Syed Zaidi is Associate Professor of Communications and Sensing at the University of Leeds. He is also Communication Theme team lead at School of Electronics and Electrical Engineering. He joined the University of Leeds as University Academic Fellow under the 250 Great Mind Initiative. His research interests are in the area of Communication and Networking, Random Graph theory, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for large scale complex networks. He is co-lead for EPSRC Future Communications Hub CHEDDAR. He has published more than 150 papers in leading IEEE conference and journals.