Dr. Serrano is the research director and scientific coordinator at the Internet of Things and Stream processing Unit (UIoT) within the Insight Centre for Data Analytics Galway at the National University of Ireland. Dr. Serrano is an ICT expert with more than 15 years experience in industry and applied research within a wide range of successful European (FP5-FP7/H2020) collaborative software projects, Irish National Projects (HEA PRTLI, SFI) and also Enterprise Ireland (EI) innovation projects. He also leads Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE) activities Platforms and the FIRE FIESTA-IoT project. Dr. Serrano is a recognized IoT expert on semantic interoperability and Smart Cities technology architect with a strong background on applied semantic and systems interoperability, services and network management technologies. He has a scientific leading role at the Open Agile and Smart cities Ireland (OASC-Ireland), He also technically lead the Smart Galway City project as part of the Global City Team Challenge (GCTC) and participates at the Super Cluster on Smart Cities endorsed by NIST-US ignite. He has a leading role in the European Research Cluster for the IoT and he is board member at the Connected Smart Cities Network. Dr. Serrano is a continuous contributor to the Scientific, Research and Innovation agenda for Europe. He is also actively investigating, Semantic-based Cloud Infrastructures and Big Data Management. Data Bases Stream processing, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Control, Privacy and Security aspects for IoT, Sensor Networks for the IoT and their deployment in cloud computing environments. Dr. Serrano is an active member of IEEE (Computer and Communication Societies) and ACM and He is the author of the book “Applied Ontology Engineering in Cloud Services, Networks and Management Systems” published by Springer, NY, USA.