Christo K Thomas received his BS in Electronics and Communication Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Calicut, India in year 2010, his MS in Telecommunication Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India in year 2012, and his PhD from EURECOM, France in year 2020. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Virginia Tech during June 2022-July 2025. His research interests include semantic communications, statistical signal processing, and artificial general intelligence (AGI)-native wireless systems. From 2012 to 2014, he was a staff design engineer on 4G LTE with Broadcom communications, Bangalore, and from 2014 to 2017, he was a design engineer with Intel corporation, Bangalore. During November 2020 till June 2022, he was a staff engineer on 5G modems with wireless research and development division of Qualcomm Inc., Espoo, Finland. He was a recipient of the best student paper award at IEEE SPAWC 2018, Kalamata, Greece, and received third prize for his team titled “Learned Chester” ML5G-PHY channel estimation challenge, as part of the ITU AI/ML in 5G challenge, conducted at NCSU, US, 2020. He had presented multiple tutorials on approximate Bayesian inference techniques at several IEEE conferences such as ICASSP and EUSIPCO, and a tutorial on AGI-native networks at IEEE GLOBECOM. He has also edited a Wiley-IEEEPress book on semantic communications and is co-author of a visionary paper on AGI-native networks in Proceedings of IEEE.