**About the Editors**

#### **Pingping Chen**

Pingping Chen (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering from Xiamen University, China, in 2013. In 2012, he was a research assistant in electronic and information engineering with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. From 2013 to 2015, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Network Coding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, and from 2016 to 2017 at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore. Chen is currently a full professor at Fuzhou University, China. His primary research interests include channel coding, joint source and channel coding, network coding, and UWB communications.

#### **Long Shi**

Long Shi (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Network Coding, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. From 2014 to 2017, he was a lecturer at Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China. From 2017 to 2020, he was a research fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design. Currently, Shi is a professor at the School of Electronic and Optical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China. His research interests include blockchain networks, mobile edge computing, and wireless network coding.

#### **Yi Fang**

Yi Fang (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. degree in communication engineering at Xiamen University, China, in 2013. From May 2012 to July 2012, He was a research assistant in electronic and information engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. From September 2012 to September 2013, he was a visiting scholar in electronic and electrical engineering, University College London, UK. From February 2014 to February 2015, he was a research fellow at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Fang is currently a full professor and Vice Dean at the School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, China. He served as the Publicity Co-Chair of the International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Iterative Information Processing 2018. His current research interests include information and coding theory, spread-spectrum modulation, and cooperative communications.
