Valentin Rakovic (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Dipl.-Ing., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunications from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies, Ss Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje (UKIM), in 2008, 2010, and 2016, respectively. He currently holds the position of an Associate Professor and the Head of the Laboratory for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies (FEEIT), UKIM in Skopje. He has coauthored more than 70 publications in international conferences and journals. His research interests include wireless networks, signal processing, optimization theory, machine learning, and the prototyping of wireless networking solutions.