Zabih F. Ghassemlooy Northumbria University, United Kingdom Fary Z. Ghassemlooy received his B.S. (with honors) degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1981, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the UMIST, UK, in 1984 and 1987, respectively. In 1988, he joined the City University, London, as a Research Fellow, and then moved to Sheffield Hallam University as a Lecturer, where he became a Professor in 1997. In 2004, he joined the School of Engineering and Technology, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, as an Associate Dean for research. In 2001, he was a recipient of the T. C. Tuan Fellowship in Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Journal of Electronics and Communications and the Mediterranean Journal of Computers and Networks, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Communication Systems, the Sensor Letters, and EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. He is the Founder and Chairman of the International Symposium on Communication Systems, Network and DSP, and is a Technical Committee Member of a number of international conferences. He has published over 200 papers and is a Co/Guest Editor of a book and a number of journals. His research interests are in photonic networks, modulation techniques, optical wireless, and optical fibre sensors. He is a Fellow of the IEE and a Senior Member of IEEE, and is currently the IEEE UK/IR Communications Chapter Secretary. Biography Updated on 11 March 2007