Firooz B. Saghezchi is a Senior Member of the IEEE and received his Ph.D. from University of Aveiro (Portugal) in 2016, his M.Sc. from Shiraz University (Iran) in 2003, and his B.Sc. from University of Tabriz (Iran) in 2000, all in Electrical Engineering -Telecommunications. During 2003-2010, he worked as a Faculty Member at the Electrical Engineering Department of the Islamic Azad University (Garmsar, Iran). From 2010 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT-Aveiro), Portugal, where he was involved in EU research projects FP7-C2POWER, ENIAC-JU E2SG, and FP7-HURRICANE. From 2016 to 2019, he held a Postdoctoral position at University of Aveiro (Portugal), where he led work packages and tasks in EU research projects H2020-ECSEL SEMI40 and CATRENE MOBITRUST. Since 2019, he has been with the Mobile Systems Group at IT-Aveiro, as a Senior Researcher, where he is involved in the EU project H2020-5GENESIS and the national FCT project i-Five as Technical Manager. He has published 40 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, conferences, and editorial books. His current research interests include beyond 5G/6G mobile networks, IoT, machine learning, radio resource management, and intrusion detection systems.