Biographical note

Ramjee Prasad is currently the Director of the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF) at Aalborg University, Denmark and Professor, Wireless Information Multimedia Communication Chair. Ramjee Prasad is the Founder Chairman of the Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India (GISFI: www.gisfi.org) established in 2009. GISFI has the purpose of increasing the collaboration between European, Indian, Japanese, North-American and other worldwide standardization activities in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and related application areas. He was the Founder Chairman of the HERMES Partnership - a network of leading independent European research centres established in 1997, of which he is now the Honorary Chair. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), USA, the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engi- neers (IETE), India, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) and a member of the Nether- lands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG), and the Danish Engineering Society (IDA). He is also a Knight ("Ridder") of the Order of Dannebrog (2010), a distinguished award by the Queen of Denmark. He has received several international awards, the latest being 2014 IEEE AESS Outstanding Organizational Leadership Award for: "Organi- zational Leadership in developing and globalizing the CTIF (Center for TeleInFrastruktur) Research Network". He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Springer International Jour- nal on Wireless Personal Communications. He is a member of the edi- torial board of other renowned international journals including those of River Publishers. Ramjee Prasad is a member of the Steering commit- tees of many renowned annual international conferences, such as, Wire- less Personal Multimedia Communications Symposium (WPMC); Wire- less VITAE and Global Wireless Summit (GWS). He has published more than 30 books, 900 plus journals and conferences publications, more than 15 patents, a sizeable amount of graduated PhD students (over 90) and an even larger number of graduated MSc students (over 200). Several of his students are today telecommunication leaders worldwide.