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 Laboratoryand 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, Opticaland Quantum Electronics, Frequenz, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Entropy, and IEEE/Optica Journal of Lightwave Technology.