De Mi (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree from the Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, the M.Sc. degree from the Imperial College London, London, U.K., and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey, Guildford, U.K.,He is currently an Associate Professor with the future communication systems and the Head of the Future Information Networks Research Cluster, the College of Computing, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, U.K. Prior to this, he worked with the Institute for Communication Systems with the University of Surrey. He has also been a Visiting Professor with various universities and institutes, e.g., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, Shenzhen Institute of Information Technology, Shenzhen, China, and Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China. His research interests and expertise span a range of areas in wireless communications and signal processing, including B5G/6G radio access techniques, hyper complex signal processing, next-generation broadcast and multicast communications, and future open networks.,Dr. Mi was the recipient of the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society 2020 Scott Helt Memorial Award (Best Paper), and the IEEE UCET 2020 and IEEE IECON 2023 Best Paper Awards.