Dan Tudose is an associate professor and researcher at the Computer Science Department of University Politehnica in Bucharest. He has a PhD in computer science, specialising in the Internet of Things, pervasive computing and energy harvesting. As a scientific researcher, Dan is leading the research activity of the Embedded Systems Laboratory and has over fifteen years of experience as a researcher in national and international projects sponsored by the European Union related to the development of the Internet of Things and Wireless Sensor Networks. Dan is also a driven entrepreneur, having founded several start-ups in the IoT and wearable space, the last of which was acquired by Fitbit, which is now part of Google.