Dr. Aryan Kaushik is Associate Professor at the Manchester Met, UK, associated with the Department of Computing and Mathematics, since 2024. Prior to that, he has been an Assistant Professor (on a senior grade) at the University of Sussex, UK, associated with the School of Engineering and Informatics, from 2021-24, where he also served as the Recruitment and Admissions Tutor, and Academic Advisor. He has been Research Fellow at the University College London, UK, with the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, from 2020-21. He completed his PhD degree in Communications Engineering at the School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, UK, in 2019. He received his MSc degree in Telecommunications from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, in 2015. He has held visiting professor/researcher appointments at the Imperial College London, UK, from 2019-20, University of Bologna, Italy, in 2024, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg in 2018, Athena Research and Innovation Center, Greece, in 2021, and Beihang University, China, from 2017-19, 2022. He has been also involved in PhD Thesis Evaluation Committee internationally such as at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), Spain, in 2023.