Dr. Shahid Raza is the Director of Cybersecurity Lab at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, where he has been working since 2008. Shahid is also an Associate Professor (Docent) at Uppsala University Sweden. Shahid research interests include but are not limited to security and privacy in IPv6-connected IoT, interconnection of computing clouds and IoT, the smart grid, and Blockchain. Shahid is an Associate Editor of the premier IEEE IoT Journal and a TPC member of a number of targeted IoT conferences/workshops. His research work has been published in renowned international journals and conferences. In addition to participating and coordinating different EU and Swedish projects, Shahid is also a member of the H2020 CONCORDIA management board, a pilot project that is building the EU Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Shahid has completed his industrial PhD from the RISE SICS Stockholm. He also holds the Master of Science degree from KTH The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.