Dr. Abhishek Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, India. He received his Ph.D. in Electronics Technology from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, and holds a B.E. from Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology and an M.Tech. from Punjab Technical University. With more than a decade of academic, teaching, and research experience, his research interests include photonic radar, optical and wireless communication systems, free-space optical communication, Radio-over-FSO, mode division multiplexing, MIMO techniques, optical sensing, and 6G-oriented photonic systems. His research has been published in numerous peer-reviewed international journals. Dr. Sharma is a Senior Member of IEEE and an Early Career Member of Optica. He also serves as an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Physics and regularly reviews manuscripts for leading international journals. He has been recognized among the world’s Top 2% most-cited scientists for his research contributions in optical and photonic communication. #Photonic Radar; Free-Space Optical Communication; Optical Wireless Communication; Radio-over-FSO; Optical Sensing; Mode Division Multiplexing; MIMO Optical Systems; 6G Communication; Photonic Communication Systems; Optical Communication