Gregory (Greg) L. Heileman earned his BA from Wake Forest University in 1982, followed by an MS in Biomedical Engineering and Mathematics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in 1986, and a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida in 1989. In 1990, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, where he has had a distinguished career. He received the UNM School of Engineering's Teaching Excellence Award in 1995 and the ECE Department Distinguished Teacher Award in 2000. Heileman held the Gardner Zemke Professorship from 2005 to 2008 and was honored with the Lawton-Ellis Award for excellence in teaching, research, and community involvement in both 2001 and 2009. Additionally, in 2009, he received the IEEE Albuquerque Section Outstanding Educator Award. He served as Associate Chair of the ECE Department from 2005 to 2011 and was the Vice Provost for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation at UNM from 2011 to 2017. Currently, he is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Associate Vice Provost for Academic Administration at the University of Arizona. Heileman is also the author of the textbook Data Structures, Algorithms, and Object-Oriented Programming, published by McGraw-Hill in 1996.

Manel Martínez-Ramon holds the King Philip VI Endowed Chair at the University of New Mexico, USA. He earned his PhD in Communications Technology from Carlos III University of Madrid in 1999 and his Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994. He has served as an associate professor at the University of Alcalá, the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, and Carlos III University, where he taught nearly 30 different undergraduate and graduate courses in Electronics, Electric Systems, Electromagnetism, Signal Processing, Telecommunications, and Data Processing. From 2004 to 2013, he exclusively taught in English for bilingual programs at Carlos III University. Dr. Martínez-Ramon has held several administrative roles at Carlos III University, including deputy vice chancellor of infrastructure and environment, deputy director of the Polytechnic School, and director of teaching planning. His research interests are centered on machine learning and computational intelligence, contributing to various projects in signal processing, multimedia, voice processing, decision theory, neuroimaging, and more. He has authored numerous articles, conference papers, and books on machine learning applications in engineering. His current research focuses on cognitive radio, smart grid technologies, and cyber-physical systems.