Xavier Fernando is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, Canada. He has co-authored more than 200 research articles, as well as three books, and he holds three patents. Additionally, he has won 30 awards and prizes, including the Professional Engineers Ontario Award in 2016, the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Prize in 2010, the Sarnoff Symposium Prize in 2009, the Opto-Canada best poster prize in 2003, and the CCECE best paper prize in 2001.

Hasan Farahneh received his PhD from Ryerson University, Canada in 2018. In September 2019 he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Jordan as a teaching staff member. His interests include wireless and visible light communication, and his current research is focused on vehicular communication using visible light spectrum.