Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir (S'04--M'10--SM'16) is Professor at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS), UK, received over £5m research funding from bodies such as Innovate UK, ERASMUS, QNRF and UK industries. With over 20 years of research expertise in design and development of information and communication technologies (ICT), he has published over 150 research articles and edited or contributed to 10 books. He has an interest in wireless technologies and application of tools such as Artificial Intelligent & machine learning to support global connectivity around the world. He is a recipient of STARS (Staff Appreciation and Recognition Scheme) Award 2020 & 2018 for Outstanding Research and Enterprise performance at UWS. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK and member of International Association of Smart Learning Environments (IASLE). Recently, he has been selected (through a competitive process) by the Scottish Parliament as a Member Scottish Parliament Framework Agreement Covid-19 Pandemic to provide expert advice on the impact of Covid-19 on digital infrastructure, energy, education and healthcare. He has been awarded with the Best Journal article award 2019 jointly presented by IEEE Communications Society and China Institute of Communications for research on millimetre wave communications for 5G. He has been/is serving as a Chair and organising committee of several symposiums/workshops in IEEE flagship conferences, including Globecom, ICC and WCNC. He is an Editor of PHYCOM, IEEE Communications Letters and served as a guest editor to IEEE Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications, and IEEE Access. He is a founding Chair of IEEE ComSoc emerging technologies committee on backhaul/fronthaul. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy, UK, Senior Member of IEEE and an active member of IEEE ComSoc.