Dr. Tian He is currently a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. He received the Ph.D. degree under Professor John A. Stankovic from the University of Virginia, Virginia. Dr. He is the author and co-author of over 280 papers in premier network journals and conferences with over 22,000 citations (H-Index 65). Dr. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2009), McKnight Land-Grant Chaired Professorship (2011), George W. Taylor Distinguished Research Award (2015), China NSF Outstanding Overseas Young Researcher I and II (2012 and 2016), and eight best paper awards in international conferences including MobiCom, SenSys, and ICDCS. Dr. He has served a few general/program chair positions in international conferences and on many program committees and also has been an editorial board member for six international journals including ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, IEEE Transactions on Computers and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. His research includes wireless networks, networked sensing systems, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things (IOT), and distributed systems in general. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow.