Ivan Ganchev (Senior Member, IEEE) received a Dip.Eng. degree (summa cum laude) and a Ph.D. degree from Saint-Petersburg University of Telecommunications, in 1989 and 1995, respectively. He is an International Telecommunications Union (ITU-T) Invited Expert and an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Invited Lecturer, currently associated with the University of Limerick, Ireland, the University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, and IMI-BAS, Bulgaria. He was involved in more than 40 international and national research projects. Prof. Ganchev has served on the TPC of more than 380 prestigious international conferences/symposia/workshops and has authored/coauthored one monographic book, three textbooks, four edited books, and more than 300 research papers in refereed international journals, books, and conference proceedings. He is on the editorial board of, and has served as a guest editor for, multiple renowned international journals.