Dr Bilal Hameed is currently a Senior Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Karachi Campus. At Bahria University. His research interests are in the domain of Cloud Computing, Smart Environments (Smart Homes, Smart Factories etc.) IOT, and Blockchains. Prior to joining Bahria University, Karachi, Dr Hameed was working as a scientific researcher at the Computer Science Department of the University of Stuttgart. Dr Hameed’s research work targeted the development of concepts and framework to monitor the production and processes in a factory and produce stochastic and probabilistic guarantees for error detections. The direction of the research and its results received extremely favorable reviews by the scientific community of Internet of Things