J.J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves is a Canada Excellence Research Chair and Professor in the ECE Department at the University of Toronto. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC); and has been a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC, a Center Director at SRI International (SRI), a Principal of Protocol Design at Nokia, and Department Chair and CITRIS Campus Director at UCSC. He was elected a Foreign Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences in 2013. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), and the International Articifial Intelligence Industry Alliance (AIIA). He received the 2023 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award from the IEEE Computer Society, the 2016 IEEE MILCOM Technical Achievement Award, the 2012 IEEE Communications Society AHSN TC Technical Recognition Award, the 2011 IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, and the 2017 George E. Pake Golden Oak Award from PARC. In addition, he received the SRI International Exceptional-Achievement Award in 1985 and 1989. He has published more than 550 papers in journals, conferences and books; holds 76 U.S. patents; and his H-index is 105.