F. Richard Yu obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia (UBC) in 2003. His research interests include intelligent and autonomous systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and blockchain. He has been consistently recognized as a Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher,” Stanford “Top 2% Most Cited Scientist,” and ScholarGPS “Top 0.05% Highly Ranked Scholar” for several consecutive years. He has received several Best Paper Awards from first-tier conferences, two Carleton Research Achievement Awards (2012 and 2021), and the Ontario Early Researcher Award in 2011. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (FRSC), Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), IEEE, and IET.