Salil Kanhere received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA. He is currently a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at UNSW Sydney, Australia, where he leads the Information Security and Privacy (ISPri) Research Group. His research interests include the Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, blockchain, pervasive computing, cybersecurity, and applied machine learning. Salil is affiliated with the UNSW Institute of Cybersecurity (IFCYBER). He has held visiting appointments at the Institute of Infocom Research Singapore, Technical University Darmstadt, University of Zurich, Technical University of Graz and RWTH Aachen. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM and was an ACM Distinguished Speaker (2019-2021). He is an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Visitor and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award (2020) and Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014) from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany. He serves as the Editor in Chief of the Ad Hoc Networks journal and as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions On Network and Service Management, Computer Communications, and Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Best Editor Award, 2019). He has received 8 Best Paper, 2 Best Poster and 2 Best Demo awards and serves on the advisory board of 3 SMEs. He has served as the General Chair and Program Chair of several IEEE/ACM international conferences, including PerCom, ICBC, LCN, EWSN, DCOSS, WoWMoM, EWSN and CNSM. He has co-authored a book titled Blockchain for Cyberphysical Systems, released by Artech House.