Yuansong Qiao is a Senior Research Fellow in the Software Research Institute (SRI) at Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Ireland. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Applied Technology from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, in 2008. He is a member of IEEE (Robotics and Automation Society and Blockchain Community) and ACM (SIGCOMM and SIGAI). His research interests include Robotic Control and Coordination, Blockchain Systems, and Edge Computing / Intelligence.