Dr. Panagiotis Sarigiannidis is the Director of the ITHACA lab, the co-founder of the first spin-off of the University of Western Macedonia, MetaMind Innovations PC, and Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece. He received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2001 and 2007, respectively. He has published over 220 papers in international journals, conferences, and book chapters, including IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Access, and Computer Networks. He has been involved in several national, European, and international projects. His research interests include telecommunication networks, the Internet of Things, and network security.