Professor Vladimir Poulkov received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), Sofia, Bulgaria. He has more than 30 years of teaching, research, and industrial experience in the field of telecommunications and has managed numerous industrial, engineering, R&D, and educational projects. He has been Vice Chairman of the General Assembly of the European Telecommunications Standardization Institute. Currently, he is the Head of the “Teleinfrastructure” R&D laboratory at TUS, Chairman of the “Cluster for Digital Transformation and Innovation”, Bulgaria, and Chairman of the Board of the “Research and Development and Innovation Consortium” at Sofia Tech Park, Bulgaria. He is also a Fellow of the European Alliance for Innovation and a Senior IEEE Member.