company International Advisory Council, Global Advisory Council of Bank of America, Business Council and London School of Economics' India Advisory Group. In India, Mr. Ambani is a member of the Prime Minister's Council on Trade & Industry and Board of Governors of the National Council of Applied Economic Research. He also serves as the Chairman of Board of Governors for Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University.

Mr. Ambani earned a B.E. from Institute of Chemical Technology (India) and pursued an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Dr. Monica Lam has been a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University since 1988, and is the Faculty Director of the Stanford MobiSocial Computing Laboratory. She is currently leading the open Almond virtual assistant project. She has made significant contributions to the field of compilers for high- performance machines and open communication platforms for mobile computing. Her research has been widely adopted in industry, including two startups she helped found: Tensilica, a configurable processor core company and Omlet, an open mobile gaming social network company.

Prof. Lam is an ACM Fellow, has won ACM-SIGSOFT and ACM-PLDI best paper awards, and has published over 150 papers on compilers, computer architecture, operating systems, high-performance computing, databases, security, and HCI. She is an author of the ``Dragon Book'', the definitive text on compiler technology. She received a B.Sc. from University of British Columbia (1980) and a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1987).

Dr. Kathleen M. Carley is a Professor of Computer Science in the Institute for Software Research, IEEE Fellow, and Director of the Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. She joined Carnegie Mellon in 1984 as Assistant Professor Sociology and Information Systems. In 1990 she became Associate Professor of Sociology and Organizations, in 1998 Professor of Sociology, Organizations, and Information Technology, and in 2002, attained her current role as Professor of Computation, Organization, and Society. She is also the CEO of Carley Technologies Inc. aka Netanomics.

Dr. Carley received SB degrees in Economics and in Political Science from M.I.T., and a PhD degree in Sociology from Harvard University. Dr. Carley’s research combines cognitive science, sociology, and computer science to address complex social and organizational issues. Her most notable research contribution was the establishment of Dynamic Network Analysis (DNA) – and the associated theory and methodology for examining large high‐dimensional time variant networks.

Dr. Carley is an IEEE Fellow. In 2018 she received the USGA Academic Award at GEOINT 2018 for her work on geo‐spatially enabled dynamic network analytics. She is the recipient of the Allen Newell award for research excellence. She has served as President of the North American Association for Computational and Organizational Simulation (2003‐2004) and of the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association (1999‐2000). She received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology and Computers Section of the ASA (2001). In 2011 she received the Simmel Award for advances in the area of social networks from INSNA and became a senior member of the IEEE. She has served as a Task Force Member of the Defense Science Board and of Geographic Information Science Panel of the Strategic Command. She has served on multiple National Research Council panels including ones on the military, big data, geo‐spatial analytics, and the decadel survey for the social sciences and was a member of the DHS‐HSSTAC.

Dr. Peter T. Kirstein attended UCLA, received a BA from Cambridge, a PhD from Stanford and a DSc from London. He worked four years as an accelerator physicist at CERN, Switzerland, during which he spent six months at Dubna in the Soviet Union. Then he worked four years for the US General Electric Research Centre based in Zurich, Switzerland, concentrating on computer and communications technology. In 1967 he joined London U, becoming Professor of Computer Communications Systems in 1970, and setting up the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). He set up the UCL node of the Arpanet in 1973. Unlike the Norwegian node, he provided a National service to the Arpanet connecting the fledgling academic network, and then other government sites in defence, fusion, space and the British Library. This was the only European project providing heterogeneous services to the US until the late ‘80s.

In parallel, he researched into implementation and development of all levels of the Internet protocols, the Open Systems Interconnecting ones, use of satellites and applications. This allowed him to support his UK-US services even though each community was initially developing differently. As the Europeans moved towards the Internet protocols, his activities migrated to directory services, security and multimedia conferencing as research and service. His recent research has concentrated on use of IPv6, IoT and security in applications.

