Aleksandar D. Damnjanovic received Doctor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the George Washington University in 2000. He joined Ericsson Wireless Communications Inc in San Diego in 2000, where he worked on cdma2000 base station controller development. In 2003, he joined Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, where he worked on 3G, 4G and 5G cellular standards, prototyping of 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) network where he led MAC system design efforts, and most recently 5G NR-U. His research interests include interference management, medium access, shared spectrum, network MIMO, and private and relay networks. He is currently working on dynamic and adaptive coordinated spectrum sharing techniques for more efficient spectrum use. He is a co-author of a book “The cdma2000 System for Mobile Communications”. He has more than 20 years of experience with 3GPP and 3GPP2 standardization and currently serves as MulteFire Alliance Radio Working Group Chair.