John SoldatosJohn Soldatos holds a Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2000) and is currently Associate Professor at the Athens Information Technology (2006-present) and Honorary Research Fellow at the Univrsity of Glasgow, UK (2014-present). He was also Adjunct Professor at the Information Networking Institute (INI) of the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (2007-2010). In the period 2012-2014 he served as the coordinator of the working group "IoT identification, naming and discovery" of the European Internet-of-Things Research Cluster (IERC). Dr. Soldatos has played a leading role as software engineer, systems architects, technical project manager or consultant, in the successful delivery of more than fifty (50) (commercial, industrial, research and consulting) projects, for both private & public sector organizations, including complex integrated projects on Internet-of-Things and Enterprise Data Analytics. He is co-founder of the open source platforms OpenIoT and AspireRFID, while he has been the technical manager of several EC co-funded projects on the Internet-of-Things, including the FP7 ASPIRE, OpenIoT and SMART projects. He has published more than 180 articles in international journals, books and conference proceedings, while he has written numerous posts and articles for blogs, newspapers and magazines. He has also significant academic teaching experience, along with experience in executive education and corporate training. During July 2014-March 2016 he has served as a member of the European Crowdfunding Stakeholders Forum. Read More Read Less