Houcine Chougrani received his PhD degree in Information Technology, from the École Telecom Bretagne in Brest (France), in 2016. He has worked for several years in the industry as a signal processing engineer. His research interests include wireless communication theory, satellite communication and new radio for the Internet of Things applications. Houcine joined the Signal Processing and Satellite Communications research group, SIGCOM, headed by Prof. Björn Ottersten and he will be reporting to Dr Symeon Chatzinotas.