Carlos E. Palau is Full Professor in the ETSI Telecomunicacion at UPV, with more than 25 years of experience in research in the areas of security, privacy, content distribution, networking, interoperability, IoT, Smart Cities and wireless communications. Currently, he is coordinating HE DATA-01-05-2021 aerOS and EIT HEI’s Skills2Scale projects, and participating in other R&D actions, such as H2020 EIFFEL and OPTIMAI, and HE SAFE-6G, SCENE, ENACT, cPAID and MISSION. Furthermore, it is worth noting his coordination in finishing the H2020 ICT-56 ASSIST-IoT project, and the H2020 MG-7-3 PIXEL and H20202 ICT-30-2015 INTER-IoT projects. He is also an IEEE Senior Member with more than 135 published papers. He has participated in several TPC of relevant conferences, like IEEE LCN, IEEE MILCOM and IEEE MULTIMEDIA, and chaired the International Conference of Communications Systems and Networks from 2002 until 2008.