M. Majid Butt received the M.Sc. degree in digital communications from Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany, in 2005, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, in 2011. He is a Senior Scientist 5G+ Research at Nokia Bell Labs, Paris-Saclay, France, and a visiting Research Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Prior to that, he has held various positions at the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., Trinity College Dublin, Fraunhofer HHI, Germany, and the University of Luxembourg. His current research interests include communication techniques for wireless networks with a focus on radio resource allocation, scheduling algorithms, energy efficiency, and machine learning for RAN. He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications in these areas. He has given tutorial talks on various topics in IEEE conferences including, ICC, Globecom, PIMRC, VTC, ISWCS, etc.

Dr. Butt was a recipient of the Marie Curie Alain Bensoussan Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics. He has served as the organizer/chair for technical workshops on various aspects of communication systems in conjunction with major IEEE conferences, including WCNC, Globecom, and ICC. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Access and the IEEE Communication Magazine since 2016.