Rastislav Róka (M’00–SM’16) became a Member (M) of IEEE in 2000, and a Senior Member (SM) in 2016. Rastislav Róka (Assoc. Prof.) was born in Šaľa, Slovakia on January 27, 1972. He received his MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Telecommunications from the Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia in 1995 and 2002. Since 1997, he has been a Senior Lecturer with the Institute of MICT, FEI STU, Bratislava, Slovakia. Since 2024, he has been a professor at this institute. His teaching and educational activities are realized in areas of fixed transmission media, digital transmission and optocommunication systems and networks. At present, his research activity is focused on signal transmission through optical fiber and wireless technologies utilizing new wavelength division multiplexing and advanced optical signal processing techniques. His main effort is dedicated to effective utilization of the network resources in the F5G optical networks by means of the DBA and DWA algorithms applied in various advanced hybrid network infrastructures. Assoc. Prof. Róka has been a Member of CTF since 2008 and a Member of INSTICC since 2014.