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. Dr, He currently serves as an Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS and Physical Communication (Elsevier), and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He served as an Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS, Basar received recognition for his research, including the Science Academy (Turkey) Young Scientists (BAGEP) Award, in 2018, the Mustafa Parlar Foundation Research Encouragement Award, 2016.

. Marco-di-renzo, He received the Laurea (cum laude) and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of, respectively, and the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (Doctor of Science) degree from University, 1978.

. Centralesupélec, He is a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and the IEEE Communications Society, Middle East, and Africa, the 2013 NoE-NEWCOM Best Paper Award, the 2014-2015 Royal Academy of Engineering Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, the 2015 IEEE Jack Neubauer Memorial Best System Paper Award, the 2015-2018 CNRS Award for Excellence in Research and Ph.D. Supervision, the 2016 MSCA Global Fellowship (declined), the 2017 SEE-IEEE Alain Glavieux Award, the 2018 IEEE-COMSOC Young Professional in Academia Award, and eight Best Paper Awards at IEEE conferences, 2012.

M. Alouini, Education City, Doha, Qatar, before joining the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, as a Professor of electrical engineering, S'94-M'98-SM'03-F'09) was born in, 1998.

R. Zhang-;-astar and S. Since, His research interests include wireless information and power transfer, drone communication, wireless eavesdropping and spoofing, energy-efficient and energy-harvesting-enabled wireless communication, multiuser MIMO, cognitive radio, and optimization methods, 2015, the IEEE Communications Society Asia-Pacific Region Best Paper Award, in 2016, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award, pp.2013-2017, 2007.