Mohamad Assaad (Senior Member, IEEE) received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from Telecom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. Since 2006, he has been with the Telecommunications Department, CentraleSupelec, University of Paris-Saclay, where he is currently a Professor. He is also a Researcher with the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systemes and was the 5G Chair Holder from 2017 to 2021. He has coauthored one book and more than 150 publications in journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include 5G and 6G systems, fundamental networking aspects of wireless systems, Age of Information and semantic communications, resource optimization, and machine learning in wireless networks. He has served as a TPC Member or the TPC Co-Chair for various top-tier international conferences, including the TPC Co-Chair for IEEE WCNC’21 and IEEE Globecom’20 Mobile and Wireless networks Symposium Co-Chair. He has served also as an editor for several international journals, including an Editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters from 2017 to 2022 and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He has also given in the past successful tutorials on topics related to 5G systems, and Age of Information at various IEEE conferences.