Dr. Ionut Anghel is a Professor at the Computer Science Department, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He also serves as a Senior Researcher at the Distributed Systems Research Laboratory (DSRL) of Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. His research interests include blockchain technology, energy efficiency in large-scale distributed systems, Big Data Analytics, Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), cloud computing, and autonomic systems. He is also a Co-Editor of several journals, such as Sensors and Sustainability.