Dhurgham Abdulridha Jawad AlKhaffaf (M’16) was born in Najaf, Iraq. He received the BSc in the communication techniques engineer- ing in 2011 from Engineering Technical College/Najaf, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University, Iraq, and he got his MSc degree in wireless communication systems in 2016 from Brunel University London, United Kingdom. He is working as an assistant professor for computer network security and wireless communication engineering in technical communication engineering department at engineering technical college/Najaf, Al-Furat Al-Awsat Technical University. He leads the computer centre. He has many publications in VLAN networks, LTE, antenna design and optical wireless communication. His research areas with development of wireless communication systems, advanced digital communication, computer networks, mobile networks, data communication, MIMO, OFDM, LTE, C-RAN, SDN, VLC, FSO and 5G and beyond.