Short bio. Samson Lasaulce is a CNRS Director of Research with CRAN at Nancy (joint lab between CNRS and University of Lorraine). From 2023 to 2025 has has been a Chief Research Scientist in AI with Khalifa University (KU), Abu Dhabi where he was the holder of the TII 6G Chair on Native AI. He has also been the holder of the RTE Chair on the Digital Transformation of Electricity Networks (2016-2019). He has also been a Professor with the Department of Physics at Ecole Polytechnique. Before joining CNRS he has been working for five years in private R&D companies (Motorola Labs and Orange Labs). Dr. Lasaulce is the recipient of several awards and has organized many scientific events. Dr. Lasaulce has been serving as an Associate Editor for several journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, IEEE, Nature Springer Discover AI, and IEEE Transactions on Machine Learning for Communications and Networking. His current research interests lie in distributed networks with a focus on machine learning, game theory, optimization, and optimal control. He is a co-author of several books including "Game Theory and Learning for Wireless Networks: Fundamentals and Applications" and "Game Theory and Deep Learning: Fundamental and Applications".