Ahmed Mubarak Al-Haiqi received his PhD (he investigated sensor-based side channels on Android) and MEng (in computer and communications engineering) degrees from the National University of Malaysia. Before pursuing his graduate studies, he worked as a database developer for several years with governmental organizations in Aden, Yemen, where he completed a BEng and majored in computer engineering and science. He is currently involved in conducting academic research on mobile security, machine learning, next generation networking trends, as well as interdisciplinary topics.

José Juan Sánchez Hernández received an MSc degree in computer science from the University of Almería in 2008. He is a member of the Supercomputing-Algorithms Research Group at the University of Almería, and he is currently working toward a PhD in the area of image coding and transmission.

In his spare time, he enjoys designing and developing native mobile apps for Android, experimenting and making stuff with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, and learning new things. He is also the cofounder of Android Almería Developers Group  and an active member of HackLab Almería, where he organizes programming talks and hackathons.

He participated as a mentor in the Google Summer of Code 2015 with the P2PSP organization. You can find out more about him at http://josejuansanchez.org.