Syed Aqeel Raza recently joined SWIFt as 5G Technical Lead. Previously, he was associated with GlobalData PLC as a Research Analyst – Technology in Enterprise Technology & Services. Prior to that, he was working as an Assistant Professor at Hamdard University, Pakistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Computing from Sunway University, Malaysia, where his research areas included Software-Defined Radio, Wireless Networks, Reinforcement Learning and real testbed implementation using USRP and GNU Radio. He authored/co-authored several publications that have been published in well reputed journals and conference venues. Besides Ph.D., he has dual master’s degrees from Sweden and Pakistan in Telecommunication and Communication & Signal Processing, respectively. Aqeel also has many years of industry experience of working in leading roles in various renowned telecommunication and networking sector companies internationally including Malaysia and Denmark.