Doç. Dr. Gözde Sunal, 2004-2009 yılında İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Görsel İletişim Tasarımı bölümünde lisans eğitimini tamamladı. 2009-2011 yılında Marmara Üniversitesi Radyo Televizyon Sinema yüksek lisans programı ve 2011-2015 yılında Maltepe Üniversitesi İletişim Bilimleri doktora programından mezun oldu. 2009 yılından itibaren mezun olduğu üniversitede çalışan Sunal, şu an İletişim Fakültesi'nde Dekan Yardımcısı olarak görev yapmaktadır. Akademik yayınlarının yanı sıra çeşitli sanatsal etkinliklerde jüri üyeliği yapmakta ve aldığı ödüller bulunmaktadır. Uzmanlık alanları, film ve medya çalışmaları, iletişim bilimleri, gözetim çalışmaları, sinema ve psikoloji, film yapım yönetim, film eleştirisi ve estetik çalışmalardır. 

A historian of communications and information, Dan Schiller has worked at Temple University, UCLA, UCSD, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he is Professor Emeritus.  

Prof. Dr. Hanifi Parlar, Biyoloji Öğretmenliği alanında lisans eğitimini Marmara Üniversitesinde (1992), Eğitim Yönetimi ve Denetimi alanında yüksek lisans eğitimini Yeditepe Üniversitesinde (2006), aynı alanda doktora eğitimini Marmara Üniversitesinde (2012) tamamladı. Millî Eğitim Bakanlığına bağlı çeşitli özel kurumlarda 10 yıl öğretmen, okul müdür yardımcısı, okul müdürü, genel müdür gibi farklı pozisyonlarda çalıştıktan sonra İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi  Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümüne 2012 yılında Doktor Öğretim Üyesi olarak atandı. 2018 yılında Doçent olan Parlar, 2024 yılında Eğitim Bilimleri alanında Profesör oldu. Hâlen İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi İnsan ve Toplum Bilimleri Fakültesi Eğitim Bilimleri Bölümünde görev yapan Prof. Dr. Hanifi Parlar'ın ulusal ve uluslararası dizinlerde taranan dergilerde yayımlanmış çok sayıda makalesi mevcuttur. Prof. Dr. Hanifi Parlar'ın araştırma alanları arasında okul geliştirme, okul etkililiği, öğretim liderliği, öğretmen profesyonelliği, örgütsel gelişim, öğretim stratejileri ve eğitimde yenilik yer almaktadır. 

Jörg Matthes (PhD, University of Zurich) is Professor of Communication Science at the Department of Communication, University of Vienna, Austria, where he directs the Advertising and Media Psychology Research Group (AdMe). His research focuses on digital media effects, advertising and consumer research, sustainability communication, children & media, terrorism and populism as well as empirical methods. He has published more than 200 journal articles and his research activities received awards and honors from the German Communication Association, the International Communication Association, the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the German Psychological Association, or the World Association for Public Opinion Research. He is also recipient of several top dissertation awards, i.e., by the German Communication Association, the Faculty of Arts of the University of Zurich, and the Swiss Association for Market and Social Research. In 2014, he received the Young Scholar Award by the International Communication Association honoring the most outstanding research career worldwide seven years past the PhD. Two years later, he received AEJMC's Hillier Krieghbaum Under 40 Award which honors scholars "under 40 years of age who have shown outstanding achievement and effort in all three AEJMC areas: teaching, research and public service". In 2019, he was honored with the UNIVIE Teaching Award and in 2021, he was elected as a Fellow of the International Communication Association. He was recipient of an Advanced Grant (2.5 Million Euros) by the European Research Council (ERC) in 2022.

He has served the field as Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of Communication Methods & Measures, leading the journal to be ranked as #1 in the Social Science Citation Index in 2022. He also was Associate Editor of The Journal of Communication as well as Human Communication Research and since 2020, he is Associate Editor of The Journal of Advertising. He is currently sitting on the Editorial Board of more than 15 journals.

From 2012 to 2014 he was Vice Chair and then, from 2014-2022, Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna. Under his leadership, the Department rose to be ranked among the top 30 Departments for communication science in the world. He served as an evaluator and advisor for the quality assessment of higher education institutions and research programs in The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Bulgaria, or China.

Yew Kee WONG (Eric) is a former Professor, Associate Vice-President, and Registrar at Hong Kong Chu Hai College. He has previously served as a Professor at BASIS. He holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Computing Systems and a PhD in AI from Nottingham Trent University (NTU), UK. When he was 15 and 19, he was the youngest undergraduate and PhD student admitted to NTU. Between 2001 and 2016, he was the Senior Programme Director at The University of Hong Kong (HKU-SPACE). He currently serves as a Research Supervisor for PhD/Master students at the Southern Institute of Technology (New Zealand). His research interests include AI, Quantum Computing, Web3 Technology, and Big Data Analytics. Over the last 30 years, he has been granted and received over USD$10 million in research funding from Governments, Private Foundations & Institutions (from Europe, Africa and Asia). 

Prof. WONG (Eric) has served on more than 3,000 top-tier International Conference Chairs, Scientific/Publicity Chairs and Program/Technical Committees. Since 2005, he has actively participated in 42 International Journals as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and Member of the Journal Editorial Board Committee. He is currently a Fellow, Professional and Individual member of 12 Internationally renowned Professional Organizations (IEEE, ACM, AAAI, IIBA, ISACA, AIP, BCS, IOA, ACL, CAIAC, AAIA and ICAIL). During his career, he has held the titles of Honorary Professor, Distinguished Professor, Adjunct Professor, Visiting Professor and Honorary Research Fellow at 15 different universities and institutions. From 1996 to present, he has published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles & research papers in top-tier academic journals, conference proceedings, and online R&D outlets. Many of his research papers have appeared in world-renowned journals such as Scientific Reports, Springer Nature and IEEE. He has supervised/co-supervised over 80 PhD/Master students.