Brian Lee received the Ph.D. degree from Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, with a focus on the application of programmable networking for network management. He has over 25 years of research and development experience in telecommunications network monitoring, their systems, and software design and development for large telecommunications products, with very high-impact research publications. He was the Director of Research with LM Ericsson, Ireland, with responsibility for overseeing all research activities, including external collaborations and relationship management. He was the Engineering Manager of Duolog Ltd., where he was responsible for the strategic and operational management of all research and development activities. He is currently the Director of the Software Research Institute, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland.