Mau-Luen Tham received Bachelor of Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in telecommunication engineering from the University of Malaya. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman. He has been a principal investigator (PI) and a co-investigator of more than 15 research and development projects. This includes five international grants, two of which are simultaneously led by him as the PI/Co-PI under the support of ASEAN IVO and the British Council. He has published two IEEE Transactions papers as a principal author. His research interests include the IoT, machine learning/deep learning/deep reinforcement learning, and beyond-5G communications.