Biography: Wael Jaafar (S’08, M’14, SM’20) is an Associate Professor at the Software and IT Engineering Department of Écoe de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS), University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada since September 2022. He holds Masters and PhD degrees from  Polytechnique Montreal, Canada. Between 2019 and 2022, Dr. Jaafar was with the Systems and Computer Engineering Department of Carleton Universityas an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow. From 2014 to 2018, he has pursued a career in the telecommunications industry where he has been involved in designing telecommunication solutions for projects across Canada and abroad. During his career, Dr. Jaafar was a visiting researcher within Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2019, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 2013, and UQAM, Montreal, Canada in 2007. He received several prestigious grants including (National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Alexander-Graham Bell scholarship, Fonds de recherche du Québec–Nature et technologies (FRQNT) scholarship, and best paper awards at IEEE ICC 2021 and ISCC 2023. His research interests include wireless communications, integrated terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, resource allocation, edge caching and computing, and machine learning for communication and networks.