Albert Guillén i Fàbregas received the Telecommunication Engineering degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the Electronics Engineering degree from the Politecnico di Torino, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in communication systems from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in 2004. Since 2011, he has been an ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. He is also an Adjunct Researcher with the University of Cambridge. He has held appointments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency (ESA), Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia, University of Cambridge, as well as visiting appointments at EPFL, École cole Nationale des Télécommunications (Paris), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of South Australia, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, and Texas A&M University in Qatar. His research interests are in the areas of information theory, coding theory, and communication theory. Dr. Guillén i Fàbregas received both Starting and Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council, and a Research Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Education to join ESA. He was the General Co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. He was an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, and an Editor of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory.