Octavian Postolache, (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania, in 1999, and the University Habilitation degree from the University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, in 2016. He is currently a Professor with the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL), Lisbon, where he is a Senior Researcher with the Instituto de Telecomunicações. He acts as an active coordinator and a member of national and international research projects, particularly Portuguese and EU projects. He has authored or coauthored ten patents, ten books, 18 book chapters, and more than 400 papers in international journals and proceedings of international conferences with a peer-to-peer review. His fields of interest are smart sensors and the Internet of Things (IoT) for biomedical, environmental and precision agriculture applications, intelligent transportation, wireless sensor networks, sensor networks, and artificial intelligence applied to automated measurement systems Dr. Postolache is active in the IEEE Organization, where he serves as the Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society-Technical Committee-13 (IMS TC13) (https://ieee-ims.org/ technical-committee/tc-13) and the IEEE IMS Portugal Chapter.