Ivan B. Djordjevic is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. He used to be a Professor of ECE and Optical Sciences, Director of the Optical Communications Systems Laboratory and the Quantum Communications Laboratory, and co-Director of the Signal Processing and Coding Lab at the University of Arizona, from which he recently retired. He is a fellow of IEEE and the Optica. Dr. Djordjevic has authored or co-authored 12 books and more than 610 journal and conference publications. He holds 58 US patents. He has served as Area Editor/Associate Editor/Member of Editorial Board/Guest Editor for: IEEE Transactions on Communications, Optica/IEEE Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, IEEE Communications Letters, IOP Journal of Optics, Elsevier Physical Communication (PHYCOM) Journal, Optical and Quantum Electronics, Frequenz, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Entropy, and IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology.