Dr. Jose A. Santos (PhD-FHEA-FCHERP) was born in Maracay, Venezuela in 1973. He received his Electronic Engineering Degree from the Electronics Department, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela in 1998, and his PhD in Electronic Engineering from the School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland, UK in 2003. He also holds a PgCertificate in Higher Education Practice from Ulster University (2004). He has been a Lecturer in Computer Science at Ulster University since 2002 and Course Director for the undergraduate computing programmes in the School of Computing since 2018 and acting Associate Head of School since 2020; he has led the development of 2 MSc programmes in Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). He has 69+ peer reviewed publications and is a member of the School of Computing’s Pervasive Computing Research Group. His current research interests lie in the fields of IoT, Robotics, Sensor Technology and AI.