Alexey Vinel received his PhD degrees from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow, Russia, in 2007, and from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland, in 2013. He has been a Professor with the School of Information Technology, Halmstad University, Halmstad, Sweden since 2015, and a Professor II with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway since 2018. His areas of interest include wireless communication, vehicular networking, and cooperative autonomous driving.