Edward Knightly is the Sheafor–Lindsay Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Computer Science at Rice University. He earned his doctorate and master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley and his bachelor’s degree from Auburn University. He is an Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, and a Sloan Fellow. Knightly received the IEEE INFOCOM Achievement Award, the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance Award for Research on New Opportunities for Dynamic Spectrum Access, the George R. Brown School of Engineering Teaching and Research Excellence Award, and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award. He won eight best paper awards including the ACM MobiCom, the ACM MobiHoc, the IEEE Communications and Network Security, and the IEEE INFOCOM. Knightly has given over 30 plenary keynote presentations including at ACM MobiCom and IEEE INFOCOM. He serves as an editor-at-large for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and serves on the scientific council of the Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies Networks and the scientific advisory board of the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering, Technology and Science in Porto. Knightly served as the Rice ECE department chair from 2014 to 2019.