Albert Guillén i Fàbregas is a Professor in Communications and Information Theory at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. He received the Telecommunication Engineering Degree and the Electronics Engineering Degree from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Politecnico di Torino, respectively in 1999, and the PhD in Communication Systems from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2004. He has held appointments at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Telecom Italia, European Space Agency, Institut Eurécom, University of South Australia, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (ICREA Research Professor) and the University of Cambridge. He is a recipient of both Starting and Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council. He is a member of the Young Academy of Europe, Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Editor of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory (Now Publishers) and previously of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2013-2020) and IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2007-2011). He was a General co-Chair of the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Barcelona, July 2016 and a Technical Program Committee (TPC) co-chair of the 2013 IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Sevilla, Sept. 2013. He is a TPC co-chair of the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Taiwan.