Shahrokh Valaee is a Professor with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, and the holder of Nortel Chair of Network Architectures and Services. He is the Founder and the Director of the Wireless Innovation Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee was the TPC Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of the IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011. He was the TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015, and PIMRC 2017, and the Track Co-Chair of WCNC 2014, PIMRC 2020, VTC Fall 2020. He was the co-chair of the organizing committee for PIMRC 2023. From December 2010 to December 2012, he was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. From 2010 to 2015, he served as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Currently, he is an Editor of the Journal of Computer and System Science. From 2021 to 2023, he was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He was the co-recipient of the best paper award in the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) 2020 workshop. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and a Fellow of IEEE.