Dr Zilong Liu is an Associate Professor, the 6G Lab Manager, and the 2024 Outstanding Mid-Career Researcher in the Faculty of Science and Health, University of Essex, UK. His research generally lies in the interplay of coding, signal processing, and communications, with a major objective of bridging theory and practice. He has widely published in quality journals such as IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY and IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. So far, he has made a series of original contributions to sequences, waveforms, and code-domain multiple access. Prior to his current post, he was with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Bachelor, 2000-2004), Tsinghua University (MSc, 2004-2007), Nanyang Technological University Singapore (PhD and postdoc, 2008-2017), University of Melbourne (Visiting PhD, 2012), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Visiting PhD, 2012), and the University of Surrey (Senior Research Fellow, 2018-2019). Details of his research can be found at: https://sites.google.com/site/zilongliu2357.