Dr. Usman Hadi is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Ulster University, Jordanstown campus. Prior to that, he worked as a Postdoctoral researcher at Aalborg University and Ext. Research Engineer at Nokia Standards (Nokia Bell Labs) in Aalborg, Denmark (2019–2021). He received his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2019. At the same time, he was a Visiting Researcher (2017–2019) at Université Paris-Est, ESYCOM, ESIEE, Paris, Noisy-le-Grand, France and Nokia Bell Labs, NJ, USA. His research interests are in the area of wireless communication for 5G and Beyond 5G, particularly in regard to Time-Sensitive Networks, microwave photonics, machine learning, including RoF systems, devices for telecommunications, and wireless sensor networks. Dr Hadi was included in top 2% researcher worldwide for the year 2022 and 2021.