Rolf Johannesson is Professor Emeritus of Information Theory at Lund University, Sweden, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He was awarded the honor of Professor, honoris causa, from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, and elected member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. Dr. Johannesson's research interests include information theory, coding theory, and cryptography.

Kamil Sh. Zigangirov is Professor Emeritus of Telecommunication Theory at Lund University, Sweden, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He is widely published in the areas of information theory, coding theory, mathematical statistics, and detection theory. Dr. Zigangirov is the inventor of the stack algorithm for sequential decoding and the co-inventor of the LDPC convolutional codes.