Priyadarsi Nanda (Senior Member, IEEE) is currently a Senior Lecturer with the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), with more than 27 years of experience specialising in research and development of cybersecurity, the IoT security, Internet traffic engineering, wireless sensor network security, and many more related areas. His most significant work has been in the area of intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS) using image processing techniques, sybil attack detection in the IoT-based applications, and intelligent firewall design. In cybersecurity research, he has published over 80 high quality refereed research articles, including IEEE Transactions in Computers, IEEE Transactions in Parallel Processing and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Future Generations of Computer Systems (FGCS), and many ERA Tier A/A conference papers. He has successfully supervised eight HDR at UTS (five Ph.D. and three Masters) and currently supervising eight Ph.D. students. In 2017, his work in cyber security research has earned him and his team the prestigeous Oman Research Council’s National Award for Best Research.