The success of the DARPA satellite activity, involving several European countries, led to the formation of the International Collaboration Board. This fostered unclassified collaborations amongst NATO defence departments under his Chairmanship. The ICB led to the US National Science Foundation asking Kirstein to set up meetings with European academics., leading to much broader internationalization.

As part of a Review Committee of the UNDP, he was involved in steering the main Indian research institutes in IT to connect to each other and the Internet; this led to the early phases of ERNET. Later, on a NATO Science for Peace committee he advised on network facilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia. He proposed a Regional Network connecting their National networks to the European academic network. He became director of what is known as the SILK Project. As a result, these countries became eventually members of the academic Internet community.

He is a Fellow of many Learned Societies, including the UK Royal and US National Academies of Engineering, and the American Academy of Arts and Science. He has received many awards including becoming a Commander of the British Empire and receiving the Marconi, Postel and CompCom awards, and is an Internet Pioneer in the ISOC Hall of Fame.

Dr. Andrea Goldsmith is the Stephen Harris professor in the School of Engineering and a professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. She co-founded and served as Chief Technical Officer of Plume WiFi and of Quantenna (QTNA), and she currently serves on the Corporate or Technical Advisory Boards of multiple public and private companies. She has also held industry positions at Maxim Technologies, Memorylink Corporation, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Goldsmith is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the IEEE and of Stanford, and has received several awards for her work, including the ACM Athena Lecturer Award, the IEEE Comsoc Edwin H. Armstrong Achievement Award, the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lecture Award, the Women in Communications Engineering Mentoring Award, and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s Women of Influence Award. She is author of the book ``Wireless Communications'' and co-author of the books ``MIMO Wireless Communications'' and “Principles of Cognitive Radio,” all published by Cambridge University Press, as well as an inventor on 29 patents. She has also launched and led several multi-university research projects. Her research interests are in information theory and communication theory, and their application to wireless communications and related fields. She received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from U.C. Berkeley.

Dr. Goldsmith participates actively in committees and conference organization for the IEEE Information Theory and Communications Societies and has served on the Board of Governors for both societies. She has been a Distinguished Lecturer for both societies, served as the President of the IEEE Information Theory Society in 2009, founded and chaired the student committee of the IEEE Information Theory society, and is the founding chair of the IEEE TAB Committee on Diversity and Inclusion. At Stanford she has served as Chair of Stanford’s Faculty Senate and on its Advisory Board, Budget Group, Committee on Research, Planning and Policy Board, Commissions on Graduate and on Undergraduate Education, Faculty Women’s Forum Steering Committee, and Task Force on Women and Leadership.

Kyle Jamieson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University where he leads the PAWS Group, and adjunct Reader of Wireless Systems and Networks at University College London.

His research interests are in all aspects of wireless computer networks, from the basic architecture of the wireless physical layer to high-level security properties. The two main strands of work he has pursued involve bringing phased array signal processing indoors and improving the capacity of wireless networks in a world with many billions of wireless devices, most of which transmit in wireless spectrum that is unplanned by any central authority.

He received the B.S. (2001), M.Eng. (2002), and Ph.D. (2008) degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then received a Starting Investigator fellowship from the European Research Council in 2011, Best Paper awards at USENIX 2013 and CoNEXT 2014, and a Google Faculty Research Award in 2015.

Teresa H. Meng was the Reid Weaver Dennis Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research activities during the first 10 years at Stanford focused on low-power circuit and system design, video signal processing, and wireless communications. In 1999, Dr. Meng took leave from Stanford and founded Atheros Communications, Inc., which developed semiconductor system solutions for wireless network communications products. She returned to Stanford in 2000 to continue her research and teaching at the University.

