Gowri is a research fellow in distributed systems, IoT, and blockchain at Trusted Networks Lab, School of Computer Science, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) under the mentorship of Prof. Raja Jurdak. He, Ph.D., was a former postdoctoral senior research associate at USC Viterbi Center for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things and Autonomous Networks Research Group. Gowri received his Ph.D. from imec-DistriNet, KU Leuven, Belgium under the guidance of Prof. Danny Hughes. He completed his M.Sc in Intelligent Embedded Systems from Malardalen University, Sweden. During his M.Sc, Gowri visited the Technical University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands as Erasmus scholar, where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Reinder Bril and Prof. Johan Lukkien. Gowri completed his B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from SASTRA University, India. Gowri’s Ph.D. dissertation focused on cross-layer optimization of dynamic IoT applications, in which he presented self-configuring middleware solutions for increasing energy-efficiency while minimizing the management complexity. Besides, he has also deployed IoT testbeds to foster research in the application and network layers of the IoT stack.