Nicola Cordeschi received the five-year Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in communication engineering and the PhD degree in information and communication engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome in 2004 and 2008, respectively. He was Fellow Researcher with the DIET Dept., Sapienza University of Rome for ten years, and Assistant Professor from 2009 to 2016. Then he worked with DIMES Department, University of Calabria. From 2020 to 2022 he was with 6G Innovation Centre, University of Surrey, UK. Since 2022 he has been Assistant Professor in Telecommunication with the Politecnico di Bari, Italy. He is a recipient of two Best Paper Awards and has authored or coauthored over 80 papers, many of which published in premier network journals and conferences including IEEE TMC, TVT, TCOM, IEEE/ACM TON, and more. His research interests include adaptive wireless communications, internet of things, cognitive radio access, medium access control, random access, multi-antenna systems, energy-efficiency, resource management in vehicular communications, grid/cloud computing, distributed computing, cross-layer optimization, mathematical optimization, game theory.