Omar Hashash is a Ph.D. candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech. He received his B.E. in Communications and Electronics Engineering from Beirut Arab University, Lebanon in 2019 and his M.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon in 2021. His research interests include 6G, artificial intelligence (AI), digital twins, and edge intelligence. His impactful research in these fields has led to releasing the first vision of artificial general intelligence (AGI)-native wireless systems for beyond 6G. He has also published one of the first works that explore the synergy between wireless, computing, and AI techniques to support massive digital twinning of physical systems in the metaverse and propose a decentralized digital world architecture over 6G edge networks. In spring 2024, he was a visiting researcher with the Sakaguchi Lab at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. In summer 2024, Omar held an R&I – R&D internship position in the Wireless Research Department at InterDigital Communications, Inc., USA. He is a finalist for the 2023 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship in North America. He has served as a technical program committee member in multiple flagship IEEE conferences and is a frequent reviewer at several IEEE journals.