Prof Majid Safari received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, in 2011. He is currently a Professor of optical and wireless communications and the Deputy Head of Institute for Imaging, Data, and Communications, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 papers. His main research interests include the application of optics, information theory, signal processing in optical, wireless, and quantum communications. Some of his current research works include designing 6G Optical wireless networks as part of the EPSRC program grant TOWS, developing single-photon avalanche diode based receivers for classical communication, and the design of novel communication schemes for nonlinear long-haul fibre-optic channels.  Prof Safari has been an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications and Associate Editor for IEEE Communication Letters. He was the recipient of Mitacs Fellowship, Canada and prestigious grants from Leverhulme Trust and EPSRC, UK. He was the recipient of Best Paper Awards from IEEE GLOBECOM 2022 and IEEE ICC 2023.