Dr. Azhar Memon earned M.Sc. in Automation and Control Engineering from National University of Singapore in 2010, and completed his PhD in Systems and Control Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in 2015. The focus of his PhD thesis was resource optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). After completing PhD, he joined Research & Development department of multinational company ROSEN (https://www.rosen-group.com/) which specializes in nondestructive testing (NDT) of pipelines and assets management mainly for oil and gas sector. During three-year stay at the company, he had a chance to showcase his abilities and talents in ARAMCO projects as well as his assignments in Germany. In Singapore, he worked in industry funded projects under Agency for Science, Technology & Research (ASTAR). Dr. Memon has 10-year industry and academic experience of programming with Python, C, LabVIEW and MATLAB, and has published six peer-reviewed research articles and a conference paper in reputable journals and international conference. He is Review Editor for Smart Grids section of Frontiers in Energy Research journal, and has reviewed articles for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics. He has worked on subjects such as control systems design, NDT of gas pipelines, data analysis using advanced signal processing techniques and artificial neural networks.