Dr. Jaume Anguera, IEEE Fellow, is co-founder and CTO of the technology company Ignion (Barcelona, Spain) and Associate Professor at Ramon LLull University and member of the Remote-IoT research group.

In 1999, he was a researcher at Sistemas Radiantes, Madrid, Spain developing multiband antenna arrays. From 1999-2017, he was with Fractus, Spain, as R&D manager leading projects on antennas for base station and handsets. Between 2003 to 2006, he was assigned to Fractus in South Korea to head up the research team.

Under his technical leadership, the company secured major contracts with companies such as Samsung and LG. Since 2017 he is with Ignion with the role of CTO where he leads the R&D activity of the company creating new products, envisaging new technologies, fostering synergies with partners, and providing technology strategy to scale the business of the company.

Inventor of more than 150 granted patents, most of them licensed to telecommunication companies. Among his most outstanding contributions is that of inventor of Antenna Booster Technology, a technology that fostered the creation of Ignion. Many of these products have been adopted by the wireless industry worldwide, to allow wireless connectivity through a miniature component called an antenna booster.

Author of more than 250 scientific papers and international conferences (h-index 50). Author of 7 books. He has participated as principal researcher in more than 22 research projects financed by the Spanish Ministry, CDTI, CIDEM, and the European Commission for an amount exceeding 7M$.

He has received several national and international awards. He has directed the master/doctorate thesis to more than 130 students. His biography appears in Who’sWho in the World and Who’sWho in Science and Engineering. Associate editor of the IEEE Open Journal on Antennas and Propagation and vice-chair of the working group “Software and Modeling” at EurAAP.

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Xin-She Yang is Reader in Modelling and Simulation as well as Optimization at Middlesex University London, with more than 25 years' experience in teaching and research. He was a Senior Research Scientist at Mathematics and Scientific Computing Division of UK's National Physical Laboratory. He got his DPhil in Applied Mathematics from Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford in 1998.

He is also an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (2021) , Fellow of Asian Computational Intelligence Society (2023) and Fellow of Soft Computing Research Society (2025). He was the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) chair for the Task Force on Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management (2015 to 2020). He has been on the prestigious list of most influential researchers or highly cited researchers (i.e., top 0.1% Scientists, Web of Science) for ten consecutive years since 2016.

He is a co-Editor for Springer's book series: Spring Tracts in Nature-Inspired Computing and has been on editorial boards of multiple international journals, such as Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier) and Journal of Computational Science (Elsevier). He won the Leader Awards in Computer Science (2023, 2024, 2025), according to Research.com

His research interests include algorithms, artificial intelligence, mathematical modelling, engineering simulation, engineering optimization, metaheuristics, nature-inspired computing, numerical methods, data mining, and simulation tools. A full list of his publications are available at Google scholar and at Web of Science.

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