As a staff engineer in Ofinno, Huifa’s research interests span 5G/6G physical layer technologies including unlicensed operation, sidelink, and AI/ML for air interface. After receiving the B.E. degree in information engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (China), he worked as a RAN optimization engineer at Motorola China for five years. Then he received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in information and communication engineering from The University of Electro-Communications (Japan). After that, he worked on 5G NR standardization and patents in Sharp Corporation for four years before joining Ofinno.