Rolland Vida obtained his PhD in Computer Networks at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, in 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and Head of HSN Lab, a research laboratory that is a strategic partner of Ericsson for 30 years. In the last 10 years Dr. Vida had leading roles in the IEEE Sensors Council, IEEE Communications Society and IEEE Smart Cities. He was the TPC Co-chair of the IEEE Sensors conference in 2019 and 2020, he is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Letters, and a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE IoT Journal. His research area is wireless sensor networks, sensor communications and IoT.