Toktam Mahmoodi is the WICE Chair 2024?2025. She is a Professor communication Engineering, and Director of the Centre for Telecommunications Research (CTR) at King's College London. Previously, she was a visiting research scientist at F5 Networks, a research associate at Imperial College London, a Mobile VCE researcher, and a telecom R&D engineer. She is chair of IEEE WICE and vice-chair of the IEEE ComSoc Aerial Communication Emerging Tech initiative. Her research focuses on the areas of mobile and cloud networking and includes network intelligence, edge learning and networking, ultra-low latency networking, and network modeling and optimization. She has contributed to the ETSI, IETF and 3GPP standards, and has played an active role within 5GPPP in defining 5G vision for vertical industries. She has also served on a number of editorial boards including the executive editor of ETT, guest editor of the JSAC series on network softwarization, area editor of IEEE Communications Standard Magazine on management & orchestration, and editor of IEEE communication letters. She served as technical committee chair and member of various IEEE ComSoc conferences, including ICC, GLOBECOM, PIMRC, WCNC, and ICT.