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Abdulkadir Celik is an associate professor in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK, where he serves as the Director of the Centre for Internet of Things and Pervasive Systems. He received his Ph.D. degree with co-majors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA, in 2016, after earning M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Before his current position, he was a senior research scientist from 2020 to 2025 and a post-doctoral fellow from 2016 to 2020 at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, KSA. Dr. Celik has received the IEEE Communications Society’s 2023 Outstanding Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. He currently serves as an editor for several prominent journals, including npj Wireless Technology, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, and IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, as well as Frontiers in Communications Networks. His research interests broadly encompass next-generation wireless communication systems and networks.