Dr. Mahsa Derakhshani: received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering degree from McGill University, Montréal, Canada, in 2013. She was an Honorary NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, from 2015 to 2016, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, and a Research Assistant with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, from 2013 to 2015. She is currently a Senior Lecturer in digital communications with the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, U.K. Her current research interests include machine learning and optimization for communications, ultra-reliable low-latency communications, software defined wireless networking, mobile edge caching. She serves as the Editor for IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS and IET Signal Processing Journal. She received several awards and fellowships, including Royal Academy of Engineering/The Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2020-21) on “machine learning solutions for scalable, mission-critical wireless networks”, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grant on “membrane-cyber-physical system (mCPS) for smart water treatment” (Co-I, 2020-22), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships (2015-17), the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Nature et Technologies (FRQNT) Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013-2015), and the John Bonsall Porter Prize (2009-10), the McGill Engineering Doctoral Award (2008-11).