Dr. Srini Sampalli is a Professor and 3M National Teaching Fellow in the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University, He brings with him more than 20 years of teaching and research experience. His interests are in the domain of cyber security, reliability and applications of emerging wireless technologies.  He has successfully led industry-driven research and development projects on protocol vulnerabilities, security best practices, design of intrusion detection and prevention systems, and applications of RFID systems and NFC-enabled smartphones. Dr. Sampalli has a strong and wide collaboration connect  with several industries, IT companies, and research organizations. He has received the Dalhousie Faculty of Science Teaching Excellence award, the Dalhousie Alumni Association Teaching award, the Association of Atlantic Universities’ Distinguished Teacher Award, a teaching award instituted in his name by the students within his Faculty, and the 3M National Teaching Fellowship, Canada’s most prestigious teaching acknowledgement. Since September 2016, he holds the position of the Vice President (Canada), of the International Federation of National Teaching Fellows (IFNTF). Dr. Sampalli holds a B.Eng. degree from Bangalore University and a Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc.), Bangalore, India. He also completed a post doctoral fellowship at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada before taking on a faculty position at Dalhousie University.  Visit his site https://web.cs.dal.ca/~srini/ for more details.