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Dr. Syed Ali Raza Zaidi is an Associate Professor in the School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Leeds. He joined the University of Leeds as a University Academic Fellow under the 250 Great Minds Initiative. His academic background includes a B.Eng degree in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan, awarded in 2008. For his final year project on the analysis of forward error correction schemes over wireless channels with memory, supervised by Dr. Syed Ali Khayam, he received NUST's most prestigious Rector’s Gold Medal. Zaidi pursued his PhD at the University of Leeds' School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, supported by the Overseas Research Student (ORS) scholarship, Tetley Lupton Scholarship, and Excellence Scholarship. Additional funding came from COST IC0902, DAAD, and Royal Academy of Engineering grants. Prior to his current role, he served as a Research Assistant in the Wireless Sensor Network Lab on a collaborative project between NUST, Pakistan, and Ajou University, South Korea, from September 2007 to August 2008, and as a Visiting Research Scientist at Qatar Innovations and Mobility Center from October to December 2013. He also contributed to a US Army Research Lab-funded project on Cognitive Green Wireless Communication from a Network Science Perspective.