Dr Ruairí de Fréin received his B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering in 2004 and his Ph.D. in Time–Frequency Analysis and Matrix Factorization from University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland, in 2010. He is currently a CONNECT Funded Investigator and Lecturer at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Technological University Dublin, Ireland. He has held two Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowships—one at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, and another at Amadeus SAS, Sophia Antipolis, France. In recent years, Dr de Fréin has developed multi-channel time–frequency analysis algorithms, blind source separation methods, quality-of-delivery prediction algorithms for network management in small cell networks, and monitoring techniques for Internet Protocol Television (IPTV). His current research interests include quantum machine learning, machine learning for microgrid integration, sparse signal processing, and software-defined networks.