Adlen Ksentini is a professor in the Communication Systems Department at EURECOM. He is leading the Network softwarization group activities related to Network Slicing and Edge Computing. He has been involved in several H2020 EU projects on 5G, such as 5G!Pagoda, 5GTransformer, 5G!Drones and MonB5G. Adlen Ksentini’s research interests are in Network Softwareization and Network Cloudification, focusing on topics related to network virtualization, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Edge Computing, and Network slicing for 5G and beyond networks. He is interested in both system and architectural issues, but also in algorithm problems related to those topics, using Markov Chains, Optimization algorithms, and Machine Learning (ML).