Dr. Meng has received many awards and honors, including the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Berkeley EECS Department and the Nationnal Taiwan University in 2010, the 2009 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award, the DEMO Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, the McKnight Technological Innovations in Neurosciences Award in 2007, the Distinguished Lecturer Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society in 2004, the Bosch Faculty Scholar Award in 2003, the Innovator of the Year Award by MIT Sloan School eBA in 2002, the CIO 20/20 Vision Award in 2002, named one of the Top 10 Entrepreneurs by Red Herring in 2001, a Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and an IBM Faculty Development Award, all in 1989, and the Eli Jury Award from U.C. Berkeley in 1988.

Dr. Meng is the author of one book, several book chapters, and over 200 technical articles in journals and conferences. Dr. Meng is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. She is also a member of the Academia Sinica of Taiwan. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in EECS from the University of California at Berkeley and her B.S. from National Taiwan University.

Don Towsley received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Texas (1975). Professor Towsley joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1976 and moved to the College of Information and Computer Sciences in 1986. He was named University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in 1998. Professsor Towsley was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, (1982-83, 2003), INRIA and AT&T Labs - Research (1996-97), and Cambridge Microsoft Research Lab (2004); a Visiting Professor at the Laboratoire MASI, Paris, (1989-90).

Professor Towsley has been an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, and Journal of Dynamic Discrete Event Systems. He is currently on the Editorial boards of Networks and Performance Evaluation. He was a Program Co-chair of the joint ACM SIGMETRICS and PERFORMANCE '92 conference. He is a two-time recipient of the Best Paper Award of the ACM Sigmetrics Conference. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and of the ACM. He is also a member of ORSA and is active in the IFIP Working Groups 6.3 on Performance Modeling of Networks and 7.3 on Performance Modeling. Towsley is the recipient of one of the IEEE's most prestigious honors, the 2007 IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award. He also received a UMass Amherst Distinguished Faculty Lecturer award in 2002 and a UMass Amherst College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Faculty Research Award in 2003.

Victor Bahl is a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington. He is known for his research contributions to white space radio data networks, radio signal-strength based indoor positioning systems, multi-radio wireless systems, wireless network virtualization, and for bringing wireless links into the datacenter. He is also known for his leadership of the mobile computing community as the co-founder of the ACM Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data, and Computing (SIGMOBILE); the founder of international conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services Conference (MobiSys), and the founder of ACM Mobile Computing and Communications Review, a quarterly scientific journal that publishes peer-reviewed technical papers, opinion columns, and news stories related to wireless communications and mobility.

Dr. Bahl has received important awards; delivered dozens of keynotes and plenary talks at conferences and workshops; delivered over six dozen distinguished seminars at universities; written over hundred papers with more than 25,000 citations and awarded over 100 US and international patents. He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, IEEE, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bahl is a Distinguished Scientist and Director of the Mobility & Networking Research group at Microsoft Research.

The criteria for a Best Paper Award are a combination of truly transformative and intellectually exciting ideas, combined with a rigorous, scientific experimental verification of those ideas. The MobiCom 2018 selection process takes into account nominations and votes from all PC reviewers, the camera-ready version of the paper, and the community’s reception of the paper at the conference. At the discretion of the conference organizers, multiple papers may receive a Best Paper Award.

Best Paper Award Winner: SkyCore: Moving Core to the Edge for Untethered and Reliable UAV-based LTE networks by Mehrdad Moradi (University of Michigan); Karthik Sundaresan (NEC Labs); Eugene Chai (NEC Labs); Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs); Z. Morley Mao (University of Michigan)

MobiCom 2018 will also have a Best Community Paper Award. The criteria for the Best Community Paper Award are a combination of intellectually exciting ideas, combined with a substantive contribution in computer code, experimental data, or other artifacts deemed useful to the research community at large.

Best Community Paper Award Winner: One Billion Apples' Secret Sauce: Recipe for the Apple Wireless Direct Link Ad hoc Protocol by Milan Stute (Technische Universität Darmstadt); David Kreitschmann (Technische Universität Darmstadt); Matthias Hollick (Technische Universität Darmstadt)