Ernest Kurniawan (S'05–M'10-SM'16) received the B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2003 and 2009, respectively. In 2009, he joined Institute for Infocomm Research, one of the research institutes under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, where he is currently a Senior Scientist. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, with Professor Andrea Goldsmith. He is a recipient of the Best Paper Award at 2012 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at 2013 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2018 IEICE Asia Pacific Conference on Communications, and was recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer in 2014 by the IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. His research interests are in the area of machine learning and artificial intelligence for wireless networks optimization, next generation communication systems, and communications-constrained intelligent systems.