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Short biography: Robert F. H. Fischer (S’93–A’96–M’99–SM’10) received the Dr.-Ing. and Habilitation degrees from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 1996 and 2001, respectively. From 1992 to 1996, he was a Research Assistant with the Telecommunications Institute, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. In 1997, he was with the IBM Research Laboratory, Zürich, Switzerland. In 1998, he returned to the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, and in 2005, he spent a sabbatical with ETH Zürich, Zürich. Since 2011, he has been a Full Professor with the University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany. He is currently teaching the undergraduate and graduate courses on signals and systems and digital communications. He authored the textbook Precoding and Signal Shaping for Digital Transmission (Wiley, 2002). His current research interests include fast, reliable, and secure digital transmission including single-carrier and multicarrier modulation techniques, information theory, coded modulation, digital communications, signal processing, and especially precoding and shaping techniques. Dr. Fischer was a recipient of the Dissertation Award from the Technische Fakultät, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, in 1997, the Publication Award of the German Society of Information Techniques in 2000, the Wolfgang Finkelnburg Habilitation Award in 2002, and the Philipp-Reis-Preis in 2005