Dr. Muhammad Shahid Anwar is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of AI & Software at Gachon University, Seongnam, South Korea. He received his Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Engineering from the School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China in 2021 and his M.Sc. in Telecommunications Technology from Aston University, Birmingham, U.K., in 2012. Dr. Shahid has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications including IEEE, Springer, IET, Hindawi, MDPI, Frontiers journals, and flagship conference papers. He has been honored with the “Outstanding Scholar of the Year 2020 Award" from the CSC Scholarship Council under the Ministry of Education China. Dr. Shahid also received the “Excellent Student of the Year 2020 Award" from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He has been serving as an editorial board member and guest editor in several Journals and a reviewer of quite a few Journals including ACM and IEEE Transactions. His research interests include 360-degree videos, immersive Media (Virtual Reality, AR), Cognitive Computing, Object Detection, Metaverse, and Quality of Experience (QoE) evaluations of VR telemedicine and healthcare systems. He is focusing on deep learning-based VR video evaluations and developed several Machine Learning based QoE Prediction models.