Dr. Antonios Sarigiannidis received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Also, he holds PhD in communication networks from the same department. He is author or co-author of more than 35 journal paper and conference papers such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics και IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. He has received 4 Best Paper Awards in international conferences, namely, IEEE CAMAD (2019), IEEE MOCAST (2020), IEEE CSR (2021). He has been involved in more than 8 national and European RD projects including Horizon 2020 such as 5G-INDUCE, SMART5GRID, EVIDENT, TERMINET, RESPOND-A , CARAMEL, SDN-microSENSE, SPEAR. He is co-founder of research and development company K3Y Ltd (https://k3ylabs.com/). His research interests include telecommunication networks, 5G networks, Internet of Things (IoT), network security and cybersecurity, software defined networks (SDN) and smart grid.  He is a certified CISCO Instructor (2020) and CEH (Certified of Ethical Hacker – 2020) and has over 8 years of teaching experience in Universities.