Dr Ian Wassell received his B.Sc. and B.Eng. degrees from the University of Loughborough in 1983, and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Southampton in 1990. He is an Associate Professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and has experience in excess of 25 years in the simulation and design of radio communication systems gained via a number of positions in industry and higher education. He has published more than 200 papers and his current research interests include: wireless sensor networks, cooperative wireless networks, radio propagation modelling, sparse representation and compressive sensing. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, a member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.