EVGENY KHOROV (Senior Member, IEEE) is the Head of the Wireless Networks Laboratory, Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. He has led dozens of national and international projects sponsored by academic funds and industry. Being a voting member of IEEE 802.11, he has contributed to the 802.11ax standard as well as to Real-Time Applications TIG with many proposals. He has authored more than 100 articles. His main research interests are related to 5G and beyond wireless systems, next-generation Wi-Fi, protocol design, and QoS-aware cross-layer optimization. He is a recipient of the Russian Government Award in Science, several Best Papers Awards, and the Scopus Award Russia 2018. Many times Huawei RRC awarded him as the Best Cooperation Project Leader. He gives tutorials and participates in panels at large IEEE events. He chairs the TPC of the IEEE GLOBECOM 2018 CA5GS Workshop and IEEE BLACKSEACOM 2019. In 2020 he was awarded as the Editor of the year of Ad Hoc Networks.