Fadhel M. Ghannouchi is a Professor and former Alberta Innovates/Canada Research Chair, as well as the founding Director of the iRadio Laboratory in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at École Polytechnique de Montréal and has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Prof. Ghannouchi has published six books, holds 40 U.S. patents, and has authored over 1,000 refereed papers, with more than 700 of those published in IEEE Xplore. His research interests encompass RF and wireless communications, nonlinear modeling of microwave devices and communication systems, design of power- and spectrum-efficient microwave amplification systems, and software-defined radio (SDR) systems for wireless, optical, and satellite communication applications. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada's Academy of Science, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and an Emeritus Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society.